fisky wrote:
oops baldwin wrote:
The prop person who loaded the gun is not responsible for how close an actor gets when they decide to pull a trigger. At close range a live round isn't necessary to kill someone. A blank will kill at close range.
I've been shot by a blank. Yes, it can kill someone, but in my case, it merely stung because I was wearing heavy clothing. But if this was only one shot AND it passed through the woman and hit a man, it have to be a live round. A blank has to be pretty close to kill and it couldn't pass entirely through a person. It's usually just a piece of paper wadding that gets projected. Or it's so close the pressure kills, but that would have to almost be touching the person.
Anyway, SOMEONE had to put a live round in the cylinder or fail to check for live rounds before allowing the gun on the set. That's negligence. Of course, it's even more negligence by Baldwin.
The only other possibility I can think of is that the cylinder exploded, which could have sent shrapnel into two people at the same time.
They were shooting a Western. The prop gun was a revolver. It is more likely that they were shoot in the head rather than at the body. On a set if a gun is pointed at a camera the camera is set in place and there is no one standing behind it.
If the second person was sent to emergency because of shrapnel, and the take was a shoot fired into a camera (rip camera) then the destroyed camera would itself become shrapnel. But cameras and the surroundings are required to be protected using shields.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/22/alec-baldwin-rules-around-prop-guns-on-film-sets-15468113/?ico=more_text_links