Posted on 10/22/2021 12:37:12 PM PDT by Red Badger
Alec Baldwin shot and killed Halyna Hutchins in an apparent misfire of a prop gun. Why Baldwin, a freak about gun control, is in a movie that involves guns is beyond my comprehension. Does he not have enough money?
But this is not about him. This post is about Halyna Hutchins because the victim matters more than the idiot who killed her.
Born in Ukraine when it was a Soviet state 42 years ago, Hutchins grew up in the Arctic and had little to do except watch movies. She was 12 when the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine gained independence. She trained as a journalist.
Metro reported, "Hutchins was born in the Ukraine and grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle before attending Kyiv National University.
"After graduating with a degree in international journalism, she worked as an investigative journalist for British documentaries in Eastern Europe.
"However, Hutchins’ true passion lay in filmmaking, and she moved to Los Angeles, where she got work as a production assistant and a grip electrician.
"She also shot her own short films, inspired by cinematographers including Christopher Doyle and Sergey Urusevskiy.
"On the advice of cinematographer Robert Primes, Hutchins enrolled the filmmaking MFA program at the American Film Institute Conservatory in 2013 and graduated two years later."
She was a rising star.
Variety reported, "Hutchins graduated from the American Film Institute in 2015, and had worked on several short films before shooting 'Archenemy,' a 2020 feature starring Joe Manganiello. She was named a rising star by American Cinematographer in 2019."
Michael Pessah, her friend and fellow cinematographer, told Variety, "She’s a wonderful, positive, creative person that was so excited to be breaking through and making movies. She was really on the upswing."
She also was a wife and mother. She left behind husband Matthew, a lawyer, and their 8-year-old son, Andros.
The Daily Mail reported, "Remembered by friends as a 'kind' and 'loving soul', Halyna lived in Venice Beach, California, with husband Matthew and their son Andros, known affectionately as her 'little man' and thought to be around nine years old.
"'Halyna loved him so much and enjoyed watching him grow into the handsome boy he is today,' one friend wrote in a moving Instagram tribute. 'I know she is looking after him and Matt in this horribly scary time.'
"Social media photos capture a playfulness and sense of adventure, with Halloween costume parties, road trips with friends and days out exploring all lit up by Halyna's smile.
"She was also highly regarded by her peers and had been tipped as a 'rising star' by other cinematographers. 'She was somebody who was absolutely dedicated to art and integrity,' director, colleague and friend Adam Mortimer told Good Morning Britain this morning. 'I can tell already she was going to be a genius.'"
Manganiello, who starred in and worked with her on "Archenemy," issued a statement on Instagram.
He said, "I was so lucky to have had Halyna Hutchins as my DP on 'Archenemy.' She was an absolutely incredible talent and a great person. She had such an eye and a visual style, she was the kind of cinematographer that you wanted to see succeed because you wanted to see what she could pull off next. She was a fantastic person. There was no amount of pressure she couldn’t handle. She was a great collaborator and an ally to anyone in front of her camera. Everyone who knew her was rooting for her."
We lost a good person who was just reaching her prime. That saddens me. Hollywood has been working with prop guns for more than a century. This is inexcusable.
Posted by Don Surber at 10/22/2021 12:05:00 PM
He can try to blame others, but the gun didn’t kill and wound anyone, The second amendment didn’t- alec did- the gun was minding it’s own business when alec came along and used it irresponsibly
The “actor” who pulls the trigger is responsible for determining that the discharge is harmless. Failing to train actors using guns in the proper handling of firearms is a profound dereliction. Any “actor” using a gun with inadequate training in its proper use must be held fully responsible for its misuse.
This same crew was threatening to walk off the set, citing safety issues..then Baldwin offs her..how “Convenient” someone put a live round in that gun, someone wanted her dead
Th eprop master is supposed to make sure the gun only has blanks, but it’s also the actor’s responsibility to double-check that. Two sets of eyes are better than one set of eyes.
A blank CAN kill at close enough range. (I don’t know if it was a blank but one article I looked at said that Baldwin said right afterwards “Who handed me a hot gun?” Like it’s someone else’s responsibility to make sure he doesn’t kill himself or someone else.)
Actors are all idiots, even the ones you like. Most of them honk about gun control and then take part in works that involve people shooting each other. You can look at their best work and see them handling guns improperly AND GETTING PAID THE BIG BUCKS FOR IT. Actors are WAY more complicit in the surge of gang activity and accidental shootings than hunters or 2nd amendment supporters. This is why we should #AbortTheEntertainmentIndustry It’s not worth saving.
Good point. :)
Even if it’s a plastic toy gun, if you don’t know the person who handed it to you, handle it carefully anyway. Pretty much if you’re handling something like a gun, at least don’t pull the trigger!
If you know him, it will be easy.
You could add Al Sharpton followers to that mix. Sharpton’s crew has been responsible for at least 6 murders in NYC.
I saw the VP of prop masters union on Newsmax, a prop gun can not shoot real bullets. This had to be a real gun that Baldwin picked up instead of a prop gun. Who did the gun belong to and why was it left out?
“I’ve never been handed a hot gun”.
That line will get him the Oscar! (or thrown into prison for murder.)
Holy crap, has this remark been verified?
Any chance Baldwin can run off to the swamp where the gators grabbed Brian Laundrie? 🤔
Johnathon Gilliam (author Sheep No More) explained that prop guns have a block that keeps a live bullet from being used. Someone who understands guns better than I do need to explain it but I’m pretty sure Gilliam knows what he is talking about.
Usually the chambers are bored shallow so a live round cannot be chambered.just like a 454 Casual is almost the same as a 45 Long Colt but the cartridge case is made a little longer and thicker so you can’t accidentally force it into the 45 LC...
Most likely they were doing a close up shot showing the viewer the POV of inside of the gun barrel. It's used a lot in film to make the scene more dramatic for the audience (famously, every James Bond movie opens that way) and has been in use since the very first Western film, The Great Train Robbery, in 1902. Audiences freaked out when the character appeared to "shoot" the audience:
Oh, come on. The family moved from Ukraine to the Arctic.
That would be a violation of the rules here.
Exactly! If he had taken the time to educate himself about firearms and followed the rules, this never would have happened, unless he wanted it to.
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