Now, not even 48 hours after Alec Baldwin shot and killed a woman on a movie set, we hear that there were prior safety issues on the set.
Rumors of previous misfires on the prop gun, the hiring of non-union members to cut corners and save money, camera crew walking off the set in protest of working conditions before the accident happened, etc.
I have to ask, with so much advancement in visual effects and computer generated images, why use prop guns? The last thing anyone expect is to be killed by a gun on a film set.
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I asked myself exactly the same questions. Why real ammunition, why real guns, and why was someone hurt and killed and were not even part of the scene. sadly, this is not the first case. You would think that base of previous injuries and incidents that no real guns be allowed in any theatrical settings.
ReplyDeleteI thought that after Brandon Lee was killed the industry would implement changes to protect actors. Obviously I was wrong.
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