Actors Who Were Hurt or Killed While Filming + Top 5 Movies That Take Place In One Day + Marriage Story Movie Review

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Movie Mix Movie Podcast, where today I am talking about actors who were hurt and in one instance, killed while filming a movie. In some cases, these actors fought through the pain and their injury actually appears on screen because they decided to keep it in the movie, and other ones, the actors were hospitalized and later returned to filming the movie. And in one very famous story of a prop mix up caused an actor to die on the set of a film, a really tragic story in film history that I'll get into on this episode. In my movie list this week, I'm talking about my top five movies that all take place in one day. The only rule is they all have to take place in one day. I'll give you a sneak peek at one of them now. If you can identify this clip, you can find out words that one ranks on my list. And I'll also give my review of Marriage Story, which is on Netflix with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. All that in today's episode. 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He broke his ankle and then within a few weeks he was back and everybody's like, oh yeah, Daniel Craig is the man comes back after an ankle injury. Some of these are absurd. I had to fact check them and find the actors talking about it just to make sure that they really happened. This first one blew my mind. The movie Passion of the Christ from two thousand four, which is directed by Mel Gibson. The guy who plays Jesus in the movie is Jim Caviezel, and while filming the movie, he was struck by lightning. So that's all happened. When they were filming the Sermon on the Mount and Jim Caviezel noticed that there was lightning coming towards him, and he said he knew that he was about to get struck by lightning. I was lit up like a Christmas tree. I knew it was going to hit me. About four seconds before it happened, I said, I'm going to get hit And when it happened it was I saw the extras grabbed the ground in front of me. What they saw was fire coming out the right and left side of my head and illumination around the whole body. All I felt was like a giant, tremendous slap on my ears and about eight seconds of us like a pink red static in front of my eyes. And somehow he didn't suffer any major injuries after being struck by lightning. He did get an infection, an ammonia, hypothermia, and a lung infection throughout the course of filming this movie, but the lightning really had no big effect on him. And I don't know about you, but if I get struck by lightning while playing Jesus in a movie, I think I'm done with the movie after that. I would clearly take that as a sign. This next one is one of my favorites, mainly because they left it in the movie and it's one of my favorite pivotal scenes in Django Unchained where Leonardo DiCaprio cut his hand while filming the movie. So there's a scene where he has his glass and he slams it on the table. It's in order to make it believable he's the real glass and really slammed it into the table, but when he did it, the glass shattered and cut his hand and he started bleeding. So he's sitting there with his hand bleeding, and he stays in character and finishes the scene. And that is what you see in the movie. Sat on that tabletop. If you lift those palms off that tunnel shelf tabletop, Mr both fails that sat off. They had been a lot of last set around the spen a table to night, but that's you kind of believe. But there is a little bit of myth around it because although he did really cut his hand and they kept that part of the movie, they cut after it after they got the shot, and then they decided, Okay, we're gonna do it. We're gonna use you bleeding. They ended up using fake blood for the part where he goes and smears blood on carry watching his face like, he gets his hand, rubs it on her face and there's blood all over. That's not actually on our capitol's blood of some people believe at that point it was fake blood, but real cut didn't break character and kept the scene. He ended up having to get stitches later for the cut, but man, what a great scene. Another cool one which they actually left in the movie was from The Lord of the Rings the Two Towers in two thousand two, where Vigo Mortenson actually goes to kick a helmet and they were trying to get the perfect shot on this, so they're like, all right, you just gotta fully commit and kicked the helmet. Well, it ended up that he was so much forced to kick the thing he broke two of his toes and the scream that you hear in the movie is him actually screaming in pain after he broke them. So yeah, that is a sheer cry of pain that actually made into the movie that hurts to here. Now, this next one is one that could have been responsible for us losing one of our most beloved actors in America of all time. I'm talking about Tom Hanks and cast Away from two thousand. So this is the one where he stranded on an island and he does all these things to try to survive. He gets to like take out a tooth at one point, a lot of crazy stuff. Um, he has a best friend who's a volleyball you know the movie. So this one actually happened after filming was done for the movie. So before leaving that island, Tom Hanks cut his leg and it was like a really small cut, so you know what, he didn't think much about it at the time, but by the time he returned home it was so swollen and painful. He went to the doctor and found out he had a staff infection, and they told him if he had waited any longer to seek medical attention, that he would have died from fatal blood poisoning, all from a small little cut he got on the island. He said that we again, who went home, it just swelled up so big that he decided, Okay, I gotta go to the doctor to get this sting checked out. He thought maybe it was just clean it up, give him some antibiotics. No, we found out he had a crazy staff infection from filming this movie. But crazy to think we could have lost Tom Hanks all because a little cut from Castaway And now we're gonna go way back to to the classic The Wizard of Oz, And you think, how could you possibly get hurt while filming a movie like Wizard of Oz. Turns out a lot of people got seriously injured making this movie. There's no place. So the first one comes from the lady who played the Wicked Witch of the West, which was Margaret Hamilton's. Not only did she suffer at injury on set, but her stunt double suffered to injury on set. So what happened to Margaret Hamilton's is there a scene involving a trap door in munchkin Land, but the flames were triggered too soon, which caused her face and hands to be burned put her in the hospital for a month. So then they bring in her stunt double who also suffers a double injury while on set. So there's a very famous scene where the Wicked Witch of the West is writing on a broomstick and he writes out surrender. Dorothy and Black Smoke. Well, their stunt double ended up suffering burns to her legs after working on that sequence. And I don't know about you, but if I was working on this movie and saw these people getting hurt, I would stay away from fire, staying inside the Wizard of Oz. There's a guy named Buddy Epson who played the tin Man in the movie. The company who made the movie, MGM, tested several types of like costumes and makeup to try to make the tin Man appear silvery, and what they ended up using was face paint coated with aluminum dust. Sounds harmless back in the day, back in the thirties, but nine days into filming, he started to experience shortness of breath and cramping that sent him to the hospital, and at one point his lungs failed. He ended up being in the hospital for two weeks, during which the film's producer hired a different actor to replace him. So then they have this new guy playing the tin Man. They reformulated the paint into a pace that was painted on but four days into filming with that guy. Yeah, he got an eye infection. He didn't suffer any permanent damage, but he ended up losing the part, and then they brought old Buddy Epson back into play the tin Man. The myth though, was that Buddy Epson and the lead pain ended up being the cause of his death. Not true. He ended up living until the age of when he eventually died in ninety three. But Crazy didn't think that they were just slapping stuff on people that was causing him to get sick. Didn't really have special effects figured out back in the day. All right, let's fast forward a bit to five. I'm talking about Rocky four, where a punch almost killed Sylvester Stallone. So at the height of the action in the movie, Rocky finally manages to defeat Drago in the fifteen round after spending almost forty five minutes taking slow motion haymakers to the grill and Stylvester Stallone head the ideas that he wanted to make this final fight look realistic and bone crunching as possible, as he says, so he told a guy playing Drago that they should spark for a real to get the shots for the movie. So the guy playing Drego had actually gotten in trouble earlier while filming the movie by hitting a guy too hard and ended up throwing him into the air, so he's a little hesitate when Sylvester Stallone comes to him and wants him to punch him for real, But after some convincing, he agreed to not hold back as soon as shooting began and rocketed his first punch right until Sylvester Stallone's chest, putting him down for the count instantly. Sylvester Stallone said that the next thing he knew, he was in a plane to the emergency room and ended up being an intensive care for four days, and they basically said that he suffered the same conditions as someone who had just gone through a car wreck. He ended up staying there for eight days, and what they found out is he got struck so hard that his heart slammed into his breasts stone and it began to swell. So what they said it was basically like being in a car wreck. You're driving at a speed and then you stop and crash, your chest hits the steering wheel, and that same impact is what he got from one of this dude's punches man. That is commitment to a scene. And finally we get to the tragic and mysterious death of Brandon Lee on the set of The Crow. So actor and martial art artist, Brandon Lee is the son of Bruce Lee and Linda Lee, and he has a lot of his dad's acting and martial arts skills, and at the time he was doing this movie, it was going to be one of the biggest movies of his career. Unfortunately, though, he died just days before completing the movie from a gunshot accident on the film set. So the entire movie was filmed in about fifty eight days, and they were on the fiftiest day filming down in North Carolina. So the scene calls for Brandon Lee's character to be shot in the chest as he's walking into his apartment. He's carrying a grocery bag and there's supposed to be a decoy explosive that goes off into the bag, but by mistake, there was a piece of dummy bullets stuck into the barrel of the forty four magnum Smith and Wesson that fired, and when the intended blank was shot, the fragment shot Brandon Lee in the chest, but nobody even realized anything was wrong until they said cut and realized that he wasn't responsive. He was rushed to a medical center immediately, but unfortunately he died after several hours of surgery on March thirty one, at just twenty eight years old. And after the actor's deaths, a lot of rumors came out about it, but overall just a really tragic thing to happen while making a movie. So they ended up finding out that the prop guy had gone to the store to buy the fake bullets, but he ended up also buying live rounds, which live rounds are never supposed to be able to kept on set for this very reason, So now you have bullets that are blanks and other bullets with actual gunpowder on them, and without them really knowing, the real bullets ended up getting put into the gun. A two month investigation followed, and the shooting ended up being ruled as an accident, so no criminal charges were ever filed, but still one of the saddest things to ever happen in film history, and now really more so than the movie itself. That's what that movie is kind of known for. And I think we'll end it there on actors who were hurt and in this case killed while filming a movie. For my top five list this week, I'm talking about my top five movies that all take place in one day. So here's the premise for this. Everything that goes down in these movies all happens in one day, which I think is a great concept for a movie. It allows them to be more creative, and it's also probably a lot harder to shoot because you have to go for a morning to and you can't really cut between without people noticing. But I think when it's done well, you can get a really good slice of life at characters within a movie when it all goes down in one day, especially when it's just people hanging out, which are sometimes my favorite movies. So the way I came up with this top five is I just made a really big list of all the movies I knew that took place in one day, and then I went back and looked at reviews and stories behind these movies and just the ones that I find myself going back to holding the test of time. I put them in this top five list. And what I ended up on his list was actually like lower budget movies that ended up being big hits. I don't know if the fact that they took place in one day had anything to do with that, but I'm cool as it had being on my list. So let's get into it now. At number five, Halloween from not only one of my favorite movies to watch abound Halloween and given the name, but also just one of my favorite movies of all time with Jamie Lee Curtis Say and you know Michael Myers The Serial Killer. I remember watching this movie as a kid, and like, I wanted to make movies because of this movie, because it seems simple to make. You have a guy a killer going round killing babysitters. And the thing that makes this movie so eerie is just the way it shot, the way it looks, and the soundtracks. So you really take those things apart and you realize, oh, this is just a low budget indie movie. The whole screenplay only took ten days to write and three thousand dollars to make, which is really low budget. Even back in nineteen seventy eight, I watched a documentary on it about how the whole thing was filmed in less than a month. It was filmed in twenty days, but then went on to make seventy million dollars and they still show it every single Halloween. What a successful movie and they're still cranking these out. And they followed this movie up with many many sequels, which all actually take place in one day. But this is the best one of them all. I thought the Rob Zombie reboots were okay. I like Rob Zombie his other stuff, but the Halloween ones just didn't really do it for me. I do, however, really like the eighteen version, especially because Danny McBride wrote on it, and just knowing that it's in his hands in some capacity, I think the franchise will be all right. At number four, you have a movie that takes place all in one day at a convenience store slash video store. I'm talking about Clerks from by one of my favorite directors, Kevin Smith. I really love everything he does in his view Askew Universe, from Jay and Silent Bob to Mall Rats, but this one is probably my favorite of his, and the fact that it takes place in one day is just the bonus that I could put it on his list again. Another low budget movie. The movie was shot for twenty seven thousand dollars inside a real working convenience store and video store that they would have to go film at night. And this is really the movie that launched Kevin Smith as a director because it was really make or break. He received like a bunch of donations from his family. He even got like a grant for like three thousand dollars to make the movie. But the really the way he made this movie was he maxed out ten credit cards to get this thing made. He basically read like a filmmaker's magazine, learned how to budget movie, learn how to make a movie, then hired like all his family and friends, and even put himself in the movie. Like he wasn't gonna be Silent Bob of Jay and Silent Bob. It was really gonna be like one of his friends playing Silent Bob. And he decided, you know what, I want to play that character, told his friend, Hey, man, I'm just gonna do it. And the thing is, Kevin Smith actually talked a lot, so having a character who's completely silent is probably the hardest thing for him to do. The movie itself is really just people hanging out. Dante and Randall are probably my favorite characters of his, and of course you get to see Jay and Silent Bob really for the first time. And Jason mus was really just Kevin Smith's friend who thought he was really crazy. He's like, hey, one day, I'm gonna put you in a movie and decided this is a movie I'm gonna put you in. And Jason Mused really wasn't an actor. He was just a really crazy guy who he thought should be a movie character. So him being Jay is really just his real life persona, which was hard for him to do because he wasn't an actor. So Kevin Smith would put him behind a camera and all of a sudden he'd be nervous and he'd be like, just just do the thing I know you for, just do it. But that was like another reason why he wrote himself into Silent Bob, so he could kind of guide Jason Muse into that character. So this movie is also just really cool and inspiring for like young filmmakers to look at. This is kind of a baseline of even if you don't have a lot of money, as long as you have a story in some comedy, you can make a great movie. I just didn't cost a lot. The soundtrack for this movie actually cost more than production costs. I also love that about Kevin Smith. He always puts really great music in his movies, even at the expense of maxing out probably another credit card. At number three, I have to go with a movie from starring Bruce Willis. I'm talking about die Hards Get Together. I was a little late to the game on die Hard, but I realized that it's set the blueprint for every big action movie now because they kind of take the die Hard plot and just placed it into different scenarios and it usually works. Sometimes it works so much that it kind of gets boring now, but there are a lot of movies now that stick to this formula. One of the most interesting things about this though, is that Bruce Willis at the time was not an action story. He was in a TV show called Moonlighting and was not seen as really like a strong or heroic dude. So the first time this movie was really shown as him as a lead actor in an action movie, people thought it was funny, and even at the time, he ended up being the highest paid actor that year, and they really took a chance on him, not knowing if it would work, but they made the whole thing for twenty eight million, and then went on to break every single box office record made. A right call on Old Bruce Willis In at Number two is a cult classic from directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino, starring George Clooney and also Quentin Tarantino. I'm talking about from dust till Dawn. So many reasons why this is not only one of my favorite movies that takes place in one day, but just one of my favorite all time movies. Just from the opening scene. I love a movie with a great opening scene, and this whole movie starts out in a convenience store shootout, which is amazing. There's so much tension and it's so well done. One of my favorite openings ever in a movie. I wanted him out of here in his car and down the road. Or you can change the name of this place, the Benny's World of Blood. Everybody be cool, You be cool. Some really interesting things behind this movie too, is that it was Quentin Tarantino's first ever paid gig. He was paid fIF to write the script and then ended up making it into a movie. And it was also George Clooney's first ever Hollywood movie role. Quentin Tarantino went and pitched it to George Clooney because at the time he was just doing e Er he was known as the hunky guy on the Er. And then he goes on to star in this crazy action horror movie. And not only does it take place in one day, but there's also one actor in the movie who plays three different characters. Manine is in the movie and he plays the Mexican border guard. He also plays the strip club doorman, and he plays a gangster in the movie. It is a very R rated movie. Just the warning. If you designed to go and watch it, I would describe it as kind of like a Walking Dead zombie type movie but with vampire. So if you're into that, I would really suggest checking this out if you're into nineties movies, But if you're squeamish at blood and horror, I would say probably not for you. All right, before I get into my number one pick, I when I throw about some honorable mentions. One that almost made the list was super bad, but when you think about it at the very end, it goes into the next day because when they go to the mall, that's the day after the party. Another one that almost made the list was the breakfast Club Training Day was so close to making it but just not quite. And the Goonies. So those are some honorable mentions. But coming in at number one is a movie I quote so much that I thought i'd kick it off with a quote from it that tells the story of the movie. For most people, Friday is just the day before the weekend. But after this Friday, the neighborhood will never be the same. I'm talking about Friday. The movie stars ice Cube and Chris Tucker, also written by ice Cube, also goes back to that theme of being low budget. It was all shot for three point five million dollars and in twenty days, and just a really great cast. You got Ice Cube is Craig Chris Tucker as Smokey, even got a cameo from Bernie mack in there. R I P. He's the guy hooking up with Miss Parker across the street, Miss Parka, Miss Parka. And then you got John Witherspoon, who I think is the star of the movie, really has the most memorable lines. R I P. John Witherspoon, who died earlier this year. Every single time he's on screen, I'm just laughing. Get fired on your day off One of the most iconic scenes in a comedy movie ever is the scene from the kitchen. Every time I come into kitchen eating up all the food, all the chicken, all the big feet, all the color green, all the whole malls, I want to eat some of them. I love. I think it's just an overall underrated movie that has had such a big impact on pop culture. If you've ever heard the phrase by Felicia that is from this movie, I need to borrow your car. Right, most people want the bar sugar. They even catch up you want to borrow my car? Hell no cue. I think the reputation of this movie maybe gets a little bit taken away because they've had so many sequels that haven't been as great as the original. So I could do without those. I could even do without them trying to reboot it, trying to get Chris Tucker back. Is Smoky One day was all we needed from Friday. All right, let's get into it. This week's movie review is Marriage Story, which you can watch for free right now on Netflix. Well, I guess it's not technically free. You have to pay for a subscription unless you're like me and still use your sister's account. It's written and directed by Noah bound Back, stars Adam Driver and Scarlett Johanson and is rated ARE but not a hard are and there's no like violence or nudity or anything, just some horse language. So what the movie is basically about is a couple going through a coast to coast divorce because they're living together with their son in New York City. They go to counseling and try to work it out, but they decide, all right, we're gonna separate for a bit. She leaves, takes their son to Los Angeles, and while she's there, decide she's gonna follow through with the divorce. And that's kind of where this movie kicks off. Even at the start of the movie, you think, oh, it's gonna be like a really nice movie about love. Yeah, about ten minutes and you're like, oh, this is gonna go there. Very dramatic, but a little bit of comedy throughout it. So here's the clip of marriage story. Are you kidding me? I wanted to be married? I don't he lost you would love me? Which I loved? You have to do with l a what you're so merged with your own selfishness. You don't need to identify it and selfishness anymore, you're such that clip is just like a pinnacle of what the acting is like in this movie. So kind of setting the stage here again, I won't be spoiling anything, but it's about Adam Driver's character who's Charlie, and Scarlett Johansson's character, which is Nicole. Now they moved to New York City and he's working as a theater director and she was like a former teen actress and now who is working starring in his plays. And it really tells her story of just kind of feeling like she's lost her identity in this marriage, like she's done everything to kind of fit him, to be in his place, to do kind of what he wants to do, and pushing her acting dreams kind of aside. So really where it kind of comes from her leaving is like she's like, I'm going to move to l a, be my own person, do my own thing, get back into acting, and start starring in things on my own. And so she goes back and while she's there, she's like, I can do this. I feel like a lot more like myself now and decides to divorce him, and he doesn't know he thinks she's just going out there to kind of find herself, takes some time off, and eventually she'll move back to New York City with their son and the work things out. She serves him with divorce papers, and then he's kind of stuck between having to go back and forth between New York and l A. Because he's getting divorced in l A. She lives there, she's from there, their kid was born there, so he has to kind of go and establish a residency there and fight this divorce. And I think the movie does a really good job at portraying both sides of a messy divorce. It almost feels like it's a crime that has happened. The way they talk about divorce, it feels like he has done something wrong, which I mean, he kind of did some bad things that will ruin it, but again, he hasn't done anything criminally wrong. But the way the lawyers are in this movie, the way divorce is kind of portrayed, it shows it as like a criminal act, almost like you're thinking one person has to defend themselves from the other person over custody of their kid. Even the part about like fighting for time with your kids, which you don't really think about into you're in the divorce. You're like, oh, I want to have them this amount of time or that amount of time. It's really not a big deal into your fighting literally to keep your kid in your life. And there was one line specifically that really stuck out to me. They said, criminal lawyers see bad people at their best. Divorce lawyers see good people at their worst. And that line just kind of hit me in the gut. That's real, man. I also really love the supporting characters in this. Ray Leota and Laura Dern as the lawyers are really vicious and just portray lawyers as people you don't really want to be associated with. And all of the legal stuff is just crazy, and I feel it's pretty accurate. Like I said, it feels like they're going through a criminal court case when it's just fighting for custody of a child. There's nothing super flashy about this movie. It's just straight on, full a list acting from Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. It's emotional in every sense, and if you've gone through divorce with kids, probably hits really close to home, or if your parents are divorced, you might see this and be like man, I'm the kid in this It has six Golden Globe nominations, including Best Motion Picture for a Drama. I think it'll for sure be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. So if you're interested in watching all of those Best Picture movies, I would suggest hopping on this one. I give it four out of five court hearings. You're probably not gonna find better acting in any other movie right now. I mean, Scarlett Johansson Adam Driver have really big ranges. I mean she's black Widow in the Avengers movies and he's Kylo Ren and Star Wars, and then you put him in this and you're like, oh, yeah, that that's why they do the acting thing. This is why, all right. And that's my review of Marriage Story, all right, And that's the show for this week. Before I go, gotta give my Instagram shout out this week to Teresa Lambert who's been tagging me and posting about the podcast. All you have to do is tag me in your Instagram story that you listen to the podcast, and I picked people from that to shout out next week. And if you have any movie questions or a topic suggestion, you can even on me now movie Mike d at gmail dot com. If there's a movie you think I should see, you can hit me with that, or if there's a topic you think I should explore, send those as well. All Right, that's gonna do it for me for this week. I will talk to you next Monday on a brand new episode. Later