{"id":14844,"date":"2009-06-18T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14844"},"modified":"2009-06-18T14:06:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T21:06:23","slug":"motorcycle-fmx-motocross-confessions-of-a-movie-stuntman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14844","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle FMX Motocross &#8211; Confessions of a movie stuntman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It had never been done before, but as Monte Perlin gunned the engine of his Harley motorbike and prepared to land it in an open boxcar of a moving train, he was strangely calm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rather than fret for his own life, he was thinking about the responsibility he had for the life of the woman sitting on the saddle behind him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He laughs to tell the story now, but his moving-train stunt for Disney&#8217;s 2008 Adam Sandler vehicle &#8220;Bedtime Stories&#8221; was perhaps the most dangerous Perlin&#8217;s attempted in his 25 years in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His career has involved many films, including &#8220;Spider-Man,&#8221; &#8220;Star Trek, &#8220;Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&#8221; and portraying Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s stunt double in &#8220;Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That&#8217;s right: Monte Perlin is a stunt man&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/LIVING\/wayoflife\/06\/17\/aa.confessions.of.stuntman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--startclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/placeholder-3700955?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had never been done before, but as Monte Perlin gunned the engine of his Harley motorbike and prepared to land it in an open boxcar of a moving train, he was strangely calm. Rather than fret for his own life, he was thinking about the responsibility he had for the life of the woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fmx","category-motocross","category-motorcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14921,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions\/14921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}