Alec Baldwin's Rust Case Is Over, Prosecutor Drops Manslaughter Appeal
variety.com
The prosecutor in Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' manslaughter case has dropped her appeal, ending the case that dogged the actor for three years.
    • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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      1 day ago

      This is the guy who played Trump in SNL impersonating the very same Trump who publicly said he could shoot anyone on the Fifth Avenue and get away with it.

      Reality is stranger than fiction.

    • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      Negligent homicide is the part where he made decisions as a producer to not use union armorers and have safety failures. Straight up murder is the part where he pulled the trigger on a gun for a lighting check. I can't believe he got off scott free

      • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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        1 day ago

        I would find it difficult to blame somebody in that situation if it was just a regular actor with no management or producer role. The blank firing matters to check the lighting...

        • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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          1 day ago

          I might be wrong about that detail. It might have been just to get a camera shot because my memory of the discussion is that there was no reason it should be loaded at all. Firing a blank at someone isn't safe either though.

          • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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            1 day ago

            Even if you have a computer generated muzzle flash, the actor does have to squeeze the "trigger" on the non-gun in the actual shot. There is no way around this, or at least there wasn't before CGI; the gun needed to be fake and the actor had to squeeze the trigger for the actual filming.

            The responsibility is on the hirer of the armorer to check their credentials/identity and on the armorer to not supply a live gun. I don't think the actor should ultimately bear any responsibility for understanding how a gun works, how to check for bullets in the gun, etc. If anything, the armorer should train the actor how to (double) check for any bullets, etc.

            The above is all a hypothetical situation in which the actor isn't the producer, though.

              • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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                1 day ago

                Looks like there were 7 producers though? It's it common to credit people as producers who don't actually do producer-things? I have very little understanding of the industry, just wasn't sure who was actually doing what work.

                • D61 [any]
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                  18 hours ago

                  Producers do the work, Executive Producers typically just provide money.

  • miz [any, any]
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    1 day ago

    bit idea: hire health insurance executives as actors on action movies and then create conditions for lots of armorer mistakes