lame
Does she ever look decayed or scary like an actual mummy?
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Sex sells.
Aside from that, I'm sure it's so they can have her take part in more action scenes.
I'm sure we will see her decomposed too though.
Would you say the same thing about a vampire woman? Vampires are also undead corpses.
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Would you say the same thing about a vampire woman? Vampires are also undead corpses.
A dead thing is a corpse. An undead thing is a dead thing that is also living, the "living dead" if you will.
As for sexy mummies, they're all over Victorian literature. It's not a new concept. Bram Stoker's own novel The Jewel of Seven Stars was the basis for a Hammer film, Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, with a much more blatantly sexualized mummy named Queen Tera: http://bit.ly/2h3FPPJ
It's been established in past films that mummies are capable of looking very much alive and blending in among the living. Imhotep was able to do this for ten years in the original The Mummy and in the remake he regenerated as well. Why wouldn't a female mummy be capable of the same?
And if we want to get technical and talk about literature for a second, "The Vampire" would be Lord Ruthven, not Count Dracula.
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Yeah you got me on the technicality, I was referencing the silver screen not Lit. I have no issue with a Mummy regenerating into a modern day hot chick, but now it's more glam and Hollywoodized than a homage to the early Lit you reference. But this is Kurtzman directingâŚ. And I loath him so I have a pessimistic confirmation bias of this film.
...keeps alive the weak, the stupid, the lazy that breed and multiply, weakening the human race
As I managed to prove with a link, even on the silver screen there's a precedent for "sexy mummies" already. I'd argue, with ease, that Queen Tera is much more blatantly sexualized than Ahmanet is. Ahmanet is still all bandaged up, and pale, and she's not exactly behaving in a particularly seductive manner. There's certainly a bit of a glam thing going on but it's not as over-the-top as it could be. Even the princess in the Sommers Mummy films was more sexualized.
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Because this a The Mummy movie, like the Boris Karloff and Brendan Fraser movies, not a mummy movie.
shareI'm sure they're going to do the first it's a monster, then it slowly starts looking human, now it's a total babe! thing.
"I said no camels, that's five camels, can't you count?"
Uhm in the Fraser films, he looks like a dashing Arnold Vosloo most of the time.
I'm sure they will do something similar here. Rotten and decayed at first, then turns hot.
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Even in the '99 movie, Imhotep was eventually a swarthy Egyptian.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
I agree OP. It's not going to work. At least have her be ugly and decrepit for most of the movie, slowly getting better looking as it goes on, that way there's still some creepy scare factor in her appearance. I don't want to be turned on by the lead villain in a movie LOL.
I'm sure some of the movie might be good, but I think it's going to end up being mediocre.
Action is good, but if it's mostly action, then that's not my preference for this type of movie.
Because every female role needs to be sexualized.
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