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BT The P: Wire Fu, and all wirework actually, is helped by CGI. By using a thicker cable, then doing a simple edit to remove it in post production, it makes the entire process safer. Also, a thick wire is capable of more intricate and extreme stunts than an "invisible" one.
Ninja Penguin: Yes, in the case of modern wire-fu movies. However, in the days before CGI, the stunt team would simply use thin wires and sometimes paint them an approximation of the background colour - the history of Hong Kong movies is peppered with visible stunt wires.
And by the way, in reference to the main article, Jackie Chan does use wires - not obviously, but he does use them here and there to add to the action. For example, sometimes he will have a wire attached to the heel of a stuntman's shoe so that it will appear that he can kick the stuntman's shins so hard the victim will be knocked backwards to land on his face - of course, this would break the stuntman's shins, so a wire is used - you can see this in Drunken Master 2 (Legend of the Drunken Master in the US). Another example is in Twin Dragons where Jackie hits a stuntman with a kick that appears to launch the guy clean over a car - that's a wire stunt, folks. The fact that this very subtle use of wires for action-enhancement often passes totally unnoticed in Jackie's films is surely an indication of his complete mastery of the technique.
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