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ffihffilffi Look at the photos. Describe what is happening. ii.$ilii$ i Read the text. Match headings 1-6 with paragraphs
Use the words and phrases below to help you. A-D. There are two headings that you do not need.
Photo 1: car fly river upside down 7 The gotden age of stunts
Photo 2: hang sign building 2 SpeciaI effects can't reptace stunts
Photo 3: fly kicl< in the air 3 Stunts were part of an actor's job
4 A mix of reaI stunts and computer-generated imaging
5 Actors refuse to do stunts
Which do you thinl< is the most dangerous stunt? Give reasons. 6 Too many accidents
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I nTl tn the early days of cinema, actors did their own stunts. Stars in feTl However, many stunts were extremely dangerous. ln the Bond film
silent films, like Charlie (haplin and Buster Keaton, took great risks to make Live ond Let Die (1 973), stuntman Ross Kananga walks on crocodiles to
their films funny. They thought it was part of a comedian's job. Buster get across a river. The last crocodile bit his foot! Some stuntmen and
Keaton's most famous stunt was inSteomboat Billlr (1928). The wall of stuntwomen even lost their lives dolng stunts. ln Top Gun (1 986), the stunt
a house falls on Keaton, but he isn't hurt, because he is standing exactly pilot Art Scholl was killed in an air crash. And in the 1995 film Vampire in
where an open window lands. lt was a very dangerous stunt, however, Brooklyn,slunlwoman Sonya Davis died afterfalling from a high building.
and insurance companies soon started asking for stuntmen and women Many people criticised the film industry for her death. At the same time,
to take the place ofthe actors. c0mputer-generated imaging (CGl) was developed so that film*makers could
create amazing special effects in the film studio which were too dangerous
IETI The stunt industry was at its best in the films of the seventies and
to film on location.
eighties. The brave (or mad!) stuntmen and women did more and more
amazing things. The James Bond films were famous for stunts. lnThe Mon lSTl Nowadays, most films use both CGI and stunt work. And many actors
with the Golden Gun (1974), Bumps Willard, as James Bond, drives a car prefer to do their own stunts. For The Matrix (1999), Keanu Reeves trained
off a bridge and turns it over in the air. At the start of GoldenEye, Wayne for six months to do the amazing fight scenes. ln the Bond fllm Quontum of
Michaels bungee-jumps 250 metres from the top of an enormous dam. Soloce (2008), Daniel Craig jumps off buildings onto moving buses. But who
He said he didn't know if it was posible untll he tried! The stunts were often is the best stunt actor ofall? Film critics say martial arts expert Jackie Chan,
shown in slow motion to make them seem even more fantastic. who has survived crazy stunts in over 100 filmsl