The mummy: the tomb of the dragon emperor

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Movie
German title The mummy: the tomb of the dragon emperor
Original title The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Rob Cohen
script Alfred Gough ,
Miles Millar
production Stephen Sommers ,
James Jacks ,
Bob Ducsay ,
Sean Daniel
music Randy Edelman ,
John Debney
camera Simon Duggan
cut Joel Negron ,
Kelly Matsumoto
occupation
synchronization
chronology

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The mummy returns

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (AKA The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ) is an adventure film from the year 2008 , which directed by Rob Cohen was born and another sequel to The Mummy , The Mummy Returns and its offshoot The Scorpion King is. The script was written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar . With Brendan Fraser and John Hannah two actors of the previous films were required to, Rachel Weisz , the role of the first two films Evelyn Carnahan-O'Connell had embodied rejected because of lack of interest in the story of their involvement and Maria Bello was replaced . Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh also took on other roles.

action

In China, shaken by wars between the various kingdoms in the year 221 BC, the unscrupulous warlord and King Qin Shihuangdi succeeds in conquering and subjugating all other kingdoms of China. He becomes the first emperor of China , the dragon emperor , and his scholars give him power over the five elements (wood, fire, metal, water and earth). He has the Great Wall of China built . The emperor still has big plans and does not want to accept the fact that his lifespan is limited just like that of simple farmers. So he sends his general Ming Guo to look for the way to eternal life. On his search, the general meets the witch Zi Yuan , who is supposed to know how to obtain eternal life. The witch performs a ritual at the emperor's court and speaks it in Sanskrit , a language that only she can read and understand. The emperor takes this as magic formulas intended to give him eternal life.

When the emperor learns that General Ming Guo and the witch Zi Yuan are in love and are having an affair, he is angry because he himself intended to marry Zi Yuan . He tells Zi Yuan to take him as a husband, otherwise he would kill the general. However, Zi Yuan refuses, and General Ming Guo is quartered in front of her eyes. She then reveals to the emperor that she foresaw that he would not keep his promises and that he has cursed him. After the emperor stabbed her with a dagger, he notices that instead of tears, earth is running out of his eyes. The curse transforms the emperor and his entire army into terracotta figures.

1946: Alex, the son of Rick and Evelyn, is supposed to study, but is sent on an expedition by his professor to find the tomb of the dragon emperor Qin Shihuangdi. According to legend, this cruel and powerful ruler was cursed by the sorceress Zi Yuan in revenge over 2000 years ago and turned into terracotta along with his entourage. When he has found the grave, he is attacked by a mysterious woman, but is able to save himself. Meanwhile, the mummy is transported to Shanghai 's Shanghai History Museum , and Alex visits his uncle Jonathan in his nightclub , the Imhotep’s .

Evelyn is reading her second book The Mummy Returns . When she returned home, she and Rick were commissioned to transport a precious diamond, the Eye of Shangri-La , to Shanghai and to hand it over to her son Alex's professor.

When Alex visits his professor at the Shanghai History Museum, he meets the warrior Lin, who attacked him in the tomb. She shows him that his professor works for General Yang who, with the help of the Eye of Shangri-La , wants to resurrect the Dragon Emperor and give him eternal life. Lin reveals herself to be the guardian of the tomb of the dragon emperor and explains that the eye shows the way to Shangri-La if you put it on the top of a tower in the Himalayas .

The three O'Connells, Lin and Jonathan take the plane from "Mad Dog" Maguire to the Himalayas and land on a glacier. This gives them a head start on the way to the tower. A short time later, General Yang's soldiers and Emperor Han also arrive. Rick and Alex can't stop the soldiers, so Lin summons three yetis to help them. However, the dragon emperor succeeds in placing the diamond on the tip, and from this point in time he knows where the source of eternal life is, which will make him immortal.

At that moment, Alex decides to stand in front of the tower with a bundle of dynamite without fire protection in order to trigger an avalanche. The emperor doesn't like it, he throws his sword at him. At the last second, Rick throws himself in front of Alex and is seriously injured instead of his son. At the same moment the dynamite bundle thrown away in time explodes and an avalanche breaks out, with the O'Connells and Lin being protected by the Yetis.

The four decide to take Rick with the Yetis to Shangri-La to heal him there. Once there, they meet Lin's mother, Zi Yuan, who cursed the emperor. Thus it turns out that she knows the secret of immortality. They can't stop the Dragon Emperor after Rick's healing, so he takes a bath in the Shangri-La Spring, which gives him immortality. He kidnaps Lin and flies to his tomb in the form of a dragon to reawaken his army.

The O'Connells, Zi Yuan and Jonathan fly after him with Mad Dog Maguire and actually get to the tomb before him. Zi Yuan wants to resurrect the soldiers and enemies killed by Emperor Han, on whose bodies he built the Great Wall of China, and sacrifices her and Lin's immortality to them. After the Dragon Emperor has resurrected his army, it must pass the Great Wall of China in order for it to become immortal. However, the resurrected soldiers are there under the leadership of General Ming Guo. When Zi Yuan fights with the emperor, she sacrifices herself in order to steal the only weapon with which the dragon emperor can be killed, a dagger, unnoticed.

Alex frees Lin from General Yang's camp at the tomb and escapes. Then Jonathan and Mad Dog Maguire appear with another fighter plane to decimate the army with rifle volleys. After Alex and Rick receive the dagger from Zi Yuan, it breaks in the fight. After another fight, at the end of which Rick thrust the hilt and Alex the point of the dagger into the heart of the dragon emperor, the dagger melts and kills the emperor and his army.

The film ends with a ball at Imhotep’s , whose new owner is Mad Dog Maguire, as Jonathan travels to Peru to open a new club. He has taken the eye of Shangri-La and is taking it to Peru because there are supposedly no mummies there. In the off it is pointed out that mummies have been discovered in Peru.

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Rick O'Connell Brendan Fraser Torsten Münchow
Alexander "Alex" Rupert O'Connell Luke Ford Marcel Collé
Jonathan Carnahan John Hannah Stefan Staudinger
Evelyn Carnahan Maria Bello Claudia Urbschat-Mingues
Lin Isabella Leong Manja Doering
Zi Yuan Michelle Yeoh Arianne Borbach
Emperor Han / Dragon Emperor Jet Li
"Mad Dog" Maguire Liam Cunningham Erich Rauker
Roger Wilson David Calder Uli Krohm

backgrounds

marketing

Sierra Entertainment released a game for Wii , PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS that was released in North America on July 22, 2008. In Germany it was available from Vivendi Games from August 1, 2008 .

publication

The film opened in theaters on August 1, 2008 in the United States and on August 7, 2008 in Germany. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on December 11, 2008. Both media have an FSK-16 rating, but this is due to the supporting program for the film. The omitted scenes and the making-of Know your Mummy were rated with FSK-16 approval.

Finances

The film was a budget of 150 million US dollars rotated. On the opening weekend, he grossed just under $ 50 million in the United States. After less than two weeks in the cinema, the third part could already exceed the 200 million US dollar limit. It is just as successful as its predecessor.

Trivia

Jet Li's role is not based on a portrayal of the first emperor of the Han Dynasty, Han Gaozu , but on that of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi . By the time Qin Shihuangdi declared himself emperor after the Warring States Period , he was over 30 years old. In fact, the Qin emperor is believed to have killed several million people. Qin Shihuangdi was also the emperor who ordered the construction of the Great Wall of China . Whether he buried his enemies under the wall is unknown, but many historians have not excluded it.

At the beginning of the film, Evelyn Carnahan-O'Connell gives a reading from her novels about the previous adventures with the mummy Imhotep . The camera moves around her from behind so that her face cannot be seen. When the audience asked whether the main female character in the novels was based on Evelyn , she replied (now you can see her face): “I can assure you that she is a completely different person.” This alludes to the fact that the The role of Evelyn is now played by Maria Bello. In the films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns , the role of Rachel Weisz was played.

continuation

The actress Maria Bello announced in an interview that another Die-Mummy -film was to be made and that she had already signed a contract for it. Actor Luke Ford is said to have signed for three other films. As announced by Universal Pictures in September 2012, the next film will be a reboot of the series. Len Wiseman should direct the film, while Jon Spaihts should be responsible for the script .

In February 2013 it was announced that Billy Ray would write a competing script to increase the chances of success of the film. Due to scheduling conflicts, Andrés Muschietti replaced Len Wiseman as director. He has since resigned, and Alex Kurtzman has both produced and directed the film. The reboot started in German-speaking cinemas in June 2017.

Film music

Much of the music was written by the composer Randy Edelman . In addition to British folklore, the soundtrack also includes various Asian and Chinese instruments. The composer John Debney added additional sound material for many of the larger action sequences, which was recorded in July 2008. The soundtrack was released in Germany on August 8, 2008.

Reviews

Sascha Westphal saw in the world an "astonishingly anarchistic tone" and an "alternative to all the superhero films of this year". Cohen “breaks with the basic racist tendency of the adventure genre, which is still completely shaped by the values ​​and ideas of the colonial era” and accordingly makes Brendan Fraser and Luke Ford look “downright wooden” compared to Michelle Yeoh, Isabella Leong and Jet Li.

Philipp Bühler ( Berliner Zeitung ), on the other hand, was less convinced and described the film as "less creepy and also less funny than its predecessor with its special, often somewhat cheap, charm". The "platitudinous nature of the dialogues" seems to be superimposed, every bang is just a "further structural element in the ironic reference game". In theory, the “meaningless entertainment cinema is closer to the spirit of the establishment than the overly reflected quality goods. This film, however, has no other purpose than making money. "

The lexicon of international films wrote: "Second sequel to an originally quite entertaining fantasy film (...) that unwinds a breathless effects spectacle full of staging errors without creative imagination and a flair for timing."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Certificate of Release for The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, July 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 725 K).
  2. ↑ Age designation for The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in the German synchronous file
  4. ↑ Entry on Amazon.de about the release of the game
  5. ↑ DVD version at OFDB.de
  6. ↑ Approvals by the SPIO
  7. ↑ The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor on Box Office Mojo
  8. ↑ Data on the first emperor of China
  9. ↑ Background about the film
  10. ↑ Shawn Adler: "Mummy 3" Star Maria Bello Talks About Taking Over For Rachel Weisz, Fighting An Invisible Baddie , MTV . March 10, 2008. Retrieved April 9, 2008. 
  11. ^ Luke Ford Signed For Three 'Mummy' Films , Bloody-Disgusting. July 16, 2008. Retrieved July 20, 2008. 
  12. ↑ Claude Brodesser-Akner: Hunger Games's Ray to Pen Competing Mummy Script , vulture.com, February 14, 2013, accessed on February 23, 2013
  13. ↑ R. Lukas: The Mummy Loses Director, Hunter Killer has a new one. In: Moviejones. May 7, 2014, accessed September 6, 2014 .
  14. ↑ S. Spichala: Kurtzman takes off: The Mummy Reboot, Universal Monster Classics & more. In: Moviejones. September 3, 2014, accessed September 6, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Sascha Westphal: Back from retirement - "The Mummy 3" . In: Die Welt , August 5, 2008
  16. ↑ Philipp Bühler: The Chinese are coming . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 7, 2008
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