One thing I didn’t like about Rust was how it leaned so heavily on familiar Western clichés without offering anything new—predictable plot, flat characters, and a climax that felt more drawn out than dramatic. Visually it was impressive, sure, but the storytelling just didn’t deliver any real emotional punch. Did the movie work for you?
I’ll concede it’s pretty hard to act like you are shooting without pulling the trigger, but the vast number of other safety issues they had, and that as a producer he was most likely aware of, he was still negligent.
Treat every firearm as if it’s loaded, definitely didn’t do.
Don’t point at things you don’t want dead, pretty sure cameras still work if no one is standing behind it.
For anyone reading, if someone hands you a firearm, point it in a safe direction, open the chamber to make sure it’s unloaded, and then keep it pointed in a safe direction.
Pretend like bullets are little chamber seeking missiles that are going to sneak in when you aren’t looking.
I imagine actors on set treat what they’re handed like props, similar to kids treat toy guns.
In that sense, familiarity breeds contempt.
I think this is more of a wake up call.
We need to never allow functional firearms on sets, there have been too many mistakes already.