Alec Baldwin accidently shoots woman...

[Churchlawtonblue]

Blanks still kill , mostly cgi noises these days

So i understand? But im not sure how a cartridge can be lodged in a gun barrel. Shells are usually ejected and the lead bullet is fired down the barrel. Blanks dont have bullets do they?

 

[Gremlin]

Blanks are dangerous if close enough to someone. There was a case in the 80s of an actor who died on set whilst messing about playing Russian Roulette with a pistol loaded with a blank.

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[LangleyBlue1970]

The point is, you’d think a real looking gun could be made for the set it’s required for, literally with only the moving parts to make it look real.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

So i understand? But im not sure how a cartridge can be lodged in a gun barrel. Shells are usually ejected and the lead bullet is fired down the barrel. Blanks dont have bullets do they?

Malfunction. If there was a dummy round fired that managed to lodge in the chamber, this goes unnoticed because checks weren't carried out properly and then the gun is loaded with blanks that contain enough explosive force to push out the thing jamming the chamber like a bullet.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Surely the film has to be cancelled out of respect to the woman who died?

 

[MellowJoe]

What's he playing at! This movie better be good!

 

[manchester blue]

There was a Columbo episode where this happened!

Bit shocking in real life though.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

I had read that when Brandon Lee was shot on the set of The Crow with a gun, that it was the previous blank that had got stuck in the barrel and when the next blank was fired it projected the previous cartridge out that killed him.

 

[idahoblues]

I had read that when Brandon Lee was shot on the set of The Crow with a gun, that it was the previous blank that had got stuck in the barrel and when the next blank was fired it projected the previous cartridge out that killed him.

Quite lucky it didn’t kill the guy who pulled the trigger, blocked barrels are never pretty

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Surely the film has to be cancelled out of respect to the woman who died?

The Crow and Ben Hur are two films I can think of that had someone die during filming but still went in to be shown