History Film / TheMummy1999

* AlliterativeName: Dave Daniels.

* DisasterDominoes: The bookshelves in the library when Evy, stuck on top of an upright ladder, knocks into one and causes them all to fall over.

** Evy levelling the shelves of the library by accident thanks to DisasterDominoes and a ladder.

** Evy has two in the library scene. First when she tries to put up a book on the shelf behind her and gets stuck on top of the ladder. The second is after the DisasterDominoes moment with the shelves with her standing unharmed amidst the rubble. Oops, indeed.

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Winston.]]

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere:

** After being reassured by Imhotep that he will ressurect her, Anck-su-Namun fatally stabs herself in the stomach, which we see in shadow.

** As part of his punishment for murdering Pharaoh Seti I, Imhotep is buried alive in a sarcophagus filled with flesh-eating scarab beetles.

''The Mummy'' (1999) is the first movie in ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''. It is a loose remake of [[Film/TheMummy1932 the 1932 film of the same name]] with a sense of humour and adventure close to the spirit of the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' franchise.

Set circa early [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]], it features proficient historian Evelyn Carnahan (Creator/RachelWeisz) and her older brother, lazy archaeologist Jonathan Carnahan (Creator/JohnHannah) on a quest to find the lost city of Hamunaptra, City of the Dead, said to be the hiding place for the wealth of ancient Egypt. Enlisting the help of former legionnaire Rick O'Connell (Creator/BrendanFraser), they inevitably end up accidentally releasing--and then having to stop--a mummy named Imhotep (Creator/ArnoldVosloo), a former Egyptian priest who was condemned to a hellish immortality, and once awakened unleashes the ten Biblical plagues upon Egypt. Rounding out the cast is Creator/OdedFehr as Ardeth Bey, leader of a group sworn to prevent Imhotep from being resurrected.

* ConcealmeantEqualsCover: Averted during the Medjai raid on the boat, where Rick takes cover behind a wall but a Medjai gunman keeps firing through it and almost would have hit him if Evelyn didn't pull him away at the last moment.

Set circa early [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]], it features proficient historian Evelyn Carnahan (Creator/RachelWeisz) and her older brother, lazy archaeologist Jonathan Carnahan (Creator/JohnHannah) on a quest to find the lost city of Hamunaptra, City of the Dead, said to be the hiding place for the wealth of ancient Egypt. Enlisting the help of former legionnaire Rick O'Connell (Creator/BrendanFraser), they inevitably end up accidentally releasing--and then having to stop--a mummy named Imhotep (Creator/ArnoldVosloo), a former Egyptian priest who was condemned to a hellish immortality, and once awakened unleashes the ten Biblical plagues upon Egypt. Rounding out the cast is Creator/OdedFehr as Ardeth Bay, leader of a group sworn to prevent Imhotep from being raised.

Set circa early [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]], it features proficient historian Evelyn Carnahan (Creator/RachelWeisz) and her older brother, lazy archaeologist Jonathan Carnahan (Creator/JohnHannah) on a quest to find the lost city of Hamunaptra, City of the Dead, said to be the hiding place for the wealth of ancient Egypt. Enlisting the help of former legionnaire Rick O'Connell (Creator/BrendanFraser), they inevitably end up accidentally releasing--and then having to stop--a mummy named Imhotep (Creator/ArnoldVosloo), a former Egyptian priest who was condemned to a hellish immortality, and once awakened unleashes the ten Biblical plagues upon Egypt. Rounding out the cast is Creator/OdethFehr as Ardeth Bay, leader of a group sworn to prevent Imhotep from being raised.

Set circa early [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]], it features proficient historian Evelyn Carnahan (Creator/RachelWeisz) and her older brother, lazy archaeologist Jonathan Carnahan (Creator/JohnHannah) on a quest to find the lost city of Hamunaptra, City of the Dead, said to be the hiding place for the wealth of ancient Egypt. Enlisting the help of former legionnaire Rick O'Connell (Creator/BrendanFraser), they inevitably end up accidentally releasing--and then having to stop--a mummy named Imhotep (Creator/ArnoldVosloo), a former Egyptian priest who was condemned to a hellish immortality, and once awakened unleashes the ten Biblical plagues upon Egypt.

* ThePsychoRangers: Though they are neither actually evil nor equal in number, the American expedition in the first part of the first film are identifiably counterparts to the main team: both groups have scholars (Evy/the Egyptologist), American adventurers (Rick/the "cowboys"), early casualties ([[MauveShirt the warden]]/[[RedShirt the laborers]]), and heavily flawed comic relief (Jonathan/Beni).
* ThePunishment: Imhotep's being [[FateWorseThanDeath mummified alive in a sarcophagus full of man-eating scarabs]] for his blasphemous acts. On the up side, he gets CursedWithAwesome and can return from death with very little help from stupid people. Meanwhile, his punishers spend the rest of their lives (as do all of their descendants) keeping him cooped up. Clearly, the punishment was worth it!

* ProtagonistCentredMorality: The main characters constantly go around stealing things, which is presented as KleptomaniacHero, but when Burns notices that Evy has his stolen tool kit ''O'Connell points a gun in his face to get him to back off,'' and Evy refuses to give the kit back. [[https://villainwasright.libsyn.com/93-the-mummy-1999 One podcast even questions why the American dig team is portrayed as the bad side, when the protagonists are doing the exact same thing as them; essentially grave-robbing an ancient site, getting innocent local people killed and refusing to listen to the warnings of the Medjai.]]

** Rick tells Evelyn that his military garrison reached Hamunaptra in 1923 by marching across Libya. The name Libya is historically inaccurate. In 1923 (and in 1926 when Rick talks to Evelyn), that territory was known as Italian North Africa. The Italian government would not give it the name "Libya" until 1934.

* SeeksAnothersResurrection: After murdering the pharaoh, Imhotep attempts to resurrect Anck-su-Namun, but is caught by the pharaoh's bodyguards before he can complete the ritual. He later attempts to resurrect her again after he is restored to life as a Mummy.

** The whole plot of Imhotep getting cursed and brutally mummified for the attempt to resurrect his lover Anck-su-namun - only here she is Pharaoh’s concubine who killed Pharaoh and committed suicide, while in the original movie she was Pharaoh’s daughter who died from illness.

* ShoutOut: Since the movie is a loose remake of (''Film/{{The Mummy|1932}}'') there are plenty of references:

* ShoutOut: Since the movie is a loose remake of [[Film/TheMummy1932]] there are plenty of these:

** The Medjai who helps the heroes is called Ardeth Bey - in original movie it’s the alias that Imhotep used after he has risen from the grave.

* ShoutOut: since this movie is a loose remake of The Mummy 1932 there are plenty of references to it:

** According to Ancient Egyptian religion there was no way Anck-Su-Namun could have been resurrected or reincarnated - in Ancient Egyptian mythology there was only one afterlife, Duat. The souls of sinners were eaten by Ammit the Devourer, causing CessationofExistence (something the Ancient Egyptians feared more than anything, due to the importance of souls). Anck-Su-Namun betrayed and killed Pharaoh (embodiment of God Amun-Ra on Earth) and committed suicide - such crimes meant that her soul would have been devoured by Ammit in afterlife and erased from existence.

** According to Ancient Egyptian religion there was no way Anck-Su-Namun could have been resurrected or reincarnated - in Ancient Egyptian mythology there was only one afterlife, Duat. The souls of sinners were eaten by Ammit the Devourer, causing Cessation of Existence (something the Ancient Egyptians feared more than anything, due to the importance of souls). Anck-Su-Namun betrayed and killed Pharaoh (embodiment of God Amun-Ra on Earth) and committed suicide - such crimes meant that her soul would have been devoured by Ammit in afterlife and erased from existence.

* The Ten Plagues of Egypt were caused by the ''Hebrew'' God in order to liberate the ''Hebrew'' people, so it's pretty bizarre that an Egyptian curse would recreate or utilize said plagues. Made stranger by the fact that Imhotep identifies Hebrew as the language of slaves, meaning when he was cursed the plagues hadn't even happened yet.
* According to Ancient Egyptian religion there was no way Anck-Su-Namun could have been resurrected or reincarnated - in Ancient Egyptian mythology there was only one afterlife, Duat. The souls of sinners were eaten by Ammit the Devourer, causing Cessation of Existence (something the Ancient Egyptians feared more than anything, due to the importance of souls). Anck-Su-Namun betrayed and killed Pharaoh (embodiment of God Amun-Ra on Earth) and committed suicide - such crimes meant that her soul would have been devoured by Ammit in afterlife and erased from existence.

* SadlyMythtaken: The Ten Plagues of Egypt were caused by the ''Hebrew'' God in order to liberate the ''Hebrew'' people, so it's pretty bizarre that an Egyptian curse would recreate or utilize said plagues. Made stranger by the fact that Imhotep identifies Hebrew as the language of slaves, meaning when he was cursed the plagues hadn't even happened yet.