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Peter Bart: Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting A Sad Epitaph For The Decline And Fall Of The Indie

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To the public, Alec Baldwin’s Colt .45 stands as a symbol of perhaps criminal incompetence, but to insiders it also represents a pathetic epitaph to that mythic genre, the “indie” movie.The indie Western already was in dire straits because of lack of funding and distribution until Baldwin came along as both star and producer of Rust – a sort of Dennis Hopper of the 2020s.

The film was under-budgeted at $7 million on a 21-day shooting schedule. Its crew was rebellious, inexperienced and seemingly oblivious to the protocols governing movie weaponry.Besides all this, no one seemed to be running the show among the usual cluster of producers and executive producers (including Baldwin’s manager).By contrast, indie producers traditionally were

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