On this October 21, filming day is well advanced at Bonanza Creek Ranch, near Santa Fe (New Mexico). Around 1 p.m., in a small church in the Far West, a small team took the opportunity to rehearse an action scene from
Rust
, a film in which Alec Baldwin is the main actor. This one, white beard and thick, Stetson screwed on the skull, practices to draw his colt passed under his jacket, with a rapid gesture of his opposite hand. This technique, called “cross draw” and popularized by Lee Van Cleef in Sergio Leone's films, involves a minimum of know-how. Baldwin is not used to westerns, but he has known how to wield a weapon since the thriller
In Pursuit of Red October
(1990).
The New York actor draws and points the gun in front of the camera, imitating a legendary plan popularized by actor Justus D. Barnes in 1903 in the short film
The Great Train Robbery
and the credits of the James Bond franchise.
A gunshot claps.
Shot at close range, a bullet comes
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