Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin was shooting the movie "Rust" when he test-fired a prop gun, but unexpectedly killed the film's cinematographer, Harena Hutchins, and injured the director El Suzza. At present, the police have begun to investigate the matter, and the US federal drama has also intervened in the investigation.
This incident can't help but remind people of the death of Bruce Lee's son Lee Guohao, which is also a tragedy. Bruce Lee's daughter Li Xiangning also spoke out.
People are very confused, is the prop gun how to hurt people?
Why do such tragedies happen again and again?
On-set prop gun cold knowledge
There are generally two types of prop guns on the set, one is a simulated gun, which is used to shoot exterior shots, and the general material is made of plastic or rubber.
The other is a real gun, the crew will use a real gun that has been safely modified to shoot, but will not load real bullets, can only use empty package bullets, shooting empty package bullets can produce muzzle flames, the effect is realistic. (Empty package bullets, that is, bullets without bullets, but with gunpowder and primer inside, can be seen when fired to see the muzzle flames.) ）
However, the empty package bullet is not completely safe, and the use distance is too close, such as within one meter, the empty package bullet also has lethality.
Generally speaking, the control of props and firearms in various countries is relatively strict to prevent abuse. Because although the prop gun has been modified, the overall structure has basically not changed, and a slight modification can restore the original state and can fire real bullets.
Only companies and film studios with relevant qualifications can have prop guns. The crew needs to rent and file with a qualified company to use these firearms, and when using these firearms during filming, the use of firearms and ammunition must be registered at any time.
Bruce Lee's son Lee Kwok-ho
A generation of martial arts masters Bruce Lee, known to everyone in the Chinese world, wrote Kongfu into English. He died young at the age of 32, and the real cause of death was foggy.
Bruce Lee and his American wife Linda have two children, son Li Guohao, and daughter Li Xiangning. Li Xiangning is currently living in the United States, and Li Guohao, like his father Bruce Lee, died young.
Lee was born in Hong Kong in 1965 and lived in Hong Kong until he was 8 years old. He began to learn martial arts from an early age, and Bruce Lee taught him his self-created boxing.
In 1973, Bruce Lee's death changed the trajectory of his life. After his father's death, the family moved to Los Angeles, usa, and after graduating from high school, he entered the Emmason Calle Film School in Boston to study film production, and began to appear in some films.
At the age of 21, Lee Was ho was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards for his film "The Dragon in the Jianghu". After that, he began to break into Hollywood like Bruce Lee.
Competition in Hollywood is fierce, and all Lee can get at the beginning is supporting roles or stuntmen. He was later invited to play the role of Eric Draven in the film The Raven.
The film claims to be a large-scale production of 14 million US dollars, just when Li Guohao was looking for a breakthrough in the bottleneck of his acting career, he accepted the invitation very happily.
However, the weather is unpredictable.
While filming a gunfight scene, Lee was hit in the abdomen by a bullet fired by his partner Michael Missy. No one expected that the bullets shot out were real bullets, not empty bullets!
At that time, after being shot, Li Guohao fell to the ground and bled unceasingly, and the director secretly praised his realistic acting skills, who knew that he had really been shot and could not move.
It took a while for the people on the set to realize that something was wrong, found that Li Guohao was unconscious, found medical staff to rescue and sent to a nearby emergency center.
However, the doctors at the emergency center were unable to rescue Li Guohao, and he was only 28 years old and eventually died of serious injuries. It is said that he was still like a crew colleague saying that he was ready to marry his girlfriend Lisa after filming...
After the accident, the police intervened in the investigation, and the investigation soon came to the conclusion that the cause of Lee's death was a real bullet fired from a prop gun, which caused him to lose too much blood and die.
The suspects were locked on three people, michael Missy, the actor who fired the gun, the prop master in charge of the gun, and the stuntman in charge of the ammunition. All three had been exposed to murder weapons.
The police summoned Michael Massey, who said he was unaware of it, that he had simply completed the performance as designed in the script, had not been exposed to props before, and had no chance to do anything. The police have verified his statement in many ways and confirmed that it is true.
The prop master in charge of the guns said that he was only responsible for keeping the guns and that the ammunition was filled by stuntmen.
The stuntman said that he was loaded with empty package bullets, and after loading the empty bullets, he returned them to the prop master.
There are only two possibilities for Li Guohao's death, either by accident or by murder. If it is murder, all three people have the possibility of committing crimes, but they all have insufficient evidence and will not be able to do so in the end.
Later, Li Guohao's mother took the crew to court, hoping to seek justice for the child.
However, in the end, the court still ruled that there was not enough evidence to prove that Li Guohao died of murder, but still ruled that the matter was an accidental death, and all the crew members were not responsible for it, only a little compensation...
However, the prop designer of this film still paid the price, and he was blacklisted for this matter.
Michael Massey, the actor who accidentally killed people, was also in pain because of this tragedy, carrying a lot of public pressure, suffering from depression, doing psychotherapy for several years, and unable to get out of the shadow of that year. The actor died in 2016.
In this recent manslaughter, it is also said that the prop gun was loaded with real bullets! With Lee Kwok-ho's tragedy ahead, it's really hard not to wonder if it was murder...
Hopefully, the police will investigate this matter thoroughly, and hopefully this type of thing will not happen again!