Somewhere during One Battle After Another’s second act, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Bob Ferguson is fleeing the bad guys at night as he runs and leaps over a series of urban rooftops. Then he falls from one, crashing into a drooping tree branch on his way down (a drop of roughly 15 feet) and landing flat on his chest.
There’s no way Leo’s stunt guy could’ve jumped and landed like that. Too dangerous. (A 15-foot fall recently killed a female trapeze artist in Germany.) I’m guessing he was speedily lowered on a wire, which was then digitally erased. But the fall happens so quickly and is sufficiently obscured by the dark that the trickery isn’t noticed. This is the kind of clever, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it stunt that I really admire.
“Peacock acting”! Name other examples of this over the decades? Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York, etc.