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Love him or hate him, Tom Cruise got balls.
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u/DSteep 14d ago
My friend works in film and is convinced that Tom Cruise wants to die on camera
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u/JannaNYC 14d ago
I am convinced of the same.
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u/roguetrick 14d ago
Anybody who BASE jumps with a motorcycle just doesn't want to grow old.
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u/SonofAMamaJama 14d ago
He basically convinces them to do more takes, 6 times is excessive 🤣
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u/Wasatcher 14d ago
Dude was straight up using the film budget to scratch his adrenaline itch hahaha
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u/cabalus 14d ago
Literally. The man is so OBVIOUSLY a psychopath, and I really don't mean that lightly or even as an insult.
I mean clinically, he's fucking classic. Everything about his behaviour towards people, whether in a public context or private (and in particular the difference between the two), his ambition, sense of image and his thrill inducing, fearless set of skills
The man is textbook.
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u/OctopusWithFingers 14d ago
When I was watching the new top gun movie, every time he was on the motorcycle all I could think was "wear a goddamn helmet"
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u/Sea-Value-0 14d ago
Same with the actor-husband guy from the Remnant cult featured in The Way Down HBO documentary. It's in the eyes, the cold intensity, the disregard for human life and social rules, not working a "real job", using their partners/playing a part, joining and leading a cult, etc. This guy from the doc was also an actor, and a pilot/thrill seeker. It's worth a watch and the resemblance of his personality to Cruise is uncanny.
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u/themediumchunk 14d ago
I thought the same thing, they told him the first one is perfect and he's like "Nah I actually hate how little time I spent touching a motorbike midair while I'm falling hundreds of feet."
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u/themagpie36 14d ago
I do think it looks better when he holds onto it longer though.
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u/wakashit 14d ago
Isn’t he supposed to shoot a movie in space? Can’t recall if it was on the ISS, but that will definitely be the the most death defying stunt
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u/I_Makes_tuff 14d ago
That's the plan. They want him to do a space walk on the ISS.
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u/Stupidquestionduh 14d ago
Ehhhh only if he tries to leave his suit or something. I'd wager, with all the serious protocols in place for space travel, that motorcycle cliff jumping is massively more risky than anything he will do in space.
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u/A_Rented_Mule 14d ago
Hard to find direct stats, but it appears 21 out of 339 US astronauts have died during missions/training. That's a 6.2% rate of death (likely a bit lower due to multiple-trip instances). The most dangerous profession in the US is logging, with 14.6 deaths per 100K workers annually, on average. Even assuming very long career average of 30 years/worker, that's still only a .43% rate of death to an individual over their career. 14 times less dangerous than training/performing space travel.
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u/T_Cliff 14d ago
Okay, but how many of those were in the earlier days of the space program? If we look at more recently, there hasnt been an astronaut killed in like 20 years?
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u/A_Rented_Mule 14d ago
True, but that timeframe also coincides pretty closely to a much lower rate of manned launches. Go back one year further and you have to include the seven astronauts who died in the Columbia shuttle break-up. The space shuttle program accounted for 135 of the 179 total US manned launches, and we lost 2 of 5 of those to accidents.
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u/Stupidquestionduh 14d ago
I mean, for us to accept this data is meaningful, we would have to look at the dates that these deaths occurred, and the protocol changes that occurred in the wake of the death. Are they still doing those same things that killed people?
Additionally, we would have to weigh that against how much cliff diving kills people by year rather than the false equivalent of the most dangerous career.
Cliff diving kills dozens of people every year. Now you're riding a motorcycle in that mix.
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u/SurlyJason 14d ago
That footage had better make the reel.
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u/cowsareverywhere 14d ago edited 14d ago
Kinda related, Tom broke his ankle during shooting and that’s the shot they kept. Filming shutdown for 6 weeks.
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u/Automatic-Mood5986 14d ago
Danny Trejo made a point about this in an interview, that the crew wasn’t getting pay during the production shutdown.
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u/DornKratz 14d ago
Accidents like this were what made me come around on the whole "doing you own stunts" thing. It's cool that a famous actor doesn't want to put another person's physical integrity on the line, but a 6-week delay can be devastating for the crew.
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u/PM_ME_ABOUT_DnD 14d ago
Normally I would agree but I'd said Tom Cruise is the exception to the rule.
This movie's budget famously increases due to this injury because they continued to pay the crew during the downtime. They've been quoted as saying that they didn't want the crew to move on to other projects but I wouldn't be surprised if it was also more.
This, coupled with everything else that has come out about Cruise's professional demeanor and the fact that he's the producer: it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume it was mostly his call to pay out everyone while he recovered. In his interviews he usually is pretty blunt about knowing what him being up there could mean but also why they do it that way.
Seems like he knows the risks and also what the responsibilities are if the risks don't pan out.
I mean, he's probably also an adrenaline junky, but that's not all of it.
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u/AirierWitch1066 14d ago
Besides the Scientology he seems to be a generally nice guy.
Goes to show that anyone can be conned, I guess.
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u/Valash83 14d ago
And another thing that tells me he understands the risks, saw that basically no insurance company will touch him as far as coverage goes for doing the stunts. The producers want that insurance in case something happens during the stunt that delays/cancels production, so they still get some of their costs back.
That said, Cruise himself puts his own personal money up as collateral. So when he gets injured, it really does cost him.
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u/nutmegtester 14d ago
Counterpoint: The whole ethos of Cruise doing his own stunts massively helps the box office, allowing more grandiose productions that ultimately employ more people for longer periods of time. Delays or even the eventual cancelling of a movie are a calculated risk that seems to have been paying off.
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u/ImClaaara 14d ago
I wonder if you can make that happen, like, maybe put it in your will and make an agreement with the director/producer that's like "if I just so happen to die on camera during filming, modify the plot of the film and keep my death in it and make it a plot point, and only edit/censor the death as much as you need to so that you can show it in theaters with, like, an R rating or whatever"
If the movie was already well-anticipated and was supposed to be kind of good, this would probably be a huge boost in ticket sales just from people's morbid curiosity, and the controversy might make it so that nearly everyone at least hears about it.
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u/Kurdt234 14d ago
"You can actually see the moment when his head bursts like a watermelon."
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u/OkAttempt4752 14d ago
"You know Tom Cruise actually died in this shot, but his lifeless corpse powered through to finish the take"
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u/Top_Membership_7512 14d ago
This makes too much sense. I was thinking something along the lines of him somehow knowing the date of his death. Not today, guess I'll strap myself to the outside of an airplane.
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u/Andy_In_Kansas 14d ago
I think he just wants to do crazy stunts because he likes it.
My FIL is a stuntman, it’s not uncommon for people to want to do their own stunts. Some are told no for insurance reasons, some have no desire to do them. Then others like Tom make sure they can because they truly love it.
He’s hardly the first guy to ride a bike off a mountain and BASE jump. He probably just really wanted to do it. He can already BASE jump. He can already ride a bike. This was his shot to do both.
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u/2mad2die 14d ago
Imagine if he signed some agreement where if he dies in an action scene, it should become the plot of the movie. And the movie gets released where tom cruise actually dies and the rest of the story gets shaped around that
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u/tnnrk 14d ago
I mean it would be instantly viral, probably one of the highest viewed clips ever.
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u/shadovvvvalker 14d ago
I like the theory that mission impossible is just a vehicle for Tom Cruise to portray himself as he wants to be seen.
We are at the "only he can do what he does because he is willing to risk everything to get it done" stage.
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u/RoninWiki 14d ago
Was that his insurance adjuster standing there with a pale face?
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No, his insurance adjustor isn't legally allowed to watch his stunts after four consecutive insurance adjustors had heart attacks from watching his stunts.
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u/SeagalsCumFilledAss 14d ago
Dear Mr. Cruise, I regretfully inform you that we are unable to insure you. We were unable to attain the insurance required for anyone to be assigned your policy and therefore unable to process it.
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u/Damasticator 14d ago
They had to find a different insurer for Ghost Protocol because he wanted to be the one to hang off the side of the Burj Khalifa. Cruise wouldn’t bend so they switched carriers. I’m curious if that one is now insuring all his movies.
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u/RespectableThug 14d ago
“So I get another safety guy”
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u/UmeshgaarB 14d ago
The way Matt Damon told that story as well was incredible
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u/FLAPPY_BEEF_QUEEF 14d ago
Do you have a link to this? would love to hear it
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u/Tirus_ 14d ago
I’m curious if that one is now insuring all his movies.
I remember watching a stunman reacting to his works and mentions that Tom pays for his own insurance now.
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u/Emily_Postal 14d ago
There’s always an agency at Lloyd’s of London that will insure this type of risk.
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u/diox8tony 14d ago
%10 of the policy up front. Your 300 million movie will be ruined? 30 mil please.
(Idk, but 10% of our cars would be alright, I'd do that deal)
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u/Dsj417 14d ago
How much is his insurance if they’re allowing this
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u/Hinote21 14d ago
Morbidly curious: who gets the insurance payout if he dies?
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u/Jolopy00 14d ago
I would imagine it goes towards recouping the cost of having lost whatever movie was being filmed at the time.
Or at least a large portion.
Something along those lines. I’m pretty sure this insurance is the studios coverage, not Tom insuring himself.
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u/diox8tony 14d ago
The studio. They are the ones who spent the money for this movie that is now (almost) worthless.
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u/sosogos 14d ago
I get the feeling that the only person in a Tom Cruise movie who is happy with the lead actor putting themselves in needless danger is Tom Cruise. Also the only reason he’s allowed to do it in the first place is because he’s Tom Cruise. I’ve not seen any comments to convince me that it’s not just one big ego trip.
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u/_101010_ 14d ago
Tbf I don't think the movies would be as big if he wasn't doing these stunts. They're good movies, but this kind of stuff ups the stakes a bit and makes them great. But I agree it's an ego trip
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u/floppydo 14d ago
I 100% would not have gone to see top gun if it weren’t for the fact that Tom Cruise was actually stunt flying an f16. I just found that so totally awesome. So that’s at least one $14 datapoint to add to your case.
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u/iamisandisnt 14d ago
yeah......... that got me too. and it was cool. even despite the forgettable story. I don't even remember any cool flying. But I watched it. And I didn't hate any shitty CGI.
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u/setnom 14d ago
If you're talking about the bearded guy in the sunglasses, that's the director.
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u/blackbook77 14d ago
Figured as much, and it explains why he's so fucking terrified. If Tom Cruise dies on HIS MOVIE SET, who do you think is gonna get the blame? The director.
It doesn't matter that they had all this footage of Tom Cruise having a blast doing his own stunts, if something went wrong and his parachute failed and he plummeted to death, the internet justice mob would 100% be blaming this guy for allowing Tom to do this. "That was too reckless, he shouldn't have let him do that, blah blah blah, totally the director's fault"
Aside from his reputation being one mishap away from becoming "the idiot who let Tom Cruise die on his film set" for the rest of his life, there's also the fact that they've probably poured millions into production at this point and their lead actor dying in the middle of filming would result in an unmitigated financial disaster and tons of people losing their jobs
Also the Church of Scientology might try to sacrifice him to their space god
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Director returning home- Hey honey. I’m home.
Honey- Did you kill Tom Cruise?
Director- Not today.
Honey - Well, there’s always tomorrow.
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u/hectorduenas86 14d ago
Edge of Tomorrow 2 plot right there
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u/Karcinogene 14d ago
Which would be a meta movie about Tom Cruise the actor trying to make Edge of Tomorrow 2, and there's a secret plot (by aliens but that's only revealed later) to assassinate Tom Cruise, but whenever it looks like he's gonna die, it turns out that everything that happened before was just a scene they were filming and someone yells "cut".
Basically "waking up", over and over, to a higher level of reality where the previous reality was just a movie. Sprinkle in Groundhog Day shenanigans as Tom Cruise tries to get back to his life, several meta movies deep.
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u/EffervescentGoose 14d ago
Imagine being the director that eventually let's Tom Cruise do the stunt that kills him, then having to cgi the rest of your movie
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u/Unfortunate_moron 14d ago
If they're smart they'll film all the regular scenes first and do the crazy stunts last. Then just cut the deadly stunt scene and have a stunt double do something survivable instead.
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u/Merry_Dankmas 14d ago
Watcher: Omg Tom Cruise is jumping into a volcano and riding a surfboard down into it! He does his own stunts, thats ridiculous!
Other watcher: Wow that is crazy. Although is it just me or is the Tom Cruise riding the surfboard a lot fatter than when he ran up to the edge? And why is his hair curly?
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u/jleonardbc 14d ago
When you're going that fast on the surfboard it increases gravity and creates a hair vortex
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u/Boo_and_Minsc_ 14d ago
Tom is the producer. The director works for him, and most of the time Tom has final word on what gets done and what doesnt, and how. He can, and will , fire the director. And if he wants to do this crazy shit, he will and there is literally nobody who can stop him.
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake 14d ago
I mean, there's a reason he does Mission Impossible with McQuarrie these days. Cruise and McQuarrie collaborate on what stunts they should do for the movie and then McQuarrie writes a script around that. Chad Stahelski and Keanu Reeves work similarly for the John Wick movies.
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u/N-Crowe 14d ago
That explains why the white haired guy, who I assumed is a director, looked like he was the one supposed to jump. Poor dude knew that if the crazy guy dies all the blame would be on him and there was nothing he could do to stop him.
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u/hear4theDough 14d ago
Cruise is the producer of most of his movies now, so the director can blame his boss, would also now dead.
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u/alexdevio 14d ago
I think you just keep the footage and end the movie abruptly with it at that point. Box office records would be destroyed.
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u/TheMoogster 14d ago
I'm sure the put the wild stunts at the end of shooting to lower the insurance premium
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This guy just uses movies as a way to pay for the crazy stunts he wants to do.
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u/VulfSki 14d ago
That's why James Cameron made Titanic, to pay for his submersible...
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u/missingmytowel 14d ago
iirc I was seeing a report where it said that the value of his 3D movie equipment and the company behind it is worth more than Avatar has generated. You see that you realize Avatar is less about the story he wants to tell but way more about the visual and the equipment he's trying to rent other producers.
By putting his movies at the top it not only makes his equipment more valuable but makes directors want to use it more. In the end Avatar is just one giant infocommercial for James Cameron's production tech.
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u/sunshinecygnet 14d ago edited 14d ago
James Cameron makes the most successful movies of all time as a hobby so he can fund his underwater exploration.
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u/TotallyNotDesechable 14d ago
James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is James Cameron!
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u/McMaster2000 14d ago
His name is James, James Cameron
The bravest pioneer
No budget too steep, no sea too deep
Who's that?
It's him, James Cameron!
James, James Cameron explorer of the sea
With a dying thirst to be the first
Could it be? Yeah that's him!
James Cameron!
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u/LoveAndViscera 14d ago
And he employs a thousand people in the process. If he’s putting food on people’s tables, then let him go nuts.
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u/wiga_nut 14d ago
^ This guy thetans
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u/HotFluffyDiarrhea 14d ago
Nanu.
Or is it Xenu? I always get Mork and L Ron Hubbard mixed up.
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u/thatguyned 14d ago
I've been calling him Zuul?
Have I been worshipping the wrong guy?
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u/Justhrowitaway42069 14d ago
Which look like commercial airliners with turbo engines, according to them lmao
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u/Explodedhamster 14d ago
I'm sure they have 4 or 5 clones in cryosleep they can just activate. As long as the brain isn't damaged in the fall
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u/mexicanitch 14d ago
Does the motorcycle crash? Who picks up that wreck? The spaceship?
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u/Self_Hating_Dentist 14d ago
I suppose that depends on the motorcycle’s Operating Thetan level…
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u/No_Answer4092 14d ago
legit thats why he’s so open to doing these stunts. He thinks he’s got plot armor
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u/NormP 14d ago
scratch 6 motorcycles
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u/kashmir1974 14d ago
The economy of a major motion picture is akin to a largish city. It's insane. Scrapping production is essentially like laying off an entire city.
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u/TA_faq43 14d ago
Yup. That’s why Tom’s rant about covid protocols was widely lauded. Production shutdown would have cost a lot of money to a lot of the staff.
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u/kashmir1974 14d ago
And all of the ancillary services. Catering, local restaurants and shops, maintenance, janitorial, building supplies, garbage disposal, etc etc.
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u/Cubicle_Man 14d ago
I know right. I can't even buy one motorcycles and they are just driving them off cliffs lol they probably have another 24 on standby just for cliff jumping
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u/SimpleDan11 14d ago
They all had chutes. There's bts footage where you see it deploy I think
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u/tuctrohs 14d ago
How is it triggered to deploy--remote radio control? They need to make sure it isn't to close to Tom so the chutes don't get tangled.
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u/Dan_mcmxc 14d ago
All in, with taxes, freight, and parts, that's about $11k+ per bike.
Those are 2018-2021 Honda CRF250R's they're chucking off that cliff. MSRP is/was around $8k each, plus about $1500 in additional mods that I can see in the vid. They have an aftermarket exhaust system, black plastics, and a recluse auto clutch so he wouldn't have to worry about missing a shift I assume.
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u/PoochusMaximus 14d ago
Nah just pack a chute on it. They do it all the time.
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u/TheHolyDingo 14d ago
yup they even explained it somewhere that it had one
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u/NoPossibility 14d ago
You can see it deploying in the video? It’s white and opens just after his.
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u/MichaelFusion44 14d ago
Imagine when they acquire/buy them - we ordered three boss. I would get 3 or 4 more as he is super picky and a little crazy - we will probably shoot the scene 4 or 5 times, maybe 6.
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u/gcruzatto 14d ago
We don't even know how many they bought, it could have been the entire dealership inventory
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u/Elegant-Cat-4987 14d ago
When you reach a high enough Scientology level, xenu lets you defy gravity. Toms just being a good guy by not freaking everyone out by not using a parachute
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u/Grand-Chocolate5031 14d ago
That’s quite a good stunt double they hired. Looks just like him.
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u/stumpdawg 14d ago
Dudes a total whack job, but godsdamn do I loves me some tom cruise
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u/tomios010 14d ago
He's clearly off the goddamn rails but in so many clips (including this one) - he seems genuinely appreciative of the crew at all times and sincerely grateful for his success. Its hard to not like him.
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u/kearneycation 14d ago
Anyone who works in film will talk about how he's one of the best actors to work with. He shows up early, knows his lines, is kind and grateful to every member of the crew, etc. It's a damn shame about the scientology.
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u/tomios010 14d ago
Even in this short clip the first thing he does after successfully jumping a motorcycle of a fucking cliff is thank the team on the ground.
Could all be an act I guess but it's a consistent one, if so.
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u/bleistift2 14d ago
If you’re acting professionally and nicely consistently, does it matter if you’re acting?
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u/niglor 14d ago
No. If your thoughts are asshole-ish, but you keep subduing those thoughts and instead act like a nice guy, you’re a nice guy. Perhaps even more than usual since you have to work harder for it.
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u/partypartea 14d ago
When the admin assistant asks me the same damn question weekly for 4 years in a row, and i still politely help her while talking so much shit in my mind lol
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u/Mario_Prime510 14d ago
Huh wow this really spoke to me. I really get impatient with the people I work with when they ask me the same questions all the time or ask for something that’s literally behind them and they refuse to actually look for things.
Your comment tells me I have to work on that from now on. Patience really is hard to work on.
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u/Guilty_Coconut 14d ago
I really hope this self aware post is the start of a better you. I know I’m anonymous but I still wish you the best in your growth.
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u/Durtonious 14d ago
Fake it 'til you make it and eventually you "make it." At some point it stops being disingenuous and just becomes who you are.
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u/teashopslacker 14d ago
I think you'd have to be appreciative of the people packing the parachutes at the very least, especially if you're going to do the jump 5 more times.
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u/frivolous_squid 14d ago
Also they're all putting their jobs on the line letting him do the stunt. If something goes wrong they all lose their jobs, so he's appreciating everyone letting him take the risk with their livelihoods.
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u/kingofthe2hole 14d ago
The biggest controversy that’s come out from his on set behavior was him yelling at people for violating safety protocols during COVID and putting jobs and safety in jeopardy.
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u/UnObtainium17 14d ago
Yep. From the stories i’ve read, seems to me it is him and Keanu who are the best celebs to work with. Just caring and generous towards everyone in set. I cant hate on him for that reason alone.
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u/Dirkredblade 14d ago
You can add Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson to the list. My design team worked on a photoshoot with them for the first Avengers movie, and they were very nice and would do any of the poses they asked them to. Renner especially was just super excited to be Hawkeye.
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u/Durtonious 14d ago
I love the video of him getting water in the face.
"Why would you do that? Why? Why would you do that?"
It's like he's not mad, just disappointed.
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u/not_charles_grodin 14d ago •
There's got to be some sort of mathematical ratio where a quantifiable level of crazy is reduced portionally by specific factors. It's the whole really hot girl is worth the sociopathy.
Like she's a 10 in hotness, therefore she's allowed 3 separate insane habits or 1 batshit crazy habit, keeping her a still worth it 7, but any addition to that drops her to a 6 and is no longer worth the crazy.
So Tom Cruise movies are a 10, therefore we allowed the batshit crazy Scientology, as long as he doesn't add any non-Scientology negatives.
I may have put too much thought into this.
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u/RydmaUwU 14d ago
Him doing his own stunts like this one and also not pouring scientology down our throats makes him cool to me.
All religion is batshit crazy to me. But few religious nuts keep it to themselves. I've only ever seen talk about it when asked.
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u/rangoon64 14d ago
This makes the most sense of anything I’ve heard today. I completely understand your explanation and I concur.
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u/sosogos 14d ago
Every time I see folk bigging up Tom Cruise for doing stunts I always think of that Danny Trejo quote “We have stunt people who do that stuff,” Trejo said. “And if they get hurt, I’m sorry to say but they just need to put a mustache on another Mexican and we can keep going. But if I get hurt, everybody’s out of a job. So I don’t choose to do that.”
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u/vidoardes 14d ago
https://www.slashfilm.com/559844/mission-impossible-fallout-budget/
During MI Fallout Tom Cruise broke his ankle and production shut down for 8 weeks. The cast and crew were paid for the whole eight weeks and the budget increased massively to cover it.
Sounds to me like they have already thought about this.
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u/gamegeek1995 14d ago
Tom Cruise is big enough that they'll increase the budget for his films on a dime. Not every film star or film set is going to have that luxury. It is great that, in this case, they kept paying the crew during his injury recovery.
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u/Questioning-Zyxxel 14d ago
Tom's own production company is also involved so he's one of the people paying all salaries. But in this case a lot of the money is covered by the insurance company.
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u/windcape 14d ago
Reminds me of the leaked call about COVID. Cruise was furious about people not following protocol
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u/nocturn-e 14d ago
I'm sure that's true for most movies, but Tom Cruise movies exist only because of Tom Cruise
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u/Huesan 14d ago
But what happened to the motorcycle
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u/litbacod4 14d ago
Usually there's an auto deploy parachute on the motorcycle.
But then again, this is a high budget film, they got the money to let it scrap and use a new motorcycle because the time saved from constantly needing to retrieve and inspect the motorcycle then bringing it all the way to the summit is worth more than the thousands of dollar they would save doing the former
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u/golden_eternity 14d ago
Also they might get a shot of it smashing into rocks they can use
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u/Inkthinker 14d ago
You would probably do that as a separate shot. Yeeting a bike off a crazy tall cliff does not provide the narrow landing window suitable for filming (i.e. “we don’t know precisely where that’s coming down”)
I’m thinking they had it strapped to an autodeploying chute and it still probably results in a wrecked bike… just one that’s easier to find.
Also betting it has a teaspoon of fuel in the tank, just enough to ride that ramp and no more.
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u/East_Requirement7375 14d ago
Reusing the motorcycle would never ever even be considered, parachute or not.
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in what he does, he's a fucking legend. despite personal opinions.
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u/YeetMeIntoKSpace 14d ago
One of my favorite stories about him was from Matt Damon talking about Cruise’s stunts.
”So I [Damon] say to him [Cruise], how did you do it? And he says to me, ‘Okay, so I went to the safety guy and I explained the whole thing to him, the whole stunt. And the safety guy looked at me, and he said: ‘You can’t do that. That’s too dangerous.’’ And I go, ‘Uh huh, uh huh, so then what?’ And he says: ‘So I got another safety guy.’”
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u/Successful-Mode-1727 14d ago
I actually love Tom Cruise in all of his films. I think he’s a really solid actor (one of the greatest action stars of all time) and an incredible stuntman.
I just try to ignore everything outside of the fiction lol…
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u/Jombafomb 14d ago
What’s funny is you never hear of anyone who has worked with him who doesn’t think he’s incredibly classy and generous. It’s hard to believe the Scientology stuff when someone like Bill Hader talks about how much fun he was to work with.
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u/Calimiedades 14d ago
Public life and private life.
He can be (and clearly is) an excellent worker and take great pride in his job but then he can go home and berate the basically-enslaved scientologists who are "working" for him.
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u/SquadPoopy 14d ago
Yeah believe me if you want or don’t, but I was in a mentorship program that paired me with someone who worked in Hollywood for quite some time (I’m going to school for screenwriting and movie production for reference as to why I was in this program), and the mentor I was assigned to had worked in the Hollywood space for 25 years before moving to independent studios on the east coast.
He loved to tell stories about what he experienced during production, and I mentioned the upcoming Top Gun sequel a couple years ago and that led to me asking about his work with Cruise and what he thought of his personal life (he worked as an above the line employee on a couple of Cruise’s movies in the mid 2000s). My mentor had absolutely nothing but praise for Tom on set, said he was the nicest and most pleasant person he’d ever worked with, with the exception of Daniel Radcliffe of all people. He said Tom was the kind of guy that you could introduce yourself to once at the beginning of production, and he’d remember basically everything you’d ever talked about months later. He’d remember your name, he’d remember what you were drinking when you spoke, what you were wearing, the whole 9 yards. Actually very similar to what made Bill Clinton such an effective speaker during his presidential campaigns, he had that same kind of memory around people.
But yeah, my mentor had nothing but praise and kind words to say about Tom, which as you mention seems to be the standard with most people who worked with him.
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u/Magister5 14d ago
“Show me the canopy!”
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u/efcomovil 14d ago
"Hey Tom, its me, Jerry. I'm going to need that bike I lend you the other day, needs suspension adjustments. Call me please"
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u/Agreeable_Rhubarb_93 14d ago
The man who was all afraid of the canopy not opening was Tom Cruise's life insurance policy issuer hahahah just kidding
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u/wiseaufanclub 14d ago
I couldn’t expect less display of crazy from a guy who actively wants to represent Scientology.
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u/Coyja2000 14d ago
Just not Shelley Miscavige’s location. That somehow eludes him completely.
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u/TimeOk8571 14d ago
Listen, it’s cool but the smoothness of the ramp doesn’t match the terrain he is supposedly jumping off of. When watching the shot with the terrain, his body doesn’t move at all - because he is really on a perfectly smooth ramp - so the shot actually ends up looking incredibly fake. They should have put small bumps on the ramp to make his body and head movement match the terrain he is supposedly jumping off of.
Still cool though.
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u/TyposAreAThing 14d ago
There's a great clip of an interview w Brad Pitt, they asked him what he thought about having stuff applied to his face so the dog in Once Upon a Time in Hwd would lick him....he said "well, I was thinking Tom Cruise strapped himself to the outside of an airplane that took off and landed with him strapped to the outside, so....."