In Candyman, the scene where Tony Todd had bees flying out of his mouth were REAL BEES. Todd only agreed to do the scene if they pay him $1000 for every bee sting. He earned $27,000 for that scene
Seems like they coulda used drones (not those drones, these drones) and no one would ever have known - and he wouldn't have been stung.
IDK it kinda sounds like they just fired the animal handler and gave him their $27K.
Maybe it was over a few takes or something…
Without knowing anything about it, I'd wager that it's generally not a good idea to mess around too much with a hive.
And picking out a bunch of drones in the amount used in film would no doubt rile up the swarm.
The way they do it is likely the best, safest and least invasive way of using live bees in a film setting.
You could be right, but they literally shove the drones out to die when winter comes so I don't think they value them all that highly compared to the workers which are the stinging ones.
Most of the time I only vaguely recognize all but the biggest stars from my childhood, but god damn did that movie cement Tony Todd in my brain.
maybe he was still in character as Kurn and took the challenge as yet another pointless Klingon pain ritual.
kurn was the best. his outing in deep space nine was a let down, i love kurn.
They paid him "a one thousand dollars" for every sting? Pretty good deal.
Why did they sting him?
Have you ever put a large amount of bees in your mouth? I haven't personally, but I can't imagine the bees wouldn't take too kindly to it.
To earn him $1000, of course.
Because it was in their nature :(
when reached for comment, one source close to one of the bees said "you knew he was a bee when you put him in your mouth". they asked to remain anonymous in this grieving time.
He gave them a cut of the money.
Holy shit is that Pure Luck? Haven't seen that shit in 30+ years
Got stung by about 20 bees once (amateur beekeeping incident, taught us to wear proper clothing). Had a fever for a couple days after and did not enjoy it a single bit. $20k though...
Are you saying "beads"?
Beesszzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Poor bees which were lost during this kind of activity.
What!? Kid me really liked it. I thought Great Value Sharon Stone did a good job too.
Unbeelievable
$27 isn't really a lot considering each bee was supposed to be $1000
He was only stung by 27/1000s of a bee.
Yeah he got ripped off
American notation - they use comma every three orders of magnitude, and dot for decimal separator. It's almost as retarded as imperial measurement system, but what can you do.
Dafuq? It makes way more sense than using a dot for the separator and a comma for the decimals. Commas are literally for separating related ideas in a single sentence. The thousands position is related to/part of the hundreds place in a single number. What's your crazy logic for using a terminator within a single number representation?
I'd love to hear what's objectively 'wrong' with this one. They're arbitrary symbols. If anything, isn't the decimal more akin to a full stop, while a digit separator is more of a pause?
I'm not even American, just used the same notation as in the article.
Seems to still be confusing based on the comments, go figure.
$27,000 does not seem like enough money to endure 27 bee stings simultaneously.
Seems a bit stingy.
Movie is from 1992, so it would be 60k today. Still not enough considering what famous movie actors make.
I'd do it every day this week
They signed him a blank cheque. I bet he was doing everything he could to get stung.
Dude should have asked for at least 10k/sting could have walked out with a cool $270,000 instead
For $270,000 I will let 27 American honeybees sting me. No Africanized bees allowed!
Dude I’d do this for 10% of that fee. Sure stings hurt, but not that much and it passes.
That might depend on one's pain tolerance levels, idk.
I think that's on top of the regular salary
The words of either someone immensely privileged or deathly allergic to bees.
Has enough money to say no == immensely privileged apparently
I'm neither of those things, but I think I'm partially allergic to them. Last time I got stung by a bee in my foot, it swelled up so bad I couldn't get a shoe on, and it was intensely painful. I have a high pain threshold, and it fucking hurt, bad. What's weird is that I don't have the same reaction to yellow jacket stings. Possibly because they inject less venom, but idk.