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[Hannah Gutierrez Reed] had cause to celebrate her good fortune. It was unusual for a 24-year-old who had only been in charge of guns on one prior feature film to get a head armorer position — let alone additional prop responsibility. She would work in New Mexico alongside Sarah Zachry, also 24, who had been hired as the movie’s property master.

The two twentysomethings met just eight days before production. One of their first outings took them to an adobe-style office in Albuquerque with no sign, tinted windows and dying vegetation. The proprietor, weapons expert Seth Kenney, was providing the guns and some ammunition for the film as well as serving as “armorer mentor.” He would work behind the scenes, offering advice and direction to the novices. While Kenney’s name appeared on an internal “Rust” crew list, he was not listed on daily call sheets viewed by The Times.

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Kenney had referred Gutierrez Reed for the job on “Rust,” according to him and a person close to the production who was not authorized to comment. He had previously worked with her father, industry gunslinger Thell Reed, on a few film projects.

Kenney described Gutierrez Reed as “atypical” for the armorer role but said she had grown up on sets and been trained by her father. Kenney also said that he “made the introduction” between Zachry and the “Rust” producers. He said Zachry also served as PDQ’s “firearms representative.”

Between them, Gutierrez Reed and Zachry had just seven industry credits. They’d been hired only after a long list of other prop masters and armorers were approached for the job. Many were unavailable, while some turned it down due to concerns over safety and producers’ demand that one person juggle the duties of armorer as well as prop assistant.

For Gutierrez Reed and Zachry, however, landing such high-pressure roles on the $7-million independent film was a chance for a big break.
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On Oct. 16, Zachry accidentally shot herself in the foot with a blank fired from a gun. She was not injured, but the gun “went off right in her hands,” according to a crew member who witnessed the incident at Bonanza Creek Ranch, 13 miles south of Santa Fe. Will Waggoner, Zachry’s lawyer, did not respond to questions about the accidental discharge.

“Happens to everyone, move on,” Kenney texted Gutierrez Reed following the incident.

“It sure doesn’t look good, tho,” Gutierrez Reed responded.
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In the messages, Kenney urged Gutierrez Reed not to report Zachry’s accidental discharge to the “Rust” production office, and he suggested the armorer had slipped up too.

“Accidents and mistakes happen,” Kenney wrote to Gutierrez Reed. “Accidental discharges are accidents. A mistake is where the Armorer provides a gun and Full Load Ammo to be fired. ... Will you tell Production about that?”
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Zachry and Gutierrez Reed were not the filmmakers’ first choice, or even their fifth. The Times spoke with more than a dozen people in New Mexico, Los Angeles and Texas who said they’d been approached about prop master and armorer jobs on “Rust” in late August and September.
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[Gutierrez Reed's] first professional job on a film set came earlier this year, when she traveled with her father to Montana to work together on the western “Murder at Emigrant Gulch.” Reed had been hired as an armorer on the movie, and Gutierrez Reed was his assistant. In a September podcast interview, Gutierrez Reed said her father showed her how to load blanks into guns and took her “from being completely green and taught me everything.”
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Soon after “Murder at Emigrant Gulch” wrapped, Gutierrez Reed got her first major break: working as the lead armorer on “The Old Way,” a Nicolas Cage western also shooting in Montana. “I almost didn’t take the job because I wasn’t sure if I was ready,” she said in the September podcast interview. But she did accept the position, and there were two unannounced gun discharges on “The Old Way,” one that irked Cage.

An experienced key grip on “The Old Way,” Stu Brumbaugh, asked for her dismissal.

“Most of the crew could see that she was in deep water, and barely treading,” Brumbaugh said. “She had different people screaming at her to rush and she was running all over the place, and when you’re 24 years old and it’s your first film … it’s difficult to say ‘no.’”

Increasingly, the problem in the entertainment industry, Brumbaugh said, “is that producers are being cheap. They create shortcuts by hamstringing department heads with limited crew, support and sufficient time to do their jobs safely and efficiently.”

bob dobbs is dead posted:

you can get shish in places, its just default is doner. by orders of magnitude

doner is also on a stick, its the gigantic 50kg lump on a stick that they slice bits off of

etalian posted:

https://restaurantguru.com/Tacos-Goku-Santa-Lucia-del-Camino

Shame Boy posted:

Weirdly this isn't even the first time I've seen a taco place decorated with Goku wall murals

e: I'm 90% sure the one I went to was a Tijuana Flats and I'm 100% sure the Goku was drawn way worse than that, had big bug eyes and was generally very unnerving

Blarghalt posted:

DBZ is immensely popular in latin america

i am harry posted:

Palladium posted:

$5.70 per cupcake gets me a big mac meal here

Anime Bernie Bro posted:

but how did they feel about DB Super?

DarkEuphoria posted:

I don’t know where you all live but you can totally find gyros all over America.

Worklurker posted:

This much
https://twitter.com/kalebprime/status/975586869315588096
https://www.cracked.com/article_28700_dragon-ball-almost-caused-diplomatic-fight-between-japan-mexico.html

Shame Boy posted:

Japan suddenly giving a gently caress about copyright is really funny considering like, everything else they did in the last 50 or so years

Lastgirl posted:

hobbesmaster posted:

I think you may be shocked by the kebab shop density in europe.

i am harry posted:

Big Mad Drongo posted:

Back before the beer scene went Oops All IPAs, you could find interesting imports if you knew where to look. In those days I bought a $30-$40 750ml of Cantillon lambic once per year around my birthday.

Cantillon has a unique taste and can only be produced in small, tempermental batches that take years to produce, which justified paying $30 annually as a treat.

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Arivia posted:

This joke is so obvious it feels like a goddamn trap. If you’re unaware, Lowtax used forums donations he said were necessary to keep the lights on for a cookie subscription just like this. His was from a company called Goldbelly, so that was what they did.

Arivia posted:

This joke is so obvious it feels like a goddamn trap. If you’re unaware, Lowtax used forums donations he said were necessary to keep the lights on for a cookie subscription just like this. His was from a company called Goldbelly, so that was what they did.

BonHair posted:

Lowtax is a pretty bad customer base nowadays, though, on account of him being dead.

The real customer base, of course, is morons and idiots who can't follow simple recipes. So I guess a lot of people.

Big Mad Drongo posted:

Back before the beer scene went Oops All IPAs, you could find interesting imports if you knew where to look. In those days I bought a $30-$40 750ml of Cantillon lambic once per year around my birthday.

Cantillon has a unique taste and can only be produced in small, tempermental batches that take years to produce, which justified paying $30 annually as a treat.

Now I ask, as someone who understands paying a premium for good food, how the gently caress do you justify $70 monthly for red velvet cupcakes? Who even is the audience here?