So much historical inaccuracy


Just a few things I noticed:

1) The King Tut discovery was claimed by the Egyptian official in the name of "the Republic of Egypt." However, the Republic of Egypt wasn't established until 1953; the tomb was discovered in 1922.

2) All the men carried pistols, but none of them had gun belts or ammunition. I guess they just carried the guns and loose bullets in their trouser pockets?

3) Pistols back then had six bullet chambers, so a man could only get off six shots before he had to reload. Yet when the two Egyptian guys chase Danny Fremont in the camel race, they get off at least 14 bullets without reloading.

4) The Hellfire Council meets in a huge mansion with a lush green lawn. There were no sprinkler systems in 1922 -- how did they grow all that grass?

5) The Hellfire Council meets in a room illuminated by candlelight and firelight. Yet the university classrooms have overhead electric fans. You'd think it would be the opposite -- the wealthy mansion would have electricity, the university would lack it. And did they even have electricity in Egypt in the 1920's? Much of America didn't have it until the 1930's. Meanwhile, Dr. Barakat works in a museum where the windows aren't even opened despite the constant Egyptian heat.

6) When Danny is filming the interior of Tut's tomb, he sets up spotlights all around the interior of the tomb. How did he power up those electric lights -- just plug them into the nearest outlet in the tomb?

7) The British bad guys wear layers of clothing -- shirts, ties, vests, jackets -- although the temperature is in the 90's in Egypt in the winter. One of them wears a yellow tie -- there were no yellow ties until the 1980s!

8) Dr. Azelia Barakat wears clothing that would be appropriate today -- a fitted pink blouse with 3/4-length sleeves, a fitted skirt with zipper, and a bra. Women didn't start wearing bras until the 1930's. Women's clothing in the 1920's tended to be loose-fitting (particularly on top) and skirts were predominantly calf-length.

9) The men's trousers were zippered. Zippers weren't added to men's trousers until the late 1930's.

10) Sinclaire's character wears sunglasses in one scene. Although the technology existed prior to 1922, sunglasses weren't produced commercially until after 1929.

11) Sinclaire knows that Danny has planted the King Tut funeral mask because it's "found" in shallow soil and thus not covered by centuries worth of sand. Yet the entrance to the tomb is itself found in shallow soil and not buried by centuries worth of sand.

12) Dr. Barakat apparently works in Cairo and Danny teaches there. King Tut's tomb is in Luxor, hundreds of miles away. Yet they go back and forth between the two as though they're located in adjoining suburbs. And how did they do that anyway -- just grab a camel from the parking lot?

13) It may have been cheaper to film in India, but Indian people do not look or sound like Egyptians! And Chilean actress Leonor Varela sounded Spanish, not Egyptian.

14) All those wealthy Hellfire Council guys meet again and again -- and yet they wear the same clothing every time. Dr. Barakat is apparently the one one who ever changes her clothing.

15) A single shot of antibiotic cures terminal TB? That doesn't happen even today. Plus antibiotics were't developed until the 1930's.

I'm sure there's more.....


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It was set in 1922, just prior to Howard Carter's discovery of Tut's tomb. It was just inaccurate in so many ways that would have been easy to fix if anyone concerned with this production had been inclined to make it halfway believable.

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How about the fact that the university had white teachers and no white students? There would have been at least some British students hanging around.

However, I still liked this movie, I jsut accept it as it is...:)

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This reminds me of all the fanzines we used to publish back in the early Star Trek days. We picked everything apart. The difference was that we did it for fun, we loved the show, and our attitude was one of basic acceptance. For a movie like this, you have to have wiling suspension of disbelief. Most people don't know or care when yellow ties were invented, and you shouldn't be going around staring at people's zippers anyway! (Fer godssake don't take that seriously.) 99% of Americans wouldn't know the difference between an Indian and an Arab anyway. Ask any Sikh who's been stopped at an airport because he fit a "profile." You just have to accept some movies as something you can watch with the kids and let them enjoy the camel chases and scream "Ewww, they're pulling out his brains through his nostrils!" and let it go at that.

God created the so that man might caress the tiger.

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It's true there was alot of inaccuracy. It seemed to be The Mummy, Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark and Tomb Raider all rolled into one but even with knowing alot about Egypt and seeing those movies I still enjoyed it and was able to ignore most of the inaccuracies.

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I don't think it was supposed to be a historical movie anyway just like the Mummy movies aren't.

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"It's true there was alot of inaccuracy. It seemed to be The Mummy, Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark and Tomb Raider all rolled into one but even with knowing alot about Egypt and seeing those movies I still enjoyed it and was able to ignore most of the inaccuracies."


There was some Harry Potter thrown in there, too, with the bad guy sucking the breath out of his victims like a dementor in the Harry Potter series. There just wasn't much originality in this film. It could have been so much better than it was. Still, I liked some of the actors in the film and will be buying the DVD when it comes out on Aug. 8th. I wonder which version will be sold here -- the original mini-series aired in Britain or the chopped up movie that we saw here in the States? Maybe the British version is the stronger of the two.

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Somebody needs to get a life..:-]

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This is a TV movie. Can't we just sit back and enjoy a mummy movie? And not worry about nit-picking every detail? The thing I was worried about when I saw it was, Casper van Dien, will it be totally cheesy or totally bad.
And the Hellfire Council, or rather Hellfire Club is a supervillian Marvel comics thing.

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And the .. Hellfire Club is a supervillian Marvel comics thing.


Actually, the Hellfire Club was an 18th C British orgy club, long before it had anything to do with Marvel Comics! Check the Wikipedia.

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i think it people wish 2 make a movie about history they might know that tut was hit in the back of the head and that killed him he wasn't trapped in a different world or what ever they were going for it sucks so bad this movie is worse that the blair witch projest and thats saying something

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Point 4. They had large numbers of extremely low-paid gardening staff.

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Revolvers have 6 chambers. Pistols can have 10-round magazines, or more.

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And the French Foreign Legion operating in a British colony?

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Just a few things I noticed:

Soem whimsical answers, if you don't mind.



1) The King Tut discovery was claimed by the Egyptian official in the name of "the Republic of Egypt." However, the Republic of Egypt wasn't established until 1953; the tomb was discovered in 1922.



So they where anticipating it!



2) All the men carried pistols, but none of them had gun belts or ammunition. I guess they just carried the guns and loose bullets in their trouser pockets?



Yup, you got that right... they also had deep pockets.


3) Pistols back then had six bullet chambers, so a man could only get off six shots before he had to reload. Yet when the two Egyptian guys chase Danny Fremont in the camel race, they get off at least 14 bullets without reloading.



They're fast at relaoding and it was edited out...


4) The Hellfire Council meets in a huge mansion with a lush green lawn. There were no sprinkler systems in 1922 -- how did they grow all that grass?

They had one Hell of a Gardner.



5) The Hellfire Council meets in a room illuminated by candlelight and firelight. Yet the university classrooms have overhead electric fans. You'd think it would be the opposite -- the wealthy mansion would have electricity, the university would lack it. And did they even have electricity in Egypt in the 1920's? Much of America didn't have it until the 1930's. Meanwhile, Dr. Barakat works in a museum where the windows aren't even opened despite the constant Egyptian heat.



The University was fortunate enough to add electircity for the benefit of studies.The Hellfire counsel just liekd the Ambeince , much of the rest of the Mansion had electircity, but isnt it just Spooky to do t in candlelight?

Also makes for good dates.


6) When Danny is filming the interior of Tut's tomb, he sets up spotlights all around the interior of the tomb. How did he power up those electric lights -- just plug them into the nearest outlet in the tomb?



Hey, King Tut had golden Robot wings, and you queasiton the Ancient-Egptian Generator?



7) The British bad guys wear layers of clothing -- shirts, ties, vests, jackets -- although the temperature is in the 90's in Egypt in the winter. One of them wears a yellow tie -- there were no yellow ties until the 1980s!



Uhm, he had a tailor who coudl die ties yellow... Ahea dof his time, he wanted ot be Unique.

That siad, actulaly this sitn innaccurate. Take the Bahamas for example.Many men in higher positions and upper echelons of society wore suits in the Bahamas when it was colonised to fit the general pattern of Brittain at th eitme. Basicllay its a status thing, even if it seems ridiculous.(Sort of liek Powdered wigs in the 1700's.Only less ridiculous.)



8) Dr. Azelia Barakat wears clothing that would be appropriate today -- a fitted pink blouse with 3/4-length sleeves, a fitted skirt with zipper, and a bra. Women didn't start wearing bras until the 1930's. Women's clothing in the 1920's tended to be loose-fitting (particularly on top) and skirts were predominantly calf-length.



Your the oen compalinign about hte heat...


9) The men's trousers were zippered. Zippers weren't added to men's trousers until the late 1930's.



Prodcers where too cheaptto do anyhtin btu get regular trousers form the store...



10) Sinclaire's character wears sunglasses in one scene. Although the technology existed prior to 1922, sunglasses weren't produced commercially until after 1929.



He worked for the Hellfire counel, so had money and influnece.He had them custom made.



11) Sinclaire knows that Danny has planted the King Tut funeral mask because it's "found" in shallow soil and thus not covered by centuries worth of sand. Yet the entrance to the tomb is itself found in shallow soil and not buried by centuries worth of sand.



Thats becuase SOmeone else acutlaly foudn it before Danny Freemont and gang. It Liek Fremont, they also hifd it agaisn rather htan callign attention to it.

Sets up fpr another adventure. I feel a Doctor WSHo comign on...



12) Dr. Barakat apparently works in Cairo and Danny teaches there. King Tut's tomb is in Luxor, hundreds of miles away. Yet they go back and forth between the two as though they're located in adjoining suburbs. And how did they do that anyway -- just grab a camel from the parking lot?



They had a truck!



13) It may have been cheaper to film in India, but Indian people do not look or sound like Egyptians! And Chilean actress Leonor Varela sounded Spanish, not Egyptian.


Well Brittain co,lonised India too so maybe imported them?




14) All those wealthy Hellfire Council guys meet again and again -- and yet they wear the same clothing every time. Dr. Barakat is apparently the one one who ever changes her clothing.



THey like their suits, and oen of them is rrlaly poor an djust dresses fancy, he live sin a sub-basement and thats hte only suit he has.Ill let you guess which one!




15) A single shot of antibiotic cures terminal TB? That doesn't happen even today. Plus antibiotics were't developed until the 1930's.



Hellfire counsel has secrets curealls?


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LOL -- I liked your answers, ZAROVE. And you're right about clothing in the Bahamas. Brits tended to dress like proper Brits no matter where they lived in the colonies.

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I'm very sorry but there weren't only historical inaccuracies. the actors were awful, the special effect even worse and the whole story made no sense whatsoever. for someone who knows a bit about egypt this was unwatchable! even my mother was like "why do the egyptians look like indians?" all the time and she's not a specialist at all.
I enjoyed this movie...but only bc it was the worst rubbish I've ever seen, right next to shark attack in the mediterranean...(an awful awful german movie lol watch it if you wanna laugh!) I had to laugh about almost every scene. and if this wasn't enough, they had to add tons of cheesiness as well.
as hard as I tried...I wasn't able to completely switch my brain off while watching this movie and that would've been the only way to take this seriously. it's actually an insult to egyptology. rofl

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i just watched it. they z that akhenaten was the capital city of tutankhamens kingdom but akhenaten was tutankhamens father.

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so according to you grass did not exist before sprinkler systems..

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so according to you grass did not exist before sprinkler systems..


That kind of grass? In Egypt? No.

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