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TreatyOak

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  1. Well, it is an interesting fact, at least to me. When people change their story after talking to law enforcement, it's usually not a good sign. (I'm looking at you, Alec Murdaugh) Perhaps Baldwin's lawyers thought it would be better if he stated that he had followed proper protocol. Guessing that they probably would have preferred he just STFU, as they usually do.
  2. I just note it cause it seems like a pretty important thing to misremember. When he spoke about it in his police interview, he was not aware that the woman had passed away. The interrogators waited 'til the end of the interview to tell him that she had died.
  3. One interesting aspect of the case is that Mr. Baldwin changed his story regarding the sequence of events: In his original police interview, as I previously noted, he says that the armorer handed him the gun and provides the language exchange. However, in his TV interview, he amended his version of events to say that the AD handed him the gun and called out that the gun was safe for usage.
  4. Do you believe that the charges against the other two (AD and armorer) should be dropped or well, or do you think they should still be charged, as they currently are?
  5. Thanks for your post. Good points. As far as the live bullets, they were stupid and hired an idiot who had already been trashed for her performance on her only previous shoot, in which Nicolas Cage stormed off the set, screaming at her for firing a weapon next to the crew! She should have been nowhere near firearms.
  6. Thanks for this response. I've always like your posts and I'm truly happy for you and your project! Plus, I apologize for my comments if I offended you. I still think he is liable for the many reasons I've previously mentioned and I think we are seeing the power that is exhibited in our country by the wealthy. It's the same reason Elizabeth Holmes, who was first uncovered in 2016, has yet to see one day in incarceration, although she may finally get put away this month. As far as dishonesty, all of us truly simply giving our opinions here. As far as politics, I am a progressive and my current media channel supports small business, and we go out of our way to support historically underutilized businesses and people. Thanks for your post.
  7. Well, truthfully, you got me there good, and seriously, congrats on your success and I hope your project is a great success! You were the one who started the insult parade, which is not like you. Regardless, I concepted and wrote our commercials, and participated in shooting, editing, color correcting, etc, for international brands that Hollywood directors chose to shoot for our NYC ad agencies for over 3 decades and also worked w big Hollywood talent, some before they got famous and some after. As someone who has worked extensively on shoots, I do think Baldwin is culpable. I know that’s not a popular view here but who here is surprised that the powerful Hollywood player somehow got his charges dropped while the others didn’t? Truth
  8. Along with the culpability of shooting a weapon at someone and killing them, I have also been mentioning that he was ultimately responsible for an unsafe production due to it's underfunding and was on-set closely involved on a daily basis. In my opinion, he can be seen as being culpable along with our unqualified armorer who is still charged, and the AD, who plea-bargained his way out. Many of you recall the Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed a large number of people due to the band shooting off pyrotechnics and catching the place on fire. The two owners of the club did not start the fire, (the band manager did) but were charged because they operated an unsafe environment with illegal, flammable materials, plus had a key exit door illegally locked. They pleaded guilty and one went to prison for several years. (The other got 500 community hours.) Baldwin was ultimately responsible for a movie that was being handled in an unsafe way, where several key crew members had previously quit due to safety issues and were not replaced, where the remaining crews were doing twice as much work with little sleep, AND he was at the shoot (no pun intended) AND he shot the gun he was invited to check (his words) that killed a woman and injured another person. In my opinion, he can be rightfully charged and probably would be if he didn't have some big-time lawyers. To the people who claim he wasn't "in charge," I can assure you that every night after they wrapped, he and the AD, other producers, etc, had a meeting to go over all the production issues and discussed the various financial and production hurdles. Here, he had full control over the half-ass ways they were handling things, like making inexperienced Hannah double-up as the props person, a role they assigned her after the other props person walked. She claimed she wasn't allowed to stay with the guns and had to run off to handle props. This is probably why she is currently counter-suing him.
  9. I shot commercials with Hollywood movie directors, too, including David Fincher, (who was actually very nice) David Dobkin (also very nice) and French director Luc Besson, (who sexually harrassed our American producer throughout the shoot) as well as others. It's not that different if it's a big budget commercial and crews in Hollywood are the same folks. Remind me again about your area of expertise in film production. I think that is a good point.
  10. It's been real tough. I even got negged once! #thoughtsandprayers Why people are defending him is beyond me but okay.
  11. Working for big ad agencies, we made huge-budget commercials with A-level directors and yes, all the way down to shite productions. It's always about the money. You get what you pay for. They got Hannah cause they could pay her like a PA. They didn't hire her father. for a reason. They got burned. I've gotten burned before making commercials when our budget didn't meet the vision but we tried to make do. Thankfully, there were never firearms on set but people did get hurt. We almost had a stunt driver plow through our video village due to a lack of organization. His skill prevented what would have been a massacre. Baldwin was the executive director, the Hollywood star of the movie, and he was on set. Trust me, he was in charge.
  12. I do know. His lack of funding set the stage for a half-ass production. Hence, they were forced to hire frighteningly under-qualified people like Hannah. And, when the crew started quitting due to safety issues and the fact that they pulling double-shifts on half a night's sleep (cause they forced to stay in shite motels an hour and a half away), they didn't replace them. They simply increased the responsibilities of the remaining crew, like placing Hannah on props AND firearms, which is way outside film union standards. Now if he was back in Hollywood not really understanding what was going on, I could sort-of accept it, although it's a violation of the union. But he was there every day watching his little shit-show unfold. I don't have anything personally against him, but as someone who made TV commercials in Hollywood for 3 decades and worked w film crews, I know a crap production when I read about it. No way they could have gotten away with that stuff back in Los Angeles, btw.
  13. LOL. You negged me. Mercy! What shall I ever do? Baldwin produces a half-ass funded movie where key crew members walk off the set for safety reasons--before the shooting. He hires an untrained idiot who cause havoc on her only other production that had the lead actor storm off the set due to her incompetence. Safety first! They overload their untrained girl and double her job requirements, making her handle props, as well. She and other morons are seen firing guns on the edge of the set. He tells the police he was invited to check the gun, but he passes on it. Then he shoots and kills his cinematographer! After killing her, he invites her widowed husband to share in profits of the movie. So in other words, the money he will pay will come from future earnings as they go ahead and decide to release the movie hoping the movie can recoup investment due to the morbid curiosity factor. Good thing there's nothing unseenly about that! And then, in a final, touching gesture, he sues the idiot employee! That's a good look. Maybe you should find some new heroes. P.S. I've never voted Republican in my life. Have a nice day!
  14. Being that it is generally understood that Cheney was drunk at the time, it probably constituted a criminal act.
  15. That is correct. They also tied state funds to this stupid provision that you had to make films about Texas and they wanted to approve the scripts!!!!!!!
  16. Great to hear about NM production. And congrats on your project! That is very exciting! Good luck and please share updates!!!!
  17. He has already paid an undisclosed amount to the husband and son of Halyna Hutchins. However, he is fighting to have a "misguided" further suit brought against him by her parents and sister thrown out on the grounds that they had no contact w/ Halyna for years. IMHO, his failure to take responsibility for it from the very beginning interview has been reprehensible. From running a shoddy production (which had the crew quitting the production prior to the accident due to safety concerns) to actually pulling the trigger, he has a lot to answer for. Now, to sue the hopeless idiot he hired as the "armorer" is just sad. I understand that there may be legal reasons for his actions but it all makes him look cruel and petty.
  18. That's good to hear. I hope you're right!
  19. It's an actual issue. Here in Texas, we have done a magnificent job of chasing away Hollywood film production and sending it to Louisiana, Michigan and New Mexico. Our glorious state government made it mandatory for a portion of film grants to be spent on films about Texas, which was a pointlessly limiting maneuver. That and high production costs have set the industry here way back. Sounds like some idiot New Mexico politician tried to pull an election stunt here, and they may have run the risk of having production companies look elsewhere.
  20. Thanks. I think that is a reasonable explanation. Sounds like they may have over-charged him.
  21. No one has yet addressed the issue I raised, which is that Baldwin admitted to the police in his very first interrogation that he didn't check the weapon because he didn't want to insult the armorer. Here are his exact words to the police: "She (the armorer) said, 'do you want to check?' I didn't want to insult her. I've never had a problem. I'm good." It sure seems to me that his original admission is grounds for criminal negligence. Later, he amended his story to that the Assistant Director handed him the gun and told him it was safe. I believe the local New Mexico justice system felt that they had strong legal grounds to indict him. Aside from the enormous legal resources he no-doubt employed, the state may have felt pressure to not piss off Hollywood, as New Mexico is dependant on the film industry for revenue. This short video summarises the exchange well, as well as discusses the danger of talking to the police without a lawyer. However, I've seen the entire interview and that is exactly what he says.
  22. Means he raises the funds for the project.
  23. Well, it kinda is, if you do so in a negligent way. We call it manslaughter. As he admitted in his police interview, that he didn't check the gun so as not to offend the armorer, sure seems like negligence to me. However, I am not a lawyer, so I was hoping a real lawyer could weigh in. My guess this is why charges were brought against him in the first place. Aside from the criminal charges, he is currently suing the armorer and she is counter-suing him.
  24. Can one of many legendary lawyers on this site explain to me how Baldwin got the charges dropped? In his police interview, Baldwin fully admits that he didn't actually check the gun because, "he didn't want to offend the armorer." You can watch him say so on YouTube. That pretty much seems like an admission of guilt. Please help.
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