Big Whoops
This is probably one reason Chicago requires a cop to be on movie/television sets:
- Indiana State Police say they're investigating after a police officer in the western Indiana city of Crawfordsville fired a gunshot at a movie actor portraying a bank robber.
No one was hurt.
State police say Crawfordsville police were responding to a report of a possible robbery at Backstep Brewing Co. on Tuesday evening when they encountered actor Jim Duff.
Duff was wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun while leaving the brewery with his back to the officers. Police told him to drop the gun, but Duff turned toward them. An officer fired a shot that missed Duff.
Police say Duff dropped the gun, pulled off his mask and told officers they were on a movie set.
Police say the production company and the brewery didn't notify them or other businesses before filming.
Poor marksmanship was a good thing this time.
Labels: out-of-state
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
35 Comments:
Lights! Camera! Action! ACTION!
We need reality in this scene!!! Use REAL BULLETS!!!
Now THAT is a MOVIE!!! Cut!
No more special effects! We're using real bullets from now on!
When do we start filming in Chicago?? We can save a lot of money just driving around and videoing the streets. (Just like they used to do in the Silent Movies - drive to wherever a big fire was and then shoot some "Epic" film right in front of the real fire.)
Wasn't there a Lucy Show episode where the robbers pretended to be a movie production shooting a scene at the bank with Lucy and Mr. Mooney bumbling and foiling the robbery?
You put Duffman and brewery together in a sentence... What will Chief Wiggims say?
Glad the Officers missed. It would have been devastating for the officers if they had killed him.
I bet that theif gave an Oscar worthy performance! Glad it didn’t go a different way.
I tried to find the actor on IMDb.
Two Jim Duffs, neither sound like this one.
Remember the Original Lethal Weapon movie?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9ZorzeECg
Hahahaha
His name was Barney and he gets a pass, O.K.?
Now Retired...
I've worked, off duty, on many movie and TV productions, behind and in front of the cameras. We had safety protocols for simulated gunfire that included closing the set and making notification to the local zone. We also had car chases, crashes, falls and all sorts of stunts. The fire special effects for the movie BACKDRAFT was up for an Academy Award.
I got to fire an AK47 and a Thompson submachine gun. With Blanks of course, it was a rush.
12:32 & 01:35 - There was a similar plot with Andy Taylor/Barney Fife. The bank was the real goal of a film crew in Mayberry.
Retired .38 spl +P
Now Mr. DeMille I'm ready for my dirtnap or or closeup.
Somebody needs to spend more time on the firing range!
Wheres the outrage over the police shooting at an unarmed white man?
Is Jim Duff a very handsome man?
I simply need to know.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
I know it's bad, but there's no excuse for poor marksmanship. Ask any Marine.
Typical Left Coast Hollywood mentality.....THEY DON'T GET IT!!!! Lucky the Indiana Police had poor aim.
Whoever was responsible for the "movie set" and security is to blame. How do police show up and nobody stops or confronts them that they are filmimng a scene. Talk about low budget. Hope they at least got the real police and shooting on tape. Might be the best scene of the movie. And glad no one was hurt of course.
if that was Dennis Farina, he would have told the indiana flatfoot: what are you? some kind of fucking goof?
All Bank Robbera across the country will be taking a knee. B.R.L.M.!!!!
wait a second .. there wasn't a big camera 10 feet from this guy?
Anonymous said...
Now Retired...
"I've worked, off duty, on many movie and TV productions, behind and in front of the cameras. We had safety protocols for simulated gunfire that included closing the set and making notification to the local zone. We also had car chases, crashes, falls and all sorts of stunts. The fire special effects for the movie BACKDRAFT was up for an Academy Award.
I got to fire an AK47 and a Thompson submachine gun. With Blanks of course, it was a rush."
I've heard about the "movie detail".....a secret society, right? I just never knew how to get in, never saw anything in the C/O book, no signup sheet. How did you do that?????
Chicago loevey's will attempt to use this as an excuse for the defense of community members.
Seems they always have a cousin or friend filming on the cellaphone.
"My client was role playing for a job as a YouTubed AssFaceBookLive Hollywood actor when the police violated his civil rights."
COPA can suck it
Greg Popovich can suck it
Preckwinkle can suck it
ESPN can suck it
The NFL can suck it
Antifa can suck it
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It's a wrap.
Not the first time this has happened. Think a few years back a similar incident occurred with someone getting shot. May killed.
In early 1980s a similar thing happened on Milwaukee Ave just south of North Ave. Copper sees chase and gunfight, gets involved. Fortunately he was Academy trained so no one was hit.
Shit happens
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Now Retired...
I've worked, off duty, on many movie and TV productions, behind and in front of the cameras. We had safety protocols for simulated gunfire that included closing the set and making notification to the local zone. We also had car chases, crashes, falls and all sorts of stunts. The fire special effects for the movie BACKDRAFT was up for an Academy Award.
I got to fire an AK47 and a Thompson submachine gun. With Blanks of course, it was a rush.
9/28/2017 01:48:00 AM
Even blanks can break off like here to Bruce Lee's son Brandon:
Brandon Lee, Michael Massee and the ‘curse’ of The Crow
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/brandon-lee-michael-massee-and-the-curse-of-the-crow/
excerpt:
Emotionally intense though the scene was, its technical demands were fairly straightforward, especially given the elaborate set-pieces – one a warehouse shootout with hundreds of blanks raining down – that director Alex Proyas had already captured. One of the four thugs, chosen almost at random on the night, was to raise a Magnum .44 at Draven as he entered obliviously through the front door carrying the couple’s groceries. A single blank was to be fired, and a squib simultaneously let off in the shopping bag, to release blood over the actor playing Draven as he tumbled to the floor.
That actor was Brandon Lee, 28-year-old son of the legendary kung fu star Bruce Lee. As he fell backwards from the blast – not forwards, as they’d all planned – it took long moments before the others on set realised that something had gone hideously wrong. It took a lot longer – weeks of investigation, in fact – for anyone to work out why.
Duff needed a break from filming to clean out his shorts.
Depending on the accuracy of that shot, it 'could of been' the Medical Examiner that gave the call, "Cut, That's a Wrap!"
Anonymous said...
I tried to find the actor on IMDb.
Two Jim Duffs, neither sound like this one.
Anonymous said...
http://fox59.com/2017/09/27/crawfordsville-officer-fires-shot-at-actor-filming-robbery-scene-for-movie/
Don't think he's a big name celebrity.. He's not mentioned on Wiki.
ssc it reminds of scene from the movie "godfather part I" when al neri dressed as a bypd officer shoots and kills don barzzini in front of st pats cathedral
They thought they were filming in a sanctuary city and didn't need to worry about the Police.
J.J.
Would shooting an actor be wrong?
This is a case where two 'fails' made a "thank God no one was hurt."
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