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Post by theravenking on Nov 1, 2021 17:28:54 GMT
The Baldwin shooting made me wonder about accidents on western movie sets in the past.
How many gun-related accidents were there on the sets of all those Spaghetti westerns in the 1960s and 70s?
Those movies were often made for cheap on the quick.
I seem to recall reading that up until the 1980s many countries barely had any safety regulations on movie sets. Places like Australia used to be notorious for this.
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Post by drystyx on Nov 2, 2021 17:20:42 GMT
Good point, but I think the spaghetti westerns would be the safest sets. Those gunshots sounded like they were made from kid pop guns with those "caps". I don't know what the sound effects were.
The guns were always pointed at an angle. There were rare instances of both characters being on camera at the same time, and sometimes the gun was aimed at the camera man.
But you're right. The recent incident proves just how "anti-safety" people in the business are. Being hostile to safety can only be attributed to three things...ignorance, sadism, and being spoiled brats who think they're some superior species. Probably takes all three ingredients to discourage safety on the set.
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Post by rizdek on Nov 2, 2021 18:44:35 GMT
The Baldwin shooting made me wonder about accidents on western movie sets in the past.
How many gun-related accidents were there on the sets of all those Spaghetti westerns in the 1960s and 70s?
Those movies were often made for cheap on the quick.
I seem to recall reading that up until the 1980s many countries barely had any safety regulations on movie sets. Places like Australia used to be notorious for this.
It's possible that despite being made cheap, that the one thing they took seriously was anytime a real weapon was used. And perhaps the actors themselves took it seriously and didn't 'depend' on someone else to double check and verify any real weapons were not loaded..or were loaded with the proper rounds..ie blanks or dummy rounds. From the sound of this latest tragedy, it seems there may have been some cavalier attitude along the way. As I understand it, the weapon that discharged killing Halyna had been used that same morning for some kind of target practice or maybe just plinking or shooting for fun. That would seem odd for someone to do.
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Post by rizdek on Nov 2, 2021 23:14:34 GMT
I'd say if you going to take it upon yourself to say a gun is not dangerous...you should think about checking to make sure it ISN'T dangerous. Of course I think even the actor might have the presence of mind to double check before aiming it at someone and pulling the trigger. It's not that difficult.
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