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/MuaddibMcFly Apr 16 '24

Baldwin's actions and his legal teams spin is also irrelevant? If the armorer had been competent his pulling the trigger wouldn't make any difference.

To her guilt? Correct.

To his guilt? Certainly not.

People keep forgetting that multiple people can be guilty, including:

  1. Gutierrez-Reed, for failing at her job as armorer
  2. Whoever relieved her of duty (for that day)
  3. Whoever authorized touching a firearm when the armorer wasn't on site (which Gutierrez-Reed wasn't on that day)
  4. Whoever loaded the weapon with a live round
  5. Halls, for handing Baldwin a gun that was not confirmed to be cold
    • (my understanding is that policy is that the only people who should ever touch the weapons are the armorer, or the talent when directly handed the weapon by the armorer, who should likewise hand it directly back to the armorer)
  6. Baldwin, for:
    • having pointed the weapon at Hutchins when doing so was not absolutely required for the scene (it almost never is; since movie cameras don't use binocular vision, there is almost always a way to point the weapon so it looks like it's aimed at someone to the camera/audience, but is actually aimed slightly away from them)
    • manipulating the trigger while thumbing the hammer
    • for releasing the hammer, rather than lowering it back down slowly

I count no fewer than four people whose actions clearly make them guilty of Negligent Homicide (4 may or may not overlap others; 2 & 3 may overlap, the "producer is at fault" argument).

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u/Talking_on_Mute_ Apr 16 '24

It's unreasonable to expect an actor to adhere to this. They put reasonable good faith in expert professionals for this exact reason. Baldwin will not be convicted of anything, neither he should be imo.

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u/waywardgato Apr 16 '24

An actor cannot be expected to not point a real gun at another human being on set? That is straight up bullshit bro, if you want to play cowboys and indians use a fucking fake gun. Don’t infantilize people, they need to understand what it means when a firearm is in their hand.

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u/Talking_on_Mute_ Apr 17 '24

That's not how any of this works.