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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