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most dangerous films ever made
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productions that were fraught with
danger including dangerous stunts and
unsafe filming locations both narrative
films and documentaries will be
director Matthew Hahnemann venture deep
into the heart of cartel controlled
Michelin in southwestern Mexico to film
this award-winning documentary hanaman
rides along with vigilante groups on
both sides of the us-mexico border as
they try to defend their respected
countries from the damage of powerful
drug cartels not all the ‘quran Hyneman
willingly puts himself in harm’s way to
tell his story getting shot at more than
once Hyneman joins the autodefensas
resistance group and accompanies the
Arizona border recon on nighttime
patrols in the southern US border
thankfully Heinemann’s efforts didn’t go
unrewarded he went the International
Documentary Association’s 2015 courage
under fire award among others
this epic historical drama is considered
one of the greatest films ever made and
the climactic chariot racing has become
among the most famous sequences in Looby
history the sheer size and ambition of
the chariot scene made it risky it
involved 78 horses and 18 chariots each
weighing 900 pounds
even though extensive efforts were made
to ensure safety stuntman Joe cannon was
accidentally tossed in the air during
the shoot luckily he walked away with
just a minor chin injury the footage
didn’t go to waste though in editing the
long shot of Kenneth’s accident is mixed
with a close-up of Heston getting back
on the chariot to create one of the
races most dramatic moments number 8 Mad
Max 2 the Rogue Warrior action on the
screen can come at a dangerous price
this post-apocalyptic film has been
hailed for its stunts and special
effects but it was far from painless to
shoot one stuntman broken vertebra and
his heel ramming a vehicle 50 miles per
hour into a wall of pre wrecked cars
another broke his femur attempting to
crash a motorcycle into a dune buggy and
for the most dangerous stunt of the film
which involves rolling a tanker son man
Dennis Williams was told not to eat for
12 hours before attempting the scene in
case he needed to be rushed to the
hospital for emergency surgery luckily
he nailed it in one take number 7 The
man a cool artist known larrya Coleman
recreating the brutal torture and death
of Jesus was bound to be risky and
director Mel Gibson didn’t make things
any easier choosing to film the
crucifixion in Italy during winter if
you ask actor Jim Caviezel who portrayed
Jesus being strapped to a cross in cold
temperatures in a loincloth was the
hardest part of filming the movie but it
certainly wasn’t the most
life-threatening before shooting the
Sermon on the Mount scene cabeza was
struck by lightning is if that wasn’t
enough Caviezel was accidentally whipped
for real twice while shooting the movie
and he has the 14 inch scar on his back
number six supersize me I think I’m
gonna have to go super-sized eating
McDonald’s every now and then probably
won’t kill you but thirty days straight
will take its toll
just ask filmmaker Morgan Spurlock after
eating nothing but McDonald’s for a
month he put on 24 pounds drastically
increased his cholesterol and
experienced mood swings heart
palpitations sexual dysfunction and
accumulated fat in his liver
it took Spurlock 14 months to shed the
weight he gained during filming as a
side note McDonald’s began phasing out
at the supersize menu option the same
year the movie was released the official
reason was to simplify its menu we’ll
let you draw your own conclusions I’m
not even halfway done with those Raj
number five Fitzcarraldo amigos engine
is running
director Verner Hertzog famously issues
movie sets preferring on site locations
and it’s not a surprise that the
Peruvian Amazon would add an element of
danger to any movie his commitment to
authenticity attained dumbfounding
heights when he attempted to pull a 320
tons steamboat over a hill without
special effects an unprecedented rainy
season caused landslides that made
lugging the boat up the hill extremely
difficult
cinematographer thomas mock cut his hand
while filming and had it stitched up
without anesthesia
worst of all one crew member was bitten
by a venomous snake and to stop the
venom from spreading cut off his own
foot with a chainsaw
yeah dangers on this set were all too
real why why number four the revenant
according to lead actor Leonardo
DiCaprio this was the hardest movie of
his career shot in remote parts the
Canadian province of Alberta actors and
crew members battled frigid temperatures
that rarely went above negative 22
degrees Fahrenheit DiCaprio who jumped
in and out of a frozen river for one
scene was constantly at risk of
contracting hypothermia director
Alejandro G Inarritu was reportedly
forced to shut down production at least
once because the camera gear was
freezing in the cold however hard it may
have been it was worth it in the end as
DiCaprio finally won his first Academy
number three Waterworld
this is my opponent kind of the way I’d
like sadly not all dangerous productions
payoff shot mostly on floating sets off
the coast of Hawaii this
post-apocalyptic sci-fi flick starring
Kevin Costner takes place in a world
where the ice caps have melted and
submerged most landforms underwater
almost everyone on set got seasick
during filming and young co-star Tina
Moreno was repeatedly stung by jellyfish
Costner himself spent two hours strapped
to a boats masts caught in a squall for
a single shot and he’s done double
experienced a near-fatal embolism during
a deep-sea dive while filming and of
course tropical storms in danger the
cast crew and set props Mother Nature
doesn’t care how large your budget is
garlic G single tear rolls down my cheek
number two Apocalypse Now I love the
smell of napalm in the morning
structured chaos on set can apparently
result in a great film so long as you
have a top-notch cast Francis Ford
Coppola take on the Vietnam War is just
as famous for its dysfunction backstage
as it is for the film itself shot in the
Philippines the production was hit by a
typhoon and crew members frequently
caught various tropical diseases the
party atmosphere on set didn’t help lead
actor Martin Sheen suffered a heart
attack during the shoot
Coppola himself was so stressed during
the production that he threatened to
commit suicide and had an epileptic
seizure
luckily the chaos behind the scenes
didn’t affect the final cut horror has a
face and you must make a friend of
horror number one roar dubbed the most
dangerous film ever made this
exploitation movie from Noel Marshall
and starring Tippi Hedren should serve
as a cautionary tale about working with
real animals surrounded by some 150 big
cats it’s a little wonder that over 70
cast and crew members were injured
cinematographer yonder font was scalped
during filmmaking and required 220
stitches Hedren was bitten in the neck
and her daughter Melanie Griffith was
mauled by a lion
Marshall suffered so many bites he
eventually contracted gangrene of course
the film was also plagued by natural
disasters including wildfires and floods
on a positive note it was reported that
no animals were harmed during the making
of the movie what the hell’s wrong with
you all you got a few scratches
lucky Tobar didn’t get you do you agree
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