Tom Cruise performed a burning-parachute stunt from a helicopter 7,500 feet above the ground, strapped to a chute presoaked in fuel and lit ablaze, giving him roughly three seconds to cut away and deploy a backup; he completed the stunt 16 times. Since 2010, Cruise has rebranded as an action star who performs his own stunts, creating a persona that blurs on- and off-screen. Hollywood studios have increasingly incorporated generative AI to reduce human involvement, labor costs, and related demands. Cruise emphasizes human performance and spectacle over technological replacement, embracing dangerous authenticity as part of his movie-star identity.
Tom Cruise holds the Guinness World Records title for "most burning parachute jumps by an individual." The dubious institution awarded this honor to the Hollywood icon not long after the release of Mission: Impossible-The Final Reckoning, the eighth entry in the popular action franchise. The film features Cruise's superspy character Ethan Hunt escaping from a biplane via a parachute that catches fire in midair.
Cruise's commitment to death-defying authenticity has become an intractable part of his contemporary public image. Since 2010, following a decade of tabloid scandal, Cruise has successfully rebranded himself as a consummate action star who performs all of his own stunts, a persona that blurs on- and off-screen. If his character has to evade bad guys in a high-speed car chase or grab onto an airplane as it takes off (or, really, anything to do with jumping out of or onto planes), chances are it's actually Tom doing the work.
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