Crazy Hong Kong cinema chase scene from 1990s Fatal Termination. The scene is pretty wild, to me anyway. It makes one wonder how they actually managed to film it without breaking multiple laws. The acting is way over the top yet I still like the movie and the scene. Not a perfect film yet it is entertaining.
by Jackalwhere
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This is unhinged
That was awful, risking kid’s life for the stunt. They said that they used all the protective measure, clearly they’re lied.
WTAF
Thanks! I feel I’m slightly more emotionally prepared for what may or may not be coming at 8pm EDT tonight.
We should have never shot Harambe.
Damn. Poor kid. This is brutal.
that damn Gweilo!
I like how in these Chinese movies the crazed bad guys are often westerners
That last dude’s acting style is “hypothyroid.”
tarantino has obviously seen this lmao
Ah Hong Kong films of the 90s. They just did not care.
The old HK cinema action films always had that “unhingeness” that can’t be replicated today (from a production standpoint). One moment it’s all serious, the next it’s super goofy.
That coke placement haha
i just kept waiting for some sign
that the kid part was fake
and it never came
How can you stop there? What happened?
Love the coke can for convenient product placement
How tf can a child consent to doing such dangerous stunt work?? This is so fucked up
so incredibly irresponsible for this stunt sequence. that girl was legit in danger for what? a movie? i can’t imagine a harness or rig that any parent, director, producer, or stunt coordinator could deem safe enough for this.
Holy fuck you can create some crazy scenes if you don’t have to follow safety regs. Thats insane.
Absolute cinema
They definitely dangled a kid outside a moving car to film this.
“how they actually managed to film it without breaking multiple laws”
You’re over complicating your question.
I love how shocked everyone is about the lack of safety measures taken for a little Chinese girl.
So guys…there was this thing called “The One-Child Policy”…
Love the number of naive and somewhat borderline racist notions on Hong Kong film culture. Remember that ”wire harness dancing” and many similar techniques, (now Hollywood standards) were developed, used and stem from here and this era of Hong Kong cinema technology and culture, long before Hollywood caught up with it.
I don’t think they were concerned about laws in 1990s Hong Kong.
That Coke can is going to roll off the dashboard onto the floor. Probably it’s going to be shaken up quite a bit. I would exercise caution when opening it.
Holy fucking shit. Is that kid literally hanging out the window?
I legitimately couldn’t fathom how they filmed this while keeping her safe?
Godamn she wasnt fucking around!
This bitch should have been one of the expendables!
Edit: just YouTube this movie to see more clips of it and now im gonna need to watch the whole thing!
IMDB has no information about this, oddly enough. Found this much at least after googling:
“For the infamous child dangling stunt in *Fatal Termination* (1990), the following safety measures were reportedly taken:
* The child actor was **suspended by wires and a specially made harness**, not by her actual hair.
* This harness was attached to a **steel pipe and prop arm** that extended from the car window, providing a stable anchor point.
* The stunt team **tested the rig first with an adult** (the actor who played the villain) to ensure its strength and safety before the child performed the stunt, which reportedly reassured the child’s mother.
* The chase scene was **filmed using undercranking (a lower frame rate)**, making the car appear to move much faster on camera than it was in reality, thereby reducing the actual speed and risk.
While these measures were taken, the stunt is still widely regarded as extremely reckless and dangerous by modern standards.”
Apparently, the safety standards were pretty lax in Hong Kong around that time 😬
Great product placement. That coke can stayed right on the dash when the car whipped a 90 degree turn in reverse!
80s and early 90s HK action flicks behind the scenes are the nightmares that haunt OSHA inspectors in their sleep
Waiting for someone to hold me like that🫠
This is obviously bizarre as fuck but crazy eyes dude has some serious arm strength to hold that girl straight out like that.
Fake arm and she’s in a harness. But it looks like she was terrified for real.
Wtf.
Crazy arm strength. Dont know too many people thar could hold a 30lb toddler by the hair that long.