![]() ![]() So you're the one leading these Americans, I might have known. O'Connell, forced to fight, stood alone and eventually made it back to civilization, while Beni escaped the desert by taking the camels of a few dead legionnaires and making it back alone through the desert. O'Connell rushed to the ruins to hide from the bullets, but Beni rushed there too, forcing shut a great stone door so that O'Connell could not enter. Trouble came, however, when a marauding band of Tuaregs came roving to the ruins on horseback, eliminating a number of legionnaires. ![]() To escape persecution, Beni joined the French Foreign Legion, and in doing so met Rick O'Connell, whom he claimed as a friend during their enlistment with the real intent of having a bodyguard so as not to end up in trouble. –Beni Gabor explains his motives for joining the Legion, The Mummy (novelization)īeni Gabor, formerly of Budapest, Hungary, was wanted in Hungary for robbing a synagogue, and had apparently robbed more than that before from places of worship, justifying his motives by saying that "prime swag" was in places of worship, with no-one to guard it but altar boys. They're after me in Budapest for robbing a synagogue. Throughout his life, Beni stole from virtually everyone that he could, his thievery earning him the worst trouble once he went too far and was compelled to enter military service so as to escape the ramifications. Can you believe it’s been 20 years since The Mummy hit theaters? The movie remains a classic, untarnished by Universal’s flopped remake in 2017 that attempted to begin a “Dark Universe” for movie monsters that has since been scrapped.īrendan Fraser now stars in DC’s acclaimed Doom Patrol television series as Robotman and Rachel Weisz will be in the Black Widow movie coming in May 2020.A small, thin thief motivated by greed and avarice, Beni Gabor was a man of superstition and an opportunist, seizing whatever chance he could to ensure that he walked off free of trouble and laden with swag. While the actor agrees “it was my fault” but only because he was following the direction of the scene.ĭebates aside, Brendan Fraser and Stephen Sommers are still good friends and collaborators even if they still disagree on that on-set moment. Stephen Sommers says Fraser is “totally to blame” and “he did it to himself”. However, the director tells it different. You can tell he was a blend of scared and pissed off after that happened and rightly so. His description on how it felt is insane too. The noose ended up becoming so tight on him that he actually knocked out during the filming of the scene. I was like, ‘Hey, you guys think what you need to, but I’m done for the day.’ The stunt coordinator came over, and he said, ‘Hi! Welcome to the club, bro! Ha ha ha!’ And I was like, “Ha ha, funny? Ha ha?’ Like, What the hell? I want to go home! Steven - he and I disagree - but I think he was trying to go, ‘Oh, that wacky Brendan, acting up a storm again!’, or something like that. There was gravel in my ear and shit really hurt. I regained consciousness and one of the EMTs was saying my name. It was like turning down the volume switch on your home stereo, like the Death Star powering down. I remember seeing the camera start to pan around, and then it was like a black iris at the end of a silent film. ![]() So, the stuntman took up the tension on the rope, and I went up on the balls of my feet, then guess he took the tension up again, and I’m not a ballerina, I can’t stand on my tip-toes. It happened during the scene in The Mummy when Fraser’s Rick O’Connell is about to be publicly hung as Rachel Weisz’ Evie tries to barter for his life. I was like, ‘Fuck!‘ I just ran for it.Įeek! This sounds terrifying! In the wise words of fellow movie adventurer Indiana Jones: “why did it have to be snakes!” It doesn’t help that Brendan Fraser was pissing when he received a visit from the deadly reptile but thankfully it’s danger had been identified to him prior and he knew to book it.Ī brief meet-and-greet with a deadly snake is nothing compared to Brendan Fraser’s next story about his brush with death. Anyway, there I was, pissing down a rock, and I look down, and there’s the yellow dot snake. Because, at best, if it bites you, maybe they’ll amputate your limb. They said, ‘If you see this kind of snake, do not go near it. They sent a memo out on the call sheet describing a type of snake that, I think, it had yellow dots on it. ![]()
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