There's a fine line between brilliance and ridiculousness in funk, and this audiovisual auteur toed it to the inch with the insanely catchy and just plain insane likes of Chainsaw and The Thistle (his stunts included hanging off the front of a moving steam train).
As spectacular as this tooth hoist may look to us, it was not Miss La La's most famous stunt; that involved hanging upside down from a trapeze while supporting a suspended 150-pound cannon with her teeth, holding on even through the force of the canon's blast.
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In a new stunt featurette, released by the movie's YouTube Channel on Monday, we see Cruise complete what might be one of his craziest stunts to date -- hanging off a plane.
Some of the cast did their own stunts, including Mark Ruffalo, who performed one scene hanging from a helicopter.
To round off the buildup, some powerful images surfaced of Harry hanging out of a helicopter, and of his stunt double wearing a mask of his face during a music video shoot, to whet our collective appetite.
It was not as spectacular a stunt as, say, the time he extricated himself from a straitjacket while hanging upside down over Niagra Falls, but it made his point: namely that homeopathic remedies are quackery.
The scene includes a sequence in which the protagonist sends a huge art-chandelier hanging from the ceiling crashing to the ground; the entire stunt was created using computer generated imagery.
The whole film was a stunt from start to end – I was flying, running, sliding under a moving truck, hanging out the side of a truck door".
Several stunts had to be cut including a final scene that would have seen the vault hanging over the edge of the Teodoro Moscoso Bridge.
