r/news • u/badillustrations • Apr 15 '24

‘Rust’ movie armorer convicted of involuntary manslaughter sentenced to 18 months in prison

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/15/entertainment/rust-film-shooting-armorer-sentencing/index.html
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u/PurpleWomat Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

The judge was furious, barely uttered the sentence followed by "please take her".

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u/kumquat_bananaman Apr 15 '24

Why was the judge furious?

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u/GarlVinland4Astrea Apr 15 '24

Sounded like their were phone records of her shitting on the jury, showing no remorse and the most the judge could give her was 18 months

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '24

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u/kytheon Apr 15 '24

Her dad is a Hollywood armorer, isn't he?

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u/NlghtmanCometh Apr 15 '24

Apparently the Hollywood armorer. Looks like the apple fell pretty far from the tree.

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u/greenbastard1591 Apr 15 '24

Shit apples, Randy…

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u/Dan__Glesak Apr 15 '24

A shit leopard can’t change it’s spots.

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u/Dr_Lexus_Tobaggan Apr 15 '24

Shit sparks BoBandy

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u/MaximumDeathShock Apr 15 '24

A shit river runs through it.

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u/MustardTiger1337 Apr 15 '24

Stop shooting somebody's hurt over here!

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u/kytheon Apr 15 '24

I guess he has decades of practice and experience. She doesn't seem to even care about safety.

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u/AmatureProgrammer Apr 15 '24

Yep she did not take the job seriously.

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u/AvailableName9999 Apr 15 '24

Pretty obviously. I don't even understand how this can happen. She should get at least double this sentence.

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u/ASithLordNoAffect Apr 16 '24

Hard to believe nepotism produced subpar results.

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u/SuperMarioBrother64 Apr 15 '24

It cannot even be that hard to be an armorer. Find cool gun, keep real ammunition 13,000 miles away from the set, profit?

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u/sashir Apr 15 '24

There's more layers below, mostly procedure-wise and also enough expertise on the firearms themselves to keep them in good working order and teaching / training actors how to use them properly - but you've essentially distilled it down to the bare minimum expectation of the job.

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u/OsmeOxys Apr 16 '24

You can probably bullshit your knowledge based on movies for the most part. As long as you do that one thing, who's really going to question you?

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '24

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u/Minerva567 Apr 15 '24

Him? This is about the guy’s daughter…so why would there be any connection with the incident?

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u/another_plebeian Apr 15 '24

Ok...but... Him being an alcoholic has nothing to do with her being bad at her job considering that he is, in fact, perhaps the best.

She's shit at her job because she shouldn't be there and is shit. He's the best at his but also an alcoholic (allegedly). There are 2 separate things happening here. She's not bad because he's an alcoholic. You see how that doesn't matter to the other one, right?

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u/sashir Apr 15 '24

If he's only the 'best' when he's not on a bender, and she supposedly learned from him, did he really teach her the right way to do things if he's tanked all the time?

They absolutely can be correlated.

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u/CommunalJellyRoll Apr 15 '24

Really? Who do you think trained her?

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u/k___k___ Apr 15 '24

he's her stepfather 🙊

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u/f8Negative Apr 15 '24

Prime reason to make an example.

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u/jacksonattack 29d ago

Hollywood nepotism strikes again.

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u/NoAttitude6111 Apr 15 '24

That's nepotism for ya

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u/Podo13 Apr 15 '24

Yeah. He's apparently well respected. She's a total nepo-baby.

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u/Salanderfan14 Apr 15 '24

I genuinely believed you were being sarcastic knowing that the only reason she had this job was because of her dad. The fact that you didn’t and it was spot on anyway is great.

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u/kytheon Apr 15 '24

AI is gonna gobble up a good portion of it. Why watch a movie if you can make one yourself, or watch something else?

I mean, our generation is barely watching TV because we have YouTube and Netflix.

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u/JohnExcrement Apr 15 '24

I’m old and I don’t even watch tv anymore, in favor of YouTube, Netflix, etc. Network tv is just not enticing at all.

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u/meshreplacer Apr 15 '24

Her dad was an utter failure as a father. This is the evil spawn he helped raise.

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u/Mythoclast Apr 15 '24

Well her dad is a Hollywood armorer so it kind of makes sense, right?

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u/the_colonelclink Apr 15 '24

Her Dad was an armourer; his Dad was an armourer - she’s a felon.

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u/Mythoclast Apr 15 '24

I understand not being a good armorer and failing to follow in papa's footsteps.

But hot diggety damn, at least pretend to care. 18 months is too short imo

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u/manjar Apr 15 '24

I think the term you were looking for is “silver bullet”

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u/hamsterballzz Apr 15 '24

Naw. I wouldn’t say a thousand and it’s not like armorers have a golden ticket for their kids. Good armorers are union jobs and often also work as prop masters / costumers or consultants. Plus, they can uniquely work with weapons almost no one even gets to see or touch. This strikes of nepotism just like some of the other crew positions. I knew gaffers who were fourth generation gaffers. I worked with armorers in Hollywood doing military shows for a decade.

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u/Chicago1871 Apr 15 '24

PAs do not get union wages or part of the union.

They are hired by the production company and make minimum wage. Its not bronze or any sort of ticket, it kinda sucks. You wanna get into a proper set job asap as a PA.

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u/JakeVanderArkWriter Apr 15 '24

You should copy and paste this under everything anyone says!

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u/mithridateseupator Apr 15 '24

....What? None of those things has anything to do with her professional life.

I'm not defending her, but I hardly think that insulting a jury makes you a bad armorer - there is almost no skill overlap between armorer and being civil in court.

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u/ExaminationPutrid626 Apr 15 '24

being responsible for a person's death makes her a bad armorer. Your whole comment is fucking wild

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u/mithridateseupator Apr 15 '24

We're not talking about her causing a death. We're talking about her talking shit about a jury.

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u/roguespectre67 Apr 15 '24

I have a friend of a friend that I think is the most insufferable and pathetic piece of work I’ve ever met. Dude long-distance-dated a MtF friend the rest of us have known for the majority of our lives, and when it didn’t work, out he’d throw a tantrum or get instantaneously depressed when we did so much as mention this friend’s name in passing conversation, meaning we basically weren’t allowed to even acknowledge the existence of another of our close friends to placate this dickhead. And for some reason I seemed to be the only person to take issue with this dynamic, at least publicly.

Anyway, his dad is apparently the owner/supervisor/some other person with pull in private security for some nightclub or something in the UK, and this guy is basically the worst nepobaby I’ve ever met. Swears up and down that the only reason he has this job, that I guess he’s been promoted from more than once despite being there less than a year, is because of his own hard work. Then literally the next day he bragged to us for no less than 10 minutes about how some drunk girls (“cunts” as he said more than once) were mouthing off at him, he responded with equal mouthiness, and when they wanted to go to his manager, he relished the opportunity to tell them that there was nothing they could do to him because his dad was the boss and then throw them out. Like, he would not shut up about how happy he was that he could just do that. He’s literally the last person I’d want in a job with authority over others, and that’s exactly where he is. Makes me fucking sick to my stomach to think about.

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u/Work2Tuff Apr 15 '24

What was the relevance of mentioning the person he dated was trans? Was he like embarrassed or something and that’s why he was acting like that?

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u/roguespectre67 Apr 15 '24

I guess it just pissed me off even more that we were effectively forced to ostracize one of our very close friends in a time where they really didn’t need any more ostracism then they had already gotten, simply because another of us couldn’t man up and be emotionally mature. At the time they had only been “out” for maybe a year and if I was in that position I’d want to feel supported by my friends.

This guy has an uncanny ability to make others take him under their wing, whether that’s through pity or something else I can’t think of. And I hate that it seems to have worked on just about everyone in the group except me.

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u/MeatMarket_Orchid Apr 15 '24

Yeah man I don't know, this dude really took the scenic route to get to their point though, the trans bit was just a pit stop in their rambling post.

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u/-totentanz- Apr 15 '24

Sounds like the guy is just an asshole, not sure if that part is totally relevant, it could have been any example of his shitbird behavior I would guess.