Rust film armorer gets maximum sentence

[vision63]

If I got killed, I wouldn't want her to go to jail since it was an accident.

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vision63 wrote:
If I got killed, I wouldn't want her to go to jail since it was an accident.

I can’t say that I’m this case, without hearing the accepted facts of the matter as they were presented in court.

I’ve read too much reporting that would lay a troubling degree of at least negligence rightfully at her feet. But I’ve also seen an unusual amount of sloppy reporting, some if it in articles linked here, to go by that alone.

[Rick-o]

> "Had she known and cared enough about her job to do it properly, or had a real armorer done the job, Ms. Hutchins absolutely would be alive today, and this would have never happen.

First, last, and alway, the armorer on set is responsible, it's in the J-O-B description.

It's why an armorer is hired in the first place."

I agree wholeheartedly! The buck stops here. It's YOUR job! Do it, and do it right! I hate when some of these folks won't take resposibility for their actions and then play the victim. Yeesh!

[Mr645]

About time someone took gun safety seriously. Both parties responsible for killing someone failed to exhibit even basic firearm safety rules. The actual killer should spend much longer in jail

[Acer]

The macho demand for realism in guns such that you feel you need to have the Real Thing^TM on a movie set belies our gun worshiping culture.

[pdq]

Smote and Mr645- Yeah, we get it. You really, really don’t like Alec Baldwin. In his comic acting role, he has extensively lampooned a guy that gave people like Baldwin boatloads of comic material to choose from.

But let’s get real; in addition to the shocking ammunition f_ck-up (or worse) above, which resulted in a tragic death and for which the armorer has been held criminally responsible, the facts are that the cinematographer was setting up a scene; I think (if this actually goes to trial) we will find out she asked Baldwin to pull out the gun and point it toward her/the camera.

And please, before you lecture me about how any Law-Abiding Responsible Gun Owner™ (or actor) would never point a gun at anyone they didn’t intend to shoot…






Simple image search. I could do this all day.

[vision63]

Acer wrote:
The macho demand for realism in guns such that you feel you need to have the Real Thing^TM on a movie set belies our gun worshiping culture.

I'm curious. Hundreds of movies are made every year. Maybe thousands. I think millions of rounds have been discharged. How many of these incidents have there been, say over the past 10 years?

[DeusxMac]

1993 - Brandon Lee - died after being shot with a prop gun.
1982 - Jon-Erik Hexum - playing around with a prop gun from a scene and shot himself in the head.

[vision63]

DeusxMac wrote:
1993 - Brandon Lee - died after being shot with a prop gun.
1982 - Jon-Erik Hexum - playing around with a prop gun from a scene and shot himself in the head.

I remember both of those incidents. Saw "The Crow" soon after Brandon's sad death.

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Acer wrote:
The macho demand for realism in guns such that you feel you need to have the Real Thing^TM on a movie set belies our gun worshiping culture.

I think you've gone overboard here. I love movies and I DEMAND the highest reality attainable. Yet I'm not a gun nut. I would be annoyed if everything in a show was well done except tiny little popgun sounds when guns go off.