Live ammunition?


I heard Peter Jackson had to use live ammunition because he had no firing blanks - Is this true?

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I've heard it too, but I find that really hard to believe.
You would have to do the filming at a range or in the country. And at one point you see Heidi fireing the gun over the moving camera.
I really hope they were not dumb enough to do that with live rounds... It would even be dangerous with blanks.

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No way man - as pointed out by others, in those scenes the hippo shoots at the camera as well (check it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivHwoyIxCxU) - it's even a backward dolly (or maybe a steadycam in low-mode) shot! Thus meaning around the camera there might have been 2\3 people at least (operator, focus puller\ 1st AC and maybe a machinist pulling the dolly) - and what about the lighting equipment? As for the puppets, there are clearly squibs and blood pumps involved: a burst from the M60 would've torned them all apart, with wool and stuff flying everywhere (not to mention the hands of the puppeters: you can see them twich in some shots...)!

I guess they might have used live-but-modified ammos, with the bullets removed from the shells - and even that can be quiet dangerous!

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How many cameramen died?

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Getting Crow flashbacks from reading this.

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