In the first mummy, the mummy takes Evelyn as his princess and only intends on killing her to bring back Anuk. Also it's not mentioned that evie is Nefertiti reincarnated. Then in the the mummy 2, the mummy and Anuk are trying to kill Evelyn because she is Nefertiti reincarnated. Wouldn't they have noticed she looked like Nefertiti in the first mummy?
shareIn the 1st movie, he intended to kill Evy and use her body as a vassal for Anck Su Namun's spirit to inhabit. It didn't matter who she was at the time. In the second one, he simply wanted to kill her out of revenge for the previous movie. He still intended to resurrect Anck Su Namun, but now he had her bodily reincarnation. Bear in mind that it was her BODILY reincarnation, hence why he said "In body only", to her claim that she was Anck Su Namun reincarnated. This is different from true reincarnation. True reincarnation is the soul reborn in a new body (it doesn't even have to be the same body as the past life, even the pst gender). Bodily reincarnation is the body, not the soul returning to the living world, in which case the person does not possess the soul of the original, but has certain memories, certain personality aspects, and the appearance of the original, but is not them. This was why Imotep had Anck Su Namun's bodily reincarnation kill herself so he could resurrect the real Anck Su Namun's soul and place it in her body. Whether Evy was the real princess' soul reborn in a new body or a completely new soul in the reincarnated body of the princess is debatable. Based on Egyptian religious beliefs, I'm leaning towards the latter. In any case, they weren't trying to kill because who she was in the past, it was because she was their enemy and trying to stop them.
share"Wouldn't they have noticed she looked like Nefertiti in the first mummy?"
Yes - one of the many reasons the whole Evy-is-Nefertiri-reincarnated plot is garbage.
Perhaps that was part of the reason why he chose her since Nefertiti was the one who called the Mejih. He probably saw it as a type of poetic justice.
shareShe as too far away from them to listen to her voice and she died from falling of the balcony, so she wasn't even the one that punished Imhotep with the Hom-Dai curse.
shareThat's because it was only written in for this movie. One of the reasons this sequel sucked.
shareThis ^.
The whole Evie is now Nefertiti and the enemy was a terrible plot twist in the sequel -along with Ank-su-namum abandoning Imhotep to his fate.
Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.
The first movie was a remake of the original "The Mummy" (1932), which had a similar premise of the resurrected bad guy wanting to use the token beautiful woman to bring back his dead girlfriend. I'm guessing the studio didn't expect their version to be so popular, so they had to cobble something together for a sequel on the quick, and recycling Evy as the Pharoah's daughter seemed to be the best they could come up with. :-/
You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. share