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To: Scarlett156
They have been making movies with actors appearing to shoot guns since they have been making movies. The first movie with a plot - The Great Train Robbery from 1903, even featured one of the robbers pointing at the camera and firing. There have been tons of westerns made since then, and 99.9% of them feature people with guns pointing them at other people and appearing to shoot them*. There are also many crime/film noir movies that feature actors appearing to shoot one another. AFAIK, the use of guns in those movies have not constituted a danger up to now. The safety practices on this Baldwin movie appear to have been incredibly slapdash if not completely nonexistent. OSHA should have shut the shoot down before anyone got hurt.

*I've seen lots of post by Freepers saying "never point a gun at someone unless you plan to shoot them". I guess those Freepers have never seen a western movie.

28 posted on 10/27/2021 5:48:45 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Sans-Culotte
*I've seen lots of post by Freepers saying "never point a gun at someone unless you plan to shoot them". I guess those Freepers have never seen a western movie.

This has been explained by some actors and directors. The gun is not actually aimed directly at another actor. It's aimed off to the side and the camera angle makes it look like it's aimed at the other person.

39 posted on 10/27/2021 7:05:28 AM PDT by CAluvdubya (<---has now left CA for NV, where God/guns have not been outlawed! She's done and he's won!)
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