Stop and think about it and it immediately unravels, but it also takes away from Evie’s character in the first film. Clearly, spending an entire lifetime poring over dusty old papyri is just as good as going to the gym.
The film attempts to play this off as a part of her reincarnation: the Egyptian princess that she was in a past life was also a backflipping stuntwoman, so obviously Evie is too. This is wildly inconsistent – Evie transforms from a clumsy librarian into a badass who can use any weapon she touches like a professional. But in the second film, she transforms into a competent badass who flips and kicks her way through scores of enemies, and even she admits that she doesn’t know how she does it. She has no fighting skills whatsoever and spends most of the film’s climax running away rather than fighting. She’s consistently shown to be skilled at ancient languages, which is fine, but in the first film, she’s also terrible in a fight. This remains the case for all three films. She’s intelligent, adaptable, determined, brave, and keeps her head in a crisis.
In The Mummy, she’s very much the one in control. Whether Evie shapes her own destiny or not depends largely on the film she’s in. Does the character shape her own destiny? Does she actively try to change her situation and if not, why not?.Evelyn herself is at the centre of all this, whether she’s resurrecting mummies or just punching them in the face.īut does she measure up to the hype? Let’s find out – but watch out for spoilers!
Does.the same.lady play evie in the mummy movies series#
While not a huge critical success, the film became hugely popular – enough to warrant a couple of misguided sequels, a TV series and a handful of rollercoasters. Set in 1920s Egypt, the film follows the various misadventures of Evelyn, her brother, and her future husband as they accidentally resurrect a millennia-old, vengeance-driven mummy bent on destroying them and probably conquering the world (as you do).
For those of you that don’t know, Evelyn O’Connell is the leading lady of the Universal reboot of its classic film, The Mummy.