Episode 83: The Mummy (1999)

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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The BTS team discusses The Mummy's comedy twist on a classic adventure story, the film's effective focus on Rick and Evie's romance, and why the lead performances and characters ultimately make this movie an undying fan favorite.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast for each week we do a conversational
0:10.8	deep dive analysis into a film. Today we are talking about The Mummy, the 1999 version, directed
0:16.5	by Stephen Summers, screenplay by Stephen Summers, based on the 1932, The Mummy, which I only
0:22.0	learned today.
0:22.9	We can talk about more of that.
0:24.4	I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:27.2	Hello, everyone.
0:28.2	Brian Bittner.
0:29.1	Hello, hello.
0:30.2	And Alex Cayettos.
0:31.5	Hi.
0:32.0	Okay, so we're talking about The Mummy, which we've been very excited about because Trisha Alex and I anyway, I think this movie holds a
0:39.5	special place in our hearts. I think we all saw it when it came out. So I'm going to pick on
0:44.4	you, Brian, because you did not see it when it came out. You saw it recently. So I want just like
0:50.2	the fresh 2021 take. What did you make? The hottest take of the law.
0:55.5	This movie.
0:57.2	I mean, it's funny, right?
0:58.1	There's this running theme of me watching movies for the first time now that I didn't see when I was a teenager.
1:05.2	You know, so it's like I saw the Iron Giant for the first time and I loved it.
1:08.8	I saw Mulan for the first time and I loved it. And I saw the mummy for the first time and I loved it. I saw Mulan for the first time and I loved it
1:11.0	and I saw the mummy for the first time. Yeah, it was, it was fine. No, I think it's funny because
1:21.0	it is one of those things where it's like, it definitely, I could definitely see how this would
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