Hacker Cinema
The Stunt Man
1980 · Film · 131 min
Directed by Richard Rush
ActionComedyDramaThrillerRomance
A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.
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After I saw the movie The Stunt Man I read Brodeur’s book by the same name, on which the movie was based. Both are worth your time. The movie was underrated in my opinion.
Hardware Geeks like me were enthralled. MGM was lost. Charles Lippincott reverted the sales pitch to an inference that a really good LSD experience would come with your movie ticket, and 2001 took off. George Lucas hired Charley when he missed the Christmas 1976 release date, paid him by selling all the T-shirt rights for 100K. Like 'The Stunt Man', 'One From The Heart', 'The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots', 'Angel and the Badman' et al, sometimes fans have to pry the good stuff from the grey suits.
Do Not lick your ticket.
P.S. I didn't get to read the WSJ screed, i'm outside their club:(
We forget in the age of constant exposure to video that big screen cinema is not the same thing and that some films use the large screen fully as part of the art.
One of my favorite old movies is "The Stunt Man". One of my most disappointing viewing experiences was re-watching "The Stunt Man" on a friends small screen. Most of the emotional and dramatic tension in the film is driven by the sense/fear that the Peter O'Toole character is omniscient, that no matter what the other characters try he will somehow be ahead of them. This works because the viewer also ends up believing this. But a lot of the work to sell this is done in the viewers peripheral vision and on a small screen it simply doesn't happen which leaves the film sadly deflated.