Posted on 02/17/2022 2:24:08 PM PST by rellimpank
For more than 30 years, Bill Davis’s job has been to help famous people look like they know what they’re doing with a gun. As an armorer working in Hollywood, Davis teaches movie stars how to properly handle firearms, and some are fast learners: He helped train Tom Cruise on the set of the film Collateral and walked away impressed with the actor’s form. Others require a little more instruction; Davis said he once had to scold Danny Glover for pulling the trigger too early during a scene in Saw.
But sometimes, no amount of coaching helps. There’s an actor—and no, Davis won’t name this one—who Davis says has shot him accidentally (and absent-mindedly) four different times on the set of four different films. When Davis works with a performer, he always tries to ensure that the star is listening, to go over safety protocols, and to repeat warnings about the dangers of prop guns, because even blanks can harm when fired in close proximity. But still, with this actor? Bang.
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Yes, let’s demand a James Bond movie where everyone runs around saying “pew pew”. Will be a blockbuster.
I have a couple of takeaways from this article, which I think came from The Atlantic.
First: “ Bill Davis’s job” I guess a knowledge of how to properly write English is not necessary to write for the Atlantic.
Second: Bill Davis freely admits, actors are too stupid to trust with firearms without body armor.
The British turn out some great series without so much violence. Those are better than anything Hollywood produces.
“Davis says has shot him accidentally (and absent-mindedly) four different times on the set of four different film”
Shoot me once, shame on you. Shoot me twice, shame on me?
Today, it is hard to tell is crime shows are entertainment, or instruction videos.
“ But sometimes, no amount of coaching helps.”
Smart Alec shot two people at once. Any more coaching and it would 3 🤪
I remember a scene in an old WWII movie, long forgotten. in one scene a gunner in a bomber is shooting at a plane and you could tell the twin turret guns had light bulbs on the end of the barrels flashing and appearing to fire.
Even at the age of 14 I thought that was really “cheap”.
It's simply a reflection of their culture, which is pretty much gun-free.
Hollywood makes billions every year glorifying firearms violence.
And the people who get rich from teaching our youth that violence solves problems are the leaders of the movement to disarm the rural middle class.
The British series are more wholesome and fit for most everyone. They usually require the brain to be engaged because their plots are neither transparent or repetitive.
“Bill Davis’s job” is correct. A singular word is made possessive by adding ‘s to it, even if the word already ends in s. The only time you’d make a word possessive by adding just an apostrophe would be when the word is a plural ending in s, for example “It was so cold that three cars’ engine blocks cracked.”
...shoot me four times, shame on everyone in a forty mile radius.
it’s the halflook security shot that makes the scene
“Midsommers Murders’’ comes to mind.
“Wire In The Blood’’ is another.
Good! Foyles War.
Google: movie posters with guns
Click on Images.
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