Can someone tell me why he was firing towards the cinematographer and the director at the same time and how one shot can kill one and injure another? How does that work?
He must’ve lined them up and shot one with the bullet traveling to the 2nd one causing one death, one injury. Saving bullets like in Nazi Germany. Now to figure out why these 2 guys would allow such a thing. I guess when Alec says jump, the crew says how high!
Watch the Seinfeld episode about the magic loogie. Back and to the left. Back and to the left.
“ Can someone tell me why he was firing towards the cinematographer and the director at the same time and how one shot can kill one and injure another? How does that work?”
This is not on him. In making a movie they film from many different angles including head-on. Non-hollow point bullets can easily pass through a person and into another. Also, it may have been a shotgun.
> Can someone tell me why he was firing towards the cinematographer and the director at the same time and how one shot can kill one and injure another? How does that work?
Simply if the DP and the director are both on a dolly truck or crane platform and working in close physical proximity together for the purposes of viewing a scene as it is being recorded either visually or using an LCD display mounted on the camera itself. If visually then the best vantage point is over the camera lens looking parallel to the principal lens axis.
If the scene calls for recording the point of view of the victim at the time a shot is fired at close range (as can commonly be the case in an action movie script), then the barrel of the prop gun is pointed directly at the camera at the time the actor pulls the trigger, and safety of the DP and director are actually in the hands of the set armorer. i’m not sure it is the job of the actor to second guess the armorer. the actor needs to know his lines and deliver them convincingly with inflection, body language, etc. the actor is probably nowhere near the physical location where the armorer prepares (or normally should prepare) the set prop guns for a scene with dummy rounds. Really, my guess is that the purpose of a set armorer is to ensure that occurrences like this never happen. thus, the armorer or his boss (either a set safety supervisor, AD pr director himself or herself) might be in big legal trouble.
i do not know any details but can guess it went down like this...
the scene needed baldwin to hit a certain mark on the set so the cinematographer and director were positionin baldmwin who had the gun in his hand.
when the director, standing beside the cinematographer said please, the cinematographer probably said something like “or else” and baldwin jokingly put the gun to the cinematographer’s temple and shot the blank that fires a paper “cap” at a great velocity several feet... killing the cinematographer and powder or concussive sound injured the director in the eyes or ears.
baldwin will be through. no one will work with him unless he goes on an anti gun tirade.
Bullets pass through people.
Interesting YouTube about this topic, from "Arizona Ghostriders", an Old West reenactment group:
The same questions we had. Definitely not an accident.
When that martial arts guy who killed himself goofing around with a prop gun, wasn’t he holding it actually touching his head?
My question...
Why did Baldwin shoot the 2nd person after seeing the first one he shot injured/dead?