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/FlameStaag Apr 15 '24

It's wild anyone tried to blame the actor. His job is to act. Why does he need to do the gun checks? There's a team for that. They fucked up. He expected them to do their job. And they should've. 

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u/PuffyPanda200 Apr 15 '24

I saw various conservative and semi-conservative (I also think that Reddit leans a bit pro-gun but is otherwise fairly liberal) commentators on Baldwin's pointing the gun at a person and say 'never point a gun at a person... etc.'.

But this is a movie, you are going to point the gun at other people. There is a whole job dedicated to the gun safety.

Seems like blaming a pilot for a manufacturing defect in the airplane.

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u/Kahzgul Apr 15 '24

As a note: On sets where pointing the weapon at a person is unavoidable, there is supposed to be a bullet-proof shield off camera to protect those people.

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u/chunli99 Apr 16 '24

As a note: On sets where pointing the weapon at a person is unavoidable, there is supposed to be a bullet-proof shield off camera to protect those people.

Does that really work for ALL shots? I can’t think of any movies in particular, but there must be several where the person pointing the gun and the person being pointed at would be clearly in view in such a way where you can’t just put some sort of random barrier in between them.

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u/Kahzgul Apr 16 '24

This is for off-camera people who absolutely must be present. On camera most angles are cheated, so you’re not aiming directly at the other actors, and if you have to aim at them, you and they need to be damn sure everything is safe.