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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 (files.catbox.moe)
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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

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…

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 10 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

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.

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