For realism, I guess? The stage guns I work with fired blanks. The exhaust didn’t come out the expected but, but out of a hole in the top of the gun. If you were filming, you’d be able to see that there was nothing coming out the muzzle.
Mostly speculation:
If they wanted a particular period gun, a fake gun may not have been available so the options likely were use a real gun with blanks (which are still dangerous) or cgi the blasts in after the fact. Maybe there are more options in made-of-money Hollywood versus the theater, where we don’t want bullet holes in the theater walls.
Clearly there were questionable safety decisions made. I wonder if there was method actor BS going on, rather than, you know, ACTING like they’re firing the gun.
Apparently the settlement with the victims’ families includes finishing the movie?!?
my expectation from what I read of armourers going through how it could have happened is that any actor who has any experience with guns on set would have known there were problems with the process.
Like if you were taking a cooking class and the instructor had raw chicken on the bench for 3 hours and then chopped it up, handed it out for you to cook with, and then cut up some carrots for dip using the same board and knife for you to serve to your friend.
The whole thing is beyond bizarre. I hope they look into her family since her only apparent motive (as of now) was to get away from them. The whole thing is so desperate and poorly thought out it makes me wonder what was going on there- or it was just an excuse and it was a thrill kill. IDK, lots of questions.
It’s a multi part true crime podcast about catching one of’s the worlds most important purveyor of child abuse materials on the Internet. I found it absolutely compelling. I’m not a huge true crime podcast fan but this one was really good.
It’s about a young Canadian guy who is a pedophile. He also is educated in network security, so he has a pretty good network on the dark web with safety features.
The podcast tells how law-enforcement from Scandinavian countries, Australia, and the United States worked together to track him down. It has some great interviews with his relatives and friends, and one instance, he targeted his cousin’s children when he paid a brief visit to her house, and her realization of what he did while there is dramatic.
and I couldn’t get it out of my head!