You’ve all seen fights in movies where a guy is hurled through a window. Do you think the actors stop just before the take and say, “Wait, is that glass fake, or is it real glass?” You’ve all seen bottles broken over heads. “Wait, is that a real bottle, or is that a prop bottle.” And in gun fights when the good guys open up with automatic rifles, do they hold up production and inquire as whether they are using real bullets on the fake zombies? Are the zombies real?
There are prop people who prepare all of those guns, acids, windows, bottles, and other objects of mayhem seen in films. The actors assume those people know what they are doing. Most actors have no knowledge of weaponry. Actors act; they don’t prepare the stunts.
If anybody is guilty, it should be the prop people, but even they were not intending to kill anyone. It was a terrible mistake, and people should be fired but not accused of murder. Companies should be required to use fake guns so this kind of thing doesn’t happen again.
This is probably a case of a D.A. trying for publicity by going after a movie star rather than an unknown employee.
Apparently the armorer for the film is charged as well. What I don't get is why, in this day and age and with all the technology we have, real guns with any kind of ammunition are necessary. Use a fake, like you said. Or better yet, fewer guns in the movies period.
ReplyDeleteAlex Baldwin is GUILTY! - 1)he did not follow their operating procedures by accepting the gun from the assistance director - the procedure is the actor ONLY accepts the weapon from the armorer - 2)he has more responsibilities as producer that chose to hire an inexperienced person for armorer / assistance to the prop master (two full time jobs!) - experienced armorers turn the job down due to this! - 3) the film’s line producer, Gabrielle Pickle repeatedly pushed people to work faster - 4)the entire moderation team quite due to inability to enforce the code of conduct - 5) a few hours before the shooting a half dozen members of a camera crew walked of the set due to safety concerns
ReplyDeleteSo yes Baldwin should be charged - his actions were all to save dollars!