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Six million dollars. Just over five million euros. For American cinema, increasingly dependent on box office successes (large investment, proportional income), they represent

, that of films technically defined as "Tier 1", band 1, that is, the lowest, a an endangered species in a business model that has been radically changed by streaming.

The accidental death of the director of photography of the film

,

, shot in the chest with a pistol by

during filming last Thursday in New Mexico, has a sad, banal explanation, as follows:

much

, too many hours of work, too many shortcuts taken in everything, including security.

The Los Angeles Times

revealed that a few hours before the tragedy, the workers held a protest over working conditions that were too onerous (very long hours, the hotel 80 km from the set to save money) and had been replaced by non-union technicians, therefore cheaper and less endowed with rights, contracted locally in Santa Fe.

Incredibly,

, without hitting anyone, at the hands of Baldwin's stuntman.

An element that puts

, head of

armory

, in an even more complicated position.

The 24-year-old, in her second film as a gunsmith,

now

She herself

She commented on a podcast about her first experience, in a movie with Nicolas Cage, that she wasn't sure she was ready.

However, she is the daughter of a famous Hollywood stuntman and gunsmith, who personally taught her the trade.

It is established that when

, moments before the shoot, pulled a pistol from a cart (there were three of them) and handed it to Alec Baldwin, he said

essentially giving the go-ahead for action. A few moments later, Baldwin fired and from the gun, anything but "cold" or unloaded, a bullet was fired. One shot: one dead and one wounded.

The central issue that the Santa Fe Sheriff's Office investigators are analyzing is this: the first safety rule of the manual that describes the procedure for using weapons on a set, the standard manual of the film and television industry, states that

. That is, it is forbidden to even carry a bullet on the way to the set, and leave it on the dashboard of the car closed and parked. You can't, period.

How did a real bullet enter the scene, capable of piercing a human body and still having enough speed to wound the shoulder of someone positioned behind the victim completely hit, ending up inside the gun not "cold" but very hot delivered in Baldwin's hands? Why was no action taken after the gun accident?

Rust Movie Productions LLC, the production company, has issued a statement that is decidedly bland in style but sounds grotesque under the circumstances:

. While we have not been notified of any official complaints. Regarding the safety of weapons or accessories on set, we will conduct an internal investigation.

The media circus has moved to New York, with

24/7 filming the six young children and the cat taken away by the babysitters, aboard three vans, laden with luggage, wisely evacuated from Manhattan to a quieter place.

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