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Alec Baldwin indicted for involuntary manslaughter in fatal gunfire on film set
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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The thing is, he's not the one who hired her.
He was one of 10 listed producers on that film, and was not the hiring director.
He's the one who just took a gun laying nearby (without asking anyone about it being normal), jokingly pointed it at a person and squeezed the trigger.
People defending him seem to think that "criminal stupidity" is not a thing.
This is not accurate. At.all. it's really funny how much stuff gets repeated online without any evidence. Social media is just one big game of telephone
https://lemmy.zip/comment/6483250 - I meant this.
You are contradicting your own comment.
Put some detail to explain your position, saying that alone is worth nothing.
I would love to see a source on that story, because it sounds super made up
The first article I've read on the event. I don't remember (EDIT: where I've seen) it and I won't provide you with the source.
EDIT2: https://lemmy.zip/comment/6483250 - meant that.
Where exactly in that quote does it say he took a gun laying nearby without asking anyone about it, jokingly pointed it at a person, and squeezed the trigger? Literally none of what you said happened according to that quote. Do you wanna maybe delete the misinformation in your comments?
Are you saying that quote is where you got what you said from? Because it doesn't say anything like what you said
You’re a liar. You made it up.
I made up the quote? Go on with your life that same way, it's gonna be amusing.
You don’t have a quote that supports what you said champ
Thats not what happened at all. He was handed a gun and told it was safe.
Um no. That's a blatant lie.
He was handed a gun, and told it was cold.
People attacking him just make shit up left and right.
Maybe we do, it's confusing that when somebody points a gun at another person which he hasn't personally checked and pretends that somebody had to check it instead of him and that absolves him, some people think he's right.
So, you admit you're just making shit up to paint Baldwin in a worse light?
You also admit you have no fucking clue how stage and film work?
Because pointing a gun at someone for a film is allowed, because the production hires actual experts who are legally responsible for making sure that any weapon handed to an actor is safe. The armorer in this case was incompetent, and got the job because her father was a damn fine armorer and had connections.
Do note, that while Baldwin was a producer on the film, he was one of 10 producers, and never handled hiring. His main duties were fundraising and minor script changes.
I started with recalling that the accident happened when he was waving the gun for expressiveness. Then my memory went off track, like it often happens, because the general idea of somebody using a real weapon for expressiveness for me is very irresponsible.
That core part turns out to still be correct. The rest not.
Also you are making it sound as if having a real shooting gun on a set at all was so bloody necessary and unavoidable that it doesn't make sense to teach people holding it basic rules.
See, that's the first place your memory was wrong. Because that core part is in fact wrong.
He was rehearsing a scene with the director. Asking questions about where to stand and how to draw and aim the gun.
The real gun on set was because it would usually be loaded with blanks.
Period accurate guns didn't have smokeless powder. So the blanks would be loaded with that same powder.
You also want a real gun for closeup work. There was not supposed to be any live ammo on set, so it should have been safe.
Unfortunately, the armorer was incompetent, and the prop supplier sent dummy rounds that had been co-mingled with live rounds that were produced for a previous film.
OK, makes sense. I've been a bit stubborn on this because of the way Americans talk to everyone they suspect of sympathies to the other half of their internal politics.
You've also been spreading lies and misinformation up and down this thread.
Here, read this.
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/rust-investigators-live-rounds-alec-baldwin-1235122384/
It's how live rounds made it onto that set in the first place. Until Baldwin pulled that trigger, no one on set had known that there were any live rounds on set.