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Post by stutefish on Oct 7, 2008 19:23:16 GMT -4
"Scotty" actor James Doohan was missing his right middle finger, which was shot off by a machine gun during the D-Day invasion. He hid it well in the original run of Star Trek, using various tricks like always curling his hand or holding a prop in just the right way to conceal the missing digit. The shots of "Scotty's" hands working the transporter controls were not Doohan's. After that, I got nuthin'.
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Post by Jason on Oct 8, 2008 10:54:52 GMT -4
"Scotty" actor James Doohan was missing his right middle finger, which was shot off by a machine gun during the D-Day invasion. He hid it well in the original run of Star Trek, using various tricks like always curling his hand or holding a prop in just the right way to conceal the missing digit. The shots of "Scotty's" hands working the transporter controls were not Doohan's. After that, I got nuthin'. Star Trek 4 teh win! Pwned noob!
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Post by PhantomWolf on Oct 8, 2008 15:52:43 GMT -4
Star Trek 4 teh win! Pwned noob! Can't allow that "Scotty" actor James Doohan was missing his right middle finger, which was shot off by a machine gun during the D-Day invasion. He hid it well in the original run of Star Trek, using various tricks like always curling his hand or holding a prop in just the right way to conceal the missing digit. The shots of "Scotty's" hands working the transporter controls were not Doohan's. Hollywood has also had to change the way movies have been made to explain or hide injuries to actors. In LotR (okay so a NZ Film rather then Hollywood, but still...) Viggo Mortensen was filmed from the left for the entire opening scene in the tomb inside Moria. This was due to his being hit in the face with a surfboard giving him a blackeye and large bruise on his right hand side. Injuries happened quite a bit duing the filming including Sean Austin cutting his foot on broken glass, Christopher Lee jambing his finger in a door, and Orlando Bloom breaking his ribs by falling off his horse and having John Rhys-Davies' size double land on him. Viggo seems to have been the most accident prone however, also suffering a broken toe when kicking a helmet (left in film) and a broken tooth when a stunman hit him in the mouth with a sword during the filming of Helm's Deep. Another Triology that had to modify their filming was Star Wars where the entire beginning of ESB was rewritten to include the Wampa attack as a way to explain the facial scarring on its star Mark Hamil, which were actually the result of a car accident between the first two films.
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Post by Jason on Oct 8, 2008 16:32:59 GMT -4
Injuries happened quite a bit duing the filming including Sean Austin cutting his foot on broken glass... During the scene where Sam runs into the river after Frodo's boat. Frodo: "Go back, Sam, I'm going to Mordor alone!" Sam: "Of course you are. And I'm coming with you!" You can see the actual take that involved the accident on one of the extras disk of FotR (it isn't the take they used). Sean Astin goes running into the water in character and then stops dead and looks down at his feet. It was apparently quite serious - he says his hobbit foot was full of blood when it was taken off and he had to be helicoptered out of the remote area they were filming for medical attention. In the scene where Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas find the pile of dead orcs killed by the Riders of Rohan, and Aragorn kicks an orc helmet. There are alternate takes are on the extras disc of TTT for this as well - you can see why the one where he really broke his toe was the best one. He broke the tooth while jumping onto some orcs at Ammon Hen at the climax of FotR. Viggo apparently had someone super-glue his tooth back in and completed the scene, later going to a dentist to get a more permanent fix. The heavy makeup used to cover the scars in The Star Wars Holiday Special is blatantly obvious, and might explain why Mark Hamil has such a small part in it (lucky him).
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Post by PhantomWolf on Oct 8, 2008 16:44:56 GMT -4
you can see why the one where he really broke his toe was the best one. You can see the bandage on Christopher Lee's finger in the flying shot past Isengard as he casts the magic to bring to avalance down on the Fellowship in FOR and the part where Gandalf hits his head in Bagend was an accident that was left in as well because it worked better. I have never seen the Hoiday Special, possibly lucky for me.
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Post by Jason on Oct 8, 2008 18:01:09 GMT -4
I have never seen the Hoiday Special, possibly lucky for me. I watched it when it was originally broadcast (I was 5). I've seen clips since then, but never again the whole thing. You are indeed the lucky one.
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 12, 2008 22:23:27 GMT -4
Hanging a mirror wrong could lead to bad luck. Consult a Time Space Feng Shui practitioner first.
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