![]() ![]() The Mummy, a Stephen Sommers action-adventure-horror blockbuster from 1999, is an obvious melange of influences. My counter-argument would be that "nothing new under the sun" gives creators freedom - if everything's already been done, why not have fun doing it? ![]() It's easy to see how this phrase could be distressingly applied to the Hollywood machine, full of reboots and sequels and bald-faced pastiches. There is nothing new under the sun - not even that sentiment, which first originated in some old book called The Bible and has since wormed its way into modern vernacular as an efficient way to express a kind of weary cynicism about the repetition of life.
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