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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 434964" data-attributes="member: 8">The Stunt Man (1980)[ATTACH=full]58224[/ATTACH]A film about making a film directed by a larger than life character played by Peter O&#039;Toole.The recurring trick is that everyone on set except for the stunt man protagonist is playing by the script. What looks like a stunt going terribly wrong turns out be the scene they intended to film.The stunt man (Steve Railsback) is actually a distressed and down on his luck Vietnam returnee who accidentally ends up in the production of a WWI movie, and the bizarreness could be interpreted as his personal distorted experience. On the other hand, we don&#039;t know if the ambitious director can be trusted.The camera techniques are mind-bogglingly masterful, many close-up scenes are framed in 5 or more different ways so that it almost looks like 3-D. Feeling sucked into the scenery I unintentionally tried to wave away a thick smoke or fog that appeared on screen.Romantic sub-plots have the reputation of &quot;interfering&quot; with the meatiest parts, but Barbara Hershey does it with a lot of vigor and joy, thus making herself essential to the story.I found it a terrific experience, and even though the film has a good reputation it&#039;s relatively obscure in the context of &quot;best films of the 1980s&quot;.Maybe it had something to do with lack of proper marketing, and in fact - just like The Long Good Friday - it&#039;s a film from 1979 that was delayed for release.The second disc features the nearly two hours (!) The Sinister Saga Of Making &#039;The Stunt Man&#039;&nbsp;&nbsp; documentary but I&#039;ll save it for later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 434964, member: 8"] The Stunt Man (1980) [ATTACH type="full"]58224[/ATTACH] A film about making a film directed by a larger than life character played by Peter O'Toole. The recurring trick is that everyone on set except for the stunt man protagonist is playing by the script. What looks like a stunt going terribly wrong turns out be the scene they intended to film. The stunt man (Steve Railsback) is actually a distressed and down on his luck Vietnam returnee who accidentally ends up in the production of a WWI movie, and the bizarreness could be interpreted as his personal distorted experience. On the other hand, we don't know if the ambitious director can be trusted. The camera techniques are mind-bogglingly masterful, many close-up scenes are framed in 5 or more different ways so that it almost looks like 3-D. Feeling sucked into the scenery I unintentionally tried to wave away a thick smoke or fog that appeared on screen. Romantic sub-plots have the reputation of "interfering" with the meatiest parts, but Barbara Hershey does it with a lot of vigor and joy, thus making herself essential to the story. I found it a terrific experience, and even though the film has a good reputation it's relatively obscure in the context of "best films of the 1980s". Maybe it had something to do with lack of proper marketing, and in fact - just like [I]The Long Good Friday[/I] - it's a film from 1979 that was delayed for release. The second disc features the nearly two hours (!) [I]The Sinister Saga Of Making 'The Stunt Man'[/I] documentary but I'll save it for later. [/QUOTE]

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