It's Ironic that she said "that could have snapped his neck, then that would be the end of the movie" cause the apparatus that he was wearing for that scene failed & he for real was hanged & got seriously hurt during that scene. Got lucky his neck didn't break
And let me tell you. It’s not fun. I accidentally hung myself when I was 9. To this day I do not wear anything with a tight collar because of it. Ties make me especially uncomfortable.
That was a bloody risky stunt to try to pull off perfectly. You'd have thought they'd have ensured that the harness holding his weight wasn't attached to his neck in any way and that the rope around his neck was merely cosmetic. Mind you this is Hollywood we're talking about here and many people have died or been badly injured on set due to negligence.
@@shinrapresident7010 or doing a Kenny McCormick doing a David Carradine
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Brendan Frasier did a lot of EXTREMELY dangerous stunts in his career, though I think this hanging stunt was the worst and like you said he got seriously injured. I believe he had to stay in the hospital for like 6 months and it completely fucked up production. All of the dangerous stunts are actually why he kind of disappeared as an actor, and has only recently come back with hits like The Whale. Everyone wanted him to keep playing these action roles, but his body just wasn't up for it anymore.
Rachel Weisz is gorgeous in this as many folks have rightly pointed out. But Patricia Velasquez as Anck Su Namun was next level, especially in the 2nd movie.
All the times I've watched this, all the reactions I've ever seen, it has never once been pointed out that Imhotec would be half blind. This is why we watch you! Boils and swords! And the sheer delight at all the funny bits. Great reaction.
@@slingblade6858 That's been a nice tie-in, as if it were destined(?) to go full-circle for him. Another "coincidence" in this film regarding that factor whereby actor Jonathan Hyde, who portrayed Dr. Allen Chamberlain, here also appeared in the role of Bruce Ismay in "Titanic".
Jonathan is my favorite character in The Mummy. He's so funny! I love a good cowardly character, and juxtaposing his heroic cowardice (doesn't do much fighting and isn't the bravest) vs Benny's villainous cowardice (spineless backstabbing weasel) really puts him in a good light. He gets some hilarious scenes too, like the boat shoot out "Ah-mericans..." or joining the plagued mob "Immm-hoooo-tepppp!" 🤣🤣🤣
This is where I fell in love with Rachel Weiss. First thing I ever saw her in. And the character Evie is absolutely adorable. Then seeing her in Constantine cinched it. She's awesome.
It's always amazed me how she looks younger in The Mummy (1999) than she does in Stealing Beauty (1996). Hollywood makeup artists and their devilish tricks.
I thought she and John Cusack were perfect together in Runaway Jury. Add in Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman, and you have the best quartet of leads possible. This was the first film I saw her do. She's a wonderful actress, comfortable in her own skin with comedy or drama.
Film trivia: There is a little subtle CGI in one place. When they crawl out of the river after the boat, Rachel Weisz's nightgown showed a little too much due to the water.
I love that Dawn indentifies best with Imhotep and said she would want to be on his side. I've seen many others react to this and have not heard that sentiment until now.
That's what makes The Mummy stand out from many Dark Fantasy/Horror films. It has a sympathetic villain. Yes, Imhotep did many bad things, including murdering the Pharoah, but he did it all for love. And it's difficult not to feel sorry for him when Anck-su-namun does what she does at the end of the second film. I believe this is one of the reasons why the third film isn't nearly as good. Replacing a key actor didn't help either; even though the entire cast are brilliant actors. Also, they should have brought back Freddie Boath and Oded Fehr.
The boat scene was filmed on the river Thames...Not a lot of people know that. lol...There is good chemistry between the two main characters in both films...Brendan Frasier did actually injure his back in the hanging scene. Rachel Weisz is also in an excellent film "Constantine ".
@@rickardroach9075I'm an American and know of the Thames, the famous landmarks along its banks (i.e. Big Ben, Houses of Parliament) and Dynamo walking on its waters. We're not all uneducated savages in the States.
Yes, many of us Americans are quite intelligent and learned. We even go to the trouble of segregating the worst of our nut jobs to one area. It's called Washington DC (District of Crazies).
“How do you make a mummy?” Well, when a boy and a girl like each other, and spend some time together… Wait, your mummy didn’t have that talk with you? 😂
Brendan Fraser nearly died during a scene where his character is hanged. Rachel Weisz remembered, "He [Fraser] stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated." In one scene, Beni is shown with a sackful of gold which he is trying to load onto a camel. Beni pulls the camel by the reins, but the camel doesn't budge. The camels all, for some reason, hated Kevin J. O'Connor. Brendan Fraser was cast due to the success of George of the Jungle (1997). Stephen Sommers also commented that he felt Fraser fit the Errol Flynn swashbuckling character he had envisioned perfectly. The actor understood that his character "doesn't take himself too seriously, otherwise the audience can't go on that journey with him." Rachel Weisz was not a big fan of horror films but did not see this film as such. As she said in an interview, "It's hokum, a comic book world." Jonathan Hyde's close-up scene during the locust swarm had to be re-shot several times; he could not keep a straight face with so many locusts crawling all over him. When Evelyn reads the inscription "He who shall not be named" on Imhotep's sarcophagus, the hieroglyphs used are accurate. The inscription actually translates literally as "the one without a name." A mix of both lion and bear roars were used for the yells/screams of Imhotep and the soldier mummies during the climax. Stephen Sommers described his vision of the film as "as a kind of Indiana Jones or Jason and the Argonauts (1963) with the mummy as the creature giving the hero a hard time" The line "think of my children!" given by Beni in the scene aboard the riverboat was ad-libbed by Kevin J. O'Connor. Brendan Fraser did the hanging scene for real and passed out during filming. According to him, Stephen Sommers's only direction was, "Look good, don't die! (shove!) ACTION!" Despite the name, the title character was never mummified. His followers were, but he was subjected to a very different death. The white cat seen in Evelyn's apartment is given no name in the film, but in the movie novelisation the cat's name is revealed to be Cleo. Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris O'Donnell and Matthew McConaughey were considered for the role of Rick O'Connell. However, director Stephen Sommers maintained that Brendan Fraser was always the first choice. Cruise would later star as the lead in the reboot The Mummy (2017). British chat show host Jonathan Ross described the film as "Raiders of the Lost Ark meets The Terminator." The film's cast includes 2 Oscar winners: Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. Ardeth Bey is an anagram of Death by Ra.
@@davidcorriveau8615 yeah electricity expanded pretty quickly in the late 20s and early 30s. But back in the early and mid 20s it was still fairly common to find houses without electricity. Specially outside cities.
Dawn, I just watched this with a different reactor this morning, but because I enjoy your reactions so much, I am watching it again with you. I really enjoy your channel.
I loved the scene where the gang sat in the car facing the crowd. I was thinking exactly the same thing you did. But I saw it in a movie theater and I couldn't hold back. Right when I shouted :"Floor it!" we had the cut scene with the foot slamming on the gas pedal. I couldn't help but whoop loudly when I saw that. There were so many insanely cool one liners in this movie. "You're on the wrong side of the river..." was my personal favorite.
12:22 "Are they there to make sure that nobody brings that bad guy, Discotheque, back?" 😄 "Discotheque." Sure. That's his name. Well, no, Dawn. They're not worried about anyone bringin' _Discotheque_ back, because Disco will never die. 🕺
13:35 -- RE: "How did he have time?!?"; A: It's in the message. "Death is only the beginning," because Mummy stories are a variation on "Undead" ones, like with zombies. The difference is striking though because the mummies can be as driven and purposeful as Imhotep, which is to say even though they don't have brains (or any other organs, including the tongue and eyes) they still have an evil form of Free Will and some kind of plan involving occult mysteries and magic. They're more like the zombies in the "Return of the Evil Dead" B-movies from the 1980s than the George A. Romero shuffling corpses.
15:20 -- RE: "Oh you picked the wrong eyes..."; A: But he doesn't need Eyes to See, Dawn Marie. He only needs them for Cosmetic purpose, because of how they Look, not how well they work. He doesn't need a heart, a brain, most of his body... he's still going.
29:31 "Who stole that? Who took that? Was that you?" That was the loot Beni had loaded onto the camel in his first trip. I don't expect him to be coming back for it, though...
6:16 "It's a _map!"_ It's an extraordinarily _old_ map. It's a _marvel_ that the paper (or, perhaps, papyrus) is still _intact._ It's kind of careless of Evelyn that she's handling it with her bare _hands._
Gr8ly liked your reaction to this. My late wife and I caught this one in the movie theatre upon its release and we both enjoyed it very much as well as BF's other performances dating back to "Encino Man". Debbie (the Mrs) was employed @ a CPA firm for a time and Brendan Fraser happened to be one of the clients there; she met up w/ him on several occasions when he'd pop into the office and @ one point in time she even secured his autograph (this being about when this film premiered), and so for me that notepad-sized sheet of paper is now a special keepsake of which I've "inherited" from her. As an aside, I had a library job position for nearly five yrs, so I certainly can relate to the Evelyn Carnahan character.
This movie marked the "awakening" of many young men! Lol! Such a fantastic film that managesnto hit SO many elements of great film making and a lt auch a high level!
I can confirm the validity if this statement. This movie compelled me to later watch Stealing Beauty just to see Rachel Weisz sunbathing topless by the pool. Also, Liv Tyler (aka Arwen Undómiel of LotR fame) similarly unclothed under a tree.
The Mummy is one of my favorite movies. I love Rachel Weisz as the brainy, beautiful leading lady, Brendan Fraser as the adventurous man of action, and Arnold Vosloo as the chief villain. Also, they did get the mummification practices correct when Evelyn described how ancient Egyptians removed people's brains (minus a slight omission): The embalmers used the hook to also punch a hole in the person's skull so the brain drained out when they were rolled over. And I always get jumpscared when Jonathan is toying around in that damned sarcophagus, no matter how many times I've seen the movie. Side trivia: 1. In the scene introducing her as Ankh-su-namun, model/actress Patricia Velásquez was completely naked with the exception of a loin cloth, a few pieces of jewelry, pasties & body paint (body paint took four hours to apply). 2. Brendan Fraser revealed on a recent episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show” that he had a near-death experience during a stunt gone wrong while filming “The Mummy.” The Oscar winner said he was “choked out accidentally” during the scene in which he had to be hanged from the gallows in the Egyptian prison, which resulted in him being resuscitated by on-set medical personnel. 3. In the desert race to Hamunaptra, you see camels and horses. Horses are faster (on flat land), but camels are adapted to life in the desert. Even though they do eventually have to eat and drink, camels can live off the fat reserves inside their humps, their long eyelashes keep dust out of their eyes, and their feet are big and wide to keep them from sinking into the sand as they move. 4. After Evelyn unknowingly awakens Imhotep by reading The Book Of The Dead (which is actually a funerary scroll in real life) and the locust swarm flies into the encampment at Hamunaptra, the locusts crawling on the Egyptologist are actually grasshoppers that were refrigerated to make them sluggish. On a similar note, the scarabs in real life were merely dung beetles, not vicious flesh eaters.
10 plagues: 1 = water into blood 2 = frogs 3 = lice or gnats 4 = flies 5 = pestilence of livestock 6 = boils and sores 7 = thunderstorm of hail and fire 8 = locusts 9 = three days of darkness 10 = death of the first born son. Locusts eat all the crops = starvation. Cant wait for the reaction to the sequel.
"That could have broke his neck. Then that would have been the end of the movie" It literally almost was. The stunt rigging malfunctioned and Brendan Fraser almost died for real. Paramedics on set had to revive him and he still suffers from the damage he received from doing this and other stunts.
This is a sort-of remake of the classic Universal movie, "The Mummy," starring Boris Karloff. It is in the golden oldie Universal Studio's monster series that includes: "Dracula," "Frankenstein," "The Bride of Frankenstein," "The Invisible Man," "The Wolf Man," and "The Creature From The Black Lagoon." Among others.
@paulnewman7064 Dawn is right not so fun fact for BRENDAN FRASER that stunt were O'connell is hung went awry and he was actually almost hung to death for real 😮 Awesome reaction from DAWN loved how she made the effort to learn all those Egyptian names !!
I’ve studied ancient Egypt. Cats were worshipped and revered because they killed snakes and scorpions that often hid in vases, urns and clothing. The dog statues you mentioned depicted Anubis.
Love your commentary Dawn, and I'm thrilled you got to see the movie. Sarcophagus by the way Dawn. I liked Winston too and loved it when he said "some bloody idiot spilled his drink." Of course I remember "Winston" from some episodes of Hogan's Heroes. And I had such a celebrity crush on Rachel Weisz in this movie she looks like a young Angie Dickinson I remember seeing Angie in a black and white western. Oh because of what you said, we didn't see Benny die. And remember it was Benny, greedy Benny that loaded some gold in the bag. Imotep was so gross tech. That from a friend telling me about a girl that said that is so gross tech. This was back in the 80's. Probably some sort of valleygirl thing. There's an 80's song and movie I think called valleygirl. A California thing by the way. I'm Texan. Thank you Dawn. Oh i got goosebumps in a scene with Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz where Dustin Hoffman just went off script that i think they say he's known for. The movie was Confidence, a 2003 movie. Now thats confidence then again thats where its good to be a mob leader, not wise to refuse.
A fun thriller. Imotep not only wanted his girl, he wanted to rule the world. The treasure at the end was what Benny was stealing while they were fighting.
7:18 Technically yes. Practically, no. It's all about the placement of the knot. On the right or left side of the head, instant neck break. Putting the knot behind the head, means strangulation. 🧐
Not entirely correct, placement of the knot on the left or right does not guarantee a hangmans fracture, for that you have to place the knot at the front. It also depends on if you use the short drop, pole drop, standard drop or long (measured) drop (get the long drop calculations wrong and it can lead to decapitation though.) Ribbentrop, A Nazi executed by the US using standard drop took 20 minutes to die. Pierrepoint using the long drop, is reported to have been able to complete an execution in @ 7 seconds during the Nuremburg executions. There are lots of variables and it is no way as simple as it appears.
There was a professional hangman in my area during the 1920s. He had a custom built portable gallows that could be quickly assembled and disassembled. He didn't charge for his services. After witnessing a hanging go wrong, he studied the procedure in order to provide a quick and relatively painless death. Remember, executions at this time were still held in public in many cities. I have a much older cousin who witnessed a hanging when he was a boy of around twelve. As he described it, there was almost a carnival atmosphere.
The story of Imhotep is actually a tragic love story that spans for centuries. That's why I think the Mummy is the best movie monster from the classic 30's movie monsters.
Sarcophagus is the thing you find mummies in. It's generally accepted to originate from latin meaning "flesh eating". Since the "sarc" part means flesh, you can see how the "eating" part matches the word we use for the body part that we all eat with: esophagus. Just drawing on the pattern here, I'm no etymologist.
Brendan Fraser accidentally got strangled unconscious by that noose for real. The crew thought he was just acting for a few seconds, but fortunately they helped him in time, or else he could have died. The part where this happened was filmed and put in the movie. You'll know it when you see it. That wasn't acting.
A little nerding out for you: Horus is the son of the goddess Isis and the god Osiris. Osiris was killed before Horus was conceived, murdered and dismembered by his jealous brother Set. Isis and her sister searched for all the pieces and put them together, and that was how Isis was able to conceive Horus (mythology can be a little .... eccentric). Horus grew up to avenge his father. Osiris, meanwhile became one of the judges of the dead. Incidentally, I love Evie and her set of priorities, especially when she corrects Beni's translation and when she takes a second after translating where the Gold book is to proclaim: "Take THAT, Bembridge scholars!" A heroine after my own hears, as she is Proud to be a Librarian.
*Can't believe its been 25 years. I remember going to see it in the cinema twice. 2nd time some guy had a seizure after the film finished, people were literally walking over this guy & leaving the theatre whilst he was convulsing on the floor grown adults weren't lifting a finger to help, I was a kid & even I thought it was wrong, we got the usher & I turned him on his side (my brother has epilepsy so I know to do at least that) but I did make the mistake of putting my finger near in his mouth as he started gagging & making choking noises, I end up in A&E getting stitches in my finger lol.*
16:30 "...he'll be his body and everyone will think its just..Benny, but it's actually Imhotep. That might work - that's what I would do..I would take on the body of a.. friend." This is why I really love your channel, these type of hilarious ( to me) stream of consciousness comments (and there are *lots* of them) in every reaction video. No other youtube reacter cracks me up as often as you do. Please keep them coming, thanks!
20:17 He wasn't allowed to have her coz she was owned... They were slaves. So they killed the Pharoah. Which was wrong. But damn. I was sad for him too. And I really feel ya on the bug thing... I cannot look at those scenes with them on Imotep's face. Ugh
A cat was walking across the piano keyboard. Imhotep was afraid of cats before being fully regenerated, because I suppose they could send him back to the land of the dead. After being fully regenerated, though, he had no such fear and only one vulnerability remaining.
They had electricity in 1926, but not everywhere yet, and it was probably still quite common for many people to use oil lamps and such, especially outside the US, Europe, and Japan at the time. It takes time to build up the infrastructure. Heck, people still regularly use oil lamps to this day, especially in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Many Egyptian gods have animal heads and/or animal limbs. And yes, there is at least one cat-headed goddess, Bastet, a protectress goddess who is also a guardian of pregnant women. She started out more of a lioness; is often associated with another cat goddess, Sekhmet. I have visited the shrine of Bastet in the temple complex of Karnak. I am owned by two cats, so it was only proper... Cats were very important in ancient Egypt, as they protected grain against rodents and other pests. But, as cats will do, they snuggled their way into the hearts and hearths of the citizens. There was crown prince of Egypt, Thutmose, who died young. He's remembered by us partly because he had a pet cat, Ta-miu (she-cat), who had her own little sarcophagus when she died. (The younger brother of Thutmose became pharaoh instead. He became famous as Akhenaten, the pharaoh who promoted monotheism on the kingdom. His wife was Nefertiti, who is also famous for her beautiful statue (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti_Bust).
That gold (besides the sunset) that Rick and Evie got away with at the end was courtesy of his good "friend" Beni, who died trying to get even more gold, of course.
Dawn, I loved your reaction to this. Please react to "The Mummy Returns" too, it's just as good as this, the third in the series isn't that good. The beetles are called 'Scarabs' by the way. 🙂
Remember Winston wanted to die honorably in battle to join all his other pilot buddies that died. It was a happy ending for him.
It's Ironic that she said "that could have snapped his neck, then that would be the end of the movie" cause the apparatus that he was wearing for that scene failed & he for real was hanged & got seriously hurt during that scene. Got lucky his neck didn't break
And let me tell you. It’s not fun. I accidentally hung myself when I was 9. To this day I do not wear anything with a tight collar because of it. Ties make me especially uncomfortable.
That was a bloody risky stunt to try to pull off perfectly. You'd have thought they'd have ensured that the harness holding his weight wasn't attached to his neck in any way and that the rope around his neck was merely cosmetic. Mind you this is Hollywood we're talking about here and many people have died or been badly injured on set due to negligence.
@@jasonmest87 Buddy almost David Carradine'd himself.
@@shinrapresident7010 or doing a Kenny McCormick doing a David Carradine
Brendan Frasier did a lot of EXTREMELY dangerous stunts in his career, though I think this hanging stunt was the worst and like you said he got seriously injured. I believe he had to stay in the hospital for like 6 months and it completely fucked up production. All of the dangerous stunts are actually why he kind of disappeared as an actor, and has only recently come back with hits like The Whale. Everyone wanted him to keep playing these action roles, but his body just wasn't up for it anymore.
Rachel Weisz is gorgeous in this as many folks have rightly pointed out. But Patricia Velasquez as Anck Su Namun was next level, especially in the 2nd movie.
14:18 "What do the locusts DO?" Swarms of locusts don't kill people directly. Instead, they eat all the crops and that eventually causes famine.
You wouldn't want a swarm surrounding you, though. Horror movie-wise, you could get suffocated, even if not in reality.
11:58 "New fear unlocked." Lmao 🤣
All the times I've watched this, all the reactions I've ever seen, it has never once been pointed out that Imhotec would be half blind.
This is why we watch you!
Boils and swords! And the sheer delight at all the funny bits. Great reaction.
Bernard Fox (Winston) was a wonderful character actor who was all over television in the 60s, 70s, and beyond.
Best known as Dr. Bombay from Bewitched
@@Rainbow.Pegacorn.CosplayAnd Col. Crittenden in Hogan's Heroes
Archibald Gracie IV in "Titanic".
@@craigtalbott731 Interestingly, he also played a part in "A Night to Remember", the 1956 version of Titanic.
@@slingblade6858 That's been a nice tie-in, as if it were destined(?) to go full-circle for him. Another "coincidence" in this film regarding that factor whereby actor Jonathan Hyde, who portrayed Dr. Allen Chamberlain, here also appeared in the role of Bruce Ismay in "Titanic".
The actress playing Evelyn, Rachel Weiss, is married to Daniel Craig, James Bond.
I know, lucky son of b*****
Benoit Blanc, if you please. ;)
Jonathan is my favorite character in The Mummy. He's so funny! I love a good cowardly character, and juxtaposing his heroic cowardice (doesn't do much fighting and isn't the bravest) vs Benny's villainous cowardice (spineless backstabbing weasel) really puts him in a good light. He gets some hilarious scenes too, like the boat shoot out "Ah-mericans..." or joining the plagued mob "Immm-hoooo-tepppp!" 🤣🤣🤣
I have to say that Benny is my favourite greaseball character. He's just so dependably slimy, and funny.
"or joining the plagued mob 'Disccc-oooo-techhhhh!' "
@@ronweber1402 "Think of my children!"
"You don't have any children."
"Some day I might..."
This is where I fell in love with Rachel Weiss. First thing I ever saw her in. And the character Evie is absolutely adorable. Then seeing her in Constantine cinched it. She's awesome.
It's always amazed me how she looks younger in The Mummy (1999) than she does in Stealing Beauty (1996). Hollywood makeup artists and their devilish tricks.
I thought she and John Cusack were perfect together in Runaway Jury. Add in Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman, and you have the best quartet of leads possible. This was the first film I saw her do. She's a wonderful actress, comfortable in her own skin with comedy or drama.
Film trivia: There is a little subtle CGI in one place. When they crawl out of the river after the boat, Rachel Weisz's nightgown showed a little too much due to the water.
If you look closely at the scorpion king in the next film, there's a little subtle cgi there too.
@@dannykent6190👏👏👏👏
Love how you get boils and swords instead of boils and sores.
same way you get 72 Virginians instead of 72 Virgins
The actor who was supposed to play the magi was meant to die in the film. But they decided to bring him back for the ending so we can have a sequel.
I think you mean the character of the magi was meant to die. It's a bold move to plan to actually kill the actor.
@@Logan_Baron thetemplar08, are you saying alec baldwin worked on the mummy
I will always hear 'Discotheque' from now on when any reference to this movie is made.
Well done Dawn, well done you.
"You picked the wrong eyes, he's blind" 15:18 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love that Dawn indentifies best with Imhotep and said she would want to be on his side. I've seen many others react to this and have not heard that sentiment until now.
That's one of the things I love about Dawn. You are guaranteed a unique take.
That's what makes The Mummy stand out from many Dark Fantasy/Horror films. It has a sympathetic villain. Yes, Imhotep did many bad things, including murdering the Pharoah, but he did it all for love. And it's difficult not to feel sorry for him when Anck-su-namun does what she does at the end of the second film. I believe this is one of the reasons why the third film isn't nearly as good. Replacing a key actor didn't help either; even though the entire cast are brilliant actors. Also, they should have brought back Freddie Boath and Oded Fehr.
16:53 Oh Lordy, I don't think I've ever seen anyone struggle so much to suppress a spittake! Good work, Dawn ;)
At 7:35 "she's very pretty." 😃 Rachel Weisz is very pretty, and married to Mr. James Bond, Daniel Craig.
The boat scene was filmed on the river Thames...Not a lot of people know that. lol...There is good chemistry between the two main characters in both films...Brendan Frasier did actually injure his back in the hanging scene. Rachel Weisz is also in an excellent film "Constantine ".
Rachel Weisz is also incredible in The Fountain, with Hugh Jackman
Wouldn't matter if people knew, because most people don't even know what the river of Thames is.
@@GutslingerBy “most people” you must mean Americans. 🙄 I’m Australian and I know the River Thames runs through London, England.
@@rickardroach9075I'm an American and know of the Thames, the famous landmarks along its banks (i.e. Big Ben, Houses of Parliament) and Dynamo walking on its waters. We're not all uneducated savages in the States.
Yes, many of us Americans are quite intelligent and learned. We even go to the trouble of segregating the worst of our nut jobs to one area. It's called Washington DC (District of Crazies).
The box the mummy was buried in is called a sarcophagus, which means "flesh eater". Creepy.
“How do you make a mummy?”
Well, when a boy and a girl like each other, and spend some time together…
Wait, your mummy didn’t have that talk with you? 😂
Ah yes, "Imhotech"... Sounds like some ancient Egyptian software corporation
Isn't that where the guys work in Office Space?
Yeah I don't think IMHO was into TECH much.
@misterno-ice-guy8082 Good one there mate 🤣 clearly the Egyptians were ahead in technology !! lol 😆👍
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Imhotech was the corporation that really built the pyramids with their advanced technology
Brendan Fraser nearly died during a scene where his character is hanged. Rachel Weisz remembered, "He [Fraser] stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated."
In one scene, Beni is shown with a sackful of gold which he is trying to load onto a camel. Beni pulls the camel by the reins, but the camel doesn't budge. The camels all, for some reason, hated Kevin J. O'Connor.
Brendan Fraser was cast due to the success of George of the Jungle (1997). Stephen Sommers also commented that he felt Fraser fit the Errol Flynn swashbuckling character he had envisioned perfectly. The actor understood that his character "doesn't take himself too seriously, otherwise the audience can't go on that journey with him."
Rachel Weisz was not a big fan of horror films but did not see this film as such. As she said in an interview, "It's hokum, a comic book world."
Jonathan Hyde's close-up scene during the locust swarm had to be re-shot several times; he could not keep a straight face with so many locusts crawling all over him.
When Evelyn reads the inscription "He who shall not be named" on Imhotep's sarcophagus, the hieroglyphs used are accurate. The inscription actually translates literally as "the one without a name."
A mix of both lion and bear roars were used for the yells/screams of Imhotep and the soldier mummies during the climax.
Stephen Sommers described his vision of the film as "as a kind of Indiana Jones or Jason and the Argonauts (1963) with the mummy as the creature giving the hero a hard time"
The line "think of my children!" given by Beni in the scene aboard the riverboat was ad-libbed by Kevin J. O'Connor.
Brendan Fraser did the hanging scene for real and passed out during filming. According to him, Stephen Sommers's only direction was, "Look good, don't die! (shove!) ACTION!"
Despite the name, the title character was never mummified. His followers were, but he was subjected to a very different death.
The white cat seen in Evelyn's apartment is given no name in the film, but in the movie novelisation the cat's name is revealed to be Cleo.
Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris O'Donnell and Matthew McConaughey were considered for the role of Rick O'Connell. However, director Stephen Sommers maintained that Brendan Fraser was always the first choice. Cruise would later star as the lead in the reboot The Mummy (2017).
British chat show host Jonathan Ross described the film as "Raiders of the Lost Ark meets The Terminator."
The film's cast includes 2 Oscar winners: Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.
Ardeth Bey is an anagram of Death by Ra.
Encino Man and Blast from the Past are two other great Brendan Fraser movies.
Also Airheads, with Adam Sandler and Steve Buscemi
@@LordVolkov I can't believe I forgot Airheads.
@@charactersmoreorthree 🤘🤘
Dawn giggling every time one of the guys gets drained dry. You got a dark sense of humor, girl. 😂😂
I've said it before and I'll say it again: DAWN'S LAUGH IS THE BEST!!!
Totally agree, her laugh and what she laughs at is the best.
Happy 25Th Anniversary Of Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy (1999)
In the 1920s most places (outside of cities) were still switching from gas/oil to electric lighting.
In the US as part of the New Deal the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) brought Electricity to Rural Tennessee (Appalachian MTS) in the 1930's.
@@davidcorriveau8615 yeah electricity expanded pretty quickly in the late 20s and early 30s. But back in the early and mid 20s it was still fairly common to find houses without electricity. Specially outside cities.
Dawn, I just watched this with a different reactor this morning, but because I enjoy your reactions so much, I am watching it again with you. I really enjoy your channel.
How DARE you two-time our Dawn Marie :)
I loved the scene where the gang sat in the car facing the crowd. I was thinking exactly the same thing you did. But I saw it in a movie theater and I couldn't hold back. Right when I shouted :"Floor it!" we had the cut scene with the foot slamming on the gas pedal.
I couldn't help but whoop loudly when I saw that.
There were so many insanely cool one liners in this movie.
"You're on the wrong side of the river..." was my personal favorite.
I always remembered, when this first came out, my college roommate said Rachel Weisz seem to get prettier every scene. It's true!
She looks even more beautiful in the second movie!!!!!
"Disco Tech" ROFL
Mummies be boogieing.
Discotheque. She's European 😉
12:22 "Disco tech" would be silly.
But Dawn clearly said "discotheque", which is a serious response which should be treated respectfully.
"Well you picked the wrong eyes."
Haha. I've seen this movie a dozen times and literally never thought about that. That is funny.
Disco tech His favorite song is staying alive
🎶Walk Like An Egyptian 🎶
Always enjoy watching you watch movies. Your reactions are great fun.
12:25 "That bad guy, Discotech"... I hope your man is smart enough to know what a delight he has on his hands! Absolutely adorable!
The ghost chariot at the end was Anubis
I went to school with Jonathan, Evey's brother aka John Hannah in East Kilbride, although he was a few years older than me :)
This movie is such a timeless treasure. Most definitely in my top 3 of all time, I could watch it any day, any time, anywhere
12:22 "Are they there to make sure that nobody brings that bad guy, Discotheque, back?"
😄 "Discotheque." Sure. That's his name.
Well, no, Dawn. They're not worried about anyone bringin' _Discotheque_ back, because Disco will never die. 🕺
It died in Airplane!
If you want more Brendan Frasier I'd recommend Bedazzled.
Blast from the Past
He was great in Inkheart. I wish they had continued that trilogy. The books were amazing.
@@hjalnelson9579 Journey to the Center of the Earth is a great family friendly popcorn movie
Arnold Vosloo was perfect in this movie. Strange, that he didn't made huge carreer after it.
He's pretty good in the Darkman sequels, taking over for Liam Neeson, but yeah, Vosloo never got a chance to play big lead roles.
He’s an incredible 24 villain
He was good in this movie, and even better in the end scenes in the sequal, The Mummy Returns
I've seen him in a couple of things: Agent Cody Banks as the villain's right hand man, and Cobra's master of disguise Zartan in the GI Joe movies.
13:35 -- RE: "How did he have time?!?"; A: It's in the message. "Death is only the beginning," because Mummy stories are a variation on "Undead" ones, like with zombies. The difference is striking though because the mummies can be as driven and purposeful as Imhotep, which is to say even though they don't have brains (or any other organs, including the tongue and eyes) they still have an evil form of Free Will and some kind of plan involving occult mysteries and magic. They're more like the zombies in the "Return of the Evil Dead" B-movies from the 1980s than the George A. Romero shuffling corpses.
15:20 -- RE: "Oh you picked the wrong eyes..."; A: But he doesn't need Eyes to See, Dawn Marie. He only needs them for Cosmetic purpose, because of how they Look, not how well they work. He doesn't need a heart, a brain, most of his body... he's still going.
I always thought it was funny when Jonathon says "likewise" while hitting a chip shot and the entire roof caves in.
29:31 "Who stole that? Who took that? Was that you?" That was the loot Beni had loaded onto the camel in his first trip. I don't expect him to be coming back for it, though...
This was recently released for it's anniversary. Was still amazing seeing it on the big screen decades later
The legendary mummy discotheque. I think the beegees wrote a song about him stayin alive.
6:16 "It's a _map!"_
It's an extraordinarily _old_ map. It's a _marvel_ that the paper (or, perhaps, papyrus) is still _intact._ It's kind of careless of Evelyn that she's handling it with her bare _hands._
Im-ho-tep! Im-ho-tep! Ra! Ra! Ra!
The visual effects were amazing for 1999.
Glad that you enjoyed this. Now watch The Mummy returns ! xx
3:50 "Omg what am I watching"... as scarab beetles are emptied into Imotep's tomb. 😂
When Beni says more balls than brains. Then Brendan and Beni do that little laugh. "That's my favorite."🤣
Gr8ly liked your reaction to this. My late wife and I caught this one in the movie theatre upon its release and we both enjoyed it very much as well as BF's other performances dating back to "Encino Man". Debbie (the Mrs) was employed @ a CPA firm for a time and Brendan Fraser happened to be one of the clients there; she met up w/ him on several occasions when he'd pop into the office and @ one point in time she even secured his autograph (this being about when this film premiered), and so for me that notepad-sized sheet of paper is now a special keepsake of which I've "inherited" from her. As an aside, I had a library job position for nearly five yrs, so I certainly can relate to the Evelyn Carnahan character.
A warning about The Mummy Returns: a certain scene has been known to awaken special yearnings in some reactors...just, be prepared.
LOL, because of the effect of Imhotep, those scarabs are supercharged scarabs and consume things much faster :)
The Mummy is great and it's very rewatchable because it's multiple genres. There are horror elements, action , romance , and humor.
The second one is a must watch. Imhotep was a real person. He was a doctor and architect and was diefied long after his death.
This movie marked the "awakening" of many young men! Lol! Such a fantastic film that managesnto hit SO many elements of great film making and a lt auch a high level!
I can confirm the validity if this statement. This movie compelled me to later watch Stealing Beauty just to see Rachel Weisz sunbathing topless by the pool. Also, Liv Tyler (aka Arwen Undómiel of LotR fame) similarly unclothed under a tree.
Seriously, "who stole the gold?" as they are riding off in the sunset 😂😂😂 loved your reaction!
That was the gold Benny took out earlier.
@@incogneato790 Yep, Benny had more than enough but he actually went back for a second load, demonstrating that greed really can kill.
I remember when this came out and I saw it in the theater. It was amazing on the big screen.
The Mummy is one of my favorite movies. I love Rachel Weisz as the brainy, beautiful leading lady, Brendan Fraser as the adventurous man of action, and Arnold Vosloo as the chief villain. Also, they did get the mummification practices correct when Evelyn described how ancient Egyptians removed people's brains (minus a slight omission): The embalmers used the hook to also punch a hole in the person's skull so the brain drained out when they were rolled over. And I always get jumpscared when Jonathan is toying around in that damned sarcophagus, no matter how many times I've seen the movie.
Side trivia:
1. In the scene introducing her as Ankh-su-namun, model/actress Patricia Velásquez was completely naked with the exception of a loin cloth, a few pieces of jewelry, pasties & body paint (body paint took four hours to apply).
2. Brendan Fraser revealed on a recent episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show” that he had a near-death experience during a stunt gone wrong while filming “The Mummy.” The Oscar winner said he was “choked out accidentally” during the scene in which he had to be hanged from the gallows in the Egyptian prison, which resulted in him being resuscitated by on-set medical personnel.
3. In the desert race to Hamunaptra, you see camels and horses. Horses are faster (on flat land), but camels are adapted to life in the desert. Even though they do eventually have to eat and drink, camels can live off the fat reserves inside their humps, their long eyelashes keep dust out of their eyes, and their feet are big and wide to keep them from sinking into the sand as they move.
4. After Evelyn unknowingly awakens Imhotep by reading The Book Of The Dead (which is actually a funerary scroll in real life) and the locust swarm flies into the encampment at Hamunaptra, the locusts crawling on the Egyptologist are actually grasshoppers that were refrigerated to make them sluggish. On a similar note, the scarabs in real life were merely dung beetles, not vicious flesh eaters.
Horses over heat too easily in the desert.
10 plagues:
1 = water into blood
2 = frogs
3 = lice or gnats
4 = flies
5 = pestilence of livestock
6 = boils and sores
7 = thunderstorm of hail and fire
8 = locusts
9 = three days of darkness
10 = death of the first born son.
Locusts eat all the crops = starvation.
Cant wait for the reaction to the sequel.
"That could have broke his neck. Then that would have been the end of the movie" It literally almost was. The stunt rigging malfunctioned and Brendan Fraser almost died for real. Paramedics on set had to revive him and he still suffers from the damage he received from doing this and other stunts.
Just like Michael J Fox with the hanging scene in Back to the Future part 3
Love, Love, Love this movie, I saw it in the theater and an easy 20 times since. Your reaction to this is fantastic Dawn!
This is a sort-of remake of the classic Universal movie, "The Mummy," starring Boris Karloff. It is in the golden oldie Universal Studio's monster series that includes: "Dracula," "Frankenstein," "The Bride of Frankenstein," "The Invisible Man," "The Wolf Man," and "The Creature From The Black Lagoon." Among others.
"That could have broke his neck...then that would be the end of the movie" 😂😂😂
THE best reaction to this movie I've ever seen 👍 👍
@paulnewman7064 Dawn is right not so fun fact for BRENDAN FRASER that stunt were O'connell is hung went awry and he was actually almost hung to death for real 😮
Awesome reaction from DAWN loved how she made the effort to learn all those Egyptian names !!
@harveylee51 Ahh... that I did not know... certainly was a good job nothing happened 😮
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This isnt her.
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Discotek is the BEST mummy! 😂😂
@@glennjpanting2081 He did have that Beegees song written for him...
I’ve studied ancient Egypt. Cats were worshipped and revered because they killed snakes and scorpions that often hid in vases, urns and clothing. The dog statues you mentioned depicted Anubis.
The Egyptian goddess Bastet was often depicted with the head of a domestic cat, although earlier she was a warrior goddess with a lion's head.
Love your commentary Dawn, and I'm thrilled you got to see the movie. Sarcophagus by the way Dawn. I liked Winston too and loved it when he said "some bloody idiot spilled his drink." Of course I remember "Winston" from some episodes of Hogan's Heroes. And I had such a celebrity crush on Rachel Weisz in this movie she looks like a young Angie Dickinson I remember seeing Angie in a black and white western. Oh because of what you said, we didn't see Benny die. And remember it was Benny, greedy Benny that loaded some gold in the bag. Imotep was so gross tech. That from a friend telling me about a girl that said that is so gross tech. This was back in the 80's. Probably some sort of valleygirl thing. There's an 80's song and movie I think called valleygirl. A California thing by the way. I'm Texan. Thank you Dawn. Oh i got goosebumps in a scene with Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz where Dustin Hoffman just went off script that i think they say he's known for. The movie was Confidence, a 2003 movie. Now thats confidence then again thats where its good to be a mob leader, not wise to refuse.
"How cold's that water?" Not as cold as that fire is hot!
A fun thriller. Imotep not only wanted his girl, he wanted to rule the world.
The treasure at the end was what Benny was stealing while they were fighting.
7:18 Technically yes. Practically, no. It's all about the placement of the knot. On the right or left side of the head, instant neck break. Putting the knot behind the head, means strangulation. 🧐
Not entirely correct, placement of the knot on the left or right does not guarantee a hangmans fracture, for that you have to place the knot at the front.
It also depends on if you use the short drop, pole drop, standard drop or long (measured) drop (get the long drop calculations wrong and it can lead to decapitation though.)
Ribbentrop, A Nazi executed by the US using standard drop took 20 minutes to die.
Pierrepoint using the long drop, is reported to have been able to complete an execution in @ 7 seconds during the Nuremburg executions.
There are lots of variables and it is no way as simple as it appears.
There was a professional hangman in my area during the 1920s. He had a custom built portable gallows that could be quickly assembled and disassembled. He didn't charge for his services. After witnessing a hanging go wrong, he studied the procedure in order to provide a quick and relatively painless death. Remember, executions at this time were still held in public in many cities. I have a much older cousin who witnessed a hanging when he was a boy of around twelve. As he described it, there was almost a carnival atmosphere.
The story of Imhotep is actually a tragic love story that spans for centuries. That's why I think the Mummy is the best movie monster from the classic 30's movie monsters.
Sarcophagus is the thing you find mummies in. It's generally accepted to originate from latin meaning "flesh eating". Since the "sarc" part means flesh, you can see how the "eating" part matches the word we use for the body part that we all eat with: esophagus. Just drawing on the pattern here, I'm no etymologist.
Brendan Fraser accidentally got strangled unconscious by that noose for real. The crew thought he was just acting for a few seconds, but fortunately they helped him in time, or else he could have died. The part where this happened was filmed and put in the movie. You'll know it when you see it. That wasn't acting.
WOOT! this a classic 🤩
Discotheque lay in his asophagus for thousands of years 😅
Until he was resurected in the 1970's New York
"You came back from the desert with a new friend. Didn't you, Beni?"
Rick hitting Beni with the chair and threatening him with the ceiling fan are some fantastic environmental choices.
"You are my only friend" One of the funniest lines in the movie.
9:20 I love Dawn's laugh ❤
16:20 there are subtitles for this movie, for the non-English parts like this one.
Discotheque had me rolling!
7:13 Brendan Fraser's harness slipped, so he actually got hanged. He still suffers from nerve damage.
"That could have broken his neck . . . " Ah it didn't quite, but did strangle him till he passed out and nearly died.
Jonathan was really saying, "Dis-co-tech, Dis-co-tech, Dis-co-tech."
A little nerding out for you: Horus is the son of the goddess Isis and the god Osiris. Osiris was killed before Horus was conceived, murdered and dismembered by his jealous brother Set. Isis and her sister searched for all the pieces and put them together, and that was how Isis was able to conceive Horus (mythology can be a little .... eccentric). Horus grew up to avenge his father. Osiris, meanwhile became one of the judges of the dead.
Incidentally, I love Evie and her set of priorities, especially when she corrects Beni's translation and when she takes a second after translating where the Gold book is to proclaim: "Take THAT, Bembridge scholars!" A heroine after my own hears, as she is Proud to be a Librarian.
*Can't believe its been 25 years. I remember going to see it in the cinema twice. 2nd time some guy had a seizure after the film finished, people were literally walking over this guy & leaving the theatre whilst he was convulsing on the floor grown adults weren't lifting a finger to help, I was a kid & even I thought it was wrong, we got the usher & I turned him on his side (my brother has epilepsy so I know to do at least that) but I did make the mistake of putting my finger near in his mouth as he started gagging & making choking noises, I end up in A&E getting stitches in my finger lol.*
16:30 "...he'll be his body and everyone will think its just..Benny, but it's actually Imhotep. That might work - that's what I would do..I would take on the body of a.. friend."
This is why I really love your channel, these type of hilarious ( to me) stream of consciousness comments (and there are *lots* of them) in every reaction video. No other youtube reacter cracks me up as often as you do. Please keep them coming, thanks!
"He looks like George of the Jungle now"
Funny you say that, it's one of Brendan's most well known roles.
20:17 He wasn't allowed to have her coz she was owned... They were slaves. So they killed the Pharoah. Which was wrong. But damn. I was sad for him too.
And I really feel ya on the bug thing... I cannot look at those scenes with them on Imotep's face. Ugh
I think of her name as "An Ox And A Moon"
@@glennjpanting2081OR if you're Filipino, "anak saan na moon" (son, where is the moon).
This is one of the ultimate popcorn movies. Don't ask questions, just look at the pretty colors. Enjoy yourself.
This stunt with the hanging did go wrong but the crew wasn't aware of it for a little while.
This movie The Mummy from (1999) not 1925 is always very watchable and always very enjoyable.
A cat was walking across the piano keyboard. Imhotep was afraid of cats before being fully regenerated, because I suppose they could send him back to the land of the dead. After being fully regenerated, though, he had no such fear and only one vulnerability remaining.
I havent even watched the video yet and I'm giving this one a like. It's just that damn good.
They had electricity in 1926, but not everywhere yet, and it was probably still quite common for many people to use oil lamps and such, especially outside the US, Europe, and Japan at the time. It takes time to build up the infrastructure. Heck, people still regularly use oil lamps to this day, especially in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
When you were talking about a cat statue I think you might have been thinking about The Sphinx. One of the oldest man-made structures on the planet.
Many Egyptian gods have animal heads and/or animal limbs. And yes, there is at least one cat-headed goddess, Bastet, a protectress goddess who is also a guardian of pregnant women. She started out more of a lioness; is often associated with another cat goddess, Sekhmet. I have visited the shrine of Bastet in the temple complex of Karnak. I am owned by two cats, so it was only proper...
Cats were very important in ancient Egypt, as they protected grain against rodents and other pests. But, as cats will do, they snuggled their way into the hearts and hearths of the citizens. There was crown prince of Egypt, Thutmose, who died young. He's remembered by us partly because he had a pet cat, Ta-miu (she-cat), who had her own little sarcophagus when she died. (The younger brother of Thutmose became pharaoh instead. He became famous as Akhenaten, the pharaoh who promoted monotheism on the kingdom. His wife was Nefertiti, who is also famous for her beautiful statue (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti_Bust).
And yet everybody forgets my favorite, the brother of Anubis, Wepwawet, the wolfheaded god
That gold (besides the sunset) that Rick and Evie got away with at the end was courtesy of his good "friend" Beni, who died trying to get even more gold, of course.
Dawn, I loved your reaction to this. Please react to "The Mummy Returns" too, it's just as good as this, the third in the series isn't that good. The beetles are called 'Scarabs' by the way. 🙂