(October 29, 2021 at 8:24 am)Spongebob Wrote: I think you may be on to something there. It may well be an attitude problem with the industry itself. That's just speculation on my part; I have no knowledge regarding this. But I do know that if safety isn't taken very seriously, then it basically falls into the same pot as everything else and the most critical thing becomes the thing that gets the most attention, bet it budget or schedule or pampering the star. When I read that people used prop guns for target practice during downtime, that set off some alarms for me. It means that the firearms aren't taken as seriously as I would expect. What if two ding dongs went out to shoot a few Coke cans and one of them "accidentally" shot the other? The production would be liable. So, when I view this from the context of industry, absolutely no horseplay is acceptable and anything dangerous is carefully managed. Imagine a mining operation where explosives are used almost every day. Two yahoos decide they are going to go off site with a few sticks of TNT and have some fun. They would be fired and likely banned from the industry.
I had a very similar train of thought that playing with the gun they were using for the scenes seemed like it was just asking for trouble. Maybe it might take Alec Baldwin getting in serious shit about this in order for things to change? Then again, how often does this happen and we just don't hear about it?
