UnquietDreams
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Day 16: Best movie from a franchise
Again, so many to choose from, and so many I love. So here is The Mummy, from 1999. I love a good, supernatural story. I love a good adventure film. I love a fantastic take on the 1940s Universal movies done by a studio that can put up a good budget. And yes, I love a good romance -- I am a romantic. I love the cast -- Rachel Weisz, Brendan Fraser, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr, the incredible Bernard Fox, and the always perfect Kevin J. O'Connor. I love the grandeur, the music, the villain, the story -- just a well made, lovingly crafted movie. But mostly because it has one of my favorite characters -- Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan.
She is smart, brave, inquisitive, learned, and full of joy in all of those. In most films, she would be the plucky sidekick. Here, she takes center stage with Fraser's Rick. Not a fighter, not a gunslinger, she is proud of what she is...well, I'll let Evy explain it:
Yes, I have a thing for the librarian.
She isn't a damsel in distress either. She gets captured, but works with everyone else to save the day, using reading as her superpower. She is a wonder. In this movie. I hated the second, where they make her the reincarnation of Nefertiri, who apparently was a martial arts master who used Okinawan sais as her main weapon, a skill Evy suddenly manifests because...crap I don't know. I hated it. They also have a sky ship. Take almost any film and add a pointless sky ship, and it makes everything worse. (A necessary sky ship, with Robert De Niro as the captain is an entirely other story...literally).
The Mummy (1999)
Take that, Bembridge scholars!
Again, so many to choose from, and so many I love. So here is The Mummy, from 1999. I love a good, supernatural story. I love a good adventure film. I love a fantastic take on the 1940s Universal movies done by a studio that can put up a good budget. And yes, I love a good romance -- I am a romantic. I love the cast -- Rachel Weisz, Brendan Fraser, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr, the incredible Bernard Fox, and the always perfect Kevin J. O'Connor. I love the grandeur, the music, the villain, the story -- just a well made, lovingly crafted movie. But mostly because it has one of my favorite characters -- Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan.
She is smart, brave, inquisitive, learned, and full of joy in all of those. In most films, she would be the plucky sidekick. Here, she takes center stage with Fraser's Rick. Not a fighter, not a gunslinger, she is proud of what she is...well, I'll let Evy explain it:
Yes, I have a thing for the librarian.
She isn't a damsel in distress either. She gets captured, but works with everyone else to save the day, using reading as her superpower. She is a wonder. In this movie. I hated the second, where they make her the reincarnation of Nefertiri, who apparently was a martial arts master who used Okinawan sais as her main weapon, a skill Evy suddenly manifests because...crap I don't know. I hated it. They also have a sky ship. Take almost any film and add a pointless sky ship, and it makes everything worse. (A necessary sky ship, with Robert De Niro as the captain is an entirely other story...literally).
The Mummy (1999)
Take that, Bembridge scholars!
