Posted on 10/22/2021 8:13:01 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Upset. GD autocorrect!
I'm sure the details will come out, but he shot the cinematographer, so perhaps they were filming a scene where he was pointing the gun at the camera, and hit her as she was operating it, or standing behind it with the director (who was also hit).
Actor Alec Baldwin is facing criticism for a 2017 tweet he posted in which he questions “how it must feel to wrongfully kill someone.”
On Thursday, Baldwin, 63, was at the center of a Hollywood tragedy that unfolded on the set of the movie “Rust.” Authorities said that Baldwin fired a prop gun on a movie set that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Director Joel Souza was identified as the crew member taken to the hospital. He has since been released, “Rust” star Frances Fisher claimed on Twitter.
Twitter users are now zeroing in on Baldwin’s past social media activity and one glaring tweet he posted on Sept. 22, 2017 reads: “I wonder how it must feel to wrongfully kill someone...” The tweet also included a link to a Los Angeles Times article about a Huntington Beach police officer who was captured on video struggling with a suspect in a parking lot of a convenience store before shooting the man several times, killing him.
“this did not age well,” one Twitter user wrote on the thread of Baldwin’s tweet
I remember an old Perry Mason show with this theme. In fact, I think there were two such episodes.
Baldwin a bipolar idiot prone to fits of rage. She was a very beautiful Ukrainian lady...
Of course not! Well, almost never.
Puh-leeze! This is FR. Based on their hatred of Baldwin, and lacking any verified facts at all, people here have already got him charged, convicted and sentenced to the death penalty. Baldwin may be the loathsome jerk we all love to hate, but even loathsome jerks deserve due process.
Seriously??
Right — especially since he’s been similarly adamant in public pronoucements that accidents (Cheney) be treated as crimes when others commit them!
Yep, 13 year old grandson who accidental kill a man.
Live round= projectile, case, propellant, primer.
Blank round= paper wad, propellant, primer.
Dummy round= projectile, case, no propellant, inert or no primer.
It’s almost impossible to tell a dummy round from a live round when loaded into a revolver with out opening the cylinder or loading gate. I doubt that any actor ever double checks the gun that is being used for the shooting scenes. They may start to now.
Am I mistaken or was Baldwin making an anti-gun movie?
At my pistol safety class I was taught ths following....
There is no such thing as a toy/prop gun.
All guns are loaded and chambered at all times.
There is no such thing as accidental discharge.
Any unintended discharge is at least negligent.
The answer may be less nefarious, but I can’t help but wonder if - if the propmaster is not a union member - some self-appointed union activist might have set up this scenario as a means of condemning the hiring of a non-union crew member.
No article has mentioned that Baldwin had to have (probably) been unprofessional and discharged the prop at them.
Isn’t the Producer responsible for the operations of the set? Who is hired, who is fired, who is responsible for safety, etc.?
“A live single round was accidentally fired on set by the principal actor,…”
The word is “negligently”.
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Not ACCIDENTAL. The weapon functioned as designed.
MANSLAUGHTER.
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