Random Stunts That Went Wrong And Still Made Final Cut (14 items)

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  (#5) Patriot Games

  • Harrison Ford, Samuel L. Jackson, James Earl Jones, Sean Bean, Richard Harris, Thora Birch, Anne Archer, Polly Walker, Patrick Bergin, Bob Gunton, Ted Raimi, Alun Armstrong, James Fox, Brenda James, Alex Norton, David Threlfall, Pip Torrens, Gerald Sim, J. E. Freeman, Ellen Geer, Claire Oberman, Hugh Fraser, Hugh Ross, Gary Rodriguez, Sacha Bennett, Tim Dutton, John Lafayette, Berlinda Tolbert, Keith Campbell, Kim Delgado, Tom Watt, Peter Weireter, P. H. Moriarty, Ruben Garfias, Allison Barron, Shaun Duke, Jesse D. Goins, Jonathan Ryan, Andrew Connolly, Markus Alexander, Karl Hayden, Jeff Gardner, Bret Culpepper, Fred Toma, Martin Cochrane, Michael Francis Kelly, Roger Blake, Philip Levien, John Shepard, Fritz Sperberg, Lucia Noyce, Debora Weston, Stephen Held, Jeff Mandon, Ivan Kane, Leah Tabassi, Oliver Stone, Franklin Dam, Gregory Paul Jackson, Bonnie Webster, Thomas Russell, Frankie Maldonatti, Eric Paul, Lester T. Tillery, Rebecca Mayhook, Michael Ryan Way, Pamela Saxon

  Sean Bean is known to meet his demise often in film and on TV. Bean's performance as the villain opposite Harrison Ford in 1992's Patriot Games is what boosted his career and made him recognizable. During the climactic scene of Patriot Games, in which Bean's and Ford's characters tussle on a runaway speedboat, Ford actually hit Bean in the face with a boat hook. Bean was harmed by the impact and the gash he received appears in the final film.

  It also left him with a distinctive scar. Bean, who often plays rugged characters and villains, didn't mind the scar. He told a reporter, "It's in the right place."
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  (#13) Syriana

  • George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Christopher Plummer, Viola Davis, Mark Strong, Matt LeBlanc, William Hurt, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Cooper, Jeffrey Wright, Christopher McDonald, Alexander Siddig, Bahar Soomekh, Tim Blake Nelson, Thomas McCarthy, Peter Gerety, Robert Foxworth, Max Minghella, Amr Waked, Jamey Sheridan, Kayvan Novak, David Clennon, Roger Yuan, Anna George, Jayne Atkinson, Richard Lintern, Nicky Henson, Nadim Sawalha, Will McCormack, Donna Mitchell, Ozzie Yue, Luke Barnett, David Michie, Akhbar Kurtha, Jocelyn Quivrin, Don Whatley, Michael Allinson, Kirk Lambert, Mohamed Majd, Michael Stone Forrest, Driss Roukhe, Sally Spaide, Alexander von Roon, Nicholas Art, Daisy Tormé, Bruce Allen Dawson, Paul Fahrenkopf, Steven Hinkle, Mazhar Munir, Charles McClelland, Saïd Amadis, Susan Allenback, Robert Baer, Katie Foster, Tootsie Duvall, Shahid Ahmed, Matt Cannon, Kerry Meushaw, Omar Mostafa, Katherine Hoskins Mackey, Sonnell Dadral, Tyler Gatton, William Charles Mitchell, Alan Gates, Wendy Kush, Tom Cutler, Ryan Murphy, Badria Timimi, Jon Lee Anderson, Randall Boffman, Bashar Atiyat, Johnny Pitrelli, Linda E. Williams, William L. Thomas, Lauren Minite, James Plannette, Mitesh Soni, Ahmed Ayoub, El Mahjoub Raji, Nabeel Noman, Atta Mohammed Saleh, Othman Bin Hendi, Bob Fajkowski, Ali Al Amine, Bikram Singh Bhamra, Jeff Baker, Tarik Tamzali, David J. Manners, Mohammed Asad Khan, Aziz Zacca, Tony French, Ahmed Aa Mohammed, Jamil Jabbar, Fritz Michel

  In Syriana, George Clooney plays a CIA operative who is taped to a chair and harshly questioned when he is captured. The scene is grueling, but it shouldn't have been dangerous for the actor; that is until he fell and hit his head. 

  "I thought I'd had a stroke," Clooney said, describing the accident. "It was like a train horn going off in your head and you can't see and you can't stand."

  Clooney knew that it was serious, and was flown from Morocco where the film was shooting to LA's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Actor Lisa Kudrow directed Clooney to her brother, who is a neurologist. He discovered fluid "was leaking from [Clooney's] spine and he had torn his dura, the outermost layer enveloping the spinal cord." A complex surgery was able to repair the damage, but Clooney later told Rolling Stone he actually considered taking his own life due to the extreme pain.

  The fall made it into the film, for which Clooney won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
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  (#12) Die Hard

  • Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Robert Davi, Kym Malin, Terri Lynn Doss, Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Al Leong, Hart Bochner, Paul Gleason, Alexander Godunov, Mary Ellen Trainor, Rick Ducommun, James Shigeta, Grand L. Bush, Lorenzo Caccialanza, Andreas Wisniewski, Clarence Gilyard, Rebecca Broussard, Wilhelm von Homburg, Tracy Reiner, Selma Archerd, Charlie Picerni, George Christy, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas, Bob Jennings, De'voreaux White, Dennis Hayden, Betty Carvalho, Fred Lerner, David Ursin, Diana James, Carmine Zozzora, Matt Landers, Kip Waldo, Robert Lesser, Anthony Peck, Gary Roberts, Bill Marcus, Taylor Fry, P. Randall Bowers, David Katz, Bill Margolin, Stella Hall, Hans Buhringer, Dustyn Taylor, Rick Cicetti, Joey Plewa, Mark Goldstein, Gérard Bonn, Richard Parker, Gary Pinkston, Michele Laybourn, Shanna Higgins, Shelley Pogoda, Kate Finlayson, Mark Winn, Jon E. Greene, Cheryl Baker, Bruno Doyon, Bruce P. Schultz, Scot Bennett, Noah Land, Rick Bross

  John McClane (Bruce Willis) goes through a lot of trials in Die Hard, but one memorable scene wasn't actually in the script. When McClane is trying to get down the ventilation shaft, the stuntman was supposed to make it to the first ledge safely. Instead, he miscalculated and fell.

  Fortunately, no one was hurt, and editor Frank Urioste (who also worked on the original RoboCop) managed to cut the film so that the fall was included, switching to a shot of Willis grabbing the edge of the next shaft with his fingertips.
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  (#9) Apocalypse Now

  • Marlon Brando, Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola, R. Lee Ermey, Scott Glenn, Colleen Camp, Cynthia Wood, Bill Graham, Frederic Forrest, G. D. Spradlin, Sam Bottoms, Roman Coppola, James Keane, Vittorio Storaro, Albert Hall, Christian Marquand, Tom Mason, Aurore Clément, Jim Gaines, Marc Coppola, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Evan A. Lottman, Jerry Ziesmer, Jack Thibeau, Damien Leake, Kerry Rossall, Jerry Ross, Franck Villard, Henry Strzalkowski, Nick Nicholson, Glenn Walken, Herb Rice, Linda Carpenter, Don Gordon Bell, George Cantero, Linn Phillips, Bo Byers, Ron McQueen, David Olivier, Pierre Segui, William Upton, Larry Carney, Dick White, Gilbert Renkens, Chrystel Le Pelletier, Robert Julian, Lonnie 'Lono' Woodley, Henri Sadardeil, Hattie James, Father Elias, Daniel Kiewit, Michel Pitton, Yvon LeSeaux

  Director Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now has behind-the-scenes extravagances so famous that they gave rise to their own documentary film, Hearts of Darkness. The documentary revealed that the scene in which Martin Sheen's Captain Willard falls apart in a Saigon hotel room was mostly ad-libbed. 

  It was Sheen's 36th birthday, and he was, by his own admission, so intoxicated that he "couldn't hardly stand up." Catching a glimpse of his reflection in the mirror, Sheen - as Willard - smashes the glass, cutting his hand and smearing it over his face. Everything about that moment was genuine. 

  "Francis said his impulse was to cut the scene and call the nurse," Coppola's wife later wrote in her memoir Notes on a Life, "but Marty was doing the scene."
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  (#2) Django Unchained

  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Foxx, Quentin Tarantino, Jonah Hill, Christoph Waltz, Don Johnson, Bruce Dern, Amber Tamblyn, Walton Goggins, Franco Nero, James Remar, Tom Wopat, Tom Savini, Robert Carradine, Zoe Bell, Michael Parks, Russ Tamblyn, Nichole Galicia, James Russo, Michael Bowen, M. C. Gainey, Lee Horsley, Gary Grubbs, Rex Linn, John Jarratt, Don Stroud, J.D. Evermore, Elton LeBlanc, Edrick Browne, Ato Essandoh, Ritchie Montgomery, John McConnell, Ned Bellamy, James Parks, Michael Bacall, Dennis Christopher, Laura Cayouette, Jarrod Bunch, Evan Parke, Lewis Smith, Todd Allen, Jamal Duff, Dane Rhodes, Jake Garber, Cooper Huckabee, Kim Collins, Erin Pickett, Omar J. Dorsey, Christopher Shane Berry, Louise Stratten, Mark Ulano, Edward J. Clare, Sammi Rotibi, Kim Robillard, Doc Duhame, Ted Neeley, David Steen, Jon Thomas, Brian Brown, Victoria Thomas, Johnny Otto, Kimberley Drummond, Glen Warner, Matthew Parrott, Keith Jefferson, Chuck Murphy, Gregory Allen Gabroy, Misty Upham, William Hudson, Escalante Lundy, Deborah Ayorinde, Kesha Bullard, Kasey James, Skipper Landry, Justin Hall, Clay Donahue Fontenot, Shana Stein, Belinda Owino, Jordon Michael Corbin, Jack Lucarelli, LaTeace Towns-Cuellar, Richie J. Ladner, Dana Michelle Gourrier, Amari Cheatom, Sharon Pierre-Louis, Timothy Pickles, Kinetic 9, Catherine Lambert, Ashley Toman, Jakel Marshall, Ross P. Cook, Danièle Watts, Takara Clark, Craig Stark, Carl Bailey, Sandra Linz, Tristan Tierce, David Coennen, Kay Smith, Shannon Hazlett, Kel Owens, Mike DeMille, Lil Chuuuch, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Nicholas Dashnaw, Carl Singleton, Tenaj L. Jackson, Marcus Henderson, Monica Rene'e Anderson, Kerry Sims, Miriam F. Glover, Ronan Hice, Keniaryn Mitchell, Sonny Clary, Cindy Mah, Grace Collins

  In one of the most intense scenes in Quentin Tarantino's revisionist western, Django Unchained, the malevolent Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) slams his hand down on a table to emphasize a point, shattering a crystal cordial glass in the process. Candie doesn't even pause, however, and proceeds to pick shards of glass out of his hand with an unsettling calm.

  Candie slapping the table was in the script, but he wasn't supposed to hurt his hand. DiCaprio accidentally broke the glass while filming, but he didn't break character and the scenes of him picking shards from his palm and wiping it on actor Kerry Washington are improvised. Tarantino is not one to shy away from a little extreme method acting and he kept the moment in the final cut.
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  (#7) Rumble in the Bronx

  • Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung, Marc Akerstream, Garvin Cross, Chan Man Ching, Ailen Sit, Fred Andrucci, Morgan Lam

  Jackie Chan is famous for performing his own stunts, and he has hurt himself numerous times as a result. One of his most dramatic failed stunts caught on camera and used in the final cut happened during the filming of Rumble in the Bronx.

  Chan broke his ankle while shooting a scene in which he jumps from a bridge onto a hovercraft. In an interview with Conan O'Brien, Chan recalled the moment and said, "I hear a very clear sound from my leg - crack!"

  Not one to be deterred by an injury, however, Chan not only made sure they got that shot, but he filmed the rest of the movie with a "special cover" over his cast painted to look like a sneaker. 

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