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  • noun Plural form of stuntperson.

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Examples

  • Not the only reason Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are so much better than all the other comic book franchise series going, but I think it is a sign that Christopher Nolan is thinking differently --- the big fight scenes in his movies depend on how he uses the actors and stuntpeople.

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • Not the only reason Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are so much better than all the other comic book franchise series going, but I think it is a sign that Christopher Nolan is thinking differently --- the big fight scenes in his movies depend on how he uses the actors and stuntpeople.

    Incredible, enough... 2008

  • I would have loved to read some discussion of that, drawing on stuntpeople, base jumpers, rock climbers, etc.

    Archive 2009-02-08 2009

  • The stunt, shot without special effects, required air traffic to be shut down over the city, while two stuntpeople in suits with winglike webbing leaped without wires from the world's third tallest building.

    Summer Movie Preview 2007

  • They hated having her do her own stunts on TITAoVtS, because if she got hurt, production stopped dead, but in fact she was damned good at it, and the stuntpeople had taught her a few helpful tricks.

    The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002

  • We pivot the ladders at the bottom, and have the stuntpeople falling onto an airbag.

    LOTR Stunt Team Interview - The Hobbit Film News and Information 1999

  • Birdhouse Factory by Cirque Mechanics, a motley crew of acrobats, stuntpeople and clowns whose biographies read like a Who's Who of circuses.

    Culturebot 2008

  • BRAGGING RIGHTS: National Treasure II’s four-and-a-half-minute car-chase scene in London took three months to film and involved seven cameras, 80 stuntpeople, and the destruction of 40 to 50 cars.

    Jerry Bruckheimer: Vanity Fair 2008

  • BRAGGING RIGHTS: National Treasure II’s four-and-a-half-minute car-chase scene in London took three months to film and involved seven cameras, 80 stuntpeople, and the destruction of 40 to 50 cars.

    Jerry Bruckheimer Films: New Establishment 2008

  • For a couple of months Fort Dorset, and abandoned Army base built on a finger of land jutting into Wellington’s Port Nicholson Harbour, has been ringing tot he sounds of war as a horde of extras and stuntpeople practise Middle Earth battle routines for the epic The Lord of the Rings shoot.

    LOTR Stunt Team Interview - The Hobbit Film News and Information 1999

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