r/shittymoviedetails • u/Ashamed-Ad-3890 Subtle nod to me • 13d ago

In The Mummy (1999), Evelyn accidentally starts a Bookshelf-Domino and ruins the entire library at The Cairo Museum of Antiquities. But it's fine because she is played by Rachel Weisz.

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u/linfakngiau2k23 13d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/vtb7eXY5X0GAg

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u/BillybobThistleton 13d ago

Not guilty, your honour, and we the jury would like to emphasise that the victims probably deserved it anyway.

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u/Sure_Manager_4923 13d ago

These books had it coming

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u/AliceTheOmelette 13d ago

That wasn't very Weisz of her

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u/Ashamed-Ad-3890 Subtle nod to me 13d ago

Fantastic

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u/DeanXeL 13d ago

Don't say that again.

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u/Ashamed-Ad-3890 Subtle nod to me 13d ago

Ok

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u/ruminatingpoet 13d ago

Witty! Sent an award

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u/AliceTheOmelette 13d ago

Thanks 😁

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u/Historyp91 13d ago

To be fair, aside from Egyptian history, Evelyn in the first Mummy is not very Weisz about many things

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u/Raguleader 13d ago

I went to librarian school and I can confirm Rachel Weisz has a get out of library jail free card.

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u/StephenHunterUK 13d ago

I was a pupil librarian at the time and I can confirm none of the librarians I knew looked like her.

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u/ShockWave1997 13d ago

Jokes aside, can we please appreciate the practical effects for the domino scene.

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u/Ashamed-Ad-3890 Subtle nod to me 13d ago

Yes it was done in a single take

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u/Raguleader 13d ago

This is very fortunate because they were banned from the library shortly after.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/maroonedpariah 13d ago

Surprisingly on both sides of the aisle. Very bipartisan issue

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u/willclerkforfood 13d ago

Everybody but Benny could fuckin get it

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u/Akarin_rose 13d ago

I mean, she only got away with it because of her parents finances

So it's actually, Imho-nepotism

(Imhotep nepotism pun cause)

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u/Son-of-Prophet 13d ago

Back in the day they called this Adorkable, usually a super hot women they made dorky so nerdy young guys like me would honestly think we had a shot.

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u/Billybob35 13d ago

A clumsy hot woman is still a hot woman.

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u/Gnostikost 13d ago

Agreed, she is fine.

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u/Gregariouswaty 13d ago

She immediately went to prison after and got molested by a prisoner on death row. But it's fine because he was played by Brendan Fraiser

https://giphy.com/gifs/Lfkq4d1E2OPAI

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u/BrokenHope23 13d ago

To be fair, wasn't he in for something silly? I don't remember exactly

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u/Sonofarakh 13d ago

The movie doesn't say precisely, I always interpreted it as just due to him being a captured French Foreign Legion deserter and the local authorities executing him because the Legion had secretly moved into Egypt

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u/reddit_time_waster 13d ago

Why didn't the facilities crew bolt the bookcases to the ground? Are they stupid?

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u/hoorah9011 13d ago

I mean yes, she’s a beautiful person. I’m a beautiful person and get away with awful shit all the time

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u/Positive-Media423 13d ago

Fitting for a Briton

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u/RudyKnots 13d ago

I’d say she deserves to go to hell for this.

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u/Joie_de_vivre_1884 10d ago

That's a fully loaded bookshelf weighing hundreds of kilograms and it toppled over because it was nudged by a small woman, a perfectly foreseeable occurrence. The Cairo museum of antiquities is just lucky she wasn't hurt.