On cut, the horse got up quickly and walked over to an awaiting handler. A pick-up rider was just off-camera as a safety precaution, and the horse naturally held her head up so she wouldn’t get mud on her face. All cables were covered or removed, and the stunt rider had a falling saddle underneath a fake hide. Again, production prepared the ground by digging out a shallow area and filling it with mud to soften the landing. In another falling scene, Ghost ambushes one of the Vikings by jumping on the man and knocking both horse and rider to the ground. Horses were brushed and examined after each take. All wranglers from the production were on hand during this scene. Production prepared and loosened the ground for the stunt, and the well-trained falling horses were not asked to stay on the ground very long. In reality, each rider merely leaned off to one side so only their shoulders bumped into each other and then they slid out of their special “falling saddles.” Experienced stunt riders standing in for the actors carried their balsa wood and plastic swords above the horses’ heads. The filmmaker cheated the camera angle in this intense scene to make it look like the two horses crashed together. Ghost then reaches over his adversary’s steed to stab the man.
When the riders collide, both horses fall to the ground. Ghost rides through a snowy path and canters straight at a Viking riding toward him. Mounted riders maintained a safe distance from the controlled, propane-fueled fire pits and propane bars used for structural burns. The Viking costumes were made of lightweight materials that did not physically tax the horses, and all horses were acclimated to the special face plates they wore throughout the film. Only experienced stunt riders were used, and their barbaric weaponry consisted of fake plastic swords and foam spiked balls on plastic chains attached to one-foot sticks.
For this sequence, the Safety Rep requested that all large rocks in the horses’ path be removed to prevent any accidents with their footing.
The Vikings ride through a shallow creek and are next seen massacring the inhabitants of Ghost’s (Karl Urban) village.
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