Summary
And what's a great action flick without some bad-ass stunts stunts. The car chases, the fight scenes, and epic super-hero showdowns are all thanks to Hollywood's most daring: stunt performers.
For the latest in our "Ask A" Series, we're talking to the professionals behind the danger and excitement on set.
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| 0:00.0 | On the Ted Radio Hour, linguist Anne Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person. |
| 0:10.0 | I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me but it can't be |
| 0:14.8 | singular and I will say but it is. |
| 0:17.5 | The history behind words causing a lot of debate that's on the Ted Radio Hour from NPR. Action and adventure films, they're huge business. |
| 0:35.0 | Last year, they accounted for more than half of box office earnings. |
| 0:39.0 | And what's a great action flick? Without some badass stunts. The car chases. Fight scenes. An epic |
| 0:49.6 | superhero showdowns. They're all thanks to Hollywood's most daring the stunt performers. |
| 0:56.5 | Actor Ryan Gosling plays one in a new movie that's out in theaters now, it's called The Fall |
| 1:00.8 | Guy. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm going to be sick. You got this you're the one. Okay? Why are you going to say that? You've done this a million times and so of you you know you just jinxed it. You just jinxed it. You just drink state. |
| 1:10.8 | You're the driver in the car now please? |
| 1:12.6 | Hey, the tide's coming up. |
| 1:13.5 | Thank you so much, appreciate you. |
| 1:15.1 | Is that Jody? |
| 1:15.8 | Yes, it's Jody. |
| 1:17.2 | Did you say something about me? |
| 1:18.9 | Stop with your face, stop it. |
| 1:20.8 | Stop it. |
| 1:21.8 | She didn't say anything about it. |
| 1:24.0 | Good in the car! |
| 1:26.0 | Ryan Gosling there in the fall guy. He paid tribute to the stunt industry on stage at this year's Oscars. |
| 1:37.0 | Chaplin Lloyd Keaton. Cinema's first directors were all stuntmen in their own right |
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