Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Alec Baldwin getting away with murder Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 20:06:57 -0500 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 75 Message-ID: References: <1797980814.731492324.194688.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <17ba9b03ee0e9624$13863$3298354$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 01:06:57 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="680b125beb5e3c92aee45ac7c92a6837"; logging-data="2099285"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+eReiFWL0XHXYqPoxL0124" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:VJIuLNkvxoaUqLGqKwIVubVtGEs= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4840 On 3/7/24 5:52 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article > <17ba9b03ee0e9624$13863$3298354$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com>, > moviePig wrote: > >> On 3/7/2024 4:40 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> In article , Alan Smithee >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 03/07/2024 01:42 PM, EGK wrote: >>>>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:59:02 -0700, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> https://deadline.com/2024/03/rust-movie-armorer-guilty-shooting-death-123 >>>>>> 5847983/ >>>>> >>>>> Classic example of shit rolling downhill and our two-tiered justice >>>>> system. Baldwin is "loose" with weapons on the set and he fires the >>>>> fatal shot but because he hired a young and very inexperienced armorer, >>>>> she ends up being the perfect scapegoat. >>>> >>>> Did you watch the trial yesterday? She was quoted as saying she could >>>> not be responsible for everyone on the set. Even tho it is her job to be >>>> responsible. >>>> >>>> Baldwin should be held accountable, but he will likely walk. >>> >>> Once upon a time, I spent an afternoon on the CSI:HORATIO set as a >>> technical advisor (the episode dealt with counterfeit currency and they >>> took none of my advice regarding how what they were doing wasn't >>> accurate in any way), and in every scene with guns, as soon as they >>> yelled cut, the armorer zipped in and took everyone's pistols and put >>> them on a table over in the corner of the sound stage. He stood watch >>> over them until the resets were done and they were ready to go again, >>> then he handed them all back out again.** >>> >>> (I do not know if there was a separate sunglass wrangler for David >>> Caruso.) >>> >>> **The armorer guy went white as a sheet near the end of the day when it >>> came to his attention that I'd been sitting on set all afternoon with an >>> actual loaded handgun under my suit coat. >>> >>> Based on what I saw that day and how firearms are treated on set by a >>> responsible armorer, Baldwin should never have been playing around with >>> a gun outside of an actual filmed scene, and certainly shouldn't have >>> been pointing it at people. What possible reason could he have had for >>> pointing it at the director and the DP? >> >> Was he not rehearsing a scene that called for him to point the gun at >> the camera and then to "fire"? If he was, then I can buy that he did no >> worse than most movie actors would've. > > Another thing the CSI folks had were dummy guns for such rehearsals. Big > hunks of brightly-colored plastic that are shaped like handguns. > > E.g.: > > https://www.securityprousa.com/collections/training-guns > > They used those for rehearsals and only brought out the real guns for an > actual take. Even in the actual take, only the people whose guns needed > to cycle for realism were given real firearms. Everyone else had black > painted gun replicas that were nothing but solid pieces of plastic. They > looked real on camera but had no ability to shoot anything. > Then go and try THAT case, because it has nothing to do with THIS one. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0