Posted on 10/26/2021 6:53:31 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the 24-year-old armorer who handled weapons on the set of Alec Baldwin’s “Rust,” was the subject of numerous complaints on her previous film just two months earlier after she discharged weapons without warning and infuriated star Nicolas Cage, a crew member told TheWrap.
Stu Brumbaugh, who served as key grip on the Cage Western “The Old Way” this summer, told TheWrap that Gutierrez upset both Cage and other crew members on the Montana production by failing to follow basic gun safety protocols like announcing the arrival and usage of weapons onto the set.
After firing a gun near the cast and crew for a second time in three days without warning, Brumbaugh said that Cage yelled at her, “Make an announcement, you just blew my f—ing eardrums out!” before walking off set in a rage. “I told the AD, ‘She needs to be let go,’” Brumbaugh, adding, “After the second round I was pissed off. We were moving too fast. She’s a rookie.”
It was only after alerting his superiors that the production needed a more experienced armorer who did not make these kinds of basic safety mistakes that he learned it was Gutierrez’s very first movie.
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Yes, the armorer was completely incompetent. Whoever was the producer who hired her should take responsibility for giving a safety-critical job to someone with no training.
Especially if that same producer had been told repeatedly that the production was unsafe including previous “misfires” meaning the gun worked exactly as designed.
Especially if that producer created protocols allegedly for COVID that prevented the armorer, as incompetent as she was, from actually being on set during the takes.
Especially if that producer also put bullet proof glass in front of the filming equipment but not the humans.
Especially if that producer also picked up a gun, failed to check that it was actually loaded, aimed it at a human being, and pulled the trigger.
Agreed.
She really bloated in the last five years. I think she drinks too much.
Hollywood films often portray guns being held and used in an unrealistic manner.
Ever see all those films in which a tiny "kick-ass" woman holds two machine guns, one in each hand, and barges into a room, both machine guns blasting away.
I assume those are lightweight plastic toy guns. I don't think a man can simultaneously shoot two machines guns, one in each hand. They're heavy, no? Plus there's the issue of recoil.
Perhaps this armorer, who grew up around movies, confused movie reality with actual reality.
I just checked the IMDB. These are the credited producers (apparently listed alphabetically):
Alec Baldwin ... producer
Kc Brandenstein ... co-producer
Allen Cheney ... executive producer
Matt DelPiano ... producer
Tyler Gould ... executive producer
Matthew Helderman ... executive producer
Nathan Klingher ... producer
Anjul Nigam ... producer
Emily Hunter Salveson ... executive producer
Ryan Donnell Smith ... producer
Luke Taylor ... executive producer
Ryan Winterstern ... producer
So there are six producers, and five executive producers and one co-producer.
In film (as opposed to TV), executive producers are often just silent investors or prominent people who lent their name and connections to help make the film happen. Not always, but often.
The co-producer is low in rank. Possibly a title given to someone as payment for a small service in lieu of more money. Actually, minor producer titles (especially associate producer, which ranks below co-producer) are often (not always) given to friends and lovers who had nothing much to do with the film.
The producers would be the decision makers in terms of who gets hired, and how the money is spent.
Even so, the director is captain of the ship. The one who controls what happens on set. The buck stops at his desk. Producers are analogously more like the owners of the ship.
You have got to assume that this girl who was in way over her head and looks like a whore was acting like a whore to get these jobs in addition to her connections. It is Hollywood after all. I also saw that she was a props assistant as well as the armorer, and presumably paid more like a props assistant than an armorer. Apparently, they did not have a full-time armorer.
These movies are also awfully violent with all the shoot em ups. I have a hard time believing Baldwin didn’t know something about guns with all the times he used them in films. Did he not know the procedures with weapons or did he ignore them?
Since he hit two of the main managers of the production, it is likely he was aiming at them. He likely was firing it deliberately thinking it was unloaded, playing a joke, upset, mad, bullying, etc. Obviously, that is reckless thing to do.
I would not put all the blame on Baldwin, even if he was one of the main bosses of the film. There is a question of who put the bullet in there. The armorer was probably negligent, but did she know live ammunition was being put in any of those weapons? If people were using that weapon for target practice, there might be several people who theoretically could be charged with manslaughter. The target practice explanation seems like the most innocent interpretation of how that bullet got there.
It was a clusterf...
One question. Who owned the trigger finger?
Who cares if Baldwin goes to jail?
He’ll be stripped in civil court; wrongful death. Ask O.J.
Yes great film. The scene where Anthony Hopkins’ character fights the bear is world-class. :-)
A low budget bw movie noir movie that impressed me is The Big Combo.
Worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIkCXF9Y4ow
Thank you, I’ll check it out.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed staring in “The Fall Girl”.
Wow. I certainly expect that you never joke about your work any more than the Goldfinger one.
Desmond in Bond movies....
Agree. He was great.
Yeah, this is that moment in the sleigh when you're being chased by a pack of wolves and your fellow riders are starting to look at you funny. Baldwin's too big and too liberal to be tossed but the wolves, they're hungry and they're closing in.
It is one area that I get rather serious about. If I hear somebody talking smack I will go out of my way to correct them. But likewise I’m still willing to learn, and if I get it wrong I say so.
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