https://www.indiewire.com/2021/11/rust-low-budget-safety-1234675435/
shareNow people are calling for airsoft guns with cg gunfire instead of blanks and real guns on sets.
shareThat would be stupid. A bit of basic gun safety that any four year old could easily understand and carry out, and that wouldn't cost anything, would solve the problem.
shareI think they're better off with the airsoft guns, and banning real guns from film sets... because banning real guns is more idiot-proof.
The events on the set of "Rust" have shown us that in order to create a dangerous situation, all you need is one idiot to say "Being on schedule is more important than following safety protocols", "There's no budget for a gun safe" or "The armorer can do another job as well" or "I need to rehearse with the real gun", etc. Of course on "Rust" all of those things were said, but the fact is that in order for the situation to become unsafe, all it takes would have taken was one.
Well certain people on Rust chose to ignore basic gun safety because they were in a rush? they distracted? or they were dickheads trying to cut corners.
Afraid CG gunfire is slowly becoming a standard now, real gun fire can still happen but safety cannot be ignored.
It has nothing to do with budget. At the age of eight, I would have known to make sure the gun wasn't loaded with live ammo at any stage of its handling--prop person, armorer, director, or actor. It's not complicated. This happened because of stupidity and half-assedness, not because of money.
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I think it's both. Stupidity and half-assedness is what you get when you cheap out and don't hire the best.
Not hiring a gun expert on set, ended up having an unsafe set because they cutting corners on gun safety to save time and money.
Crew members were target practicing with beer cans at lunch breaks, nobody thought it was an issue until the cinematographer was shot, what kind of people are you? That is a giant red flag, no one will have a set like that.
I haven't been following the story much, but I thought I read that the crew target practicing with live rounds was discounted?
No one has brought the whole crew members target practicing in months, so it's probably been discounted.
shareIt's been implied that Baldwin doesn't like using fake guns or knifes.
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