I'm not sure how this situation happened (I assume details aren't out yet anyway) but with Brandon Lee the issue was the gun had to appear loaded but also be able to fire a blank. The easiest thing to do is use a real gun and two different types of prop ammo (rounds with bullets but no powder or primer, and rounds with powder and primer but no bullets (blanks)). They could avoid this by having two types of prop guns, one that can appear loaded but has no firing pin, and one that has a firing pin but which can only chamber blanks. The situation that killed Brandon Lee was one in a million (or at least seemed to be previous to this) and the extra effort wouldn't be worth it especially because they incorrectly left the primer in the no powder or primer round.
Better yet, don't play make believe with real guns. Hollywood gets shit wrong all the time, from fwd cars drifting to katanas cutting guns/swords in half. They can afford to use a fake gun on screen.
They also need to check the barrel. In the case of Brandon Lee they knew the chamber had a blank round but they didn't know there was a bullet in the barrel.
It would likely need to be redesigned for every model of gun. Easier to just not be a dumbass.
Personally I would check the barrel (for squibs) and every round I'm given before I would aim a gun at another human being. I can't imagine the level of sheltered you have to be to be handed a real ass gun that can detonate real ass bullets and just be ok with aiming it at an innocent person.
Why not at least a camera where the operator can control it remotely? I'm pretty sure that already exists. It would make more sense to use something like that rather than ever have someone need to physically stand in the line of fire. I sure as hell wouldn't stand in front of anyone firing a gun, regardless of what it's loaded with.
Used to be they just used a mirror. Like, you know, when a train is coming through and blasting everything in its path, you dont want the camera getting smashed. Figure, same thing there, right?
They do. It depends on the production. Studios are more than capable of cgi'ing the flash of a gun firing a bullet. That probably costs more money than firing blanks and is probably harder to act to since they would then need to "imagine" the gun shot.
How does Hollywood still not have a prop gun that cannot hold or fire actual projectiles?
I'm not sure how this situation happened (I assume details aren't out yet anyway) but with Brandon Lee the issue was the gun had to appear loaded but also be able to fire a blank. The easiest thing to do is use a real gun and two different types of prop ammo (rounds with bullets but no powder or primer, and rounds with powder and primer but no bullets (blanks)). They could avoid this by having two types of prop guns, one that can appear loaded but has no firing pin, and one that has a firing pin but which can only chamber blanks. The situation that killed Brandon Lee was one in a million (or at least seemed to be previous to this) and the extra effort wouldn't be worth it especially because they incorrectly left the primer in the no powder or primer round.
They probably should stop making the rounds by hand and contract an ammunition company to make it for them.
But that'd be "funding the gun lobby" or something so they can't do that.
Really all the needs to happen is people not be fucking stupid and check the damn chamber before playing make believe.
Better yet, don't play make believe with real guns. Hollywood gets shit wrong all the time, from fwd cars drifting to katanas cutting guns/swords in half. They can afford to use a fake gun on screen.
They also need to check the barrel. In the case of Brandon Lee they knew the chamber had a blank round but they didn't know there was a bullet in the barrel.
It would likely need to be redesigned for every model of gun. Easier to just not be a dumbass.
Personally I would check the barrel (for squibs) and every round I'm given before I would aim a gun at another human being. I can't imagine the level of sheltered you have to be to be handed a real ass gun that can detonate real ass bullets and just be ok with aiming it at an innocent person.
Why not at least a camera where the operator can control it remotely? I'm pretty sure that already exists. It would make more sense to use something like that rather than ever have someone need to physically stand in the line of fire. I sure as hell wouldn't stand in front of anyone firing a gun, regardless of what it's loaded with.
Used to be they just used a mirror. Like, you know, when a train is coming through and blasting everything in its path, you dont want the camera getting smashed. Figure, same thing there, right?
They do. It depends on the production. Studios are more than capable of cgi'ing the flash of a gun firing a bullet. That probably costs more money than firing blanks and is probably harder to act to since they would then need to "imagine" the gun shot.