Quentin Tarantinohas shared a controversial stance on the use of real guns on the set of movies, using an explicit analogy and a grim statistic to make his point that there is no need to use fake guns and CGI in the future. The shooting ofRustcinematographer Halyna Hutchins, andthe injuring of the movie’s director, Joel Souza, has led to several productions denouncing the use of any real firearm on set, but it looks like when Tarantino finally decides what his final movie will be, if it involves guns, they probably won’t be made of rubber.
During an extensive interview with Bill Maher on hisClub Randompodcast, Tarantino addressed the idea of guns being removed entirely from film sets, with fake guns and post-production CGI being used to replace them. In a NSFW comparison, the director known for often using graphic violence in his movies turned to the adult entertainment industry to share his thoughts on the matter.
“I guess I can add digital erections to porno movies, but who wants to f*cking watch that? It’s exciting to shoot the blanks and to see the orange, the real orange fire, not add orange fire.”
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He followed this up by citing a blunt statistic about fatalities that have been caused by having real guns on the set of thousands of movies over the last several decades.
“For as many guns as we’ve shot off in movies we only have two examples of people being shot on the set by a gun mishap. That’s a pretty f*cking good record.”
The two deaths referred to by Tarantino are those ofRust’s Hutchins, and thetragic death of Brandon Leeduring filming of 1994’sThe Crow. While the statistic itself is hard to argue with, especially when compared to how many people are killed every year on the streets of America through gun crimes and mass-shootings, the director’s “good record” comment has been called crass and .
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“It’s a situation I think I am being fair enough to say that the armorer, the guy who hands him the gun, is 90% responsible for everything that happens when it comes to that gun. But the actor is 10% responsible. The actor is 10% responsible. It’s a gun! You are a partner in the responsibility to some degree.”
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In the end, Tarantino doesn’t believe there is a problem with using guns on set as long as due diligence is always carried out correctly – both on the part of the armorer and the actor. He noted that usually an actor would be shown the gun, shown the empty barrel, the ammunition, and talked through exactly what should and shouldn’t happen.
“If he went through the steps that he was supposed to go through … Like the barrel is clear, they show you the barrel is clear and that there is nothing … wedged in there. They actually show you the barrel. And then they show you some version of ‘here are the blanks and here is the gun.’ Now it’s ready to go.”
Although there is still clearly a lot of debate to be had on this particular subject, Tarantino has made it clear where he stands on the matter. With thedirector reportedly still planning on his next movie being his last, perhaps it is not something that he is going to have to worry too much about himself.
