Ah, 1999. One of film’s greatest years. It was even a great year for popcorn fun as Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz took the world by storm in The Mummy from Universal Studios.
Unwrapping The Mummy
Universal Studios is well known for their early horror cycle. In the early 90s, Universal started looking to refresh The Mummy. By the late 90s, the movie was off and running. With Fraser and Weisz in the lead roles, The Mummy took an old school approach. Set in the 1920s, Evelyn (Weisz) is looking for the lost city Hamunaptra. She recruits prisoner Rick O’Connell to aid her on the quest. Evelyn, Rick and Evelyn’s brother make the journey and discover the city. The trio encounter another group seeking the city, as well. When the two groups make camp, discoveries soon lead to danger. The group wakes Imhotep who seeks to resurrect his lost love using Evelyn’s body.
Our movie analysis of The Mummy is ripe with discussions of form and function. Arthur and Dustin expound on the phrase “paint by numbers” and why it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Dalton brings up both Hollywood’s consumerism and colonialism’s role in cinema. We also couldn’t talk about this movie without discussing the MCU and Universal’s Dark Universe experiment.
But all of that analysis comes after our quick reviews and syllabus expansion.
Tune in now before the plagues come!
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