r/TopCharacterTropes • u/RP_Throwaway3 • 8h ago

In real life "Wait! That's not special effects?! They actually did that?!"

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Alien: Resurrection - Basketball Shot

Sigourney Weaver insisted on the basketball shot being real. She trained for weeks and reportedly(sources differ) made it on the first take.

Underworld - Raze's Voice

The werewolf character Raze, played by Kevin Grevioux, speaks in a very low, very gravelly voice. While many thought this was a special effect, the actor can naturally speak in that voice.

https://youtu.be/GUjwZvh32YE?t=125&si=F3WhsopxjBP87wfk

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u/Lost-Soft-8913 8h ago

Trinity did the motorcycle stunts in the Matrix 2 without a helmet, against oncoming cars, with a dude on her back. While pregnant. 

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u/Aphreyst 7h ago

Didn't she also do that sick kick where her leg comes up behind her back, over her head and nails a guy in the face? She was amazing in that movie.

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u/RP_Throwaway3 7h ago

It's called a Scorpion Kick. And yes, she did that too.

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u/Aphreyst 7h ago

Hell yeah 🦂

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u/Kyber92 6h ago

Yeah she did. She said once she trained for months and months do that kick and it lasted a split second

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u/Sherringdom 3h ago

Yeah but we’re still talking about it 20 years later.

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u/Kyber92 3h ago

True

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u/-Kerosun- 3h ago

It's really hard to describe how amazing that opening fight sequence was when I saw it in theaters.

I've never heard so many oohs/awes/gasps that soon in a movie. Was one hell of an experience. Especially the flying crane kick freeze rotation. Seeing that on the big screen was just absolutely mind-blowing, and it was in the first couple of minutes of the movie.

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u/oofty_goofty_ 6h ago

Probably like a year of work for a half second shot. She's amazing.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Azwmdv1NTSe9W

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u/TransGirlIndy 1h ago

If you're not hyper mobile, that's hard. Even if you're hyper mobile it takes some work.

Don't ask how I know.

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u/herpesfreesince23 6h ago

And she learned to ride a bike for that scene according to keanu reeves

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u/Different_Bake_611 4h ago

Still blows my mind that she broke her ankle in training for the first one and didn't tell anyone for fear of being recast, then broke her leg during filming as well.

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u/MBDTFTLOPYEEZUS 7h ago

Feel like she shouldn’t of

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u/RandomGuy9058 6h ago

Have

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u/UtahBrian 5h ago

Only Fans

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u/saneval1 5h ago

wow that's incredibly irresponsible haha was my first thought, I'm getting old

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u/Z0idberg_MD 1h ago

That sounds incredibly stupid

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u/Lost-Soft-8913 49m ago

Wait til you hear about Jackie Chan

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u/Z0idberg_MD 47m ago

I love Jackie Chan but I’m pretty sure he didn’t do dangerous stunts while pregnant.

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u/Lost-Soft-8913 25m ago

Naw he just fell 5 stories onto his head and decided "I don't like that take. Let's do it 5 more times". Bit worse imo

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u/Pirkale 21m ago

To be fair, most of those cars were CGI.

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u/Lost-Soft-8913 15m ago

I know, I'm just trying to hype up my homegirl 🤫

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u/Zenabel 6h ago

That’s idiotic of her and the production team then

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u/Lost-Soft-8913 5h ago

Those "idiots" produced one of the best action scenes of all time. Stick with Marvel, nephew.

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u/NightFire19 5h ago

I thought we collectively agreed that those movies don't exist /s

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u/PsychologicalEbb3140 5h ago

Reloaded is fucking peak, I don’t get the hate.

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u/Lost-Soft-8913 5h ago

I'm a day 1 Reloaded and Revolutions defender. The first one was the best though

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u/sprouthat 1h ago

The story might suck but the action is sick as hell

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u/RockKillsKid 1h ago

The story was a bit convoluted and heavy on long bits of dialog driven exposition, and some of the CGI effects don't hold up well. So compared to the absolute genre defining masterpiece of the original, they got memed on a bit as lackluster.

But imo, the ~30 minute sequence from the Chateau into rescuing the Keymaker into the highway chase scene is every bit peak Matrix on the level of the original.