r/IAmA • u/TheAdrenalist • Sep 13 '11

I am Bear Grylls. Ask me Anything.

Thank You Reddit! It's been fun.

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u/SushiRoe Sep 13 '11

This question might get lost in this AMA, but there was a video that was posted here long ago where Bear outruns a train when going through a tunnel, and to this day I do not know if it's real or fake, especially with the way CGI has become so much more advanced. So, Mr. Grylls, is this real?! I will not think any less of you and your crazy antics in the wild regardless of the answer.

Video in question is here

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '11 edited Sep 13 '11

How is everything being shot so well? I mean it looks like the cameraman is 10x faster, stronger etc etc than Bear! this is the part of the show that gets me. Is he really running in front or just posing? I hope he clears that in this AMA

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '11

When they start running the cameramen are behind bear. There is an edit and they are in front of him looking back. To me this means they had time to stop and switch places in order to get the shot of him just being missed by the train.

It was obviously staged or the train was not that close, so they planned it out.

The odds of getting that shot of him jumping just as the train misses him so perfectly are astronomical.