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Alec Baldwin Kills One, Injures Another on Set
That should have been the headline.
Reading the article you have to figure it out yourself.
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How is live ammunition even around? Do fx departments use it to film wall impacts and that kind of thing?
There are cases where fx departments use live ammunition to film certain stuff indeed, but normally, this type of shooting is not done concurrently side-by-side with actors shooting. It has happened but is rare that live ammunition is officially on a film set. Live ammunition is not normally brought along to a film set so that tragic accidents like the one that did happen there cannot happen. I have no idea what went on there, but obviously, it is a great tragedy. Terrible.
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But with two people being shot, it sounds more like a semi-automatic weapon.
If it's a western, it may well have been a revolver. You can shoot very fast with a revolver.
A lot of prop guns are actually quite dangerous and basically "real" guns. You can't remove the firing pin, as then blanks would not shoot out either. So not all prop guns are "fake", in fact, many revolvers used for shooting scenes in Westerns are very likely more or less "real" (as in functioning) guns.
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Terrible, just terrible. Brought up that horrible accident when Jon-Erik Hexum was goofing around on set with a prop pistol that did have blanks, but when he played russian roulette with the gun and one blank, he got it too close to his head when it went off and killed himself. Prop guns with blanks are no toys.
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Alec Baldwin just Twittered about the incident two minutes ago.
He says "There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours. I'm fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred" in a Part 1 Post, probably Part 2 will follow.
https://twitter.com/AlecBaldwin/status/1451572461787439106
I am sure that he is shocked and mortified. I mean, imagine, you just dress up and play cowboy or whatever and suddenly, you shoot someone for real because for some %/&$! (and yet to be explained) reason you have real bullets in your "prop" gun. That's devastating.
And Halyna Hutchins, man.... may she rest in peace. Obviously a very talented young woman who had lots of interesting projects ahead of her, not to mention apparently family and a young son. What a terrible, sad tragedy.
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The question is why was a gun used in a movie aimed at someone who isn't in the movie?
I'm assuming they were setting up a close-up of the gun being fired?
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The question is why was a gun used in a movie aimed at someone who isn't in the movie?
That happens so many times. Usually, guns are not fired at other actors, but "somewhere". Unless both actors are in the same shot. It's much more common for an actor to fire a gun "at the camera" as it is to fire a gun at another actor (again, unless they are in the same shot).
I mean, every James Bond barrel sequence is whoever is currently playing Bond shooting the director of photography.
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Assuming the ammo was real than the person who loaded the gun is probably responsible. It's not an actors job.
That is true. Actors are usually handed "ready to shoot" guns from the prop master. Actors rely on everything being checked by professionals. They are given guns with the appropriate (there are different types) blanks. We don't know what happened yet, but obviously, it is being investigated.
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