Posted on 10/23/2021 9:35:23 PM PDT by Enterprise
The gun armorer and assistant director who gave a fatal prop gun to Alec Baldwin have been identified.
A search warrant released Friday said that armorer Hannah Gutierrez laid out three prop guns on a cart outside the filming location, and first assistant director Dave Halls grabbed the gun from the cart and brought it inside to Baldwin, unaware that it was loaded.
‘Cold gun!’ shouted Halls before handing the gun to Baldwin, using the phrase to signal to cast and crew that the gun was safe to fire for the scene, the warrant said.
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Hmmm. The “crow” tattoo is Poe’s raven.
She’s in trouble.
Negligent homicide, at the least of things.
One of the “shots” the director may have wanted was the camera focusing on the barrel of the gun as it was fired. to get that shot the actor would be told to fire directly at the camera. If the woman who was killed was photographing the shot herself, she would be directly in the line of fire. Have to wonder if Baldwin had been flirting with the photographer and the young “armorer” who for whatever reason was hired by Baldwin, was a bit jealous.
Many walked off the set due to safety concerns. Why were they not proactive about the concerns? Because they’re union, and cannot cross boundaries?
Baldwin knows nothing about guns. He was completely dependent upon her expertise to ensure a safe shoot.
I can’t really blame him, because it was supposed to be a prop gun. He had to rely on the weapons master to ensure the gun was safe.
Agreed. An actor cannot check the wespons before every scene the flow would just not be there
I still don’t understand the reason to have a live round/not blank on a movie set.
There have been many articles the last few days saying this is “normal” for film making. If it’s for realism, in these days of CGI, makes no sense to me.
Agree with you 100%
That is totally incorrect.
Baldwin has been around movie guns since 1990 the hunt for red october. Hes been in many many films where hes fired prop guns and gone through safety talks about prop guns and blanks across 3 decades of films.
“Negligent homicide, at the least of things.”
Not a crime in New Mexico.
He's a wealthy loud-mouthed Commie know-it-all.
One of "the little people" died because he knows it all.
I hadn’t even thought of that possibility.
One never knows, or rather, we the public may never know if this was the case. I would have thought Alec was too old for her, but some young girls like that dynamic.
Yep, I am sure they have it all on film it is a movie set and all. He was just acting.
“There have been many articles the last few days saying this is “normal” for film making.”
It is NOT normal to have live rounds on the set. Never seen an article that said it was.
I had heard that too, but what safety concerns did they have? When they left, no one had been killed yet.
The film was being made in NM, not CA, and Baldwin was producing it, so I assume this was an independent film. Industry standards and safeguards ignored?
An image is forming in my mind of a drunken frat party instead of a motion picture being made here...
Does not look very bright...probably did the Camela Harris route to the job.
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The Industry practice is for shots where an actor aims a gun directly at the camera, ballistics shields are set up between the gun and the crew, just in case.
Baldwin is one of the producers.
He was doing as he pleased.
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Are even hollyweird liberals stupid enough to not use a remote camera for some scene like that?
> Many walked off the set due to safety concerns. Why were they not proactive about the concerns? <
They were proactive by walking off the set. They sent a message. Then it was up to the big shots (the director, the producer, etc.) to heed the message.
What else could those workers do anyway? The big shots would never listen to what the lowly workers might have to say. Walking off is the only thing the workers could reasonably do.
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