kartooner

The Hol­ly­wood craft of the stunt­man should never go unno­ticed. These men and women shed blood and tears to con­vey a sense of lumi­nous dan­ger on screen. If the par­tic­u­lar movie needs a race car that meets its end in the final laps of the race, a stunt­man is called on set. He pro­ceeds to enter the spe­cially made “stunt vehi­cle” with bars and safety har­nesses embed­ded in the car. When the direc­tor yells action, he along with the pyrotech­nics crew cre­ate the magic on screen.

Which brings me to an impor­tant aspect of being a stunt­man. You have to have the courage to put your­self out on the line just to make the effect seem all the more per­fect on screen. Oth­er­wise the trans­la­tion from script to screen is mediocre and ill fea­si­ble. In other words, it looks like crap.

The per­son involved in the process of trans­lat­ing effec­tive on-screen stunts is known as a stunt coör­di­na­tor. Cinem@ defines a stunt coör­di­na­tor as some­one who “lines up pro­fes­sional stunt peo­ple to take the risks that make the movies so excit­ing. The stunt coör­di­na­tor makes sure that all safety reg­u­la­tions are fol­lowed and that all safety equip­ment is on the set and ready for action!”