Alec Baldwin what the fuck
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@klaus said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
I wonder why they have a loaded gun on a film set.
It's not clear to me from the few details I read whether this was a normal real gun or some kind of fake gun. If the latter, why is it possible to shoot somebody with it?
My guess is he was horsing around with what he thought was a prop gun. Agreed it makes sense prop guns can even be loaded, although I'm sure the ones they use now fire real flash/bang actions. But still...an actual bullet you think would not be possible to load.
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@doctor-phibes said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
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@jolly said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
Never point a gun, loaded or unloaded, at anything you don't intend to kill.
That advice would be difficult to follow as an actor for a Western movie.
That said, it's curious that he killed somebody who is not an actor. Bad aim?
If it's a prop gun, presumably it's not actually designed to shoot, so something lodged in the barrel could come out at an angle?
Prop guns many times are made from rubber or plastic. For it to fire, it's probably a working firearm. The question is, what was the projectile?
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https://nypost.com/2021/10/22/prop-gun-used-by-alec-baldwin-in-shooting-contained-live-round-union/
The prop gun Alec Baldwin used in the accidental shooting that killed a cinematographer on his upcoming movie “Rust” and wounded the director reportedly contained a “live round.”
A union that covers prop masters sent an email to its members Friday morning in which it said “a single live round was accidentally fired on set by the principal actor,” according to Indie Wire.
Anthony Pawluc, secretary-treasurer of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 44, wrote that the bullet struck “both the Director of Photography, Local 600 member Halnya Hutchins, and Director Joel Souza,” the site reported.
“Local 44 has confirmed that the Props, Set Decoration, Special Effects and Construction Departments were staffed by New Mexico crew members. There were no Local 44 members on the call sheet,” the email cited by Indie Wire added.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k No, that is the million dollar question. There are really 3 options, in order of probability:
- They practiced shooting real guns to better understand how to properly handle one in the movie.
- Someone bought fake/bang bullets not realizing they were real bullets.
- Someone set up Alec, big time.
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@89th I don't rule any of these out, but I can't really buy your #1. What's to practice? You point and shoot. Is there anybody who hasn't seen a movie actor do this a thousand times?
To this day, street skells point their guns sideways thinking that's the correct and therefore kewl way to do it -- all unknowing that that positioning was the brainchild of a film director who devised it as a means of pointing the weapon without obscuring the shooter's hand.
As for the other two, I can't think about them now; my brain is shut down by the thunder of the feet of a thousand onrushing lawyers.
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Somebody call Angela Lansbury…
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@catseye3 said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
Link to video@89th I don't rule any of these out, but I can't really buy your #1. What's to practice? You point and shoot. Is there anybody who hasn't seen a movie actor do this a thousand times?
Keanu did this to practice for John Wick. Not saying it happened her because its... Alec Baldwin, but still... maybe.
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@catseye3 said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
@89th I don't rule any of these out, but I can't really buy your #1. What's to practice? You point and shoot. Is there anybody who hasn't seen a movie actor do this a thousand times?
Actors practice what they do. That's why it looks good in the movies.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@aqua-letifer said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
Actors practice what they do. That's why it looks good in the movies.
I don't know about that, but I'll bet actors will check the quote-unquote firearms THEMSELVES from now on before a take.
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@89th said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
They practiced shooting real guns to better understand how to properly handle one in the movie.
Someone bought fake/bang bullets not realizing they were real bullets.
Someone set up Alec, big time.- There may be real guns on set, but there should never, ever, ever, be real rounds o a movie set.
- Absolute bullshit. A .45 LC blank:
Or, you can seat a cardboard or fiber wad over the powder charge. In either case, there is no bullet visible at the end of the case.
3. Maybe. That would certainly be interesting.
4. Or maybe somebody was screwing around on set, popping tin cans, etc. That should never happen and would be a big no-no.Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@klaus said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
Can a prop gun fire a real bullet if you load it with one?
Depends on the prop.
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