In the film industry you often point firearm at live people and shoot live blanks at them as well. This is well established practice in the industry any one who has worked on set knows this. There are specific protocols in place to ensure that those weapons are “cold” the industry term for not loaded with lethal ammunition and there for safe to use one set. People just demonstrate their complete ignorance to how the industry works by spewing blanket statements they have no factual backing for. How do you think action movies are filmed they are not CGI nearly every one is with prop guns that are verified cold on set.
Yes. And the actor is absolutely part of the process, obligated to ensure any gun in hand is either empty, non functional, or loaded with blanks (with due respect given to distance). Also must know how the gun will operate, with any safety quirks (such as can “go off half cocked” like this one did).
Yep …and very few mishaps considering the quantity of rounds fired in all these movies.
“In the film industry you often point firearm at live people and shoot live blanks at them as well.”
Nonsense! Ever since Brandon Lee got accidentally shot this is no longer the case. Actors are no longer allowed to point a gun directly at another actor. It is all done with trick photography and angles. A lot of actors don’t even hold a gun, the objects they hold are replaced in post-production.