Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 17:10:49 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Alec Baldwin getting away with murder Content-Language: en-US Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <1797980814.731492324.194688.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> From: moviePig In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 48 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 22:10:49 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 2918 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17ba9b03ee0e9624$13863$3298354$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3299 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-12358 >>>> 47983/ >>> >>> 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.