So I’ve been seeing the new ‘Hercules’ previews and I noticed that some of the horse stunts look pretty intense. I’m specifically talking about the battle scenes where the horses appear to flip forward. Obviously, this could be total CGI, but I can’t tell from the preview. Does anyone know how/if they can humanly get a stunt horse to flip like that? I know a horse can be trained to rear and fall, but that’s fairly slow moving. These horses are, at minimum, cantering. I recall reading once that the act of tripping stunt horses is illegal, so I know it can’t be that, right?
I do think it’s CGI. Much cheaper than using real horses nowadays…
Probably a combination of CGI and life-sized models. If you look at the making of Braveheart, for example, they mounted life sized horse models on tracks, with real riders, designed to flip forwards and “run into” the spears of the opposing side.
Trip wires have been used fairly recently, but in foreign films (notably, mid 90s in an Indian action flick)
I saw The Rock on Jimmy Fallon last night and they showed some clips- the horse flip I saw was totally CGI- the rider charged front on and Hercules kind of did a lifting judo move on the horse- causing it to flip end over end… sigh. I don’t think this is my kind of movie.
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I saw The Rock on Jimmy Fallon last night and they showed some clips- the horse flip I saw was totally CGI- the rider charged front on and Hercules kind of did a lifting judo move on the horse- causing it to flip end over end… sigh. I don’t think this is my kind of movie.[/QUOTE]
That one, yes. lol That one’s obvious. I meant other shots where the horses are running and fall/flip.I think they’re getting hit with arrows.
I guess the consensus is, real rider and horses until the crash scenes, then it’s total CGI?
