A scary moment narrowly avoided.
Stunt scenes have almost become a spectacle in their own right. Some are so over the top, like many of the stunts Tom Cruise achieves for his films. Some have ended in tragedy. Others have simply become legends that have been exaggerated with hyperbole over the years. With Doctor Zhivago, which chronicles the life of a Russian physician interrupted by World War I and the Russian Revolution, one stunt scene has become infamous for causing the amputation of a stuntwoman's legs.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT What Happened During 'Doctor Zhivago's Infamous Scene? Yuri Zhivago is on board a moving train in this sequence. The boxcar doors are wide open, and as they pass through a decimated village, many people run up to the train in an attempt to board it. Here, a woman carrying her baby runs up to the car Zhivago is in, begging to be helped in the moving train.
Indeed, the woman was injured on set. She was pulled under the train car and taken to the hospital. Geraldine Chaplin who played Tonya, Zhivago's wife, recounts the filming of this scene in a making-of documentary for the 30th anniversary of the film. In this, she states "She went under, she went under the train. And she got her legs very hurt, they weren't cut off, but they were very badly . . ." She was rushed off to the hospital with injuries to her legs.
Not everyone is so lucky. There are a lot of deaths in the film industry, stunt or otherwise. One of the most recent is the accidental death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust. That accident mirrors another that happened in 1994 with the death of Brandon Lee in an adaptation of The Crow. Both of these tragedies were the result of prop guns. In 2017 stuntwoman Joi Harris was killed in a motorcycle accident during the filming of Deadpool 2.
Many films have tragedies behind their productions, usually preventable tragedies, but Doctor Zhivago is not exactly one of them. While Murati was injured on set, thankfully she did not suffer catastrophic injuries or even possibly death due to the train car. The only question it does raise is how Hollywood needs to overhaul how they treat and conduct stunts on film. It also provides a look into how stories grow over time into much more spectacular tales than they usually were.
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