Sorry, I’m still not seeing the relevance.
Baldwin has tweeted his shock and sadness and stated that he is fully cooperating with the investigation. He also says he has been in contact with Hutchins’ husband to offer his support.
I wish I could remember the movie but one of it’s quirks is that they could not afford special guns so they decided to use real ones. With real ammo. The pertinent scenes are filmed near cars and you can see windows getting blown away fairly close to the actors At least one of the actors was quite surprised as it was closer then they expected. I’ve seen the movie with prior knowledge of the bullets.
Oh, crap. I hope this doesn’t turn into a “Big” kinda thing.
A lot of movies feature Navy SEALs, one of the US military’s elite special operations units. That normally means actors portraying SEALs, but for Act of Valor, the filmmakers went the extra mile: the commandos in their film were portrayed by actual, real SEALs. Realism was the goal of the movie, which was in part intended to inspire a wave of recruits into the Navy. Well, it doesn’t get much more real than live ammunition — which is exactly what they used for the film’s shoot.
ISTR hearing that early films, especially using Tommy guns, used live ammo. I have not verified.
Robert Rodriguez borrowed submachine-guns from the Mexican cops. Since they were service weapons (and he didn’t have an armourer) they could not be modified to fire blanks. The blank would fire, but the action wouldn’t cycle. So he made it look like they were firing automatically through editing.
I think it’s disgraceful you’re suggesting police officers in a department you know nothing about, would improperly attempt to “pin something” on anyone, without any evidence. It’s fine to criticize police for the things they do wrong, but just pre-emptively stating they’re railroading someone is incredibly dishonest, immature behavior.
I don’t suspect its what your thinking of (due to a distinct lack of car chases) but Sergei Eisenstein famously insisted on using live ammunition during the filming of the storming of the Tzars Winter Palace scene in Battleship Potemkin. With the result that filming the scene cost more lives than the actual storming of the winter palace during the the Russian Revolution.
Preemptive but as I’m going to be out this afternoon.
Please do not go off on a tangent about the Police. If desired, start a new thread linking back to here.
So Sting’s a suspect now?
Bloody hell, did none of the professionals (military or filmaking) involved point out this was a really bad idea?
One person shot accidentally I can see, but how do you shoot two accidentally? Best I can figure is it was a camera angle where he was shooting at the camera, showing it front-on, the bullet or whatever the projectile was hit the person behind the camera, went through her and hit the director.
The wife and I had the exact same thought when we heard this, and that was it sounded like an episode of Monk.
Detective: You’re saying he fell on the knife 17 times? 
He kept slipping in his own blood.
I think someone said it upthread, but I’d also like the Mods to consider changing the thread title-at least until we know more?
Yeah, it reads like Baldwin lost his temper on the set.
I agree, and will flag it so.
I thought the same too, although I can’t find it. There is the episode where someone gets killed at the circus and you find out they basically tricked the elephant into performing a “squish a watermelon” trick on someone’s head.
The episode that first spring’s to my mind is the one where Sharona’s sister is in a play and gets popped for murder when someone switches a prop knife on stage with a real knife that her character uses to “kill” another character.
Reading a description of the movie’s plot, it’s about “a 13-year-old boy and his younger brother . . . who go on the run with their estranged grandfather, played by Baldwin.”
Ugh, I really hope that there weren’t children on the set for this scene. This whole thing just makes my stomach churn.
Some good information from experts. My speculation is the gun was angled away from the other actor and no one thought about people standing off screen. MSN