Apparently Ben Stiller is a hardcore Downton Abbey fan, trumping even one of the actors (Dan Stevens) in DA trivia while on set with him for Night at the Museum 3. More can be found here and here.
Also, Rami Malek icons, which may be found here, and apparently include a set of him in a headdress. I wonder if this is on set for filming a flashback, or if he's just having fun. And I really wanna know the answer to this now. Badly. So if anyone out there on the far-flung net can point me in the right direction, that would be much appreciated and get its own spot here on LoveNATM.
Actually, the headdress pictures are from a deleted scene which can be seen on the special features of the 2 disc DVD release of the movie. In it, Larry, Ahk, Nick, and Attila went to Rebecca's apartment to learn the spell for the tablet to bring all the exhibits back to the museum from her, as she reads hieroglyphics (because somehow Ahkmenrah couldn't figure it out himself??). That was originally supposed to be Rami's costume and makeup (the jacket was supposed to be a play on the movie Napoleon Dynamite) and I am SO very glad they changed it. In the commentary, the director, Shawn Levy even says nothing in this scene was a good idea, but, felt it was a wise choice to allow people to see their mistakes, since that's a huge part of movie making.
ReplyDeleteAwesome, thank you (and aren't you that person on tumblr? Cupid and Bes?).
DeleteAnd actually that reminds me of another commentary, by the writers, where they talk about even earlier drafts where it was the Staff of Ahkmenrah, and at one point it was something like a slide-the-pieces puzzle, with one piece missing, so there were eight pieces and nine slots, on purpose, and it could be made to spell out different things and have varying magical effects. The writers decided that was too complicated.
It's a shame that scene isn't on YouTube, because it would be awesome to have on the blog.
You're welcome! Nope, my tumblr is blank, so that is not me. :P
ReplyDeleteI loved the concept of the idea, and I wish it would have worked, but, I see how it got way too complicated.
That scene, sadly, really makes me cringe. Nothing really worked in it: the need to go get Rebecca, how they figure out the spell works, the dialogue doesn't flow as well, etc. Although, Rami still looks good as Ahk, but, I am glad they switched to what he wears now. It's pharaoh-esk, but, yet, it's not what we commonly think of when we think of royal egyptian garb whereas that one is the epitome of what people start to think of when we think "pharaoh".
The 2nd disc also has a deleted scene where Larry frees Sacajawea and introduces her to Ahkmenrah, and they fuss about him not being able to pronounce their names correctly. I LOVE that one and wish I could put that one on YouTube.
Great Blog by the way; keep up the good work!! :)
Thank you. I'm doing the best I can with my limited resources, which I'm in the process of trying to improve.
DeleteIt's a shame that scene didn't work, in a way, but I appreciate that the relic still exists. Everything NATM is very good and very welcome as far as LoveNATM is concerned. But I agree with you. He looks a lot better now. The make-up looked nice, though, and I'm glad the tablet got shrunk down from the size of a pizza box, and Ahk could read (which I discuss way back in a post on the Brothers Egypt and literacy and what it means for how they were raised etc.) so he could save the world/the exhibits/just be awesome in general.
And the costume change is actually more historically accurate, I think, iirc, because the headdress he wears in the clips, is almost exclusively reserved for riding out into war at the front of the line. The headdress he wears now, in the finished product, is closer to what they wore in tomb paintings. I wanna say it's a "peace time" crown, but I can't be entirely sure. It would make sense, though.