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A piece of masonry, architecture, or another very large object falls onto a character. Fortunately, they survive because they're standing exactly where the window or some other opening is located. |
A piece of masonry, architecture, or another very large object falls onto a character. Fortunately, they survive because they're standing exactly where the window or some other opening is located. |
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== Film - Live Action == |
== Film - Live Action == |
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* [[Trope Codifier]]: [[Buster Keaton]] in ''[[Steamboat Bill Jr.]]'' Keaton's stunt was noted for being done without any trickery (and for being botched by the crew at one point—they measured it wrong and missed flattening Keaton's skull by mere inches). The page picture is the end result. It's reported that both the cameraman and director were too scared to watch when the stunt was preformed. |
* [[Trope Codifier]]: [[Buster Keaton]] in ''[[Steamboat Bill, Jr.]]'' Keaton's stunt was noted for being done without any trickery (and for being botched by the crew at one point—they measured it wrong and missed flattening Keaton's skull by mere inches). The page picture is the end result. It's reported that both the cameraman and director were too scared to watch when the stunt was preformed. |
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** An earlier example can be found in Keaton's short "[[One Week]]," in which the wall first pivots around a horizontal beam, thereby acting as a vertical [[Bookcase Passage]]. |
** An earlier example can be found in Keaton's short "[[One Week]]," in which the wall first pivots around a horizontal beam, thereby acting as a vertical [[Bookcase Passage]]. |
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* ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' had a car falling upside-down onto Dr. Grant and Tim, but luckily, they are only covered by the cabin portion of the vehicle, the top of which had previously been removed by a T-Rex. |
* ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' had a car falling upside-down onto Dr. Grant and Tim, but luckily, they are only covered by the cabin portion of the vehicle, the top of which had previously been removed by a T-Rex. |
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* Turned up to eleven in ''[[Project A]] Part II'' by [[Jackie Chan]], where he started on top of a multi-storey wall and ran all the way down the side of it as it toppled over, with someone else on the ground standing where the window is located. Chan is a big fan of Buster Keaton and silent comedy in general, and it's just one of several classic stunts that he's worked into his films. |
* Turned up to eleven in ''[[Project A]] Part II'' by [[Jackie Chan]], where he started on top of a multi-storey wall and ran all the way down the side of it as it toppled over, with someone else on the ground standing where the window is located. Chan is a big fan of Buster Keaton and silent comedy in general, and it's just one of several classic stunts that he's worked into his films. |
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* Subverted with the movie ''[[Hook]]''. The giant stuffed crocodile falls on Captain Hook, and the clock had fallen out of it mouth allowing its jaws to fall perfectly to either side of him. {{spoiler|It somehow eats him anyway.}} |
* Subverted with the movie ''[[Hook]]''. The giant stuffed crocodile falls on Captain Hook, and the clock had fallen out of it mouth allowing its jaws to fall perfectly to either side of him. {{spoiler|It somehow eats him anyway.}} |
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* The [[Animated Credits Opening]] for ''[[The Pink Panther]] Strikes Again'' features a straight homage of Keaton's ''Steamboat Bill Jr.'' gag. |
* The [[Animated Credits Opening]] for ''[[The Pink Panther]] Strikes Again'' features a straight homage of Keaton's ''Steamboat Bill, Jr.'' gag. |
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* Reversed in ''[[The Dirty Dozen]]'' in a shot when the inmates, while building a barracks cabin, raise a wall around Major Reisman. |
* Reversed in ''[[The Dirty Dozen]]'' in a shot when the inmates, while building a barracks cabin, raise a wall around Major Reisman. |
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