Historical Movie Review: The Mummy

were either skewed in some way or completely ignored. In addition many blatantly obvious points on the role of men and women and class structure and were overlooked.

Of all the characters in the film only Imhotep and Anck-Su-Namun have a place in history, the rest are completely fictional. This, however, does not mean the Imhotep and Anck-Su-Namun of the film are as they are perceived in history. His portrayal in the movie was somewhat more than unflattering, as he was shown, in essence, to be an high priest that fell in love with one of the pharaoh Seti I wives, Anck-Su-Namun, then returns as an evil half-dead creature. All, save that Imhotep being a high priest, is made up. Imhotep lived during the reigns of Khasekhem and Djoser around 2980 BCE, almost 2000 years befo

In the film many technological innovations were shown both from ancient times and from the 1920’s. For the most part devices or machines seen in the 1920’s were correct, except for a few inaccuracies involving guns being in use before they were actually produced. ancient Egyptian technology shown in the film had a few more inaccuracies. The booby traps in the ancient temple, pressurized salt spry, rotating trap doors, and a lever that closed all the doors and destroyed the City of the Dead, all were beyond the technology of the ancient Egyptians.

The architecture shown in the film is fairly close to what it was like in the past. The major area where the film differs from reality was in the ancient temples. They were shown to have incredibly complex systems of shafts, which is true, but the way the shaft were shown was inaccurate. In the film the shafts were usually walled by very rough stone work, in reality temples were well constructed with superb craftsmanship. Also the is a scene where they are chased by scarabs to a room with a whindy ramp at quite a high above the ground, rooms like this never existed in Egyptian temples, which usually had fairly simple square designs.

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