10-26-2021, 08:00 AM
(10-25-2021, 10:45 PM)LP link Wrote:It doesn't need live rounds on set to kill someone, it can be a Brandon Lee type scenario.
In Lee's case they used dummy shells c/w projectile but no charge for a close up filming of the handgun being loaded, but when they swapped out the dummy rounds for blanks nobody noticed one of the projectiles had come off the shell and was lodged in the barrel. When they fired the blanks at the actor the round left lodged in the barrel killed him!
I believe people have also been killed by the wadding used in some blanks, but this can't be the case given the round went right through the victim and hit the director standing behind.
If the regime of cleaning a barrel after every use had been adhered to, and is adhered to, then no remaining part from any previous use could still be present in the barrel.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17