In the early morning of July 23, 1982, when the movie "The Devil of Yin and Yang" was in the shooting stage, an American Bell UH-1 helicopter crashed in the Indian sand dunes of Santa Clarita, California. The
accident resulted in the death of three people on the ground and the injury of six people on board. This incident was triggered by the filming of the movie "Yin and Yang Devil."
"Yin and Yang Devildom" was the first TV series released in the United States from 1959 to 1964. The content is mainly horror, horror, fantasy and suspense. Each episode is an independent unit short story that is not related to each other. In recent years, the British TV series "Black Mirror" "And "Yin-Yang Devil" also have a lot in common.
"The Devil of Yin and Yang" usually ends with a super-expanding plot transition. The content also reflects social issues and then criticizes it. It also carries a certain warning meaning, and therefore, "The Devil of Yin and Yang" has aroused a strong response. And in 1985, CBS Broadcasting Company of the United States remaked it again, and launched a total of 3 seasons. Later in 2002 and 2019, there were filming restart versions. This drama has an extremely important position abroad.
And the event I’m going to talk about today is the movie version of "The Devildom of Yin and Yang", which was released in 1983 and directed by Steven Spielberg, George Miller, Joe Dante and John Landis. During shooting.
In the early morning of July 23, 1982, John Landis was filming a story in the first chapter he was in charge of. The story is about the 53-year-old actor Vic Morrow, a racist he played. By accident, they traveled to different time and space and became the targets of the KKK, the Nazis, and the invading American troops.
According to the plot, Vic Morrow and two Asian child actors were chased by a helicopter on the ground, wading across the river in a flame of fire. At that time, in order to make a special explosion effect, he asked for a helicopter. The plane must fly very low, and tragedy happened.
Due to the excessive use of fireworks and gunpowder in the explosion scene, the heat wave caused damage to the tail of the helicopter hovering in the air, the helicopter lost control and fell into the river, and the high-speed rotating propeller instantly hit the three people on the ground, Vic Morrow He was beheaded by a helicopter rotor on the spot, and his head was in a different place. Two other child actors also suffered misfortune and died on the spot. The
incident caused three deaths and six other workers on the helicopter were injured. It is precisely because of this accident that the film industry in the future has improved its operating procedures and has established new studio safety standards. Director John Landis was also sued for the accident, but the incident turned out to be purely accidental. Despite the huge compensation, the film was still successfully completed and released as scheduled.
We can still see Vic Morrow in the film, but also because the director cleverly edited the parts he had already filmed together to keep the story intact. But it also became the last work of Vic Morrow and two child stars who might have been promising.
Vic Morrow joked before filming this scene: How could I be persuaded to play this scene myself, I should find a substitute. But no one expected that the fatal accident happened in this scene.
