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Casey Connor, Action Hero: The Bus
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In the next series, Casey's been appointed "decoy" so Zeke can get to his car to retrieve some more hits of deadly caffeine. Casey not only escapes from alien-Delilah by climbing out the emergency exit in the roof of a bus, but has to outrun the entire football team of alien-possessed Herrington High Hornets. This is the scene in which, in the old days before DVDs, I was convinced Elijah was not doing his own stunts. I was wrong.
The rest of this page makes a great fast scroll-through.
Sometimes it helps to be "Monkey Boy."
A cut here, so he doesn't have to go into the jump straight from a run. But what form!
Bending his knees to absorb some of the shock and keep himself from falling off when he hits the hood of the bus:
Lands on the hood of the bus and slides off--right in front of the football team.
With the hood so far above the ground, it's actually more like another jump than it is a slide.
The height's more obvious here:
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