It's a dummy. As in, if you pause it right as the blue car hits him, you can see he's standing behind the car. The next frame then jumps very quickly to him falling "off-screen". It's a typical stop-n-cut method used for that trick. What happens is on the first shoot, the blue car drives past in front of him. They then do a second shoot where a blue car hits a dummy. Finally, they cut-n-shut the two separate takes together and wallah, man being hit by car. I learnt that from a Full Frontal special.
Well, knowing what to look for takes the fun out of visual stunts. Essentially, I don't think DU can ejoy something unless it's actually happenning.
Well, it is more enjoyable to see people get hit by cars if it actually happens, everyone knows that.
Having experienced being the first to arrive at the scene after a car accident, I believe I can safely say that the answer is "no".
No, but when the aftermath amounts to a burning wreck and crying, panicked people with blood all over themselves, you don't have to rewind back to the beginning to understand that it was bad. Of course, no one was run over in this case. A disabled kid and his personal assistant had been traveling by car, when the kid suddenly threw up. Momentarily distracted by this, the assistant had somehow missed that the road turned and drove straight out on the heath, hitting rocks and trees. We just happened to pass by when we saw the burning wreck and a bleeding guy holding an equally bloody kid in his arms standing by the road. We stopped, gave the poor souls some blankets and told them to calm down while we called 911.
Even if he was a dummy when he got hit, it was still pretty sweet that he jumped over the moving car. One of my housemates recently hit a woman in a motorized wheelchair when he was backing out of our driveway. We live on a one-way street, and she was coming down the wrong way when he started to move forward. Obviously he hadn't been looking out to the front because, well, it's a fucking one-way. The woman wasn't hurt, but her wheelchair was fucked up pretty bad. I called him to see about going to the gym that day and he told me the story. At first I didn't believe him, so I laughed. Then when I realized he was serious, I said, "Oh shit, did she get hurt?" He told me that the wheelchair just broke, and then I started laughing again. She wasn't even really disabled, anyway - just fat and ugly. Fat people are the ones who should be fucking walking, damn it.
