Movie/film suggestions.


 

While this is of course a forum for the discussion of all things audio/hi-fi and music, pretty much all of us are also lovers of movies, the enjoyment of which is effected by the reproduction of the sound they contain (with the exception of silent movies wink).

I've been focused on David Lynch movies since his death, but with current events so much a part of our lives at the moment, I plan on re-watching a movie I’ve seen only once, and years ago. That movie is:

The Madness Of King George. Apropos, no?

 

bdp24

Baldwin was the producer of the film. 

Yes, and I thought of that after I posted that reply.  As well as being an actor on the movie set, he was also one of the producers.  So I guess that needs consideration as well.  If your kid is playing with another kid in your house and they come across a loaded firearm in the house and one kid shoots the other kid, as the homeowner and firearm owner I imagine that you are going to be in trouble.  So considering that, I suppose an analogy could be made between Baldwin and the negligent homeowner.

But maybe that comparison is apples to oranges.

Regardless, he was also an actor in the movie.  And actors are all the time pointing weapons at each other as part of the various scripts.  So if an actor is handed a firearm loaded with live ammunition and someone gets hit, who's to blame?  The actor or whoever loaded the firearm with live rounds and handed it off?

Baldwin was both producer and star, and why on Earth was live ammo even anywhere near the set??!!

In my mind, @thecarpathian , this is the six-million-dollar question.

@immatthewj I can't argue about guns, here or anywhere, I am anti-gun. If Baldwin thought it's fun to point the gun at someone and pull the trigger, he was well aware of the 0.001% (being generous) that the gun could go off with a bullet. Which is a reason not to play with gun and when you do, you take responsibility. He should have been convicted. He killed a person, a mother, a wife for no good reason other than recklessness. I believe it's a charge category, involuntary manslaughter which is even more unintentional than pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger, such as a vehicle accident.

Well, possibly so, @gano , and there is no point in us going circular, but as I previously typed, he was an actor on a movie set where actors routinely are pointing guns at one another. (I suspect that these actors are basically taking it for granted that the guns they are being supplied with are not loaded with live rounds.) However, I realize that they were not rolling at the time and that Ms. Hutchins was not an actress on the set, and perhaps that bears consideration as well.

@immathewj 

 he was an actor on a movie set where actors routinely are pointing guns at one another

That's a valid point. But if I were on the set in charge of safety, here is what I would do: 

1. lock the guns

2. lock (NOT HAVE) live ammo

3. when someone requests a gun, they have to hand it over to someone who looks at the magazine. Preferably 2 people, one after another. Then s/he can hand it back to the actor

4. why can't they use fake guns?