Great tragedies that shocked the movie sets (VIDEO)

Since 1990, 45 people have lost their lives in filming accidents

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The tragic accident in which Alec Baldwin was involved, resulting in the death of a man on the set, is not the only and not the most serious in the history of the show.

Since 1990, 45 people have lost their lives in similar accidents and more than 150 have suffered very serious injuries during filming.

And of course, before 1990, the number was really incalculable, as in the early years of the film industry, security measures were almost non-existent. And with the accident in which Baldwin was involved, it turns out that it is still not enough…

Despite the rather strict rules that apply now, film production is still a dangerous mission for actors, accomplices, stuntmen, but also for directors.

Beyond that, all deaths or injuries have led to lengthy lawsuits, which usually lead to out-of-court settlements and compensation by powerful and affluent film studios.

How many ways are there to die in one shoot?
Many and usually very strange.

How likely are you, say, in the real world to be trampled by horses, killed in a chariot battle, or drowned in the Flood of Noah? Obviously not many, but in Hollywood everything happens.

"Ben Hur", of 1925, is still played, mainly due to the impressive scenes in the arena. And this seems to have its explanation, the realism of the scenes was not fake. Officially the losses during filming were a few horses and a stuntman, while the urban legend on the movie set says that in the famous scene of the chariot battle the situation was out of control and nothing was fixed.

"Killing spectacle" was also the scene of the flood in the movie "Noah's Ark", 1928. In this case, three accomplices drowned in the water and hundreds were injured.

A lot has changed since then, but what has changed most is that the accidents are getting public. And that someone is responsible for them, something that was not necessarily the case a century earlier.

The accident that changed a lot in the way the films are shot, was one of the strangest in the history of the film industry:

In 1955, Dick Powell directed The Conqueror in the Nevada Desert on behalf of producer and tycoon Howard Hughes. The protagonist is John Wayne and 220 people work on the set.

In the early 80s, 91 of these people developed cancer. Among them are John Wayne and Dick Powell. The percentage is huge and yet much higher than the average. It was too late to investigate the circumstances, but everything "showed" as guilty the high radioactivity to which the workshop was exposed, as in this desert nuclear tests were (and are being) carried out.

Hughes, who did not fare well, judged the film to be bad, paid $ 12 million to buy all of its copies, and another Hollywood legend says he watched the movie every night to punish himself for starring in something so bad.

The good news is that he did not make any other film productions. The bad news is that he sent, probably out of carelessness, a lot of people to the grave.

Brandon Lee: Tragic fate of a tragic name

We have no particular reason to single out the accident that cost Brandon Lee's life during the filming of The Raven in 1994, other than the fact that Brandon was the son of a movie legend, Bruce Lee.

In mid-1992, Brandon Lee accepted an offer to star in Australian director Alex Progia's "The Crow." The film was based on the eponymous James O Barr comic, which in turn was based on the eponymous play by Edgar Allan Poe.

The protagonist and his fiancée are murdered - shortly before their wedding - by a gang. He returns from the dead to avenge those who killed them.

Eric's role was supposed to eventually lead Brandon to the coveted success, to make him a new rising star, but ultimately led to his death.

Filming began in February 1993. By March 31, 1993, they were almost complete. That night they filmed a scene at Carroll Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina, where the protagonist Eric Draven is shot by Funboy, played by actor Michael Massey.

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Lee collapses and initially the crew and the other actors assume he was impersonating. They soon realized that this was not acting as the actor had been seriously injured in the abdomen and spine by a bullet. He was taken to the hospital where he underwent a six-hour operation. A few hours later, at the age of 28, he lost the battle for his life.

Beheading from a helicopter

Perhaps the strangest and at the same time the most tragic way in which three people lost their lives during the filming of The Twilight Zone in 1983.

The film was produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by John Ladis.

During filming, a helicopter that flew very low, just 8 meters from the ground, could not avoid the explosives on the set, touched them, an explosion followed, its tail was cut off and as it fell to the ground it beheaded the protagonist. Vic Morrow and just seven year old Mika Dean Lee. When the rest of the helicopter crashed, it hit six-year-old Xin-Yi Chen, who also lost her life.

The film's producers, including Spielberg, were found responsible for the accident and were the reason for changing the rules for child labor in the cinema.

Ladis, who insisted on shooting with real ammunition, never spoke to Spielberg again, who blamed him for the accident.

Stuntman: A very dangerous profession

There are still many accidents, known or less, in which people literally lost their lives or not so much. The woman who dubbed Mila Jovovic in "Resident Evil: The Last Chapter", Olivia Jackson, in a motorcycle chase scene collided with a camera that recorded her, resulting in the loss of her left arm. In the same film, Ricardo Cornelius lost his life when in one scene the car he was riding fell from a rotating platform.

Art Sol was one of the most famous pilots of all time and his boldest aerial photographs have been featured in dozens of films. His participation in Top Gun in 1986 was his last, as his plane crashed into the sea.

Tom Cruise insists to this day that he shoots his own dangerous scenes and no one knows if this is because of that accident. And of course, he has been injured many times.

Stuntmen are generally the ones who have the most losses in their ranks, which is not strange, as they usually perform very dangerous scenes.

Heath Ledger's replacement in "The Dark Knight", Conway Guckleife, died during a rehearsal of a scene in which the Batmobile is attacked by the Joker's rockets. Wooklife pulled his head out of the car to shoot, but lost control of the vehicle, which fell on a tree and the stuntman was killed.

Like Vin Diesel, the stuntman on the set of the 2002 film "XXX", Harry L. O'Connor, who for the needs of a scene, had to land from a balloon on a submarine, with the help of a rope. O'Connor was slow to descend, crashed into a bridge and was killed instantly. His death has been immortalized on camera and director Rob Cohen has decided to include this scene in the film, but without the last moments.

It's not the only scene we've seen in movies and the injury was real. These scenes are many and very famous. And the directors decide to include them in the final editing. See some of them and you will be surprised:

This is ultimately Hollywood and it gives exactly what it promises:

Everything for the spectacle, at any cost…

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