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The Mummy taglines:The sands will rise. The heavens will part. The power will be unleashed.
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| IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 out of 90,734 votes |
“The Mummy” 1999 by Stephen Sommers – Movie Goofs
“The Mummy” Plot Summary
An American serving in the French Foreign Legion on an archaeological dig at the ancient city of Hamunaptra accidentally awakens a Mummy. add synopsis
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“The Mummy” Goofs List
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Beni is bringing bags of treasure out of the city of the Dead, he loads the bags on camels. The camels were left behind by the French Foreign Legionnaires, as explained in the novel, though the camels would likely not have survived as long if the Legionnaires abandoned their camels in 1923 and expeditions came back in 1926. And the camels shown are not likely to be those of the expeditions, as only five people among them (O’Connell, Evelyn, Jonathan, the Warden, and Beni) rode camels. The rest rode horses, with the exception of the Egyptologist, who rode a donkey.
- Errors in geography: In the opening shot of Thebes, pyramids are visible, but there were no pyramids built around Thebes.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Beni jumps out of the window and breaks it. When Imhotep breathes out the flies, Rick and Jonathan close the unbroken shutters, not the broken window.
- Revealing mistakes: Although the 2,000-year-old mummy of Anck-Su-Namun is dead, you can see a pulse beating in her neck under the bandages and again when Imhotep passes his hand over her face.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Rick, Jonathan, Winston and the Americans are sitting at the bar in Fort Brydon (after the introduction of Winston), you can see a crew member looking at his watch on the very left side of the screen.
- Continuity: When Rick and Evelyn argue about leaving Egypt and she slams the suitcase on his hand, he grabs a stuffed animal and exits the room with it. Outside the door to the room it is gone.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: While on the boat, O’Connell confronts Beni. You hear the sound of a handgun being cocked. Yet, when the .45 is shown, the hammer is still down.
- Factual errors: O’Connell repeatedly fires more than six shots from a six-shot revolver without reloading. Daniels also fires 12 shots on the boat.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When the lid is taken off Imhotep’s coffin, Evie looks at the carving- Death Is Only The Beginning. The beetles presumably ate away his bandages, freeing his hands.
- Crew or equipment visible: In the opening scene where Rick & Beni are crouching behind the wall with their buddies ready to shoot the approaching armed horsemen and the camera is panning along the side of the galloping horsemen. In the background is a quite visible camera stand and two camera operators shooting the scene from another angle.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: At the time, regular air travel consisted mainly of mail routes, which would have little reason to fly over (and thus see) the city of the dead.
- Continuity: Notice the gunshot-wound that one the Americans of O’Connell’s entourage has in the car-chase sequence when he is unsuccessfully fighting off Imhotep’s followers in the village. The scene in which it was established that he got shot was cut from the movie when it turned out to be too long. (Source: director’s commentary on DVD-release)
- Factual errors: When Evelyn and Rick climb down into the vault under the statue, Evelyn uses mirrors to illuminate the chamber. You see the light passing from one mirror to the next. The speed of light is way too fast to be tracked like that.
- Revealing mistakes: When Evie and Rick are running from the flaming balls falling from the sky in the courtyard of the fort, the light is too bright for an overcast day (which we can see that it is from the shots of the sky).
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Imohtep is scared by the cat on the piano, you see the cat’s paws hit the piano keys. The last pitch played does not match the corresponding key that the cat stepped on.
- Continuity: When the Americans and the British are racing to the City of the Dead, the sun is behind the city. Their shadow goes off to the left, meaning that the sun is to the right of them. If they were racing towards the city their shadow should be behind them.
- Revealing mistakes: When Imhotep has “eaten” the blonde haired man, and the bug crawls up his face, you can see the edges of the appliance used to create the CG holes in his skin.
- Factual errors: The “Royal Air Corps” has never existed. It was the Royal Flying Corps until 1918 and has been the Royal Air Force ever since.
- Factual errors: When they seek Winston’s help, the Victrola is playing at 33 rpm. Victrolas only play at 78 rpm; long-playing (33 rpm) records did not appear until the ’50s.
- Continuity: While Rick, Jonathan and Ardeth are shooting Imhotep’s priests in the treasure room, Jonathan switches from the left side of Rick to the right side of him.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The term “salt acid” is used; while no longer in use, this is an old name for hydrochloric acid. The term is also still used for salts of partially neutralized polyprotic acids, as NaHSO4 or NaHCO3.
- Continuity: When O’Connell flies back to Hamunaptra he is wearing a black scarf around his neck. In the following scenes the scarf disappears then returns a few times.
- Continuity: When the warden who gets the beetle in his brain runs into the wall, his shirt is untucked. The camera changes angle and it is tucked in.
- Continuity: When Beni is looking for the black book in the office, he gets caught by O’Connell. When they are standing under the fan, you hear the scream of the Egyptologist. They all look toward the camera but when Beni runs out the window behind them, the Egyptologist is there.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Pharaoh’s guards lock Imhotep in the sarcophagus by turning the knob to the left. Later, when Jonathan, Evelyn and Rick are opening the sarcophagus, they also turn the knob to the left. Apparently that’s how the locking mechanism works.
- Continuity: Rick places Evie’s clothes in her suitcase. Evie grabs them out and puts them on the bench in the background. Later, she walks right in front of the bench and the clothes are gone.
- Continuity: Near the very end of the movie (just after Imhotep becomes mortal again), O’Connell runs Imhotep through with a very large sword. Imhotep’s hands are placed over the wound, then taken away. As he looks at his hands, he sees blood, and the blood has run through his fingers to the backs of his hands. When he places his hands over the wound again, there is no blood visible on the backs of his hands or on his body.
- Crew or equipment visible: During the car chase through Cairo, film lights can be seen.
- Revealing mistakes: When the American “cowboys” are shooting at the Medji on the boat, they are all wearing earplugs.
- Continuity: When Rick and Evelyn are traversing a tunnel in the city of the dead (near the beginning of the movie), Rick is wearing a leather band around his wrist which disappears and reappears between shots.
- Anachronisms: The codex-style books (pages, covers and binding) were not invented until the Roman Empire. Ancient Egyptians used scrolls. Therefore the Book of the Dead or book of Amun-Ra should not look like modern ‘books’ at all.
- Continuity: In the library, Evelyn drops a book from the top of the ladder, but in the next shot, it is nowhere in sight, and we never hear it hit the ground.
- Continuity: When Jonathan is attacked by the insect, Rick rips Jonathan’s shirt open and cuts the bug from his shoulder. When we see them later on walking down into the gold-filled chamber, Jonathan’s shirt is intact.
- Revealing mistakes: When the yellow car pulls up to the hotel, the wheels on the car are not turning.
- Revealing mistakes: When Evelyn is on the ladder unsupported by a bookcase, the stunt double is obvious, especially by his shoes.
- Factual errors: In the film, Seti I, the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty, is killed by Anck Su Namun, whereas, in fact, the historical Seti I died peacefully in his summer palace in the Nile Delta in 1279 B.C.
- Continuity: Just before the warden is killed you can see Rick’s right wrist without his leather band, and his band-less wrist has no tattoo.
- Continuity: In the mummy prep room, the warden picks up his things twice.
- Continuity: When Jonathan gets the beetle in his shoulder and Rick pries it out with the knife, the shot shows Rick shoving the knife into Jonathan’s shoulder; however, in the next shot, Jonathan has no evidence of a bandage or blood anywhere on his shoulder. He also appears to have full mobility of his arm.
- Continuity: When Rick enters the room after Imhotep has killed Burns, he has only one gun out and ready. After the cutaway to Imhotep regenerating in front of the fire place, Rick has both guns out and ready.
- Crew or equipment visible: Wh
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