What is the best Bond stunt?

[irocfan]

Over 50 years of Bond and some spectacular stunts - but which was the best stunt?

[Blib]

Flying the mini jet through the hanger.

(Did I make this up?)

[Donbot]

Corkscrew bridge jump, surely.

[irocfan]

Blib said:

Flying the mini jet through the hanger.

(Did I make this up?)

No, you didn't

https://youtu.be/1z2BFlwbGiQ

[996Type]

Agree on the cork screw jump, used an early computer from memory for this to calculate the path the car would take.

I think the jet through the hangar was miniatures and props on a rig.

[juice]

The spy who loved me parachute scene. Not the most expensive, out there or flashy....Just beautifully done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEacFrHfcIU

[CubanPete]

Shagging a bird then skiing off a cliff with a union jack parachute.

[Desiderata]

Donbot said:

Corkscrew bridge jump, surely.

This, I remember watching a documentary about the guy who actually did it. One of the most amazing stunts ever, and it was real.

[ReverendCounter]

irocfan said:

Blib said:

Flying the mini jet through the hanger.

(Did I make this up?)

No, you didn't

https://youtu.be/1z2BFlwbGiQ

It's not really a stunt, its a special effect. The jet is full size, but it's mounted on a dolly/vehicle of some sort, being driven through the hanger. If you play the scene step by step you can see the mount - essentially a pole or something - under the plane.

In fact, you can see it clearly if you watch the clip on youtube and use a playback speed of 0.25.

[BigBen]

ReverendCounter said:

irocfan said:

Blib said:

Flying the mini jet through the hanger.

(Did I make this up?)

No, you didn't

https://youtu.be/1z2BFlwbGiQ

It's not really a stunt, its a special effect. The jet is full size, but it's mounted on a dolly/vehicle of some sort, being driven through the hanger. If you play the scene step by step you can see the mount - essentially a pole or something - under the plane.

In fact, you can see it clearly if you watch the clip on youtube and use a playback speed of 0.25.

You don't really need to slow it down the pole is quite visible even in the film at usual speed.

[FourWheelDrift]

The best we would all like to try, the corkscrew car jump.

The best we probably wouldn't want to try. In Live & Let Die, running across the backs of live Alligators. At the time I thought they were fakes but they were all real, the owner of the Crocodile farm did the stunt and these are the out-takes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb1c1aMcFAo

[irocfan]

No love for the' Brosnan' dam bungee or the 'Craig' DBS barrel roll?

[anonymous-user]

ReverendCounter said:

irocfan said:

Blib said:

Flying the mini jet through the hanger.

(Did I make this up?)

No, you didn't

https://youtu.be/1z2BFlwbGiQ

It's not really a stunt, its a special effect. The jet is full size, but it's mounted on a dolly/vehicle of some sort, being driven through the hanger. If you play the scene step by step you can see the mount - essentially a pole or something - under the plane.

In fact, you can see it clearly if you watch the clip on youtube and use a playback speed of 0.25.

An old Jag was used as the platform.

[Huntsman]

The boat chase in From Russia with love.

[LunarOne]

ash73 said:

Crane parkour scene in Casino Royale

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iZxNbAwY_rk

+1000

[snoopy25]

irocfan said:

No love for the' Brosnan' dam bungee or the 'Craig' DBS barrel roll?

Nah, that barrel roll wasn't particularly great and if I remember rightly you could see the post used to begin the barrel tlroll hanging out the bottom of the car.

[williamp]

Having a punch up out the back of a hercules in the propwash in TLD.

[megaphone]

The whole boat chase scene in Live And Let Die with some great individual stunts. ( proper fibreglass boats)

Edited by megaphone on Monday 8th June 07:57

[anonymous-user]

snoopy25 said:

irocfan said:

No love for the' Brosnan' dam bungee or the 'Craig' DBS barrel roll?

Nah, that barrel roll wasn't particularly great and if I remember rightly you could see the post used to begin the barrel tlroll hanging out the bottom of the car.

Not so much a “stunt” as a special effect.
Granted it’s a grey area but for me a stunt is one where, through a degree of physical skill, the character comes out largely intact.
The Aston rollover was simply a staged crash.

[Halmyre]

The corkscrew bridge jump is superb but eternally damned because some bellend thought it would be a great idea to add a swanee whistle sound effect over it.