Still can't get over what happened on the Rust filmset. So avoidable if they avoided nepotism and hired more sensibly.
Responsible for overseeing all weapons on set was the production's property key assistant and armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, daughter of long-time industry armorer Thell Reed.[10] Rust was Gutierrez-Reed's second film serving as lead armorer. On her first film, The Old Way, several crew members complained about her handling of firearms, including an incident in which she discharged a weapon without warning and caused lead actor Nicolas Cage to walk off set.[11]David Halls was the assistant director. In the aftermath of the incident, former colleagues reported that Halls faced complaints in 2019 about his behavior on two episodes of Into the Dark, in which he disregarded safety protocols by ignoring blocked exits and a fire lane.[12][13] In the same year, Halls had been fired from working on the film Freedom's Path after a firearm discharged unexpectedly on set, wounding a crew member.[14][15]I wonder how many people working on the film knew about the history of those two?On the set of the independent film One Way, a crew member warned producers about Halls's disregard for safety measures and said, "That man is a liability. He's going to fucking kill someone someday, and you're going to be responsible." However, the film's digital imaging technician disputes this claim, saying he knew Halls to be conscientious about safety.[16] The Hollywood Reporter reported a number of complaints raised during the production of 2019's The Tiger Rising, which also featured Rust executive producers Ryan Donnell Smith, Allen Cheney, Emily Hunter Salveson, and Ryan Winterstern.[17]
I would have been long gone before "the incident" honestly.It has been reported that some crew members believe they were mocked for wanting to avoid a one-hour drive from Albuquerque.[9] Several crew members also cited that they were not being paid on time.[8][9] A crew member added, "We cited everything from lack of payment for three weeks, taking our hotels away despite asking for them in our deals, lack of COVID safety, and on top of that, poor gun safety! Poor on-set safety period!"[23] Before the incident occurred, two prop guns had previously fired a total of three times unintentionally (Baldwin's stunt double had accidentally fired two blanks when he was told a prop gun was "cold", and the film's prop master shot herself in the foot with a blank round).[9][8][24][25]
Given his history he needs to be prevented from working with firearms.On April 20, 2022, the state of New Mexico's Occupational Health and Safety Bureau fined Rust Movie Productions $136,793 (USD) for firearms safety failures after it was confirmed that David Halls, an assistant director and safety coordinator, handed a large-caliber revolver to Alec Baldwin without consulting with on-set weapons specialists prior to or after the gun was loaded. Regulators note that Halls had previously witnessed two other accidental discharges of rifles on set, but he took no investigative, corrective or disciplinary action. [69] In February 2023, the producers agreed to pay a reduced penalty of $100,000 to resolve the OSHA case with the New Mexico Occupational Health and Safety Bureau.[70]
On January 19, 2023, New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said she would charge Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed with two counts each of involuntary manslaughter. Halls agreed to plead guilty to negligent use of a deadly weapon, and received a suspended sentence and six months of probation.[71]
Imagine a non Hollywood context where you'd get that sentence.In March 2023, Halls pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon and was sentenced to six months of unsupervised probation, a $500 fine and 24 hours of community service.[80]
Just seriously.On June 22, 2023, Gutierrez-Reed faced a second charge of tampering with evidence, in which the special prosecutors allege that she transferred "narcotics to another person with the intent to prevent the apprehension, prosecution or conviction of herself.?[4] They later specify from a June 29 court filing that she attempted to conceal a small bag of cocaine the night of the fatal shooting after her initial police interview.[84]
Not overly convinced. Something about someone being killed and all that.In a letter signed by 24 crew members, these claims were disputed. In the letter, the crew writes that they "believe the public narrative surrounding our workplace tragedy to be inadequate and wish to express a more accurate account of our experience. We do acknowledge that no set is perfect, and like any production, Rust had areas of brilliance and areas that were more challenged,"
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The open letter claims that the shoot was not "a chaotic, dangerous, and exploitative workplace". They go on to write that "[u]nfortunately, in the film industry, it is common to work on unprofessional or hectic productions to gain experience and credits. Many of us have worked on those types of productions. Rust was not one of them. Rust was professional."[26][27][28]
Possibly cursed:
But yeah they always just refer to it as "the incident"In November 2021, weeks after the shooting incident, lamp operator and pipe rigger Jason Miller was bitten in the arm by a brown recluse spider while closing the set. Miller suffered necrosis and sepsis. He was hospitalized and underwent multiple surgeries to avoid amputation of his arm.[24][25][26]
Wonder if this was named after the place in Trowbridge? Probably.
One of Trowbridge?s most recognisable landmarks, The Blind House was used as a lock-up for ?overnight guests? of the law during the 18th and 19th centuries: wrongdoers locked up in the blindhouse would have ranged from serious criminals who would be held until they could be put before a justice and committed to trial, to drunks who would be released in the morning when they had sobered up. Sometimes, sympathetic bystanders would even fetch beer and feed it to the prisoners by using one of the long ?churchwarden? pipes pushed through a slit in the wall!
The Incident is such an underrated album.I think their older music is often better but there are still several really great tracks on those albums.top three for me with deadwing and fear of a blank planet. its really hard to rank these guys all their stuff is so good
mm. Lol:While I cannot disagree with you, leaving Lightbulb Sun off your list does seem a bit criminal. There is just not a bad album in the lot.
Love this:after my comment i relistend to all of lightbulb sun and i think it is a near perfect album
and this:
But yeah the psychedelic stuff from the early-mid 90s is really great
There are multiple versions of this song lol. This is an older/long version:
Lyrics change. Love that part so much. I think it's called I Find That I'm Not There.
I remember
The day we pushed your piano
Out into the garden
Making tracks across the lawn
With tambourines and thunder
We climbed inside the limbs
Laughing down the rain
Swallow in the storm
Sometimes I feel like a fist
Sometimes I am the color of air
Sometimes it's only afterwards
I find that I'm not there
It's interesting but The Colour of Air part in the final release is really great and reminds me of something oh it's going to bother me. And I know I've been here before. Might be another track by them or not:
Don't think it is. I can almost hear it. An outro or something ahhh. It's good too and I want to listen to it. There's some piano? OMG I decided to look through my playlists cause knew it must be older and I remember it's the last couple of minutes of Breathing. And yeah he was inspired by her. Talked about her a bunch. Should have started there lol
Yeah that's amazing. From 3 minutes in. Samples some guy talking as well. I love that part till the end so much. Prob her best song I've heard. No but I really love the ending.
I don't think they've made any bad music though.
I don't know how you could say that and like that song unless you didn't listen to anything else on that album. Plus a bunch of other work.The only good Porcupine Tree song