History Film / TheMummy1999

* {{Meganekko}}: Evy begins the movie as a bookish librarian with oversized spectacles, but loses them quite quickly.

* AndIMustScream:
** Imhotep's fate prior to his release by the main protagonists. His tongue was cut out, he was wrapped in bandages to the point of immobilization, and was then locked in a sarcophagus with a bunch of flesh-eating scarabs. To be eaten alive. ''[[FateWorseThanDeath Forever.]]''
** His priests fare comparably better, but they're still mummified alive and we see them being wrapped up and forced into sarcophagi.

-->Mr. Henderson: Do they know something we don't?
-->Dr. Allen Chamberlain: They're led by a woman. What does a woman know?

** Imhotep spares Beni's life when he recognizes his Hebrew chanting as "the language of the slaves" and realizes he has some use for him. Even setting aside the debate about the historicity of the Bible and the Exodus story, the time period in which Imhotep--an Ancient Eyptian administrator--would have any familiarity with the Israelites, they should have been speaking Aramaic, not Hebrew.

* BadassBoast: O'Connell is almost growling when he tells Imhotep "I'll be seeing ''you'' again" in a tone that should have told Imhotep that nothing would stop Rick from getting Evey back. Imhotep smirks in response, but it is clear that he has severely underestimated our hero.

** Of course, after Imhotep takes Burns' eyes, he too can't see well, initially mistaking Evey for Anuck-su-Namun. This is fixed once he regenerates further.

** Early on it is mentioned that Hamanuptra was rigged to collapse into the sands at the flick of a switch. At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Beni sets a bag of gold on a seemingly random protrusion in a wall, which is ''that'' exact lever.]]

** Cut to Evey explaining to her group that they're at the right entry point to find a secret compartment beneath the statue of Anubis.

* GrievousHarmWithABody: After [[spoiler:absorbing Burns]], Imhotep walks through a hail of bullets from Rick and tosses him into Jonathan, Henderson, and Daniels before returning his attention to Evey.

''The Mummy'' is the first film 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. It is directed and written by Stephen Sommers, with the story by Sommers, Lloyd Fonvielle and Kevin Jarre. It was released on May 7, 1999.

** Imhotep has the ability to take over the minds of an entire town's population and turn them all into mindless slaves. Yet for some reason, it never occurs to him to use this power against Rick or any of the other main characters.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The other Medjai aside from Ardeth Bey disappear after telling the surviving members of the expedition to leave Hamunaptra. Ardeth mentions that they must "go on the hunt, and try to find a way to kill [Imhotep]" but that's all we get.

** Seti I was not murdered, in fact the leading consensus is that he died of a heart ailment.
** Imhotep wouldn’t have been buried alive if he had been convicted of killing the Pharaoh - he would have either been forced to commit suicide and buried in disgrace without any funeral rights, or either executed and then burnt until his body was ashes or been burnt alive at the stake until his body was ash, with the remains thrown out in the desert somewhere. He wouldn’t have been cursed to be immortal either - the opposite would have happened. He would have been expunged from official records, and no mention of his name made, as the Ancient Egyptian’s believed that one could only gain immortality after death if their name was repeated (which would also meant no name on the coffin to read) and that they could only enter the afterlife if they had been given the proper funeral rights and had an intact body to get there with.

** Imhotep wouldn’t have been buried alive if he had been convicted of killing the Pharaoh - he would have either been forced to commit suicide and buried in disgrace without any funeral rights, or either executed and then burnt until his body was ashes or been burnt alive at the stake until his body was ash, with the remains thrown out in the desert somewhere. He would have also be expunged from official records, and no mention of his name made, as the Ancient Egyptian’s believed that one could only gain immortality after death if their name was repeated, and that they could only enter the afterlife if they had been given the proper funeral rights, and had an intact body to get their with.

Not to be confused with its largely forgotten spin-off, ''WesternAnimation/TheMummy:TheAnimatedSeries'', where Alex O'Connell appears to be aged up. Beni has been replaced by a stuffy British nerd who is otherwise functionally the same. The Bracelet of Anubis is replaced with the non-lethal Manacle of Osiris, still on his wrist, and Imhotep just will not die!

Not to be confused with its largely forgotten spin-off, ''WesternAnimation/TheMummy:TheAnimatedSeries'' Where Alex O'Connell appears to be AgedUp. Beni has been replaced by a Stuffy British Nerd who is otherwise functionally the same. The Bracelet of Anubus is replaced with the non-lethal Manacle of Osisris, still on his wrist & Imhotep just will not die!

* SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler:Rick attempts to save Beni at the end, but the latter doesn't make it out in time. Rick's not broken up about it, though.]]

* MixedAncestry: According to Evy, Jonathan and her had an Egyptian mother and an English father. It's implied both are dead as Terence Bay says early on, "Allah rest their souls."

* LoonyLibrarian: Evelyn is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example, a librarian who, while highly intelligent, is also slightly eccentric and [[CuteClumsyGirl extremely clumsy]]. This is exemplified in a scene early in the film where she accidentally knocks over an entire library of bookcases like dominoes.

*** The latter case can be explained via timeline. Imhotep was cursed in 1290 B.C.E., meaning that the Hebrews ''had'' been regarded as slaves. If the Hebrews were enslaved after that point, Imhotep wouldn't have known that it was their language.

* RealityEnsues: Oddly enough for a movie about mummies rising from the dead - Imhotep's resurrected priests may be undead, murderous, and capable of ignoring serious injuries, but they're also unarmed, desiccated mummies who were not warriors in life, so Rick can easily take them on with a sword and physical blows. He only runs into difficulty with them when the pieces of the mummies start attacking him from below. The armed, trained Medjai mummies give him a great deal more trouble.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Terence Bey pulls one off to give Rick, Ardeth and Jonathan time to escape down a manhole after Imhotep orders the hypnotised townspeople to kill them.]]

** [[AvertedTrope Averted with the actual mummies]], though; they all move almost as quickly as people and Imhotep can move considerably faster.

* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:The soldier mummies are centimeters away from impaling Rick before Jonathan takes control of them.]]

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; and Jonathan Hyde as Dr. Allen Chamberlain, a British Egyptologist who participates in Evelyn's quest.

** Evelyn’s father was Englishman and her mother was Egyptian - just like with Helen Grosvenor, female heroine of the original movie.

* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Instead of simply executing Imhotep for murdering the pharaoh or torturing him to death using conventional means, the Pharaoh's guards decided to kill him with the curse of the Hom-Dai. While this gives him the slowest most painful death imaginable, it also means he could come back as an unstoppable daemon if anyone ever finds his tomb and reads from the book of death. But hey, what are the chances of that happening?