jave36
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It's not live bullets. In Brandon Lee's case, I believe it was a piece of the blank that broke off and was projected from the gun. We'll have to wait for an accident report to see what the cause was in this Alec Baldwin case, but it won't be an actual bullet is my guess.Just makes no sense that you'd have live bullets anywhere on the set, especially if this has happened before like you said.
I remember back in ‘84, the actor Jon-Erik Hexum was screwing around on set with a .44 and pointed it at his temple and pulled the trigger, not knowing that the wadding in the blank would be a projectile. The impact fractured his skull and the brain hemorrhage caused by the skull fragments ended up killing him.It's not live bullets. In Brandon Lee's case, I believe it was a piece of the blank that broke off and was projected from the gun. We'll have to wait for an accident report to see what the cause was in this Alec Baldwin case, but it won't be an actual bullet is my guess.
Hell, if they really wanted to be super safe, just CGI the guns in.I remember back in ‘84, the actor Jon-Erik Hexum was screwing around on set with a .44 and pointed it at his temple and pulled the trigger, not knowing that the wadding in the blank would be a projectile. The impact fractured his skull and the brain hemorrhage caused by the skull fragments ended up killing him.
That incident, as well as the Brandon Lee one, are part of why prop guns are so tightly controlled on movie and TV sets now, which makes it really befuddling how this could have happened.
There are prop guns now that electronically produce smoke, flash and sound but are not capable of producing projectiles. They’re not actual guns. I have no idea why these are not the standard prop instead of real guns firing blanks.
Before it was something with a gun barrel being blocked when the blank went off
Woah that's awful. Ugh. How does a prop gun with blanks even do that?
Now I’m no movie director nor a prop man, but I imagine it had something to do with filming of the movie. I agree tho you shouldn’t point a gun at anything you don’t want to shootHe shot 2 people? Who points a gun at someone and pulls the trigger even if it has blanks? Even when I'm 100% sure there isn't a bullet in the chamber, I still act like it has one.
He shot 2 people? Who points a gun at someone and pulls the trigger even if it has blanks? Even when I'm 100% sure there isn't a bullet in the chamber, I still act like it has one.
Maybe it was a shotgun?Well it’s a prop gun, and the script calls for you to point it at someone, and even fire. But I get your point, I’m a gun enthusiast and you never point a real gun at someone unless you mean to use it. If someone hands me a firearm I still go through the motions of clearing it even if I know it’s empty. Can’t be too safe.
What I don’t understand is how two people who weren’t actors got shot, I mean wth was going on?
Like I said I’ve never been on a movie set but if they were in the line of fire when he was say doing a close up firing at a target off camera?Makes sense, shooting the cinematographer and director. Part of the movie.