Aka criminally negligent homicide. At some point it's been checked enough that not checking again isn't negligent.
It's not the actor's job to check the right kind and amount of explosives are in a squib, or the glass window is actually sugar, or whatever else safety related.
Apparently the live rounds looked just like the dummy rounds (which seems dumb) so I'm not sure how an actor would even know if the gun would go off or not.
That's impossible. Blank rounds are quite obvious - it's a shell casing crimped closed and sealed. There's no bullet.
And if it's loaded with blanks, you don't fuck around and fire them at someone as a joke.
Also, basic firearm safety is to always check a gun handed to you. No matter how long the chain there is no "checked enough" before it has been checked by you.
These are simple tools. Nothing about gun safety is difficult to a sober adult.
So you would have actors handed a gun in the scene stop to check the ammo and then have editing and digital effects remove that in post? That's insane.
Obviously there's a point past which you don't check it any more. That's why always checking is "basic" firearm safety and not "movie production firearm safety".
I'm basing what I wrote on this article where the armorer defense says there was a live round found in the dummy round (not blanks) box. It would be pretty dumb for them to make this argument if the dummy rounds (not blanks) were color coded and easily distinguishable since that would put even more blame on the armorer.
Aka criminally negligent homicide. At some point it's been checked enough that not checking again isn't negligent.
It's not the actor's job to check the right kind and amount of explosives are in a squib, or the glass window is actually sugar, or whatever else safety related.
Apparently the live rounds looked just like the dummy rounds (which seems dumb) so I'm not sure how an actor would even know if the gun would go off or not.
That's impossible. Blank rounds are quite obvious - it's a shell casing crimped closed and sealed. There's no bullet.
And if it's loaded with blanks, you don't fuck around and fire them at someone as a joke.
Also, basic firearm safety is to always check a gun handed to you. No matter how long the chain there is no "checked enough" before it has been checked by you.
These are simple tools. Nothing about gun safety is difficult to a sober adult.
So you would have actors handed a gun in the scene stop to check the ammo and then have editing and digital effects remove that in post? That's insane.
Obviously there's a point past which you don't check it any more. That's why always checking is "basic" firearm safety and not "movie production firearm safety".
I'm basing what I wrote on this article where the armorer defense says there was a live round found in the dummy round (not blanks) box. It would be pretty dumb for them to make this argument if the dummy rounds (not blanks) were color coded and easily distinguishable since that would put even more blame on the armorer.