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Go Get Your GHOUL: The Mummy (1999)
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It's our 100th Episode, baby! Emma & Katie celebrate 2 years of podcasting with one of their fave movies of all time, the 1999 cinematic masterpiece, The Mummy. We also discuss the malls of Kansas City, MO, fan conventions, the embarrassment that comes from loving something, the lost art of the commentary track, what good ever came from reading a book, and if you listen close you can hear Charlie actually say something in the background!
Thanks for a hundred episodes, Dozens, hope to have hundreds more. <3
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100th Episode Celebration
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This bit of professionalism and great banter is really evident of what this episode is, which is a celebration.
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It's our 100th episode. Which means we've been doing this for a little over two years. Isn't that crazy? Have we really? Oh my god.
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It feels like just yesterday.
Autumn Plans and Activities
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You lived in Chicago still. I know. are we were We started recording in um October of Wait, no.
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That can't be right. It must have been September. it must have We must have recorded our first episode in late September because otherwise we wouldn't be here. because Oh no, no, no. We recorded a bunch in... of in a In a single week. So never mind. Yes.
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I think it was October. Yeah. Because we didn't do Get Your Ghoul the first year. Yeah, we didn't. ah We did Practical Magic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah um ah For October. Yeah. Yeah. um One movie for all of October. Yeah.
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Yeah. Which is crazy. We can't we can't we do one movie to hold October. We had to delete this slide into September for this ah this spooky season. Exactly. like There's so many. pew, pew.
Ren Faire and Nerd Conventions
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um Are you doing anything, anything spooky or autumnal lately? um Oh, I, well, I just finished my little fast run of Pride and Prejudice in which I was Jane Bennett, the pretty one.
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The pretty one. The pretty one. um And so I'm like trying to get my life back. back together i guess um but then i absolutely 1000 want to do all the spooky things because like there's like this great like cider mill by us that has like they give you a whole apple cider donut with the cider that you get ah e and like there's just so much spooky stuff i've already put up our um halloween decorations i've got
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little mascot clyde here ah yeah yeah he's a spooky spooky boy he was a gift from a friend of the pod robert archer and waldron archer it's a it's a stuffed ghost holding a pumpkin wearing a hat wearing a cowboy hat a cowboy hat of course yeah they live in texas yeah And so I named him Clyde. It was the first name that came to me. Clyde. It's very Texas. Yeah. Yeah. um But yeah, I absolutely want to do some spooky things. What about you
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um ah It's always one of those things where like making plans is is the hardest part. yeah So we are going to Music Box of Horror. Oh, nice. weeks The 24 hour horror movie festival we go every year.
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Love it. that's exciting. um ah And probably do the the haunted house thing that comes every year. um It's pretty cool. um Nice. got kind of we got We have a group text about it, but we haven't committed to ah a day yet.
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and Unfortunately, like when I started the group text like ah like a full month ago when the tickets were like $14.99 piece, and now yeah they're like a piece. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm going to the Ren Faire next on Sunday. oh nice. Is that the rent Faire is closed in Chicago now. I mean, it it can be spooky. It depends.
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yeah it It always closes on Labor Day in Chicago, and I've never been. Oh, you've never been to the Ren Faire? no. It's super fun. I've never really been to any kind of, like, nerd get-together of any kind. I've never been to, like, a convention. What does that mean?
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I've never been to, like, a convention either, you know, like a Oh, I've never been to a convention. Yeah. Yeah.
Embracing Fandoms and Anxieties
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Yeah. I mean, I've been to theater conventions, but not like, yeah, not a fan convention, not a comic.
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I would say Music Box of Horror is kind of a nerd thing. ah Yeah. Yeah, you're right. It is. Yeah. And it's almost like, a I mean, this' it's sort of like a convention, too. There's lots of um there's lots of vendors and stuff selling things. And yeah, I guess it is There you go.
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Yeah. Yeah. So you are a nerd. I wasn't saying I didn't like nerdy things. I'm saying it's surprising that I've never been to the Renaissance Fair or or a a convention of some kind because I'm... you know The thing about fan conventions that really like like has always like kind of turned me off is I just...
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The celebrities who go there to like promote their movies. And I'm sure these people like doing it and they like meeting fans and everything, but it's just so cringe. People like getting their, paying like $50 to get their photo taken with, yeah you know,
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i don't I don't know whoever goes through this. I mean, um um there's Brendan Fraser. You know, I've seen, i've seen i have i have a friend who, again, i don't think is cringe.
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And is not, if you do that, that's not a, that's not. Yeah, Katie hates you. Oh my God. I'd rather jump myself into a corner. i have ah Katie thinks you're a loser. have friend from high school and she's she's she's always been um ah really into to nerdy things and everything. And she does cosplay and stuff like that.
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And she's model. Yeah.
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I guess she still is. um I mean, i guess they so I guess you could still be a model in your mid-30s. but Yeah. Time limit. I mean, I haven't spoken to her in a long time, but I see stuff on her Instagram. She goes to conventions a lot and does cosplay and gets pictures taken with with these people from you know TV shows and movies and things. And I don't think that's cringe. And I'm happy that people um are happy to do it. And I'm, I'm glad that it gives them joy, but me personally, it it it would make me embarrassed to do that. ah
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If that makes sense. So what Katie is saying is that she's cringe. ah Oh my God. Um, yes. I digging yourself a deeper hole, deeper hole. It's all the things. It's just like, like to love something is embarrassing. Yeah. You know, inherently.
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and I, it's like, you know, it's like loving a person, like loving your partner can be, there's there's like a level of embarrassment that you have to embrace.
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Are you quoting Olivia Rodrigo? the Love is embarrassing. yeah Yeah. Yeah. I didn't think about that, but yes. Yes. Um, it is, there's, there's a level of that and loving and loving, um,
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you know, a movie or or comic books or anything like that. There's a level of of of embarrassment about it. and And growing up is learning to to to embrace that embarrassment, that cringe. um Growing up and um being medicated for your anxiety has taught me not to be embarrassed anymore anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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My biggest fear, one of my big fears, and I think I've talked about this in the podcast before, is is of looking like I don't know what I'm doing. Um, and any kind of situation where I don't have like set goals, like, like, and like, this is what I'm going to do here. And I'm going to do this and I'm going to do this. And if I don't have like a plan and I don't know what I'm doing, I just start to get really anxious.
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That's, that is the biggest like anxiety in my
Discussion of 'The Mummy'
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life. Yeah. Ah, see, I, I fly by the seat of my pants. Good for you. You're better for it. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. ah And that's why we're friends.
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That's why we're friends. Why we're perfect friends. Two sides of the same coin. Yeah. Same person, different font.
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Same person, different font. um ah Yeah, we should put that on t-shirts. We should yeah um should make t-shirts. We should. ah Along with so many of our most memorable quotes from the hundreds of episodes.
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I was just trying to think of one. um I mean, famously is ah is is that something we say every episode, I think. Famously. Famously featured.
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ah ha You guessed it. Yeah, speaking of which. ah You guessed it, guys. um That's right. This is GOOL Episode Edition.
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Pew, pew, pew. Pew, pew, pew.
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Thomas, the producer, just looked over at me and went, I'm sorry, what are you doing? um That's right, guys. ah This is Go Get Your Ghoul. This is the podcast where and Katie are just simple librarians in little old Cairo. So And just trying to get accepted by the Bumbridge scholars to be important archaeologists and, ah you know, librarians.
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And um they their dick of a brother decides that he's going to steal some treasure. And it leads them down this path to meet this very ruffian man at a prison who they who says that he knows where this secret...
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city of the dead is and um uh turns out he's super sexy and hot and things happen and you know they wake him up and blah blah blah and he comes around he starts killing people and blah blah blah anyways most important thing is spring brendan frazier and uh rachel weiss are super hot and sexy throughout this entire movie um yes i'm emma and i'm katie and today of course we are talking about one of our favorite movies Um, not really a horror movie, not, not really a rom-com. Um, so we're, so but we're slotting it in under the go get your ghoul banner because there's, um,
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you know, there's ghoulish things about. There's ghoulish things and romantic things. Yes. It is The Mummy from 1999, written and directed by Stephen Summers.
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um There is a screen story credit in this, which is one of those odd ones, like the WGA. Yeah. So this movie was in production for years, like from the 80s, maybe even before the 80s. They were Universal was trying this movie made because Universal all Studios has all of these horror movie franchises that started in the 30s, right? They've got Frankenstein, they've got Dracula, they have the mummy, they have the wolf man, they have ah Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Phantom of the Opera and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Those are the main ones.
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Yeah. um And they're called like the Universal Monsters. And in the new Universal theme park, they have a Universal Monsters like land, um which they've like Frankenstein's castle and stuff like that. It's just fun.
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um It looks fun, rather, I so i i say. um yeah um And actually, ah this will be my first of probably several corrections from Charlie. um Actually, it's Frankenstein's... Oh, no, wait.
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Damn it! You said it right! Yeah, I know. It's Frankenstein's castle. He's the man. He has the castle. Yeah, it's Frankenstein's monster's castle.
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Uh-huh. No, it's not. Um...
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You can't trick me, Charlie. i the um Yeah, so ever since the 50s, basically, they've been they they they own all of these. I mean, the Dracula and stuff, that those are in the public domain um because it's a it's a novel.
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um But their interpretation of these myths and and monsters are owned by Universal, and they have constantly been trying to ah cash in on that IP basically for all of the 20th century.
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And starting in the 80s, they're like, okay, so let's redo The Mummy. And probably after the success of um of ah Indiana Jones, I would imagine, would was definitely part of the ah the impetus for that. They're like, people want a adventure films set in deserts.
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Yeah. And so from what I understand, however, Indiana Jones aspect of it didn't really come until Stephen Summers, but the you know adventure in Egypt was the um was the the main thing.
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And many, many different drafts of the screenplay and many, many of the different directors were attached and then unattached then attached and then unattached. Stephen Summers started out with Disney.
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um Stephen Summers wrote um The Jungle Book from the ninety s and it. He did the ah the Huck Finn movie. Yeah.
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With um JTT? JTT? No, no, no. That's Tom and Huck, which he also wrote but didn't direct. oh um Oh. The Adventures of Huck Finn is what it's called. That's the only ninety Huckleberry Finn movie I know.
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1993 starring Elijah Wood. Yeah. Courtney B. Vance as Jim. Yeah. um Yeah. 1993. And that is written and directed by Stephen Summers.
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And I'm not sure if that's before or after. That is before The Jungle Book. Yeah. Okay. Then he made a movie called Deep Rising, which is a very fun, silly monster movie set on a ship.
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Ooh. Yeah. A lot of the DNA from that is into this, along with the actor Kevin J. O'Connor. um And after this, he did another Bambi movie, and he did Van Helsing, which was a huge flop.
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And G.I. Joe, which was a hit, but didn't have the like you know cultural significance that they wanted it to have. yeah Which, if you've seen, is I think it's actually pretty fun.
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ah With Channing Tatum. Oh, I only know G.I. i Jane. no. This is like based on the toys. Yeah, okay. And I watched it like maybe two years ago because like i was like, okay, so Stephen Stommer, Stephen Stommer's made The Mummy and um Deep Rising. I should watch, which most but both movies I like, I should watch, I should watch G.I. Joe just to see how bad it is. And it's really not that bad.
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Oh, okay. pretty It's pretty fun. It's got a very similar tone to this. and Have you seen Van Helsing? I assume you have. Yes, I have. It's very bad. I know that it is bad, but I still enjoy it.
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Here's the thing. like I thought like a couple years ago, i was in October, and I was like, Caitlin, let's watch Van Helsing. like I know it's bad, but I haven't seen it since the theater, and maybe it'll be one of those things where it's like it's bad, but it's fun. like Yeah. um And we got like maybe 45 minutes into it, and it's just so boring. It's so boring, but the costumes are insane.
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The costumes are great. The sets are great. like yeah The idea is great. It's just the execution isn't there. And it's a real shame. um It's a movie you can put on in the background. It would have been really cool if that had been good. Again, then that's Universal trying to cash in on their Universal Monsters stuff. because that's like
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Frankenstein and Dracula are ah teaming up or or some kind of nonsense that right that's what the plot of that I barely remember I think so I can't remember i just know that you can put it on in the background walk away come back and not miss a damn thing yeah it's Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale yeah yeah and at one point somebody jumps through a window yeah Kevin J O'Connor is in that one as well yeah he's Igor Igor so this movie um
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Yes, it came out in the summer of 1999 and I became obsessed with this movie yes um very heavily. And I know it's a cliche. It's like it's everyone talks about it as a bisexual awakening movie, but it's it's just it's true. Like it just hit me at the right time. Yeah.
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um There's so many hotties in this movie. So many hotties. Hotties with buddies. um I too, um when this movie came out, I remember, I don't remember if I saw it in theaters or not, but I know for a fact we had it on VHS.
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And I wore out that VHS. Yeah. So freaking much. So to the point to where my friend Sarah and I in middle school had a competition to see who could watch The Mummy the most amount of times.
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So we were keeping track as little baby tweens of um how many times we watched The Mummy. I think I got... to like 83 before god i lost count um it was like every day every day after school i'd come down i'd come home i'd go play the sims
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And then I'd go to the basement and I'd watch The Mummy on our big screen TV. Our big giant. sounded very cool, Emma. 150 pounds ah in my Gap peacock stretchy shirt.
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Sure. And, uh, you know, uh, the little like hair, like the, the headband that like makes little diamonds in your hair. Um, the like comb thing. sure yeah yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm painting you a picture.
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um king and, uh, and yeah, I would sit, bundle myself up and I would watch the mummy over and over and it's not like and it's not like you were on your phone like there was no there was no no social media um yeah there were barely phones like i i didn't have a phone uh then i i got a phone in high school um yeah but it's uh but yeah i didn't have the internet on it um didn't have the internet i saw it in the movie theater a bunch
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I saw it with my parents. I think I probably convinced my parents to take me to see it again with them. and then like my cousins were to visit, came over to visit and we were like, we got to go see the mummy. And so I went with them.
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yeah um I went with friends, which I'm sure somebody's mom would have taken us. I think I definitely saw it with my friend, Jessica, who I talk about on the show a lot. yeah And then that same summer,
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my mom took me to Kansas city. My mom had this week long business trip in Kansas city and I had gone a couple years previous. So this would have been, um yeah, 1999. Yeah.
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So I had been a couple of years previous and so she goes to meetings and then I just hang out in the hotel, which the hotel was attached to a mall, oh no which was very fun, which is very cool. You know, 12 years old. Yeah.
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you know twelve years old yes and it was like you know i could just hang out in the mall all day and like you know i have a little bit of money and you know get some snacks there was a and there was there was both a movie theater and live stage theater in the mall which is crazy i don't cool ass mall it's a cool ass mall i mean i'm it's probably not even there anymore it was called the hallmark i think it's called the hallmark crown center mall in kansas city uh missouri the The live theater there, ah we i remember i obviously didn't go to a play by myself, but i went with but but but we saw um like one of the Forbidden Broadways was playing there. when we Oh!
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Yeah. um And then I don't remember what we saw. Maybe but we where we didn't go the first year, but the second year we did, them and then we saw one of the one of the many sequels of Forbidden Broadway, whatever was out in 1999.
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um and And my mom was like, I don't understand any of these references. Yeah. And you're like, I understand all of them. Yeah. um But so I went to see The Mummy like three times that week by myself in the movie theater.
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course you did. And honestly, that may have been the last time I went to see a movie by myself. Like i I hate seeing movies by myself. I will not do it. love it. can't find somebody to go see a movie with me, i just won't see it.
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I absolutely love it. I love it so much. It's my favorite thing to treat myself. to take my That's really good for you. Yeah, that's another anxiety thing for me. I just don't want to do it by myself. Mine's eating by going to a restaurant by myself. I can't do that. Oh.
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I've never done that. No. Yeah. I can't do that. I have this whole thing that anytime, especially when I was a receptionist in Chicago, um and I, I would walk past, I would go on walks sometimes on my lunch break and just walking around downtown.
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And, uh, there's like the big McDonald's with like ah the whole wall is all glass, It used to be the rock and roll McDonald's, but they change they read they renovated it a while ago. yeah Yeah.
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And I would walk past there and anytime I'd see like a business guy, a businessman with his tie draped over his shoulder eating a burger by himself, it would just make me really sad. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. So that makes me want to cry. Yeah, exactly. And Charlie was like, did you even like ever think that like maybe this is like their one moment of quiet in their day? And I was like, it's because they have no friends.
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Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And see, that's why I that's why I don't eat by myself, because I assume everyone will think that about me. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. I have friends. I swear. this loser. Right. Right.
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um So yeah, I saw this movie. I've definitely seen this movie more times in the theater than any other movie. I've i've seen it five or six times, maybe more in the theater. yeah um And then I got the DVD, which I watched last night.
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The original, not a Blu-ray. I have it on Blu-ray, but I watched the DVD because the DVD I have has multiple commentaries on it. I watched this movie with the commentary by Stephen Summers and the editor, Bob Doucet.
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Oh, how was that? It was really interesting. It was mostly about special effects ah and and like editing and stuff. So like i mean they did talk a bit because there's also two other commentaries. There's a commentary with Britton Fraser and Rachel Weisz.
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And there's a commentary with John Hanna, Oded Fair, and Arnold Vosloo. Oh, I bet that one's really fun. bet that one's really fun. I should, I should listen to that one. I've definitely listened to the Brennan Fraser, Rachel Weisz one before, but I don't think I've listened to that one before. ah Nice. With the supporting bros.
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Yeah. So it is, I couldn't tell you the last time I watched the commentary. I love DVD commentaries. It's such a good idea. like I think Criterion is pretty much the only company that's still doing them now but when I was a kid and I was watching like I would buy my favorite movie and then I would watch it once and then I would watch start watching the commentaries and special features and stuff like there some of them are really really interesting especially if you like you know if you're a kid who wants to make movies one day yeah that's true very very true I'm just talking about like
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the logistics and how these movies actually got made. And some of them are boring and some of them are are stupid. And some of them are like, you know, they paid this person and he's just kind of, sitting there going like oh yeah i remember that yeah that was there yeah oh this this actor was this actor was nice you know that kind of stuff but some of them are they some of them are really really in depth um and um this one with steven summers was kind of in between those two things there was so there were there were a lot there were interesting stories and stuff but it was also a lot of just we shot this here we shot this here you know
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yeah um Or they talk about stuff they cut out And pacing and a lot of it was about I mean the editor was there so they talked a lot about editing Which is yeah interesting And just Insane to imagine trying to edit A movie with this many visual effects shots And this much And it was and it they shot it on film too Yeah.
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Well, and, like, one thing that I was telling Trey last night, and I think that a thing that, like, I love so much about this movie is, you know, yes, there are some, quote-unquote, special effects.
00:24:35
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Special effects for the 90s, you know? Like, there they're not, like, the world's best special effects. They're there. They're really good, actually, I think, for the most part.
00:24:46
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Oh. yeah Continue your your thought. yeah um But all of the sets, like yeah the fact that they built these sets that like looked like, you know, and just playgrounds for little adventure actors and to just like play on.
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It's just, I love a practical set. I love, ah love a good set. Like it's just. There's much you can do. feels magical. And like a lot of stuff. a lot of stuff happens in the room and like gets, gets, um, like stuff that's not storyboarded and stuff that's not in the script necessarily. But once the actors get on set, they come up with, um, with, with the director and stuff. And there's lots of little stories like that.
00:25:27
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There are a lot of sets. There's a lot of matte paintings. Um, there are still matte paintings in movies now, but like, I miss the, the age of the matte painting. Um, uh,
00:25:38
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For people who don't know what a matte painting is, I guess, it's basically just like... They used to be literal paintings that they would ah composite into the frame. So they would shoot with a big empty space. um in the the A famous one, I guess, would be like in the the end of Raiders of Lost Ark, right? That's a movie everybody's seen.
00:25:58
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Where he's the guy's walking down that hallway and it comes out you see it's just the biggest warehouse and that you've ever seen with thousands and thousands and thousands of boxes in it. and The way they shot that is they just shot it with a man walking down this hallway and there's nothing around him, this like little narrow area. And then they put in, that is a physical mat. That is an actual oil painting that they put in, they composited into the image later with photography.
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And now they do digital mat paintings. um But a lot of it is, and they'll spend so much money making the backgrounds just like completely CG. Yeah. Which i don't I don't think that's necessary. I think audiences buy a lot more than you think.
00:26:39
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yeah Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And that's why movies get so expensive. Yeah. um And it's just sort of like nowadays with everything so CGI, like if they were to make this today, like so much of this would have just been green screen.
00:26:54
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And it you just, you lose that magic. You lose the the whimsy and the magic that like happens on set or like happens from like looking at matte painting. um Yeah, yeah.
00:27:07
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yeah um It is ah Yeah there's there's a lot of really big beautiful stuff in this I think that the CGI has aged really well um Despite You know it does obviously a lot of it Doesn't look the best But the mummy The mummy specifically He looks really good it This movie is 26 years old And he looks yeah amazing And especially in comparison to The Mummy Returns Whatever the fuck they did there Well, um I have the Mummy Returns commentary as well.
00:27:40
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um And i will listen to that because I know the famous shot from the Mummy Returns of the Scorpion King. I think they were honestly just trying to push something that wasn't, the technology wasn't really there for.
00:27:51
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But from what I understand, it's they didn't get a chance to finish it. Like, they i think they i think the story goes, and I could be wrong about this, but I remember reading this at some point, is there's a very famous shot of the rock as the skeleton, the ah the scorpion king in that movie.
00:28:06
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That looks um just absolute. It looks so low budget. It does not look like a ah ah professional Hollywood movie. And from what i remember is the, the story behind that is that they weren't able to finish the.
00:28:18
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Oh, okay. The effect. Yeah. I thought they just like messed with it and thought that they were going forward with technology, but they should have just like stuck with what they had. No, a lot of stuff. And like, you know, cinema sins is one of the, the like biggest cancers on American culture because you know, the,
00:28:36
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For those of you who don't know, CinemaSins is a YouTube series where this extremely obnoxious ah man goes through beloved movies and tells me what's, quote, wrong with it. Shut up. Because little plot holes and inconsistencies and things like that generally happen in movies because of editing.
00:28:57
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not because they didn't think about it or because they're stupid or because they didn't think to include it in the screenplay. And it's a a lot of times it's they even shot it, but they had to, they had to get rid of that for any number of reasons.
00:29:10
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And a movie is such a complicated thing to make. Um, nitpicking little tiny, uh, things like that is, uh, is really infuriated. um yeah. Yeah.
00:29:23
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Go get a job. yeah Exactly. Get a job, CinemaSins. I don't even know if he still does that. Yeah. probably Goodness gracious. Not that there are some movies that have really glaring po plot holes and stuff like that that are too large to to ignore. I mean, it's not that that doesn't make't isn't a problem for some things, but most of the the the little tiny things like that are things most people won't even notice and don't shouldn't hurt anybody's enjoyment of a movie. Yeah, exactly.
00:29:49
Speaker
Exactly. But here we are with the mummy. 1999's The Mummy. And we open in... Hamanopta.
00:30:00
Speaker
No, we open in Thebes. Oh, sorry. In Thebes. City of the living. Sorry. Yes. Thebes. City of the living. We have Odette Fair yeah giving us narration. Yeah.
00:30:12
Speaker
Yeah. and Telling us a little story about Anxunamun. Anxunamun. And Imhotep.
00:30:23
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Patricia Velasquez plays Anxunamun. And Arnold Vosloo plays Imhotep. Yeah. Are either of those actors Egyptian?
00:30:34
Speaker
ah No, they are not. a man I don't think... um I'm going check on this. Patricia Velasquez is Venezuelan and Arnold Vosloo is South African.
00:30:49
Speaker
Oh, same. I mean, South Africa is the right continent. ah Yeah, which is which is good. I think that the um yeah, he's Indian. um The guy who plays um the head of the Egyptian Museum. Yeah.
00:31:08
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Eric Avari, he is Indian. And Oded Fair is from Israel. So yeah nobody from um Egypt in this movie.
00:31:19
Speaker
no Which is a shame. Yes. Very much a shame. Another thing that wouldn't happen today. No. he may Which brings me the first Emma's Fun Facts.
00:31:33
Speaker
Emma's Fun Facts. With the exception of a loincloth, a few pieces of jewelry, and pasties, butriciava
00:31:43
Speaker
Patricia Velasquez was nude except for body paint, which took four hours to apply. They mentioned that on the commentary. Yeah, that is not or not like a net bikini. That is not a net bikini thing she is wearing in the beginning. She is only wearing body paint. Yeah.
00:31:58
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Which is what Anoxin... Anoxin... Anoxinamun.
00:32:05
Speaker
Anoxinamun. Anxunamun. so it's not Anoxunamun? No, I think a lot of the characters say that in the movie um mistakenly, but the it's Anxunamun. Oh.
00:32:19
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A-N-C-K-S-U-N-A-M-U-N, which Anx means life. um I'm not sure what the the rest of it means. Life of the moon? um Probably not.
00:32:29
Speaker
No, that's probably wrong. Um... But yes, it is what her character is supposed to be wearing because she is painted gold and completely body painted so that her husband, the Pharaoh, will know if anybody dared to touch her. And it means I'm so sorry.
00:32:52
Speaker
Oh, no, you're OK. It means sadie living living through Amun, which Amun-Ra is the primary deity. Yeah. Amun-Ra Amundi.
00:33:05
Speaker
Did you also do that thing as a tween where you memorized the dialogue of this film and thought, oh, hey, I can speak Egyptian? um and No, I don't believe so. But I i would i would never mock you for that. um Thank you.
00:33:22
Speaker
Something they mentioned on the commentary for this is that they had Egyptologists um try to come up with, I mean, we don't know what ancient Egyptians sounded like because nobody's spoken it in thousands of years. That's true. um but they have they had a Egyptologists um work on the all the the the language in this movie, all the ancient Egyptian, and recorded had hired the Egyptologists to record themselves saying it phonetically though in the way that they think was most accurate and had those tapes sent to the actors so they could learn how to pronounce it correctly. Nice.
00:33:54
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Stephen Sermons is really proud that all the ancient Egyptian was as ah as realistic as possible. yeah I love that. I love that. It's all the little details. It's the little details that make you just so excited about this movie.
00:34:05
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um and And yeah, so she's covered in body paint. and So nobody can touch her, but the high priest. Emoteb does, because they've got a little love affair going on, and he smears her body paint in a little caress.
00:34:21
Speaker
And the Pharaoh comes back, and he's like, who the fuck touched you, bitch? And she's like, oh, whoops, jig is up, time to murder. Well, here's the thing.
00:34:32
Speaker
i think that I think this is intentional. You think it's intentional? I think it's intentional. I think they plotted to kill him, because... She, and again, they didn't mention this on the commentary, but this is what I came up with, you know, on my, you know, 10th viewing of this many years ago.
00:34:48
Speaker
Yes. Because he knows he's not supposed to touch her and he puts his hand on her arm and rubs it. And then when the he when the Pharaoh comes in and finds her, she's like standing defiantly, like petting the Bast statue, yeah holding her arm like that.
00:35:02
Speaker
I think that the intention was to to um to enrage him and then murder him. And then he knows that that he can bring her back.
00:35:13
Speaker
Maybe. don't think it was like plotted because I think they go into it in The Mummy Returns a little bit more. Yeah. Yeah. um where it was yeah It is a little spur of the moment sort of mistake that happens, but then it just happens because they like fret because he's coming. They're not expecting him to come and arrive um because you see all behind the scenes from Rachel Weisz's and spoiler alert for The Mummy Returns.
00:35:40
Speaker
ah Turns out Rachel Weisz is a ah reincarnated Egyptian princess. That's right. And she is the pharaoh's daughter.
00:35:51
Speaker
yeah and ah And Brendan Fraser is a reincarnated um guard ah of the Mungi.
00:36:02
Speaker
oh I forgot about that. Yeah. Yeah. And ah he just is. Just don't ask questions. Yeah. don't Don't worry about it. Neither of them look like there's any Egyptian in their blood, but magic.
00:36:18
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. um ah so um So, yeah. So, they, he, the Pharaoh has Anxanamun killed, um or the the Pharaoh's guards kill her because she kills him.
00:36:32
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Yeah. And then they come, ah but Imhotep steals her body and raises to Hamanaptra, the city of the dead, to to raise her. um But they catch him and stop the um the process before it's complete. And then they decide to do a hum die.
00:36:48
Speaker
Yeah! ah Which is awful. Why would you do this to anyone? Like, they could have just killed him. asking for it. And it would have been fine.
00:36:59
Speaker
It is absolutely asking for it. I don't mean to victim blame, but it is asking for it. Because like it is a curse. This is a problem for future generations. we won't have to worry about it. it's We won't have to about it.
00:37:13
Speaker
So they mummify him alive. yeah um Cut out his tongue. Mummify him alive. Put scarabs in there. Which, yeah again, in real life, scarabs are dung beetles.
00:37:25
Speaker
And yeah don't bite. And don't certainly don't burrow under the skin of of human beings. but Or eat your flesh alive. Yeah, but it's real cool in this movie that they decide that's what um they The... um And put a curse on him that he one day, ah if he ever awakens and is brought back to life, he will bring all the plagues of Egypt and destroy the world.
00:37:51
Speaker
Yep. Yep. go Because they're like, this is a idea. Don't do that. don't do what Don't do a hamdai. Yeah. I mean, all of his little like henchmen got um mummified a lot. Or did they also get mummified alive?
00:38:05
Speaker
I know they got like killed in a horrific manner. Just do the same thing to him. Like, just cut his head off. No problem. Yeah. And worst of all, he's a priest and knows all of the magic spells to, like, it do horrific things.
00:38:25
Speaker
He's wizard. He's a wizard. He's an Egyptian wizard. Ultimate power. and Right? And the thing is, like, you know, mummification was, ah you know, for the very rich, mummification was an honor. That was supposed to be, like, the the thing that only happened for, you know, pharaohs and extremely um honored individuals. Like, you should not have done it to this guy. You could have just killed him and be done with it.
00:38:49
Speaker
Yeah, but then we couldn't have the title The Mummy. We would just have random corpse. That's so true. There wouldn't be a story that happened. Yeah. um ah and And then we we flash forward to the 20s.
Insights into 'The Mummy' Plot and Characters
00:39:03
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Yeah, 1923, Hamonatra, City of the Dead, ah which is just in the desert and it is all sand. And we meet our protagonist, Rick O'Connell.
00:39:17
Speaker
ah And his little BFF, Benny, who's just hanging out right there. I mean, they're frenemies. Let's be real. They're frenemies.
00:39:30
Speaker
They're frenemies. ah And they are standing there with some sort of, like, guy on a horse who's, like, leading them to...
00:39:42
Speaker
protect or not protect, but like they want to go into the city of the dead and like, you know, find it's supposed to be filled with treasure. And so the guy who's in charge is like, um, you know, trying to be a captain, but then he realizes, oh, well we're fucked because it's a little battle.
00:40:02
Speaker
And, uh, he drops a sword and Benny goes, uh, looks like you just got promoted. Yeah. So ah couple of things. Benny. And this is, this is, I know, I don't know if a lot of people think this, but I know I mentioned the mummy to a friend once and, uh, he said, yeah, we tried to watch that, but the, the really racist Arab character really turned us off.
00:40:23
Speaker
He is not Arab. He's not supposed to be Arab. Nope. Benny is Hungarian. Um, ah he is a, um, a Hungarian Soviet, uh, man.
00:40:37
Speaker
uh, who has was a criminal and a bad person who was forced to join the French Foreign Legion. The French the french Foreign Legion what had a lot of volunteers from a lot of different countries. That's why Rick is there, too. And a lot of prisoners who were sent to join the Foreign Legion as a punishment.
00:41:00
Speaker
Oh. And I know they in them in the commentary they talk about there were scenes before this with Rick explaining his backstory and how he got into the French Foreign Legion, but they cut it out.
00:41:12
Speaker
And um so I'm not sure how his character got involved in it, but the implication is that Benny is there as punishment. Gotcha. got um He's a weasely little snake.
00:41:23
Speaker
yeah Yeah, he's a weasely little snake and he is portrayed Kevin O'Connell. but kevin o'connor Kevin O'Connor. Kevin O'Connor. Fun fact about Kevin O'Connor.
00:41:36
Speaker
So ah back when Emma was an actor in Chicago and was just taking whatever job she could fricking find on Actors Access, she applied to be a background for a... um A short film.
00:41:52
Speaker
And yeah it paid. And it was filming in a high rise the Gold Coast. And yes, I had to provide my own wardrobe, but ah it paid and I could put it on my, you know, resume for credit.
00:42:10
Speaker
I knew nothing about the film. I show up. And this is also the experience where I showed up with like my cutesy little twee outfit and they're like, you're supposed to be in a nightclub.
00:42:23
Speaker
Did you bring me out their shoes? And I was like, no. Whoops, it exists. um But the costumer hated everything that everybody brought. So sure ah they should have just provided like the wardrobe.
00:42:36
Speaker
um But ah so I am in this like tiny little conference room. And it's like January or February in Chicago. It's like snowing. It's a full day thing to like just get this one shot.
00:42:53
Speaker
And someone mentions who's in the film. And I was just like, I don't know who any of these people are or whatever. ah and Except they mention Kevin J. O'Connor.
00:43:08
Speaker
Isn't it? And I'm sorry, does that name sound familiar? oh he was Benny in the mommy and i have a little moment of panic and excitement and I'm like well I'll probably never see him I you know this is like a short film whatever yeah yeah uh so it was all about this like haunted like ventriloquist doll and he was like this like creepy ventriloquist like magician guy who like put
00:43:40
Speaker
put somebody's like soul in the doll. Um, look what movie is this? I don't know. It was some weird short film. I never even. Yeah. it I cannot remember, but, um, it, so we're in this tiny little room in, high rise in Chicago.
00:44:02
Speaker
And we're supposed to be like, you know, flirting and like hanging out and like doing background business.
00:44:11
Speaker
and then they're like okay bring in kevin and kevin jay o'connor walks in the room my head goes directly to him my eyes get giant and you can see in his face he immediately knows who recognizes him and he goes hey guys hi and i was like
00:44:34
Speaker
but not saying anything because, you know, he was, he's the talent and I'm just, bad right. Right. Right. Right. yeah I'm trying to be respectful, but inside I'm, I, I was cool on the outside, but inside i was exploding anyway. So that's, that, that's my ah little, my little story about Kevin J O'Connor.
00:44:56
Speaker
There you go. um Yes, so um the two of them are um fighting. So there's there appears to be some kind of army that's trying to attack Hamanoptera, and the French Foreign Legion is there to defend it.
00:45:10
Speaker
The Magi are there. The Magi are the um the descendants of the the Pharaoh's guards. Yeah. Because we get a shot of Oded Fair is watching um But he is not allied With either of set of what's happening Of the guys here But we do learn that um ah he is He is about to be Shot by the by the invading army But then like there's sand Like yeah ah scares them off Like the place is supposed to be cursed Yeah
00:45:42
Speaker
um See, I've seen this movie like thousands of times and I just sort of like did not think that hard about why these people were fighting. don't know why this was happening. i was just like, nah, okay.
00:45:55
Speaker
Well, this lost city that nobody knows where it is, is the idea. um Yeah. yeah um And they found like Napoleon, is it Napoleon? Or who is it that was like super obsessed with like finding all the like lost cities?
00:46:10
Speaker
Oh, lots of people. But Napoleon had a big campaign in Egypt. Yeah, Napoleon yeah you know ah famously plundered a lot of Egypt, which is why there's so many ancient Egyptian antiquities in the um in the Louvre and not in yeah in Cairo, where they belong.
00:46:26
Speaker
Yeah. Same with the British. Oh, absolutely. The British Museum is just full of... like You know, when you go to Athens and you see all the missing parts of yeah the pantheon the Pantheon and stuff, it's like, well, yeah, if you go to the British Museum, they're all right there.
00:46:44
Speaker
They're all right there. There it is. Found it. ah Charlie has a really good joke, but I can't remember what it is about um how the British Museum is just filled with stuff that needs to go back to its country of origin.
00:46:59
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Oh, what was I going to say? I forgot. Hamanoptra. Hamanoptra, City of the Dead.
00:47:12
Speaker
then we cut to yeah Cairo. Yes. Three years later. Yes. Where we meet um Rachel Weisz's character, Evelyn Carnahan. Yeah.
00:47:24
Speaker
Yeah. she is... Librarian. She's a bit of a clumsy librarian. Yes. is in the... I don't know why they would build a library like this um with a bunch of...
00:47:41
Speaker
20 foot tall bookcases that arranged in a circle all close enough to each other that if one falls over it'll knock them all over they liked to domino them they like dominoes which is a practical effect it's they just set up real bookshelves in a circle and and filmed it like just like that there's no special effects involved yeah did they use rachel vice No, they used a stunt woman. Yeah. Okay. I was like, Jesus Christ, that's dangerous. Actually, the person on the ladder when you go wide is a man. And if you've resframed it, you can tell.
00:48:12
Speaker
And then when she slides down the ladder, it's ah it's a stunt woman. Yeah. hu Oh.
00:48:20
Speaker
It's very, very fun. I just really love the the like visual of her like trying to put a book behind her and then ending up parallel on this stepladder and then using it as stilts.
00:48:35
Speaker
yeah yeah ah It's very, very fun. But yeah, she dominoes the library and her boss is like, um why do i you're such a fucking clumsy bad librarian. Why do I put up with you? Oh yeah, your parents were super loaded.
00:48:50
Speaker
Nepha baby. Well, ah look they're their're famous Egyptologists, her parents. yes And they're dead, correct? Yes, they are dead. We don't know how they die.
00:49:01
Speaker
Yeah, it's a little confusing because like she has a lot of information about archaeology and Egyptology, but she's not an archaeologist or an Egyptologist. She's a librarian, and she has a little moment about it later.
00:49:13
Speaker
She reads. She really likes reading. That's why she has all this information. She likes reading. Well, maybe she shouldn't have read from the Book of the Dead. Yeah, exactly. You must not read from the book!
00:49:27
Speaker
And then we're introduced to her brother, Jonathan, played John Hanna from Four Weddings and Funeral. Our second Hanna! What?
00:49:38
Speaker
it's It's our second Hanna. Oh, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, him, yeah, yeah. He's in Four Weddings and a Funeral, and um he is her rapscallion brother who has... just stolen a key and a map off of some random man in, um, in a bar.
00:49:55
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Even though their parents are loaded, he's still klepto. Yeah. Yeah. Um, ah so um, she sees it. She sees that it's a map to Hamadaptra, the city of the dead.
00:50:08
Speaker
She shows it to her boss who, quotes accidentally uh sets it on fire on him with his candle because if you watch it it's so deliberate he just leads straight into the flame he's um he's a um secret member of the medjai um and he's supposed to be protecting the city of hamunatra and preventing this mummy from being reborn but he's not good enough at his job clearly yeah well and i mean realistically they just shouldn't have done this stupid curse They shouldn't have done it in the first place. You don't hum die somebody. Yeah.
00:50:40
Speaker
Yeah. That's just asking for it. Even if you build a like centuries year old army to protect the corpse from coming back, there's still holes in that plan.
00:50:54
Speaker
Can't protect from a woman reading from a book. i ah They just be reading. Well, there's it's not it's not actually her fault because there's there's several things that had to happen and they all happened simultaneously. Of course they do. Coincidentally.
00:51:09
Speaker
Exactly. So um Jonathan and Evelyn decide to ah follow this. um Jonathan for riches and Evelyn for knowledge. And so they go to...
00:51:22
Speaker
somewhere wherever he's being hanged i don't remember where it is yeah they they go to the jail because they're like well we got to go to the source of the information and um find out why he had his little puzzle box with uh with a little map in it um and what's going on there also if maybe don't put a map inside the key to open the cursed mummy yeah both things are right there yeah that's that's why would you do that you want yeah Somebody was not thinking this through.
00:51:54
Speaker
um ah So we were introduced to the war, the prison warden, who is Omid Jali, who appears to be of of Arabic descent, but is is British.
00:52:09
Speaker
Yes, he is a um comedian. i Charlie, he's he's Iranian right here. Yeah, so he's Persian. How do you pronounce Ahmed's name?
00:52:23
Speaker
Ahmed Jalili. Oh, Jalili. Oh, there's an I there. Yeah, Jalili. Yeah, yeah, ah yeah. Yeah. So he is a British treasure, and an Iranian-British treasure, according to Charles.
00:52:36
Speaker
And he gets really excited anytime he shows up on anything. And we actually just saw him in an episode of Midsommar Murders. Oh, there you go. Yeah. That sounds about right.
00:52:48
Speaker
um My mom also loves Midsommar Murders. Yeah. He was that. Okay. Okay. But people thought he was. He is. So Brendan Fraser is ah the guy who John Hanna stole the the key off of. um He is being hanged for having ah very good time. We never understand what exactly.
00:53:06
Speaker
or Turns out he had very good time. So he is, so they go to talk to him and Evelyn wants to know where he found it. And he says he'll tell her if they let him out of here and which, and also where he kisses her through the bars, which is ye um ah bit much. Yeah. yeah sir He forced kisses or surprise kisses.
00:53:27
Speaker
And you're like, non-consensual. Woof. Woof, woof, woof. Um, and, uh, so he is being hanged. They're trying to make a deal with the warden, ah and to, for the money that they're going to find in Hamanaptra to release him because he's the only one who knows how to get there and what to do.
00:53:46
Speaker
Yep. Um, Brendan Fraser famously almost died filming this um because now on the director's commentary, Stephen Summers says that Brendan kept asking for it to be like longer and longer because he wanted it to look more real.
00:54:03
Speaker
Yeah. um I don't think the director should have let him do that, but you know, there we are. Yeah. he He passed out and was, but was fine. um so But in one of those scenes, he's like actually going unconscious when, because the,
00:54:15
Speaker
The rope doesn't break and he's strangling to death. um But they do cut cut the rope and let him go. Yes. And he lives to see another day. And so then ah he has to take these ah these little Nepo babies to Hamadaptra.
00:54:34
Speaker
ah And he and so we then cut to ferry boat on the Nile. and boat scene love um love a boat scene love a boat scene love a boat scene love a surprise uh hottie mc hot pants because they have him really rough and like you know his hair's long he's got like some scrubs some like stubble uh he's dirty and then um it's a little scene with evelyn and uh her brother going
00:55:08
Speaker
that guy really sucks uh he's he's so he's such a little rapscallion that guy and uh he goes who are you talking about and he's handsome yeah he cut his hair and shaved and he looks super hot he's 29 year old brendan fraser yeah yeah it is the male equivalent of
Themes and Production of 'The Mummy'
00:55:27
Speaker
takes off his glasses and puts down his ponytail ex Exactly.
00:55:31
Speaker
I do appreciate that we get this scene because we have the same thing with ah with evelyn with Evelyn later. We both have a scene where they ah change their appearance and the other person like notices them and we get it we get it both ways, which I appreciate.
00:55:47
Speaker
And they both kind of drool a little bit over the other. Yeah. Which is great. um Also, we should mention that Oded Fair is a stone cold fox. i don' Oh, and ab that' only absolutely.
00:55:58
Speaker
With a face tattoo. So fucking hot. Yeah. ah he made He's the only person that I've seen a face tattoo on that I'm like, I would lick that face tattoo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
00:56:10
Speaker
um we actually in the in the commentary at the end when it's revealed that Odette Farah is still alive he even he even says like originally he was supposed to die and we had him die but you know he was just such a nice guy and and and uh and really fun on set and he's so good looking we decided we had to keep him around case there's sequel like hell yeah you did yeah and it's such a good jump scare it's such a good jump scare Yeah, yeah.
00:56:35
Speaker
But yeah, so they they go on the boat and turns out they're not the only people who are going to Hamunaptra. There's a group of Americans who are obnoxious and being led by a guy who's actually been there.
00:56:51
Speaker
yeah Yep. And turns out, lo and behold, that guy who's leading the Americans ah to the desert is Benny. Our buddy, Benny.
00:57:03
Speaker
Yep. um So they're, Jonathan's playing poker with the Americans and they make a bet on who's going to be the first one to get to Hamanaptra. And then the um ah Magi attack.
00:57:17
Speaker
Yep. And two of my favorite sequences. This is, like, there's so many, like, just great action sequences in this movie as well. Yeah. Like, thinking about, like, how how how you'd have to shoot all this. Like, it's just, it's mind boggling.
00:57:29
Speaker
so good. It says they shot this movie for a little under $80 million, dollars which was a lot in 1999 for sure. But like, it's still like a fraction of what movies cost nowadays. Yeah. And it's like, it holds up visually. It, it does hold up and it's fun to watch.
00:57:45
Speaker
Yes. There's constantly something happening. It's two hours long. It does not feel like it's two hours long. Oh, it clips. Um, the, um, there's two of my favorite bits on the boat scene. the first one is where um Rick is reloading his gun and very like he the shots on the wall keep getting closer and closer to him. And finally Evelyn grabs him and pulls him out of the way before another bullet would have hit him in the head.
00:58:09
Speaker
um Which again, on the commentary, the editor's like, those squibs are really close to Brendan's head. And Steven's like, yeah, we probably wouldn't get away with that again. Yeah.
00:58:21
Speaker
um And then the second one is maybe one of my, maybe my favorite, the funniest thing in the movie for me is where the warden comes up to him and and says, what do we do? What do we do? Because the boat's on fire at this point and is sinking. yeah yeah And he runs up and says, what do we do? What do we do? And Brendan Fraser goes, stay here. I'll get help and jumps into the river. Yeah.
00:58:45
Speaker
It's so good. Which is so, it's such a funny thing. And he sits there like, what? It's like, oh, I forgot. And then he jumps in. Yeah. as well Yeah. But what, e so what happens is, turns out the, ah but the secret society of guards of the undead are there to stop these two groups from getting to Hamunaptra. Yeah, absolutely. And so they, they attack the boat and they include a guy with a hook hand ah that's detachable.
00:59:18
Speaker
Which, I mean, and we should say that like, not all the Magi are like, like, as as honorable as um as Ardeth Bay Ardeth Farris character like this guy is ah is a real creep and he's like he's gonna cut up Rachel Weisz's face so yeah um they save the key Jonathan saves the key um ah that guy by the way Hook gets set on fire and shot a million times like thousand jillion times one thing I know is like he gets set on fire and then like minutes later he's still on fire and running towards them like
00:59:52
Speaker
just like this big fire guy going it's on fire for so long um
01:00:02
Speaker
he's really like holding up yeah uh so both both parties escape and are are on opposite sides of the river and uh we actually mentioned this in the previous episode but This is where Benny says, ah hey, O'Connell, looks like I got all the horses. and benny Hey, looks like you're on the wrong side of the river.
01:00:24
Speaker
ah This was a moment where I turned to Charlie, who has been to Egypt and i and also has watched more nature programs than I have. And um I said...
01:00:37
Speaker
What about the crocodiles? Would that scare the crocodiles? And he goes, no, the opposite would happen. With a boat going into the water, the crocodiles would come. If they were in the area, the crocodiles would be there.
01:00:49
Speaker
ah So the fact that nobody got eaten by a crocodile is miraculous. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Um, ah yes. So then, um, we have the little scene where Rachel Weisz gets some new clothes, uh, and some eyeliner. And, um, then we have, um, Rick gets to drool after her for, uh, this time. Rick and the camel that he's bringing.
01:01:16
Speaker
Yes, that's true. And they have a they don't have any horses, they have to get camels. And they race them across the desert to Hamonoptera. Yeah. Yep. And this is another ah moment where I had to look up some technical things.
01:01:32
Speaker
ah So I was like, which are faster, horses or camels? ah So fun fact for everybody. Another of Emma's fun facts, Emma's fun facts.
01:01:43
Speaker
Horses technically are faster in sprints. However, camels have better endurance. So... And they they have better um they have better feet for running on sand.
01:01:57
Speaker
Very true. Very, very true. So the fact that the camels get there first does make sense. Yeah. So they win the bet and they get to Hamonatra and they immediately just start breaking shit.
01:02:11
Speaker
ah Yep. Yep. The Americans find the tomb first, ah but um the Evelyn gets the idea to go below them and dig from underneath instead of from the top.
01:02:25
Speaker
ah So they beat them to the body. And then um is this where we have the first death? Is this with the warden? Um, yep. This is where we get the first death because he is walking around and he sees some scarab, what he thinks are like blue gold scarab like jewels, but are actual scarabs.
01:02:51
Speaker
And they come alive and they dig under his flesh and then they go into his brain. And then, yeah. Katie's fun fact from the commentary Katie's fun fact Katie's fun fact ah And so the guy The actor who was Odid I've already forgotten Yeah Ahmed Jalili um ah imma jali yeah
01:03:20
Speaker
Because he has to rip his shirt open um in the to see so you can see the scarab underneath his skin For whatever reason He wasn't wearing underwear And um his they they had like i think they had there was a reason oh it's because there was it because earlier in the same scene we were supposed they were supposed to see his butt and they cut that out because was just silly um and uh that's what that's what they said in commentary yeah so they cut that out so there was a reason he wasn't wearing underwear but in that scene where he rips his shirt open his like dick kept flopping out in the shot
01:03:55
Speaker
And they had to shoot it like so many times. He said they had to shoot it like five or six times in between every time various wardrobe costume people trying to like tape him up so he wouldn't come flopping out of his pants.
01:04:06
Speaker
But it happened every time. Jesus. Which is. That's very silly. Yeah, it's very silly. But yeah, so it goes up in the scarab eats his brain, which again, they don't do that in real life.
01:04:19
Speaker
But I was absolutely terrified of scarabs when I was like 12 years old. Yeah. But in reality, they just hang out on poop. Well, they there they roll a ball of poop like around. And so the Egyptians thought of them as industrious and hardworking. And the circle but is a symbol of the sun. So that was um you know there's in in mythology...
01:04:44
Speaker
I could be wrong about this because I had like an Egyptology phase around the time I watched this movie, but I didn't look it up. So forgive me if this isn't right, but I believe a scarab wheels the sun across the sky in in ancient Egyptian um mythology.
01:04:58
Speaker
Like in Greek mythology, know, Apollo's chariot carries the sun across the sky. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Anyways. ah Oh, and the Americans also get a death because they find a chest and there they go to open it and the main the guy who's like the bookish guy that's there for Egyptologists. He's like, ah let's maybe ah let the hired help open this.
01:05:28
Speaker
yeah Jonathan is the actor. He's in lots of stuff. yeah he's um He's Cadbury from the Richie Rich movie. Yeah. There you go. ah But he's like, let's like maybe have the hired help do this.
01:05:41
Speaker
Not us because there's a lot of booby traps and don't want to be booby trapped. And so they do. And the hired help die because of the booby trap. um Yeah. And Benny. ah Yeah. oh That's right. That's right. That's right. Yeah. So they so they all get like salt pressurized salt acid kills them whatever.
01:06:00
Speaker
They get their faces. Yeah. Yeah. Then they find the canoptic jars and it's, they read the curse, like, do not open this under any circumstances. Everyone who opens this will be the flesh and body of the returned mummy. And Benny's like, you know what? I'm not going to be here for this. Goodbye. yeah and leave and he's like, deuces.
01:06:19
Speaker
And the Americans open it anyway. Yeah. Because they're like, did they say treasure? So again, it is partially the Americans fault because if Evelyn had read from the book, but that hadn't happened, they hadn't opened the crypt, nothing would happened.
01:06:33
Speaker
Both those things had to happen at the same time in order for him to be reincarnated, for him to be yeah reborn. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's sort of like a a little system.
01:06:44
Speaker
Yeah, and the Egyptologist seems to know this, and that's why he's keeping the book on him. Yeah. But he falls asleep. must not read from the book! He falls asleep, and ah Evelyn steals it from him.
01:06:58
Speaker
Yeah. um Well, he's trying to open it. Oh, that's right. He is trying to open it. Yeah, trying to open it, but it has a very large, like... Keyhole, yeah. Keyhole. And she's like, think you need a key for that.
01:07:10
Speaker
And I know what the key is. um This is actually, we actually skipped over her being drunk and- oh yeah. Almost the same hymn scene, yeah. Yeah. Because they're- The magi come and threaten them and tell them they need to be gone by the morning, um which they ignore. Yeah. Because they're like, treasure. And then Evelyn is ah is getting drunk and that's when she has her proud, like, I'm a librarian.
01:07:38
Speaker
and I'm a librarian. ah ah I'm not I'm not an adventurer. am proud of what I am.
01:07:50
Speaker
um what's that? am a librarian. And now I'm going to kiss you, Mr. O'Connell. Call me Rick. But she passes out before she can kiss him.
01:08:02
Speaker
Yeah. And he does the very sweet, he kisses the air, and he goes... Yeah. It's very cute. But yeah, so it's later that she reads from the the book. Yeah. It's the next day. um Yeah. You must not read from the book!
01:08:17
Speaker
Then immediately a plague of locusts des descend on them and we get the shot of the CGI. Oh, they find that they find the mummy. I forgot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they find the mummy. And it says, ah this guy's cursed.
01:08:28
Speaker
ah If he comes back to life, he will kill everything and bring about the end of the world. So don't do that. And he's still juicy. ah Yeah. Which is not how a mummy should be 3,000 years after being mummified.
01:08:42
Speaker
Yeah. So, yeah, she reads from the book and the plague of locusts descend and then Matep wakes up and we get that great CGI shot of the mummy roaring. Yeah.
01:08:53
Speaker
Which again, like you can tell that it's CGI, but it still looks pretty good. Yeah. you know And it's fun. Yeah, it's fun. That's the thing. Like, yeah if something is fun, like, the an audience will dis will' willll believe. The suspension of disbelief is real, and so many movies, like, think audiences won't buy things, and they really will.
01:09:12
Speaker
Yeah, if you make it fun. I'm in for a dumb fun time. love a dumb fun time. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. So yeah, the mummy comes alive and a plague of locusts comes down and everyone's like, oh fuck, this doesn't seem good.
01:09:28
Speaker
And everyone's running in the, uh, cause they're trying to get away from the locusts. So everybody goes inside Hamonatra, which was the wrong choice because that's where the mummy is.
01:09:40
Speaker
And the mummy finds his first American to harvest organs. Yes. Yes. um Mr. Daniels the one with glasses um ah sweet guy is Corey Johnson and he he falls and break and Benny steps on his glasses and steals his torch but he's such a shit yeah Benny sucks and the mummy and we see the mummy and the mummy like steals his eyes and tongue so he can see and speak ah but they rescue him and he's just you know
01:10:17
Speaker
got bandages over his eyes and stuff. hu and ah Rachel Weisz finds him actually, and she has the encounter with the mummy um where he thinks that she's Aung Sanamun, or he knows that he can use her to um to rein reincarnate Aung Sanamun. And I think he knows that she raised him.
01:10:36
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. yeah Yeah. um And you also get the really yeah fabulous shot where... Brendan Fraser, because they lose Evelyn because she gets accidentally trap-doored.
01:10:49
Speaker
And then they're like, how do we open this damn trap door? And Brendan Fraser and her brother come running in and they're like, there you are, Evelyn. Now's not the time to go ah hiding.
01:11:00
Speaker
And she's staring at the mummy and... The mummy screams at Brendan Fraser and Brendan Fraser screams back. And it's, it's great fun. And shoots him with a shotgun and not imp blows him in half. Yeah. Yeah. And he goes, it's all right. his Got him.
01:11:15
Speaker
This is the balance that, that the movie walks so well. Like they talk about, they cut, they to cut a lot of humor out of the movie because it was too much and it didn't fit with the tone. um I think they did a really good job because it's not, it's, it's, it's jokey, but it's not like,
01:11:30
Speaker
overly jokey in the way that the marvel movies became where it's kind of eye rolling this has got a really good blend of like horror and romance and comedy i think yeah gotta love it gotta love it um and so yeah they all escape um and they're reading about the plagues and stuff and he's like yeah fuck this we gotta get out of here yeah yeah yeah they go back to cairo And um they're like, OK, time to leave. And Evelyn's like, no, I'm staying.
01:12:03
Speaker
I'm going to fight this thing. Now's my moment. I'm going to be a hero. And he's like, cool, deuces. You do you. I'm out of here. going go save my own skin. And I mean, realistically, he could have just left and been fine.
01:12:19
Speaker
Meteorites are striking, Cairo. Like, ah the plagues are coming. Water's turning to play blood. Yeah. Yeah, the um the eclipse a solar eclipse happens, like the Plague of Dark. um We meet Winston, who is a washed-up World War I soldier. Yeah, he's the pilot.
01:12:36
Speaker
ye Yep, yep. And he's just always getting drunk. oh Just hanging out, getting drunk. we ah the and then oh Oh, we forgot, back in Hominoptera, the mummy runs into Benny.
01:12:50
Speaker
And we have this great where Benny keeps holding up various religion religious icons from a necklace on his neck and saying something in different languages, praying in different languages.
01:13:02
Speaker
And finally, when he gets to Judaism, he says something in Hebrew and Imhotep recognizes this as the language of the slaves. yeah And ah he speaks Hebrew and so he can communicate with Benny.
01:13:14
Speaker
And he says, I will take you. I need some help. Yeah. The Jewish people... were enslaved in exactly in uh in ancient yeah yeah um they wrote a book about it um you may have heard of it um it's called bible um but only the first part bible part one bible part one yeah um well i mean the book of exodus specifically i suppose is what i should have said yeah yeah bible part one yeah bible part one um ah the um So then he starts picking off the Americans, basically. yeah Benny invites the guy with no eyes and tongue to to meet the prince.
01:13:53
Speaker
And he does. And says, and he thanks you for your eyes and your tongue. And then he, like like, rips all his skin off. Yeah. Yeah. And he's putting himself back together. Yeah. Yeah, he's putting them back together by, like, sucking out their life juices is the best way to describe it.
01:14:08
Speaker
Yeah. Sucking out their life juices. He needs the canopic jars, too. and The Americans have those because they looted them from the thing. Yeah. um Because they have his organs in them, the canopic jars. yeah But the main thing is that they're trying to prevent him from killing off all the Americans also because he's technically weaker without when he's not fully regenerated.
01:14:32
Speaker
Right, right, right. once he has killed off all the Americans and he is fully... Emotep. ah Everybody's fucked, essentially. Yes, exactly. Yeah. So, um and we learn, he while he is not ah fully reincarnated, he's scared of kitty cats.
01:14:52
Speaker
Because they're the guardians of the underworld. Because they're the guardians of the underworld. And it's so cute. And so conveniently, we have a cat. ah um Yeah, we do. And this is why, i mean, you have to have a reason why he doesn't just kill all of them, you know? That's true. Yeah. um They are protected by the cat um and they're trying to protect Evelyn because we realized that we talked to the Egyptologist and we find out that, um not the Egyptologist, the head of the Cairo Museum.
01:15:17
Speaker
We find out that he's a member of the Magi and they explain that he wants to sacrifice her to bring back Hongsu the moon. Like we have to protect her. So he's picking off the the Americans one by one um and turns into sand to go through the keyhole yeah ah to where they locked her.
01:15:36
Speaker
Very shot. kisses her while she's sleeping. Like, she gets kissed against her will twice in this movie. Like, so many times. And while he's kissing her, his face, was like, falls apart, which is And his dead mouth, yeah. Yeah, dead mouth. And he he just ate a scarab, too, so, you know. Yeah, and mean, like, can you think how gross that breath is, too?
01:15:54
Speaker
Oh, for sure. Bro hasn't brushed his teeth in how long? Yeah, 3,000 years. Yeah. um ah So um then Brendan Fraser shows up with the cat to scare him off.
01:16:05
Speaker
Yeah, he goes, look at what I got. And the cat goes, shh. Yeah. ah But he gets, so then they're in a they're they're in a chase. They go to the museum because they need to find out where, because they they confused the book of the dead and the book of life, the gold book versus the black book.
01:16:24
Speaker
So they go to the museum to read it off this big stone tablet so ah Evelyn can figure out because she's like, the the scholars switch the two books. So wherever it says the book of the dead is, that's where the book of life is and we need to find that.
01:16:37
Speaker
Yeah, because that's that's what will kill him. they They discover that because they run in to her boss and she's like, what are you doing with Hottie McCotpants, Majai guy?
01:16:48
Speaker
And he's like, we're all supposed to prevent this from happening and we suck at our job. So whoopsie daisies. didn't burn the map well enough. yep i didn't burn the map well enough uh and so i guess how are we gonna do this and they all brainstorm and evelyn's like yep this is what book of the life will kill him so they have to go back to hamunaptra they have a ah car chase through yeah cairo um followed by zombies
01:17:19
Speaker
yeah we lose Yeah, the zombies. ah Jonathan gets the car going ah by blending in with the zombies by just chanting Imhotep. It's very funny. mota They have the last American with them that they're trying to protect, but he gets ripped out of the car and eaten, which means Imhotep is whole. So they have to beat him back to the temple and find um they find the treasure, finally, the treasure of Hamanoptera, and they also find the book there.
01:17:48
Speaker
Yeah. But Benny and the mummy are there too. Yeah. Because what ends up happening is um they get cornered by Emotep and Benny. Oh, right. I forgot. yeah Yeah.
01:18:02
Speaker
They get cornered. And um he's like, come with me, Anoxone and knockx out on the moon. Actually, you're going to be my human sacrifice. and Rick is like, absolutely the fuck not. She's my human sacrifice for my dick.
01:18:16
Speaker
And... I don't care for that at all.
01:18:24
Speaker
Go get your girl, Industries, does not approve this message. Does not to approve this message. and um And Evelyn's like, well, I got to get to Hamonoptera one way or another.
01:18:35
Speaker
And I guess if I go with him, they won't kill everybody. she's like, okay. says he won't. He says, I'll spare your friends if you give if you come with me to Hamonoptera. So she agrees to go with him. And then the zombies come at them anyway.
01:18:48
Speaker
because he says kill them all. Yeah, but the um ah the the head of the Cairo Museum holds them off long enough for them to escape into the sewers and get away. Yeah, he sacrifices himself. Yeah, he dies too.
01:19:01
Speaker
And they get to Hamonoptera. So Evelyn and Benny and Imhotep go to Hamonoptera in a big old sandstorm tornado. Yeah.
01:19:11
Speaker
And ah the boys get to Hamonoptera via Winston and his ancient... airplane yeah well i don't know if it's ancient it's ancient now don't think it was ancient in 1926 yeah no no no but uh it's not big enough for everybody so they problem solve and they strap uh two of them to just some to the wings jonathan and ardeth get strapped to the wings and rick some for some reason gets a seat maybe they drew straws i don't know yeah yeah uh but also it's rick's friend so uh he totally gets he gets claimsies
01:19:49
Speaker
um So they, um so Imhotep tries to crash their plane with a sandstorm. Yep. um This is where Aung Sanamun kisses him to distract him, right?
01:20:00
Speaker
Yeah. You mean Rachel? What did I say? You said Aung Sanamun. Oh, Evelyn kisses him to distract him, cutting off the tornado, allowing them to to still crash but live.
01:20:13
Speaker
um ah But unfortunately, poor Winston, who wanted to die gloriously in the war, yeah which is what he wanted. Which is what he wanted. And you get unrealistic um quicksand as he goes down and everybody gives him a little salute.
01:20:28
Speaker
Quicksand doesn't exist in the desert and doesn't doesn't blow anybody down at all anyway. Yep. Yep. But this quicksand swallows an entire airplane. It's the movies, you know? Yeah. um The yeah, yeah i I remember I think i I've talked about been rewatching myth Mythbusters on here. i remember yeah there's a Mythbusters where Adam Savage is literally trying to drown himself in quicksand and just can't you can't do it. It's almost impossible to get killed in quicksand. Yeah.
01:20:55
Speaker
Because it's just watery sand. Yeah, well, I mean, the thing is, you're still buoyant enough to not not go down. like yeah And it's actually more buoyant because there's so much sand in the water. Yeah.
01:21:07
Speaker
Yeah. I remember reading one of those, like, survival books um that you could buy. and like burns The worst case scenario survival handbook? And, like, what happens if you're in quicksand? And it was like, just go on your back.
01:21:20
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Just float. Yeah. So... so Then, so they get to the temple. Emotep is raising his guards to fight them. There's this really elaborate sequence where Rick is fighting the zombie priests and knocking their heads off and everything. It's a really elaborate one shot. can't imagine having to shoot that thing. God, sounds like nightmare. Yeah, so fucking fun.
01:21:51
Speaker
Yeah. um And he rescues Evelyn. um ah Jonathan finds the book, but can't open it because Imhotep has the key. Yep.
01:22:03
Speaker
Oh, and before this, they were head Magi Hottie McCotpants. And Jonathan and Rick were trapped in ah like one of the little tombs in the tomb and all the zombies were coming at them.
01:22:21
Speaker
And what's his name? Hottie Macaac pants of Magi decides that he's going to sacrifice himself. Oh, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Save the girl. Kill the creature. And then he goes and sacrifices himself.
01:22:34
Speaker
He goes and fights the the priests. Yeah. But but spoiler alert, he lives. yeah um Yeah, which we've already seen. Jonathan ah reads the cover of the book and is able to control the priests to stop yeah attacking them.
01:22:48
Speaker
They get the key, open the book. They're able read the curse and the... ah he's they're able to read the the curse and the um the the ghostly chariot comes and whisks Imhotep's soul away.
01:23:03
Speaker
Meanwhile, Benny is... Rick is disappointed. Benny is in the treasure room, just running treasure back and forth to the camels, one load after another. Just really taking advantage of all this free time.
01:23:17
Speaker
Not involved in this at all. Nope. So... Imhotep is still there and comes to kill Rick, but Rick stabs him and he dies because he yeah became mortal. mortal. Because he's like, I thought you said that would kill him.
01:23:30
Speaker
and right as he stabs him, she goes, well, he's mortal now. And then he walks backward into some weird black liquid. Some of the worst CGI in the yeah in the movie is the the pool of of faces that he gets yeah sucked into. Yeah.
01:23:47
Speaker
And he disintegrates back to yeah the original skeleton. And it's very cool. And so then then they're like, great. I'm so glad that we just survived this awful thing. Let's leisurely leave the city of the dead.
01:24:04
Speaker
Nope. Benny, dumbass Benny, was filling up some saddlebags and they got too heavy. So he rests the saddlebags on a thing.
01:24:15
Speaker
On a convenient looking switch. Yeah. Is a switch. Yes. It is a kill switch for Hamonoptera. Which I don't know. Maybe they should have done this kill switch ages ago. Yeah.
01:24:29
Speaker
Yeah. It closes up the temple basically is what happens. And so then they all have to escape the temple as walls and doors are closing in on them. Yep. Um, they, they barely make it. Jonathan drops the book, of course.
01:24:42
Speaker
Yeah, ah of course he does. It's the first thing he does. And, uh, and then like thinks about trying to take some treasure, but, uh, but gets, gets talked out of it immediately. They're running. Um, uh, Rick tries to save Benny, uh, but he can't reach him.
01:24:58
Speaker
and Benny gets locked in the temple and all the scarabs come to eat him. Yep. Yep. Because scarabs can also see your soul. And they know Benny's a bad bone.
01:25:11
Speaker
Yeah, bad bone? Bad bone? Bad to the bone? He's a bad bone. Bad bone. but um They escape the temple and they um they go out into the sunlight. Ardith Bay is there. They're like, hey, you survived. thanks That's great. You were so That's so good.
01:25:27
Speaker
Yay! And then, Jonathan, we lost all of that treasure. We, of course, come out empty-handed ah once again. and Rick looks to Evelyn.
01:25:39
Speaker
Evelyn looks to Rick. And he goes, I wouldn't say that. And then they kiss! And they kiss. And John Hanna rolls his eyes. And they get onto their camels. And they ride off into the sunset. And we see one of the camels they took was Benny's camel, which had a bunch of loaded the back of it.
01:25:57
Speaker
yeah the end the mummy the mummy but they do the the kiss is one of my favorite um on-screen kisses of all time because it's so sweet because it's like romantic it's swoon worthy and then they do this little like nose like yeah nuzzle touch their noses like touch their foreheads together yeah and it's so cute it's so cute i fucking love it uh but yeah that's the mummy we love it um ah a plus movie um yeah one of my favorite movies of all time um super fun every time i see it yeah yeah no notes love it love it in fact that's what uh charlie's corner charlie's charlie's corner i come up uh he did say notes
01:26:45
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Better than The Decoy Bride, which is as we know on
Praise for 'The Mummy' and Its Impact
01:26:49
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this podcast, a high praise from Charles. His favorite film of all time. Yeah. Actually, his favorite film of all time is Basketball.
01:26:56
Speaker
um But we gave up on that scale or yeah ages ago. yeah On a level from Ozone to Basketball. Ozone to Basketball. forgot the first movie. yeah Ozone. So I guess Beyond Basketball.
01:27:12
Speaker
Beyond basketball. Yeah. Yeah. um Not much else to say. i think No. I mean, if you have not watched this movie, stop what you're doing right now.
01:27:25
Speaker
Yes, you know exactly what happens, but go watch it because it is ah treasure. And as you can tell from two people that have ah seen this movie thousands of times, you can rewatch this so many times and it just makes you feel good.
01:27:42
Speaker
I took almost no notes because partially because I was watching the commentary and it's even harder to listen to a commentary and watch a movie and take notes at the same time. yeah And I've seen this movie so many times I don't really need notes. Yeah. Yeah. we do What you did not see was both Katie and I did this from memory.
01:27:59
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Oh, yeah. Big time. Yeah. And the listeners of the podcast will know Katie's memory. Not always so great. ah I did.
01:28:09
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i did watch it last night right before bed. Nice. Nice. Yeah. so still fresh in your mind. try to watch these movies as close as possible because I will forget them immediately. Like i remember, I can remember the track listing off of a CD I had in 1995, but I can't remember a movie I saw an hour ago.
01:28:30
Speaker
Yeah. Hey, you know, your brain is, it's taking different bits and claiming what's special. Yeah, I prioritize different things, yeah. And the things that i prioritize are stupid shit that doesn't matter. That's what I remember.
01:28:45
Speaker
Yeah. That's okay. Yay! All right! Yeah. So what are we watching tonight next time? ah Next time we are watching see katie Katie suggested one movie and I was like, oh, no, too scary.
01:29:04
Speaker
No, we're going watch it next year. We have to watch it next year now. Can't get out of it two years in a row. Too scary. But also, do need to take advantage that the horror genre is not just an American genre. It is a worldly genre. For sure. Yeah, we totally should do a foreign movie. Yeah.
Introduction to 'Train to Busan'
01:29:21
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Yeah, we are doing Train to Busan, which I've wanted to watch forever. Oh, you haven't seen it. No, I've never seen it. Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Train to Busan is good. Yeah. um Korean zombie movie.
01:29:33
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Very, very fun. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing. Shall we outro? Let's outro. love it. We also blocked off like three hours for this movie.
01:29:46
Speaker
We got it done in probably less time. It's not our longest episode. Our longest episode is still Pride and Prejudice, I think. Yeah. Oh, really? That's because we spent 20 minutes talking about improv.
01:29:58
Speaker
We spent a lot of time thinking about talking about improv. Yeah.
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01:30:54
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