Kara's death
Was it ever revealed in the film or book how or why Queen Kara died?
Hope someone knows something!
According the Book, a man named Nectanebo, a student of the Goddess Asarte, a man of great Knowledge.He thwarted Kara's spell over Egpyt, where upon Kara made six great plagues on Egypt. ( bit of Moses here :)) Then Nectanebo gathered around himself a band ' of bright ones advancing behind a blue shield, came unto the Queen and put her body to death' The book, being written after the movie, and based on script, does vary considerably in many respects from the movie. The basic plot is kept, Kara is reincarnted, but not quite like the movie. As may be obvious to some, and made clear in the book, Corbeck is Kara's father, himself reincarnted in order to fulfill the prophecy.
The author of the book, displays a lack of any real Egyptological knowledge, and it shows.
The film does in parts as well, but we can let that go, still a very good move, especially for those with an eye and ear for the psychological plays.
Cheers
Ian
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Who wrote the movie tie-in book, please, or is this pertaining to the original Bram Stoker story? Thanks.
shareThe film is loosely based on Bram Stoker's ' Jewel of the Seven Stars'. The novelisation of the movie Script is by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes. It is rather different in many respects from the actual movie. Personally, I think he could of done much better. I read somewhere, that Hayes said he ' knocked the book out in two weeks. He evidently borrowed themes from Rider Haggard, presumebly his Kara Cult. He also displays a lack of any real Egyptological knowledge. He reported that the book intially sold 15,000 copies and made him £2000. One of things (of many) that annoys about the book, is use of Greek Names, for Ancient Egyptians.
Whereas, the novelisation of the movie, ' Event Horizon', uses much the script that never made the actual movie and does help explain some of the questions raised by the film.
Cheers
Ian
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Interesting, Nectanebo is most famously the name of the Egyptian Pharaoh who led a rebellion against the Persian Empire.
But an identical name was also used by Ramses III, (of course as a student of Velikosky I view those 2 as the same).
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