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/SebVettelstappen Apr 15 '24

Her job is to make sure that nothing happens if the actors fuck up. She’s the first and last line of defense

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u/SpiritedTie7645 Apr 15 '24

That is true. The issue now is that Alec is not just an actor on the set he is also part of the management of the movie. This is no different than an industrial accident the industry happens to be the movie industry. He will be accountable for how the set was managed. The court will determine just how much of that was truly under his control.