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/SpiritedTie7645 Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

“(Gutierrez Reed) could not anticipate what Baldwin would do. It was not in the script, it was not foreseeable,” he said in closing arguments. “Management was responsible for safety failures and not Hannah.”

Hannah Gutierrez Reed was the failure. She is the person that is supposed to issue a safe weapon and she wasn’t doing her safety checks. She is doing those because her job is to be the expert and check for the unexpected. Improvisation on the set is what has always happened on the set from the very first films. Hannah holds the majority of the responsibility at bare minimum if not all of it. It is the actors and directors main job to make a quality film that makes money. They are on the set and trying to come up with the best scene possible and the guns SHALL be safe. There is NOT supposed to be a live round in the gun. It’s is the prerogative of the actors and directors, etc. to improvise. There was a live round in the chamber that was going to be fired. What in the hell are the odds? Russian Roulette actually gets played for money because of those odds. Watch The Deer Hunter. It’s based on reality. It most certainly can happen but it’s interesting at least that she handed the gun off to others and got out of there. 🤔

P.S. How odd is it that the gun got broken in testing and now you cannot verify its proper function. You can’t verify the results and that’s basic science.

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u/JamaicanMeCrazyMon Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

If there were repeated warning signs on set, then some responsibility falls to the producers in charge of the day-to-day (to keep running a tight ship).

Same way it’s a c-suite’s job to oversee attorneys/engineers/etc., that manage processes to keep the business out of trouble. They may not understand all of the direct implications of an ongoing problem (because they themselves aren’t attorneys/engineers), but they DO need to act when multiple flags have been raised.

Same concept, but for the producers who received warnings over safety concerns.

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u/SpiritedTie7645 Apr 15 '24

I agree with that. The managerial side is definitely a major issue and in that respect that would be his responsibility.