Comments by "B Bodziak" (@B_Bodziak) on "Armorer explains what went wrong on 'Rust'" video.

  1. A group of wall street executives financed this movie and only need the movie to break even by having the bare minimum (allowable) costs. It's a newer trend and many of these movies are expected to go straight to video.
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  2. Live rounds are NEVER allowed on a set. When people say Baldwin should have checked the gun, there's nothing regarding any real bullets to check. The only thing that can be checked is if its a cosmetic round or a flash round. Neither of which shoot projectiles, let alone a live round.
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  3. Live rounds are not allowed on any set. Police found 5 additional live rounds commingled with cosmetic/dummy rounds. Visually, they are identical. This movie had far too many gun scenes to have the prop master doing double duty as the armorer. They did end up separating the two positions, but I'm order to do that, they used a very inexperienced (inexpensive) armorer. This was her 3rd movie. The other two had minimal weapon scenes. Given that the set is surrounded by desert, I bet some of the crew went target shooting before filming even began or did it after a day of shooting and the armorer ended up unloading the 6 live rounds onto the armorer's cart from one of the 45s used for target practice. The live rounds became indistinguishable to the eye. Expecting an actor or an AD or anyone on a set to ever suspect a real bullet was in the chamber is so out of the realm of things became they are not allowed on any set! It would be the equivalent of expecting an actor or AD to check the tire pressure on a car used in a scene that was sitting on cinder blocks. There is literally nothing to check for. When an AD or an actor does opt to check a prop gun on the set, it's only to distinguish if the gun is 1 of 3 things: *Empty ("Cold") *Loaded with Cosmetic bullets (make no sound and look like regular bullets) *Loaded with Flash rounds (don't look like regular bullets but do make a "Bang!" sound. A gun with flash bullets is known as being "Hot". The reason it's known as being "Hot" has nothing to do with it having real bullets b/c no prop guns have those. The Hot is to let others know A) the bullets don't look real if there's a scene with a lense angle close enough to see the rounds in a gun and/or B) To expect a loud sound from the flash, esp with ear protection and/or C) if it's hot, the barrel end cannot be within a couple of feet of someone when fired because it may burn or bruise the skin (rare).
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  4. The armorer brought live rounds on set. That is never supposed to happen.
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  5. @Jon Smyth Live rounds are not allowed on set, period. Actors firing cosmetic or flash rounds is all that's allowed. The best firearms expert in the country can't visually see any difference between a loaded cosmetic round and a real bullet and neither would Alec Baldwin -- I'm definitely not a fan of him, but he is not guilty, even of negligence. The laws and regulations on movie sets in any state specifically ban live rounds. It has been this way for decades and NO ONE even has to ask if any gun on any set is loaded with any real bullets
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