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When they seek Winston's help, the Victrola is playing at 33 rpm. Victrolas only play at 78 rpm; long-playing (33 rpm) records did not appear until the 1950s.
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When Imohtep is scared by the cat on the piano, you see the cat's paws hit the piano keys. The last pitch played does not match the corresponding key that the cat stepped on.
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Every time we see Ardath Bey at the beginning of the movie, he says the same phrase every time he talks, even though the translation is always different.
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After Jonathan was able to steal the key of the book of Amun-Ra with Evelyn, he opens the book and reads the hieroglyphics upside down.
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Evelyn says in the movie that they take out all your organs during mummification including your heart. It is believed that the Egyptians left the heart in the body because it was the seat of intelligence and feelings.
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When Rick and Evelyn argue about leaving Egypt and she slams the suitcase on his hand, he grabs a stuffed animal and exits the room with it. Outside the door to the room it is gone.
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While Rick, Jonathan and Ardath are shooting Imhotep's priests in the treasure room, Jonathan switches from the left side of Rick to the right side of him.
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When the warden who gets the beetle in his brain runs into the wall, his shirt is untucked. The camera changes angle and it is tucked in.
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Rick places Evie's clothes in her suitcase. Evie grabs them out and puts them on the bench in the background. Later, she walks right in front of the bench and the clothes are gone.
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In the library, Evelyn drops a book from the top of the ladder, but in the next shot, it is nowhere in sight, and we never hear it hit the ground.
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In the mummy prep room, the warden picks up his things twice.
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When Rick, Evelyn, Jonathon and the Americans come across Ardath Bey and the curator in the museum, Rick, Jonathon and the Americans draw their guns. When the camera switches to the curator greeting them, Jonathon's hands come into screen as he draws his gun a second time.
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When Jonathan goes to start the yellow car, the car is facing away from the direction that they need to go. Within a split second as everyone else is running to get in the car, the car has turned around in the opposite direction. There wasn't enough time to turn the car around between the time that he started the car until the time that everyone else got in.
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When Evie steals the Book of the Dead from the Egyptologist, his left arm is around the book and his right arm is around a canopic jar. When he awakes, after Evie has read from the book, the jar is still cradled in his right arm as he sits up, but in the very next shot it is in his left arm with no time at all for him to have moved it there.
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When the men are at the bar, Mr. Henderson's bangs (hair) first seen as uncombed, but in a second shot, his bangs are combed.
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When Imhotep kills the last of the Americans, Beni has a considerable amount of stubble on his face and a thicker mustache. When Imhotep corners the rest of the group after they crash the car, Beni has much less stubble and a more defined mustache.
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When Evey is talking to Rick by the campfire, since she's drunk, she tries to kiss him. The angle at which she's leaning changes multiple times. First, she leans to her right, then a different angle shows her leaning the opposite way. These shots alternate until the moment she passes out.
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In one of the Hamunaptra scenes, when Dr. Allen Chamberlain shouts at the workers who then die by pressurized acid, Chamberlain wears glasses in the first 'yelling' shot, then in the close-ups, he doesn't.
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When Imhotep is trying to resurrect Anak-sun-amun in the beginning of the film she is shown gasping for air as her spirit re-enters her body. Then in a wider shot she has collapsed(as if it is not in her body) even though you can still hear her. In the next close up she is gasping for air and screaming again, before her spirit leaves her for good and she collapses.
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After O'Connell, Evy, Jonathan and the warden get out of the water, all of them have wet clothes and after the scene where Benny screams, they appear to have dry clothes.
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In the opening scene where Rick & Beni are crouching behind the wall with their buddies ready to shoot the approaching armed horsemen and the camera is panning along the side of the galloping horsemen. In the background is a quite visible camera stand and two camera operators shooting the scene from another angle.
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When Evey, Rick and Jonathon are running through the collapsing Hamunaptra, a pulley and cord are visible in the lower left corner.
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The ancient Egyptians believed that there was a strong link between death and the compass direction west (where the sun "died" every evening). The fact that the adventurers see the sun rising over Hamunaptra as they approach it suggests that they have been traveling eastwards from the Nile, but if the ancient Egyptians had built a "City of the Dead" they would never have built it on the eastern side of the Nile.
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The "Royal Air Corps" has never existed. It was the Royal Flying Corps until 1918 and has been the Royal Air Force ever since.
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Both times, when the Arab horsemen are attacking Hamunaptra, the sound of ululation is heard. In the Middle East, this sound is traditionally made by women, and during times of celebration or grieving. It wouldn't be made by attacking men on horseback.
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When Dr. Allen Chamberlain is reading the mummy's curse in hieroglyphs, he is in fact reading them the wrong way. The way the hieroglyphs were facing, they were meant to be read right-to-left. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs can be read right-to-left, left-to-right, or up-to-down.
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When the lid is taken off Imhotep's coffin, Evie looks at the carving- Death Is Only The Beginning. The beetles presumably ate away his bandages, freeing his hands.
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The term "salt acid" is used; while no longer in use, this is an old name for hydrochloric acid. The term is also still used for salts of partially neutralized polyprotic acids, as NaHSO4 or NaHCO3.
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Notice the gunshot-wound that one the Americans of O'Connell's entourage has in the car-chase sequence when he is unsuccessfully fighting off Imhotep's followers in the village. He got shot in a scene which was filmed but not shown. (Source: director's commentary on DVD-release)
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The heroes use the star "key" to open three locks: Jonathan opens the sarcophagus by turning the key counterclockwise, and Evelyn turns it clockwise to open the Book of the Dead and the Book of Amon Ra. Although this inconsistency may seem strange, apparently that's how the locks work. It may also seem strange that the characters always turn the key the right way on the first try, even though they're not familiar with the locks. However, a closer look reveals that they do try to turn the key the wrong way, and after realizing that it doesn't work, change the direction. This is especially evident in the second case. Besides, there is always a 50 percent chance of guessing the right way on the first try.
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Although the 2,000-year-old mummy of Anck-Su-Namun is dead, you can see a pulse beating in her neck under the bandages and again when Imhotep passes his hand over her face.
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When Imhotep has "assimilated the organs and fluid" of the blonde, American cowboy Mr. Henderson, and the bug crawls up Imhotep's face, you can see the edges of the appliance used to create the CG holes in his skin.
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When the yellow car pulls up to the hotel, the wheels on the car are not turning.
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When O'Connell jumps off the ship into the Nile, his bag full of weapons floats when it hits the water.
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When Imhotep is being placed in his coffin and they begin to pour scarabs over him, a few of the CGI scarabs come through the sides of the jar.
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The scarab beetles who attack the digger on the path are floating at the top of the path and some seem to be appearing out of nowhere while others appear running straight out of a solid wall.
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When the Americans fighting the Medjai on the boat are shown from the side, one can clearly see that one of the 'cowboys' cocks his revolver and pulls the trigger several times but the gun does not fire.
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When the bookcases collapse near the beginning of the film, you can see that the bookcases farthest from the camera are hollow boxes covered with fabric upon which books have been painted. The fabric ripples with each impact.
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