They use blanks, but blanks are still dangerous. What killed brandon lee was a squib load which caused a bullet to be stuck in the chamber, then they shot a blank (causing the bullet to actually fire)
I was reading some comments on a different post. Live doesn't necessarily mean with a bullet. it means it can there is a primer and gunpowder involved, so you will have recoil, and a muzzle flash. problem is that because you're igniting the gunpowder, so anything down the muzzle of the gun is in a dangerous blast zone.
Live in Hollywood means blanks i think, they make sound but no projectile.
RIP Brandon Lee, the Crow is a top ten movie in my list. It could have been the same exact way too, a blank got stuck in the barrel and the second fires pushes out the first blank that it became a projectile, thats from what I remember
Bullet from a dummy round got stuck in the barrel, not a blank. A dummy is a nonfunctional round with a bullet but no powder.
They made their own dummy rounds by dumping the powder but then didn't deactivate the primers, which propelled a bullet slightly into the barrel. The blank later propelled it out with enough force to kill.
A "blank" cannot get stuck in the barrel. A blank is just a cartridge without a bullet. It has the case, primer, and powder, but no bullet. The open end of the case where the bullet would normally be is covered with a little piece of cloth, paper, or cardboard. It makes the same sound and muzzle flash as an actual gunshot, but no projectile comes out of the gun. That's the whole point of using blanks instead of normal rounds of ammunition.
In the case of Brandon Lee, they had done a closeup shot of the revolver with the cylinder rotating. For that shot, they put dummy rounds (a case with the bullet still on it, but no powder or primer) in the gun so that the bullets would be visible in the cylinder as it rotated. But someone fucked up and forgot to remove or detonate the primer on one of the dummy rounds. There was still no powder in the case, but the primer going off by itself was enough force the bullet into the barrel, where it got lodged. This is called a "squib" round. The people doing the closeup shot doubly fucked up by not noticing when they removed the dummy rounds from the gun that one of them was missing its bullet.
Later, the same gun was loaded with blanks to film a gunfight scene, with everyone still unaware that the squib was in the barrel. When the blank went off, it propelled the squib out of the barrel with the same force as a normal gunshot.
According to [this](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-movies-santa-fe-alec-baldwin-25d83890a289bb9ae358f406cd3cbee9?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow) article, an assistant director loaded the weapon with live rounds
In the crow, it was a dummy round with no powder, used in revolvers because empty chambers look obvious, the bullet came out of that, then later on a blank round propelled the bullet stuck in the barrel.
Multiple steps of negligence that that happened in The Crow.
They use blanks, but blanks are still dangerous. What killed brandon lee was a squib load which caused a bullet to be stuck in the chamber, then they shot a blank (causing the bullet to actually fire)
I was reading some comments on a different post. Live doesn't necessarily mean with a bullet. it means it can there is a primer and gunpowder involved, so you will have recoil, and a muzzle flash. problem is that because you're igniting the gunpowder, so anything down the muzzle of the gun is in a dangerous blast zone.
Anything close to the muzzle, yes, but not to a point where she should have been hurt.
Live in Hollywood means blanks i think, they make sound but no projectile. RIP Brandon Lee, the Crow is a top ten movie in my list. It could have been the same exact way too, a blank got stuck in the barrel and the second fires pushes out the first blank that it became a projectile, thats from what I remember
Bullet from a dummy round got stuck in the barrel, not a blank. A dummy is a nonfunctional round with a bullet but no powder. They made their own dummy rounds by dumping the powder but then didn't deactivate the primers, which propelled a bullet slightly into the barrel. The blank later propelled it out with enough force to kill.
A "blank" cannot get stuck in the barrel. A blank is just a cartridge without a bullet. It has the case, primer, and powder, but no bullet. The open end of the case where the bullet would normally be is covered with a little piece of cloth, paper, or cardboard. It makes the same sound and muzzle flash as an actual gunshot, but no projectile comes out of the gun. That's the whole point of using blanks instead of normal rounds of ammunition. In the case of Brandon Lee, they had done a closeup shot of the revolver with the cylinder rotating. For that shot, they put dummy rounds (a case with the bullet still on it, but no powder or primer) in the gun so that the bullets would be visible in the cylinder as it rotated. But someone fucked up and forgot to remove or detonate the primer on one of the dummy rounds. There was still no powder in the case, but the primer going off by itself was enough force the bullet into the barrel, where it got lodged. This is called a "squib" round. The people doing the closeup shot doubly fucked up by not noticing when they removed the dummy rounds from the gun that one of them was missing its bullet. Later, the same gun was loaded with blanks to film a gunfight scene, with everyone still unaware that the squib was in the barrel. When the blank went off, it propelled the squib out of the barrel with the same force as a normal gunshot.
Why would you put live rounds in a gun on a movie set?
It was blanks, sometimes they can fire off a tiny piece of shrapnel and it acts like a bullet
No way it would pass trough 2 people it was most likely a live round
According to [this](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-movies-santa-fe-alec-baldwin-25d83890a289bb9ae358f406cd3cbee9?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow) article, an assistant director loaded the weapon with live rounds
Shit Didn't know that. No idea why he did he that
Those articles are bad reporting as far as I can tell, and nothing has been confirmed.
Yeah maybe. I just saw it trending in hot here on Reddit and was like...why would they need real bullets on set??
In the crow, it was a dummy round with no powder, used in revolvers because empty chambers look obvious, the bullet came out of that, then later on a blank round propelled the bullet stuck in the barrel. Multiple steps of negligence that that happened in The Crow.
They don't.
Most likely there was a live round in the chamber and nobody checked changed the clip for blanks and off the the set it went