I don't love premiers. I find them annoying cause I cannot watch the video knowing that its already uploaded. Well, I think the data will tell if this works or not for the numbers. If it does, just keep doing it, but if it has no effect on likes or views I'd prefer a channel without premieres. Have a nice one
"... He is a terrible archeologist..." Every archeologist i know both agrees with this statement and, at least partially, got into archaeology because of these films.
@@szeddezs Half the time the RUclips thoughtbot will get you if you do. Or if you use the name of their leader. Hence you will see people referring to "Moustache Man" in comments.
The part where Sean Connery says "We named the dog Indiana" is actually an inside joke between Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Lucas had a dog named Indiana as a kid who was later the inspiration for Chewbacca the Wookie in the Star Wars trilogy.
@@KimmyElHornoBimbo Would just be hilarious if that dog was a dachsund hound, therefore he would neither be terribly short, nor particularly "round." lol
Each film lists the year. So the chronological order is “Temple of Doom,” “Raiders,” then “Last Crusade.” Quick note about Short Round, after the events of Temple of Doom, Indy was so horrified that he put Shorty through that, that he adopted him and sent him to boarding school. He shows up in Indy comics when he’s on school breaks and later as an archeologist himself.
Does any of the three movies even reference events in the others? Even if they do, it hardly seems to matter which order you watch them in or which order they take place in. Each story is pretty self-contained.
The funny thing is that Connery was only 12 years older than Ford when they filmed this, lol. Their relationship was super convincing, and this was my first Connery movie as a teenager...never saw him as Bond until after this.
@@ThreadBomb Someday Spielberg will know to use you as his casting agent. I can just imagine him saying "Hey, I'm a little behind the times. Can we get some tween in here to help me avoid stuntcasting?" Connery had been typecast for decades thanks to his amazing presence as Bond. The great thing about this casting was that Connery was so amazing at playing the archeologist version of Q. No stunts anywhere, just great casting that adults really enjoyed.
@@ThreadBomb Humor has always been a part of the franchise. The fact that every joke lands while keeping pace with the puzzles and action and makes this movie more enjoyable isn't because of "stuntcasting". If it *is* a joke, it's a damn good one.
based on the differences in ages, Sean Connery would've been Harrison Fords' father at about age twelve. But as Ford himself said in one interview- "it's Sean Connery; he could do it."
Yes, but Harrison Ford is playing someone several years younger. Last Crusade takes place 2 years after Raiders, but came out 8 years later. Ford was 47, but Indy was only 39.
RIP Denholm Elliott (May 31, 1922 - October 6, 1992), aged 70 RIP Sir Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 - October 31, 2020), aged 90 RIP River Phoenix (August 23, 1970 - October 31, 1993), aged 23 You will always be remembered as legends.
I like all the knight imagery in the story. He visits a holy church, jousts against motorbikes, fights a fire breathing dragon (a tank), etc. Finding the Grail is really about making peace with your father, just like becoming a Jedi.
I loved that James Bond, perhaps the most iconic action character in cinema, plays the nerd character here, and is shocked that Indiana machine guns the bad guys. "Look what you did!"
And he actually preferred this to James Bond because he as it’s been well documented HATED James Bond in fact he’ll take any role and like doing it more than James Bond
Having been to Petra, I can say that the sight of the treasury building (the structure carved into the canyon wall) is incredible. It’s actually in a bit of a valley and you take an ancient Roman road all the way down. On your way, you see all sorts of caves and alcoves that people actually lived in. By the time you reach the bottom, you may be a bit tired and winded, but when you see that structure in front of you, you instantly say it was worth your time. There’s actually no going inside. It’s in fact a tomb that has guards standing just inside the openings. Should anyone get the opportunity to go to Jordan, make it a point to go. It’ll be one of the experiences you’ll remember for the rest of your life.
The hair growing out of the rapidly aging Donovan's scalp was shot in reverse. They filmed the hair being pulled back in and then ran it backwards. The shriveling face was done with some sort of rubber prosthetic of the actor's face being sucked in by a vacuum over a skull.
Plastiwrap. They molded a face on top of plastiwrap and heated it up to create the shriveling effect. There's Corridor Digital explained the effect in one of their videos.
Yeah it was actually shot against bluescreen and optically composited in later. The shriveling of the face was actually done with time-lapse photography of 3 different puppets in different stages of decay, while a vaccum was blowing hot air over each puppet, shot in time lapse photography against bluescreen. The 3 puppets were then digitally morphed together and then optically composited into the shot.
Your reaction to the stone 'bridge' as the leap of faith was exactly the way a couple hundred people reacted (audibly) in theaters. I was there when the magic was written (I was there when we watched it, anyway).
I'm sad that I missed the theater experience (I'm old enough), because seeing it for the first time...it's just one of the most amazing visual tricks in cinema, it's splendid.
Apparently the "She talks in her sleep" was improvised as a joke by Sean Connery and they liked it so much that they modified the story a little bit to accommodate it. Also, the motorcycle chase scene (as well as the conversation between Indy and his dad at the crossroads sign)* was added later after filming had been mostly completed because after watching the early drafts of the movie Steven realized that they needed a little bit more action in that middle part of the movie. Worked out great! * In fact, Sean Connery had shaved his beard after they finished filming his regular scenes so when they did these pickup scenes they had to put a fake one on him.
@@Harkness78 Well, Dr. Jones was working with her before Indy came to Venice so it is at least plausible that they had a romantic fling until he figured out she was only after the grail diary.
FUN FACT: The biggest clue is given that Donovan is the main villain very early, at the party where he first meets Indiana, the band is playing a slowed down version of Star Wars Imperial March.
Back then, Connery still was known mostly as James Bond, he had to start a second career with "The Name of the Rose", "Highlander", and this one to be accepted as a 'sherioush' actor
The original line from the German butler was "If you are a Scottish Lord, then I am Jesse Owens." They changed it because they knew nobody would know who that was.
That's a cool bit of trivia I was unaware of. A quick google shows me he won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics, which are notoriously the Nazi hosted Olympics, so a very timely reference!
My guess is the knight passed away shortly after the end of the movie. He probably survived that long by drinking from the grail. With the grail gone...
I figure he'd wait until everyone left, then climb down and get the Grail and put it back in the room where it goes, and maybe reset all the traps, and resume his guard duty.
General Veers was the officer leading the attack on Hoth from inside the AT-AT. Admiral Ozzel was the one Vader choked out over videoscreen for coming out of hyperspace too early - "you have failed me for the last time, Admiral..."
Julian Glover was also Aristotle Kristatos, the main antagonist in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981). As well as providing the voice of Aragog from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).
The guy who played the villain in this also played in Game of Thrones, the Old Maester in Kings Landing with the long beard who is always on the Lannisters side. Pycell.
@@ericstoverink6579 It's an entertaining but not nearly as good sequel following Last Crusade but still better than the steaming, screaming pile of crap that Temple was. Try to ignore it all you want it still wasn't a bad movie and better than Temple.
@@ronweber1402 You are just flat out insane. Crystal Skull was absolutely terrible and Temple is perfectly fun and watchable.
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@@ronweber1402 Temple wasn't as good as the other two, but… well, there are only three movies. What you claim to be a fourth would (if it existed) be *so much worse* than Temple. Oh, and do not get me started on this "fifth" Indiana Jones movie…
"What is your name? "Indiana Jones." "What is your quest?" "I seek the holy grail." "Who shot first? Han or Greedo?" "I, I don't know that! AHHHHHHH!" as Indiana flies into the Gorge of Eternal Peril
The novelization went into a little more detail about the Knight. He lost his strength because to gain eternal life, you have to drink from the grail every day and he missed one day. So with the grail lost, the knight will now die, although it doesn't say whether his years will suddenly catch up with him or if he has a while left before dying.
@@ianburns1167 While Donovan believes the Grail grants eternal youth, nowhere else did the movie say this, so unless the novelization gives more detail, it's also possible that eternal life doesn't mean you're forever young. Or maybe as Indy would say, "It's not the years, it's the mileage."
@@dtavs_exe Same for me. Sean Connery's presence always made any film instantly better. He could make a bad film tolerable, an ok film good, a good film great, and a great film a classic.
It won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing, the only Oscar it received, having been snubbed for Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design
They created "The Young Indian Jones Chronicles" after this movie which was on for a few years after "The Last Crusade". It may be something to look into.
The little song that Marcus and Henry share, is basically a student-y prayer for hangovers. Another word for genius is spirit (as in "genius loci", spirit of a place), and of course spirit is also a word for alcohol. So: "Genius of the restoration, aid in our resuscitation" ~= "Hair of the dog that bit us, help us recover." 🙂
One of the first movies I watched on VHS on repeat, still a personal favorite. Some trivia for you, Indiana was George Lucas’ Alaskan malamute around the time he was writing both Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars. That dog was the name inspiration for Indiana Jones (Indiana Smith in the original script) and, because the dog would ride in his passenger seat of his truck, the Millennium Falcon’s Wookiee copilot, Chewbacca. The Joneses seem to own a similar malamute when Indy comes home to tell his father about acquiring the cross of Coronado. The Hitler scene has a very obvious error in it. The actor playing him signs his name in the grail diary with his right hand, Hitler was left handed. EDIT: I used to think he spelled his name incorrectly, Adolf instead of Adolph, but have been corrected of that assumption. Turns out I was misinformed by some source in the past. Sean Connery rose to fame playing James Bond in the first several Bond films and the character is renowned for using a handgun made by a German company, Walther, specifically a Walther PPK. It was also in use at the time the movie was set (the first PPK’s were made in 1931) and is the gun Donovan uses to shoot Indy’s father. James Bond, shot with James Bond’s own gun.
As a german I would like to point out that Adolf Hitler was really spelled Adolf. I have never seen it spelled with ph. Hardly any modern (as in last 200-300 years) names use the ph, it was replaced by a f. ph is an very old spelling.
31:35 “how did they do that?” There’s a Corridor Crew episode on it. Basically multiple layer over the skeletal head with shrink wrap and then they used a heat gun to melt it
@@michaelhawkins7389 I looked and tried to find the Corridor Crew video I was referencing and couldn’t find it and I thought maybe I imagined it but it’s known that there an upcoming video about it but it’s not out yet, or something. I need to to either have some coffee or go to sleep
I few years before he played young Indy, River Phoenix co-starred with Harrison Ford in "The Mosquito Coast." This was why he was so familiar with Ford's general mannerisms.
Funny story about the line "We named the dog Indiana"...when George Lucas was originally writing the first Star Wars film, he had an Alaskan Malamute dog named Indiana that rode shotgun in his car when he drove around town. This dog was the inspiration for Chewbacca. Lucas and Spielberg thought the name Indiana would be unique for a 1930s serial action adventure hero, that's where Indy got his name. However, he was originally called Indiana Smith by Lucas, Spielberg felt Jones was a better surname. So, the line "We named the dog Indiana" is a tribute to George Lucas' old dog. I'll be here all week with more useless movie trivia XD
Exactly what I was going to say, except maybe it's a 2/3 perfect trilogy. (Y'all can defend _Temple of Doom_ all you want but for me it's a no.) The one thing I will give #4 credit for is, it was cool to bring Marion back - we got Salah and Marcus returning for 3, but didn't quite get the gang back together for the finale.
I guess the writers of "Frozen" were Indiana Jones fans because here we have "Elsa" and Indy tells her to "Let it go" when she's trying to grab the Holy Grail... The Donovan turning old scene used a combination of practical effects and morphing, which ILM had pioneered just the year before in "Willow".
1:49 Yes, this is where he get's his hat, as well as his bullwhip, his scar (which, yes, was retconned, glad you noticed!) and his crippling fear of snakes.
This has always been my favorite Indiana Jones film. I think this is the greatest father and son dynamic ever in movies. You truly believe they’re related. Will miss Sean Connery.
5:55 Actually it's often preferred to handle old books with just clean hands instead gloves unless there's something toxic in whatever you're handling. Old paper can handle touching much better than modern equivalent and gloves makes it easier to tear the paper due to the lessened tactic feel.
The scene where Donavan ages rapidly was done with pretty simple techniques. To make his hair appear to grow, they used a dummy head with long hair and had a crewmember pull some fishing wire inside the head attached to the hair to make it short. The whole thing was shot in reverse.
Here's a link to a video behind the scenes showing ILM crewmembers developing and testing the aging Donavan animatronic. ruclips.net/video/4F3OF8cjsAA/видео.html
Ever since I was a kid, I firmly believed that if you punched someone, it would sound like the punches in Indiana Jones. It's a cross between a gunshot and someone slamming a slab of meat onto the ground.
Yeah, me and my friends used to make fun of that in movies. It sounded to us like someone cracking a 2x4 in half! Then I grew up and realized, if you punch a man just right, it actually does sound like that!
2:46 - "His hair is very modern for 1912". Actually, not really. That was a style at the time: short on the sides, long on top. Usually they would have used a pomade or something to keep it in place, but if they're running around, it could fall in your face like that. The style did swing around the dial of fashion and come back into vogue later, which is why you may have thought it looked modern. 5:25 - Chin scar? Exactly right. They put in that whip-crack easter egg to align with Harrison's actual scar. (Indiana Jones has lead an amazing life of scrapes, falls, bullets, punches, etc. By all rights he should be riddled with scars all over. The idea that a single whip-crack (which is truly no joke- a cracked whip can do real damage! If anything, he's lucky that's all it was!)- but a single whip scar from his late teens should be THE defining scar of his face well into his late 40s (Harrison himself was 47 at that time), given everything he's been through in the meantime, is a little silly. But it's movie magic, right?
The chemistry between Harrison Ford and Sean Connery is what sold this movie. Aside from Ford, every major character had starred in at least one Bond film. My favorite scene is a bit of cinematic irony: Donovan shoots Henry Sr with a Walther PPK, the weapon Connery made famous as James Bond. There's a TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles that go over his adventures from traveling with his parents as a boy to his service in World War I to living in interwar Europe.
"This looks like the US....or Australia" It is Arches N.P. in S/E Utah. That is a feature called Park Avenue, I guess it reminds folks of a city skyline? Wonderful place to visit,only a couple of miles from the town of Moab which has a ski resort vibe except it's summer and everyone is mountain biking or white water rafting. Well worth the trip from the UK to see it and the rest of the NP's in Utah. Loads of movies use the scenery around Moab, bits of Thelma & Louise were filmed near there too. It's fun to watch movies and think "Yep, been there..."
The temptation for Elsa was eternal life, and the prospect of being the discoverer of the Grail with Indy. For Indy the temptation was to finally have found the object of his father’s obsession for decades and show him he could get it for him. And Henry telling him to let it go was him showing him that even the greatest treasure he hunted his whole life for wasn’t worth more than his son to him.
Fun and frantic - inspired casting of Connery as Jones, Sr. (even the filmmakers were like 'Well of course James Bond is the only one who could be Indy's dad') has dynamic chemistry with Ford. FYI: Phoenix co-star as Ford's son in THE MOSQUITO COAST which also makes inspired casting as a Young Indy. Nice job (and I still need to see a link for your take on RAIDERS!)
Fun trivia. Harrison Ford nominated River Phoenix to play him as a teenager, having worked with him before on his favorite of his many movies, The Mosquito Coast (1986). When describing how he prepared for playing the role, Phoenix explained that he didn't really base his portrayal on the Indiana Jones character, but on Harrison Ford. So he observed Ford out of character before acting his part. Simone, you're right about Harrison Ford's chin scar. He cut his chin in a car accident in southern California when he was about twenty years old. In the movie, this cut is explained by young Indiana Jones cutting his chin with a whip.
This is my favorite of the original trilogy. Harrison Ford and Sean Connery had great chemistry, and I loved the humor - especially Salah's 'Run!' sequence with Brody. Is that a Hollywood Upstairs Medical College shirt, Doctor Nick?
My dad has always looked quite a bit like an older Sean Connery, so I’ve always had a soft spot for him as an actor. This is probably my favorite Indy movie of the three.
The whip scene with the lion where young Indy cuts his chin is the backstory to why the adult Indy has a scar on his chin. Harrison Ford actually has a scar on his chin -- Ford was involved in a car crash in 1964. He hit his face on the steering wheel, which left a permanent scar on his chin.
I'd still like to see you react to Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. not only have I seen a number of people talk about how they prefer it over Temple of Doom, but even if it does end up being your least favourite: well, reactions to bad movies can still be entertaining! (Why do you think people watch reactions to the Shyamalan Airbender movie XD )
19:22 George: "Book burnings... It's always a good sign of a healthy society when they're burning a pile of books" Yeah... funny you mention that. An American pastor from Tennessee held a book burning with his congregation last Wednesday night. For real 😧
If you didn't notice, the actor who played Walter Donovan also played in Game of Thrones as Grand Maester Pycelle. Also Raiders and Last Crusade are based off of some truth, Hitler did in fact send out archaeological teams to find the Ark and the Holy Grail along with many other religious artifacts cause of his and Heinrich Himmler's obsession with the occult, Himmler being the most involved in the occult practice.
Among ALL the big action/adventure movies out there, this one just might be my all-time favorite. I just think it is so cleverly constructed as both a new adventure and a tribute to the previous movies with plenty of clever call backs. We see Indy's "origin" in the beginning. And the movie ends where the first one began - in an ancient tunnel filled with booby traps. It works so well as a fitting conclusion to the series (yes, I know they made a fourth much later on but I'm ignoring that) in the same way that I thought Endgame was a fantastic wrap up and conclusion to the whole Infinity War Saga. And I love the ending - when Indy's father tells Indy to "Let it go." Indy's father had been obsessed with finding the Grail his whole life, since before Indy was born and it most likely was a major factor in their problematic father-son relationship. So, him telling Indy to let it go was a major change in his character - he was FINALLY choosing his son over The Grail. The quest for The Grail was the ultimate obsession and it consumed and ultimately killed many people (like Elsa and Donovan). But Jones Sr. was finally able to overcome it and, we hope, he passed that on to Indy. The Knight "waving bye" to them at the end could also be him congratulating and saluting them for surviving and overcoming the quest. One could imagine after this adventure that they both gave up questing after artifacts and focused on mending their relationship. A perfect ending as they ride triumphantly into the sunset!
19:35 Joseph Goebbels and Mengele were doctors - In fact a higher than average percentage of the member in the Einsatzgruppen (for the liquidation of Jews) were highly educated, jurists, theologians, police, lawyers.
Simone! You are right! The “library” façade is indeed a real place in Venice, and you can visit. It is not a library, though 😂 and I don’t know where the interiors were filmed, but the exterior is most certainly a place you can visit! Fun bonus story: Katherine Hepburn also filmed outside of this church and has to fall in the canal as part of a scene. Reportedly, she picked up an infection from that scene that she never recovered from. Great reaction, as always!
The library / church when they arrive in Venice is the San Barnaba church there. And the origin of the weird Mickey Mouse line is as follow: "The Butler's original line before Jones knocks him out was, "If you are a Scottish lord, then I am Jesse Owens!", due to the most recent Olympics having been hosted by Nazi Germany in 1936 prior to the film's setting. This was changed because the filmmakers thought that many people would be unfamiliar with who Jesse Owens was." When Simone think Indiana fell in front of the tank I can see her confusion because the tank track in that scene looks like it goes forward which would indicate that Indiana does fell in front of it.
Sean Connery got his start as a comedy actor. He was in a movie called On The Fiddle, and in the (in)famous Darby O'Gill and the Little People. If you are taking recs for old movies to watch, then Darby O'Gill is a good one. It is comedic, but has great SFX work for its day, and Peter Jackson even used some of the techniques from it in his Lord of the Rings movies.
Interesting the mention of 'old' techniques as reliance on CGI could cause a loss of working knowledge over time. A bit like the Saturn V engines - They can't reproduce the same technology today, but look at it to try and glean some information from an engineering standpoint. It would be a shame if the same happened to tried and true movie making effects as Jackson apparently understood how to use.
The real holy grail is actually in a church in Valencia, Spain. I saw it while I was touring Europe. It's just the bowl part of the cup, there isn't a base to it. It's been there for like 400 years i think.
Best Line in the whole movie, "He Chose Poorly"!! Just wish you guys woulda played it!!! The kingdom of the crystal skulls is a little better than people give it credit for in my opinion but judge it for yourselves.... I actually liked it better than Temple of Doom!
800 years have not robbed him of an evil sense of humor. The man was a Crusader, he may have been worthy to guard the Holy Grail so he probably didn't participate in any massacres, but he was by and large not hanging out with nice people.
For Simone, as she likes both Shia LeBeouf and Keanu Reeves... the very overlooked and underappreciated "Constantine" would be a good one to check out.
Steven Spielberg always loved the Tintin comics and dreamed of doing a Tintin movie. He couldn't get any American studio to approve it because it didn't have name recognition in the US, so instead he created Indiana Jones that is totally different from Tintin. Completely different. He wears a hat! Anyway, my point is that after the Indiana Jones movies, he finally managed to get a Tintin movie greenlit. It came out in 2011 and is basically yet another Indiana Jones movie. If you liked this one, you'll like that one too.
The guy who gives Indy his hat in the flashback scene to Indy's teenage years was originally supposed to be Abner Ravenwood, Marion's dad. I always thought it was a shame that they removed that bit from the script.
It's rough, because I recognize the flaws of the film, but I actually liked it more than "Temple of Doom", mainly because the shrieking in Temple gets tiresome. When I was younger, I was more forgiving of Willie Scott, but as I've grown older, all the shrieking, and the whining, and not helping out at all just annoys the hell out of me. As much as I don't like Shia, I dislike Kate's character more. And the Crystal Skull storyline was something George had been wanting to do for over a decade, he'd dabbled in it in "Young Indiana Jones", so I'm glad he got to make it for himself before he dies. I think they just waited too long. When you wait 15+ years to make a sequel to your movie, sometimes you get "Rocky Balboa" or "Blade Runner 2049", and other times you get "Indiana Jones 4". And everybody (not including me) wanted Nazis and another Christian artifact again. Like Chris Gore said on G4 once, "it's the best of the Mummy movies". (And I disagree with Chris Gore quite frequently, but he kinda nailed it here).
The 4th one has it’s problems, sure. But I don’t get how the whole fridge thing is such a complaint. I mean far fetched is one thing, but freaky survival stories are not impossible. And people thinking the whole inter-dimension alien thing is “silly.” There is literally miracles and ghosts in the original trilogy! People, magic is not real!
10:30 That's why you don't give negative orders in the heat of battle. Say what you want to happen, rather than distract them with the stuff you don't want them to do.
This is the best trilogy. The 4th is fine, it's just not in the league of the first 3. I recommend watching the 4th, it's not like they replace the lead or director. Maybe you'll enjoy it.
We don't really know how Premiers work or what they do, but the button to do it looked shiny so we're curious to find out how this all works 🤷♂️🤷♀️
Annoying... my absolute favorite movie and I can't watch your premiere. Time zones and all. 😴😄
I don't love premiers. I find them annoying cause I cannot watch the video knowing that its already uploaded. Well, I think the data will tell if this works or not for the numbers. If it does, just keep doing it, but if it has no effect on likes or views I'd prefer a channel without premieres. Have a nice one
The way they work is that it gets me excited about there being a new CineBinge and then by crushing my spirit when I realise it's not there yet. 😐
@@rosetoren3881 Yeah, I'm in the same boat. Premiere time is midnight. No chance we could say make it an hour earlier next time?
Now I am really anxious to see this but have to wait! 😆
"... He is a terrible archeologist..."
Every archeologist i know both agrees with this statement and, at least partially, got into archaeology because of these films.
My friend once told me he had a dream of becoming an archeologist until his father told him fighting n-zis isn't actually a part of the job.
@@szeddezs Oh I thought it was a the same thing as with Voldemort, that if you use the real name, they'll come and get you.
@@szeddezs great, now you made them come back...
@@szeddezs
Half the time the RUclips thoughtbot will get you if you do. Or if you use the name of their leader. Hence you will see people referring to "Moustache Man" in comments.
Former archeology student here: can confirm.
The part where Sean Connery says "We named the dog Indiana" is actually an inside joke between Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Lucas had a dog named Indiana as a kid who was later the inspiration for Chewbacca the Wookie in the Star Wars trilogy.
I'm sure I've seen somewhere that I think Spielberg has a dog called short round ☺️
And Chewbacca was named after the russian word for dog, which is собака.
@@KimmyElHornoBimbo no, willie was his dog's name. The Temple of Doom writers who are married had the dog named short round.
@@scottb3034 ahhh thanks!! I knew that someone had a dog called Short Round!! 😅
@@KimmyElHornoBimbo Would just be hilarious if that dog was a dachsund hound, therefore he would neither be terribly short, nor particularly "round." lol
Each film lists the year. So the chronological order is “Temple of Doom,” “Raiders,” then “Last Crusade.”
Quick note about Short Round, after the events of Temple of Doom, Indy was so horrified that he put Shorty through that, that he adopted him and sent him to boarding school. He shows up in Indy comics when he’s on school breaks and later as an archeologist himself.
Yes but the ACTUAL order they released was
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Temple Of Doom and
The Last Crusade
Yes, Jeff. I believe everyone already knows that, as evidenced by the reactors above even mentioning it in the video...
So that's what happened to Short Round. I always wondered what happened to him after Temple of Doom.
Does any of the three movies even reference events in the others? Even if they do, it hardly seems to matter which order you watch them in or which order they take place in. Each story is pretty self-contained.
@@tuschman168 In Crusade Indy recognises a depiction of the Ark.
The father/son dynamic is so perfect in this movie. I think it’s my favourite of the trilogy.
Sean Connery is a perfect fit. RIP
The funny thing is that Connery was only 12 years older than Ford when they filmed this, lol.
Their relationship was super convincing, and this was my first Connery movie as a teenager...never saw him as Bond until after this.
Agreed.
@@ThreadBomb Someday Spielberg will know to use you as his casting agent. I can just imagine him saying "Hey, I'm a little behind the times. Can we get some tween in here to help me avoid stuntcasting?"
Connery had been typecast for decades thanks to his amazing presence as Bond. The great thing about this casting was that Connery was so amazing at playing the archeologist version of Q. No stunts anywhere, just great casting that adults really enjoyed.
@@ThreadBomb Humor has always been a part of the franchise. The fact that every joke lands while keeping pace with the puzzles and action and makes this movie more enjoyable isn't because of "stuntcasting". If it *is* a joke, it's a damn good one.
based on the differences in ages, Sean Connery would've been Harrison Fords' father at about age twelve. But as Ford himself said in one interview- "it's Sean Connery; he could do it."
Connery was only five years older than Ford.
@@stefanlaskowski6660 Sean Connery was 12 years older than Harrison Ford. Connery, born in 1930, and Ford in 1942.
Yes, but Harrison Ford is playing someone several years younger. Last Crusade takes place 2 years after Raiders, but came out 8 years later. Ford was 47, but Indy was only 39.
@@ThreadBomb What does your comment have to do with anything I wrote?
It's possible, especially 120 years ago when kids having kids was a lot more common.
RIP Denholm Elliott (May 31, 1922 - October 6, 1992), aged 70
RIP Sir Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 - October 31, 2020), aged 90
RIP River Phoenix (August 23, 1970 - October 31, 1993), aged 23
You will always be remembered as legends.
They both died on Halloween but in two different years.
@@StephenLuke Both born on the virgo cusp.
@@tempsitch5632 Virgo cusp?
@@StephenLuke Born on days when the sun is somewhere between 2 Zodiac signs, in this case Leo and Virgo
@@carm3d (1922-1992).
I like all the knight imagery in the story. He visits a holy church, jousts against motorbikes, fights a fire breathing dragon (a tank), etc.
Finding the Grail is really about making peace with your father, just like becoming a Jedi.
The castle _Anthrax?_
Solo a Jedi...hurrdurrhurrhurr
I loved that James Bond, perhaps the most iconic action character in cinema, plays the nerd character here, and is shocked that Indiana machine guns the bad guys. "Look what you did!"
And he actually preferred this to James Bond because he as it’s been well documented HATED James Bond in fact he’ll take any role and like doing it more than James Bond
Having been to Petra, I can say that the sight of the treasury building (the structure carved into the canyon wall) is incredible. It’s actually in a bit of a valley and you take an ancient Roman road all the way down. On your way, you see all sorts of caves and alcoves that people actually lived in. By the time you reach the bottom, you may be a bit tired and winded, but when you see that structure in front of you, you instantly say it was worth your time.
There’s actually no going inside. It’s in fact a tomb that has guards standing just inside the openings.
Should anyone get the opportunity to go to Jordan, make it a point to go. It’ll be one of the experiences you’ll remember for the rest of your life.
The hair growing out of the rapidly aging Donovan's scalp was shot in reverse. They filmed the hair being pulled back in and then ran it backwards. The shriveling face was done with some sort of rubber prosthetic of the actor's face being sucked in by a vacuum over a skull.
Plastiwrap. They molded a face on top of plastiwrap and heated it up to create the shriveling effect. There's Corridor Digital explained the effect in one of their videos.
Yeah it was actually shot against bluescreen and optically composited in later.
The shriveling of the face was actually done with time-lapse photography of 3 different puppets in different stages of decay, while a vaccum was blowing hot air over each puppet, shot in time lapse photography against bluescreen. The 3 puppets were then digitally morphed together and then optically composited into the shot.
Good to know.
The comedic timing of Sean Connery is indeed priceless. He was an amazing actor.
Your reaction to the stone 'bridge' as the leap of faith was exactly the way a couple hundred people reacted (audibly) in theaters. I was there when the magic was written (I was there when we watched it, anyway).
Exactly! Nobody saw it originally.
I can spot it now pre-reveal, but it takes practice.
I'm sad that I missed the theater experience (I'm old enough), because seeing it for the first time...it's just one of the most amazing visual tricks in cinema, it's splendid.
Indiana Jones and Narnia... You have good taste in fiction, friend 😊
I saw this with my dad we were 🤯 at the bridge but in the novel it's explained as the grail knights had camouflaged it
Yes! I was there and the entire audience gasped.
Apparently the "She talks in her sleep" was improvised as a joke by Sean Connery and they liked it so much that they modified the story a little bit to accommodate it. Also, the motorcycle chase scene (as well as the conversation between Indy and his dad at the crossroads sign)* was added later after filming had been mostly completed because after watching the early drafts of the movie Steven realized that they needed a little bit more action in that middle part of the movie. Worked out great!
* In fact, Sean Connery had shaved his beard after they finished filming his regular scenes so when they did these pickup scenes they had to put a fake one on him.
Makes sense it was improvised, because it doesn't make a lot of sense narratively.
@@Harkness78 Well, Dr. Jones was working with her before Indy came to Venice so it is at least plausible that they had a romantic fling until he figured out she was only after the grail diary.
Why does anybody need to know this? Have you ever been outside?
@@JBiggs54442 Well 43 people found it interesting, so get over yourself.
The chemistry between Sean Connery and Harrison Ford is the reason I love this movie.
I feel like everyone misses my favourite line:
"Sallah I said NO camels, that's FIVE camels...
... can't you count?!"
"It's always a sign of a healthy society when they're burning books."
BIG facts.
FUN FACT: The biggest clue is given that Donovan is the main villain very early, at the party where he first meets Indiana, the band is playing a slowed down version of Star Wars Imperial March.
In case you didn’t know, young Indy is played by River Phoenix, Joaquin’s older brother. Sadly, he died by O.D. in the early 90’s.
Back then, Connery still was known mostly as James Bond, he had to start a second career with "The Name of the Rose", "Highlander", and this one to be accepted as a 'sherioush' actor
The Name of the Rose is my favourite film with him. He has a lot of great movies though.
The original line from the German butler was "If you are a Scottish Lord, then I am Jesse Owens." They changed it because they knew nobody would know who that was.
That's a cool bit of trivia I was unaware of. A quick google shows me he won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics, which are notoriously the Nazi hosted Olympics, so a very timely reference!
@@amstrad00 Mickey Mouse is still timely. Disney was popular at the time and Hitler was apparently a fan.
@@TheJabbate1 I don't disagree. But I feel like the 36' Olympics were a bigger deal from a political standpoint.
Thanks - I like it much better and I know who Jesse Owens was - so did the Nazi's ;)
Ironically, Hitler loved Disney cartoons.
My guess is the knight passed away shortly after the end of the movie. He probably survived that long by drinking from the grail. With the grail gone...
Exactly
Passed away painlessly leaving blessed bones or something like that.
I figure he'd wait until everyone left, then climb down and get the Grail and put it back in the room where it goes, and maybe reset all the traps, and resume his guard duty.
@@PhilBagels He never saw where the grail went.
@@jp3813 He was standing right there and can see the cracks in the floor. Plus there are other people there who can tell him where it is.
Aside from Harrison Ford, two other actors in this movie were also in Empire Strikes Back. Walter Donovan = General Veers and Hitler = Admiral Ozzel
I never recognized Michael Sheard before, but always liked Julian Glover. He GoT a chance to shine as a Grand Maester Pycelle.
General Veers was the officer leading the attack on Hoth from inside the AT-AT. Admiral Ozzel was the one Vader choked out over videoscreen for coming out of hyperspace too early - "you have failed me for the last time, Admiral..."
Julian Glover was also Aristotle Kristatos, the main antagonist in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981). As well as providing the voice of Aragog from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).
The guy who played the villain in this also played in Game of Thrones, the Old Maester in Kings Landing with the long beard who is always on the Lannisters side. Pycell.
I love the part where they think they find the Grail but it turns out to be just a grail shaped beacon.....Oh naughty Zoot!
Each movies does state the year in the beginning. Raiders was 1936. Temple was 1935. Crusade is 1938. And Crystal Skull is 1957.
Crystal skull? What's that? Never heard of it. It doesn't exist.
@@ericstoverink6579 It's an entertaining but not nearly as good sequel following Last Crusade but still better than the steaming, screaming pile of crap that Temple was. Try to ignore it all you want it still wasn't a bad movie and better than Temple.
@@ronweber1402 incredible!! Every word of what you just said was wrong!!
@@ronweber1402 You are just flat out insane. Crystal Skull was absolutely terrible and Temple is perfectly fun and watchable.
@@ronweber1402 Temple wasn't as good as the other two, but… well, there are only three movies. What you claim to be a fourth would (if it existed) be *so much worse* than Temple.
Oh, and do not get me started on this "fifth" Indiana Jones movie…
"What is your name?
"Indiana Jones."
"What is your quest?"
"I seek the holy grail."
"Who shot first? Han or Greedo?"
"I, I don't know that! AHHHHHHH!" as Indiana flies into the Gorge of Eternal Peril
The novelization went into a little more detail about the Knight. He lost his strength because to gain eternal life, you have to drink from the grail every day and he missed one day. So with the grail lost, the knight will now die, although it doesn't say whether his years will suddenly catch up with him or if he has a while left before dying.
I like the idea that he wasn't so old when he began, but there have been days where he lost faith in his vigil and didn't drink.
@@ianburns1167 While Donovan believes the Grail grants eternal youth, nowhere else did the movie say this, so unless the novelization gives more detail, it's also possible that eternal life doesn't mean you're forever young.
Or maybe as Indy would say, "It's not the years, it's the mileage."
Two things:
1. Elsa, Let it go!
2. Corridor Crew has a series looking at special effects, and an episode covered the holy grail scene.
Raiders is my favorite, but this is an extremely close second, the chemistry between Ford & Connery is perfect.
I'm the opposite of you, this is my favorite and Raiders is the extremely close second.
@@dtavs_exe Same for me. Sean Connery's presence always made any film instantly better. He could make a bad film tolerable, an ok film good, a good film great, and a great film a classic.
The only man cool enough to play indy's dad was James Bond..
I don't understand how people could love Raiders AND this garbage
@@davidking498 Not a hard concept. People like different things for different reasons.
It won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing, the only Oscar it received, having been snubbed for Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design
This is my favorite of the franchise. The mix of action and comedy is perfect. And the chemistry between Sean Connery and Harrison Ford is greatness.
"Think of how many hotdogs were saved." Truly the best comedy line here.
They created "The Young Indian Jones Chronicles" after this movie which was on for a few years after "The Last Crusade". It may be something to look into.
Yeah, "Young Indy" was a lot of fun. They went in really hard on war porn, but there's nothing wrong with that, I guess.
The little song that Marcus and Henry share, is basically a student-y prayer for hangovers.
Another word for genius is spirit (as in "genius loci", spirit of a place), and of course spirit is also a word for alcohol. So: "Genius of the restoration, aid in our resuscitation" ~= "Hair of the dog that bit us, help us recover." 🙂
"Did he just rub champagne on an artifact? He's a terrible archaeologist." Imagine what we think about Lara Croft. She blows things up!
Ya he is by no means an archaeologist even by the standards of the times. He was a straight up looter.
@@ronweber1402 eh
More of a preservationist
Preserving artifacts for museums
To be fair, Lara's true occupation is right there in the title of her games. She's not really an archeologist, she's a tomb raider, a grave robber.
Does alcohol dissolve stone?
One of the first movies I watched on VHS on repeat, still a personal favorite. Some trivia for you, Indiana was George Lucas’ Alaskan malamute around the time he was writing both Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars. That dog was the name inspiration for Indiana Jones (Indiana Smith in the original script) and, because the dog would ride in his passenger seat of his truck, the Millennium Falcon’s Wookiee copilot, Chewbacca. The Joneses seem to own a similar malamute when Indy comes home to tell his father about acquiring the cross of Coronado.
The Hitler scene has a very obvious error in it. The actor playing him signs his name in the grail diary with his right hand, Hitler was left handed. EDIT: I used to think he spelled his name incorrectly, Adolf instead of Adolph, but have been corrected of that assumption. Turns out I was misinformed by some source in the past.
Sean Connery rose to fame playing James Bond in the first several Bond films and the character is renowned for using a handgun made by a German company, Walther, specifically a Walther PPK. It was also in use at the time the movie was set (the first PPK’s were made in 1931) and is the gun Donovan uses to shoot Indy’s father. James Bond, shot with James Bond’s own gun.
As a german I would like to point out that Adolf Hitler was really spelled Adolf. I have never seen it spelled with ph. Hardly any modern (as in last 200-300 years) names use the ph, it was replaced by a f. ph is an very old spelling.
@@bctpp5271 ah, my apologies then. I don’t remember where I was told that, I guess I was misinformed.
31:35 “how did they do that?”
There’s a Corridor Crew episode on it. Basically multiple layer over the skeletal head with shrink wrap and then they used a heat gun to melt it
Here's a behind the scenes video of ILM crew developing and testing the aging Donavan animatronic. ruclips.net/video/4F3OF8cjsAA/видео.html
@@michaelhawkins7389 you mean cinebinge’s video? Patreons have early access
@@ThreadBomb you're exactly right
@@michaelhawkins7389 I looked and tried to find the Corridor Crew video I was referencing and couldn’t find it and I thought maybe I imagined it but it’s known that there an upcoming video about it but it’s not out yet, or something.
I need to to either have some coffee or go to sleep
@@merchillio It's and old episode, 41. ruclips.net/video/FMlzE6ToFLg/видео.html
This was so SO awesome and a great send off for Indy! I'm so glad to they never succumbed to the temptation to make a fourth movie long in the future!
I'd certainly hate to live in that timeline.
My headcanon 4th movie is the adventure game 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis' by LucasArts.
@@UberWraith You're not alone :)
You guys caught more from that first scene with young Indy than any other reaction I’ve seen. The hat, whip, hate for snakes, scar on his chin…
"Just had to sacrifice so many seagulls."
"Think about how many hot dogs were saved."
You are The Winner of the Week.
.....or Weiner? ;-)
It took me 15 mins to just get that joke...aye carumba😂😂😂
George keeping his mouth shut on what more then likely would have been a hilarious comment and throwing up Mr bean 🤣 😂 😆 had me dying !
I few years before he played young Indy, River Phoenix co-starred with Harrison Ford in "The Mosquito Coast." This was why he was so familiar with Ford's general mannerisms.
Funny story about the line "We named the dog Indiana"...when George Lucas was originally writing the first Star Wars film, he had an Alaskan Malamute dog named Indiana that rode shotgun in his car when he drove around town. This dog was the inspiration for Chewbacca. Lucas and Spielberg thought the name Indiana would be unique for a 1930s serial action adventure hero, that's where Indy got his name. However, he was originally called Indiana Smith by Lucas, Spielberg felt Jones was a better surname. So, the line "We named the dog Indiana" is a tribute to George Lucas' old dog.
I'll be here all week with more useless movie trivia XD
spielberg named his future wife after HIS dog in Doom.
A perfect ending to a perfect trilogy. Glad there were no over movies after that who could ruin the legacy of Indiana Jones.
Exactly what I was going to say, except maybe it's a 2/3 perfect trilogy. (Y'all can defend _Temple of Doom_ all you want but for me it's a no.) The one thing I will give #4 credit for is, it was cool to bring Marion back - we got Salah and Marcus returning for 3, but didn't quite get the gang back together for the finale.
I guess the writers of "Frozen" were Indiana Jones fans because here we have "Elsa" and Indy tells her to "Let it go" when she's trying to grab the Holy Grail...
The Donovan turning old scene used a combination of practical effects and morphing, which ILM had pioneered just the year before in "Willow".
Ha ha, I made that exact comment. Great minds.
1:49 Yes, this is where he get's his hat, as well as his bullwhip, his scar (which, yes, was retconned, glad you noticed!) and his crippling fear of snakes.
This has always been my favorite Indiana Jones film. I think this is the greatest father and son dynamic ever in movies. You truly believe they’re related. Will miss Sean Connery.
5:55 Actually it's often preferred to handle old books with just clean hands instead gloves unless there's something toxic in whatever you're handling. Old paper can handle touching much better than modern equivalent and gloves makes it easier to tear the paper due to the lessened tactic feel.
The scene where Donavan ages rapidly was done with pretty simple techniques. To make his hair appear to grow, they used a dummy head with long hair and had a crewmember pull some fishing wire inside the head attached to the hair to make it short. The whole thing was shot in reverse.
Here's a link to a video behind the scenes showing ILM crewmembers developing and testing the aging Donavan animatronic. ruclips.net/video/4F3OF8cjsAA/видео.html
28:11 "that's very cool" - yes, and it's real, not a set or a matte painting! That's the Treasury at Petra in Jordan, and it's two thousand years old.
Ever since I was a kid, I firmly believed that if you punched someone, it would sound like the punches in Indiana Jones. It's a cross between a gunshot and someone slamming a slab of meat onto the ground.
Yeah, me and my friends used to make fun of that in movies. It sounded to us like someone cracking a 2x4 in half!
Then I grew up and realized, if you punch a man just right, it actually does sound like that!
I think they made the sound effect by slapping a two by four into a naugahyde couch... something like that.
2:46 - "His hair is very modern for 1912". Actually, not really. That was a style at the time: short on the sides, long on top. Usually they would have used a pomade or something to keep it in place, but if they're running around, it could fall in your face like that. The style did swing around the dial of fashion and come back into vogue later, which is why you may have thought it looked modern.
5:25 - Chin scar? Exactly right. They put in that whip-crack easter egg to align with Harrison's actual scar. (Indiana Jones has lead an amazing life of scrapes, falls, bullets, punches, etc. By all rights he should be riddled with scars all over. The idea that a single whip-crack (which is truly no joke- a cracked whip can do real damage! If anything, he's lucky that's all it was!)- but a single whip scar from his late teens should be THE defining scar of his face well into his late 40s (Harrison himself was 47 at that time), given everything he's been through in the meantime, is a little silly. But it's movie magic, right?
The chemistry between Harrison Ford and Sean Connery is what sold this movie.
Aside from Ford, every major character had starred in at least one Bond film.
My favorite scene is a bit of cinematic irony: Donovan shoots Henry Sr with a Walther PPK, the weapon Connery made famous as James Bond.
There's a TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles that go over his adventures from traveling with his parents as a boy to his service in World War I to living in interwar Europe.
The sheik who loves Donovan's car is British comedian Alexei Sayle, best known for his role on The Young Ones.
The score for the desert action sequence, 'Belly of the Steel Beast' is amongst my favourite film music ever
The Jones house in the opening is in Colorado, just across the border from New Mexico. I've driven by it, and you can tour it.
Dirty rotten scoundrels is a comedy classic
This
"This looks like the US....or Australia" It is Arches N.P. in S/E Utah. That is a feature called Park Avenue, I guess it reminds folks of a city skyline? Wonderful place to visit,only a couple of miles from the town of Moab which has a ski resort vibe except it's summer and everyone is mountain biking or white water rafting. Well worth the trip from the UK to see it and the rest of the NP's in Utah. Loads of movies use the scenery around Moab, bits of Thelma & Louise were filmed near there too. It's fun to watch movies and think "Yep, been there..."
A shout out to Popcorn in Bed at the beginning of this one?
The temptation for Elsa was eternal life, and the prospect of being the discoverer of the Grail with Indy. For Indy the temptation was to finally have found the object of his father’s obsession for decades and show him he could get it for him. And Henry telling him to let it go was him showing him that even the greatest treasure he hunted his whole life for wasn’t worth more than his son to him.
Fun and frantic - inspired casting of Connery as Jones, Sr. (even the filmmakers were like 'Well of course James Bond is the only one who could be Indy's dad') has dynamic chemistry with Ford. FYI: Phoenix co-star as Ford's son in THE MOSQUITO COAST which also makes inspired casting as a Young Indy. Nice job (and I still need to see a link for your take on RAIDERS!)
Fun trivia. Harrison Ford nominated River Phoenix to play him as a teenager, having worked with him before on his favorite of his many movies, The Mosquito Coast (1986). When describing how he prepared for playing the role, Phoenix explained that he didn't really base his portrayal on the Indiana Jones character, but on Harrison Ford. So he observed Ford out of character before acting his part.
Simone, you're right about Harrison Ford's chin scar. He cut his chin in a car accident in southern California when he was about twenty years old. In the movie, this cut is explained by young Indiana Jones cutting his chin with a whip.
This is my favorite of the original trilogy. Harrison Ford and Sean Connery had great chemistry, and
I loved the humor - especially Salah's 'Run!' sequence with Brody.
Is that a Hollywood Upstairs Medical College shirt, Doctor Nick?
Young Indiana Jone in this film was played by River Phoenix shortly before his sad death.
My dad has always looked quite a bit like an older Sean Connery, so I’ve always had a soft spot for him as an actor. This is probably my favorite Indy movie of the three.
The whip scene with the lion where young Indy cuts his chin is the backstory to why the adult Indy has a scar on his chin. Harrison Ford actually has a scar on his chin -- Ford was involved in a car crash in 1964. He hit his face on the steering wheel, which left a permanent scar on his chin.
The chemistry between Connery and Ford was palpable 💫 so good
Julian Glover who played the main villain here also played the villain in the Tom Baker serial "City of Death" from Doctor Who.
I'd still like to see you react to Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
not only have I seen a number of people talk about how they prefer it over Temple of Doom, but even if it does end up being your least favourite: well, reactions to bad movies can still be entertaining! (Why do you think people watch reactions to the Shyamalan Airbender movie XD )
Glad you commented on how funny Connery was in this. The chemistry between him & Ford was priceless.
19:22 George: "Book burnings... It's always a good sign of a healthy society when they're burning a pile of books"
Yeah... funny you mention that. An American pastor from Tennessee held a book burning with his congregation last Wednesday night. For real 😧
I say "You have chosen... wisely" all the time; whenever I can find an opportunity to use it in context.
Each movie stated the year it took place at the beginning (or, in this case, twice, as relevant).
This one is my favorite!
My favourite Connery performance. The Father/Son dynamic with him and Ford is so much fun to watch every time!
The Mickey Mouse line was originally Jesse Owens (in script and comic book adaptation at least).
If you didn't notice, the actor who played Walter Donovan also played in Game of Thrones as Grand Maester Pycelle. Also Raiders and Last Crusade are based off of some truth, Hitler did in fact send out archaeological teams to find the Ark and the Holy Grail along with many other religious artifacts cause of his and Heinrich Himmler's obsession with the occult, Himmler being the most involved in the occult practice.
Among ALL the big action/adventure movies out there, this one just might be my all-time favorite. I just think it is so cleverly constructed as both a new adventure and a tribute to the previous movies with plenty of clever call backs. We see Indy's "origin" in the beginning. And the movie ends where the first one began - in an ancient tunnel filled with booby traps. It works so well as a fitting conclusion to the series (yes, I know they made a fourth much later on but I'm ignoring that) in the same way that I thought Endgame was a fantastic wrap up and conclusion to the whole Infinity War Saga.
And I love the ending - when Indy's father tells Indy to "Let it go." Indy's father had been obsessed with finding the Grail his whole life, since before Indy was born and it most likely was a major factor in their problematic father-son relationship. So, him telling Indy to let it go was a major change in his character - he was FINALLY choosing his son over The Grail. The quest for The Grail was the ultimate obsession and it consumed and ultimately killed many people (like Elsa and Donovan). But Jones Sr. was finally able to overcome it and, we hope, he passed that on to Indy. The Knight "waving bye" to them at the end could also be him congratulating and saluting them for surviving and overcoming the quest. One could imagine after this adventure that they both gave up questing after artifacts and focused on mending their relationship. A perfect ending as they ride triumphantly into the sunset!
19:35 Joseph Goebbels and Mengele were doctors - In fact a higher than average percentage of the member in the Einsatzgruppen (for the liquidation of Jews) were highly educated, jurists, theologians, police, lawyers.
At this time of this movie, Harrison Ford was 46 years old while Sean Connery was 58, giving this father-and-son duo an age gap of 12 years.
Simone! You are right! The “library” façade is indeed a real place in Venice, and you can visit. It is not a library, though 😂 and I don’t know where the interiors were filmed, but the exterior is most certainly a place you can visit! Fun bonus story: Katherine Hepburn also filmed outside of this church and has to fall in the canal as part of a scene. Reportedly, she picked up an infection from that scene that she never recovered from. Great reaction, as always!
The Grail, as depicted in the movie, is wood, not clay. Cup of a carpenter.
A carpenter din't use clay to build in year zero?
The library / church when they arrive in Venice is the San Barnaba church there.
And the origin of the weird Mickey Mouse line is as follow:
"The Butler's original line before Jones knocks him out was, "If you are a Scottish lord, then I am Jesse Owens!", due to the most recent Olympics having been hosted by Nazi Germany in 1936 prior to the film's setting. This was changed because the filmmakers thought that many people would be unfamiliar with who Jesse Owens was."
When Simone think Indiana fell in front of the tank I can see her confusion because the tank track in that scene looks like it goes forward which would indicate that Indiana does fell in front of it.
Sean Connery got his start as a comedy actor. He was in a movie called On The Fiddle, and in the (in)famous Darby O'Gill and the Little People. If you are taking recs for old movies to watch, then Darby O'Gill is a good one. It is comedic, but has great SFX work for its day, and Peter Jackson even used some of the techniques from it in his Lord of the Rings movies.
Interesting the mention of 'old' techniques as reliance on CGI could cause a loss of working knowledge over time. A bit like the Saturn V engines - They can't reproduce the same technology today, but look at it to try and glean some information from an engineering standpoint. It would be a shame if the same happened to tried and true movie making effects as Jackson apparently understood how to use.
"They didn't say in the last one what year it was..." You're right. Except whem they put it in overprinted large font at the beggining of the movie. 😂
Has she watched Raiders of the Lost Ark?
The real holy grail is actually in a church in Valencia, Spain. I saw it while I was touring Europe. It's just the bowl part of the cup, there isn't a base to it. It's been there for like 400 years i think.
Best Line in the whole movie,
"He Chose Poorly"!!
Just wish you guys woulda played it!!!
The kingdom of the crystal skulls is a little better than people give it credit for in my opinion but judge it for yourselves.... I actually liked it better than Temple of Doom!
800 years have not robbed him of an evil sense of humor. The man was a Crusader, he may have been worthy to guard the Holy Grail so he probably didn't participate in any massacres, but he was by and large not hanging out with nice people.
I do agree with what you're saying on the Crystal skull. While its not as great as 1 and 3, I do think its an enjoyable movie to watch.
I agree. They should watch Kingdom of the Chrystal Skull. The purpose of this channel is for us to watch their reactions to movies.
For Simone, as she likes both Shia LeBeouf and Keanu Reeves... the very overlooked and underappreciated "Constantine" would be a good one to check out.
Steven Spielberg always loved the Tintin comics and dreamed of doing a Tintin movie. He couldn't get any American studio to approve it because it didn't have name recognition in the US, so instead he created Indiana Jones that is totally different from Tintin. Completely different. He wears a hat! Anyway, my point is that after the Indiana Jones movies, he finally managed to get a Tintin movie greenlit. It came out in 2011 and is basically yet another Indiana Jones movie. If you liked this one, you'll like that one too.
As a kid I LOVED Tin Tin (early 70's). I really didn't like the movie, at all. I felt that it was missing something.
SHame that they never did a follow up to the Tintin movie, as a Belgian i really liked this movie.
Herge wanted Spielberg to do TINTIN because he loved RAIDERS but he died before they could really develop an ideal film.
@@ThreadBomb I was thinking the same thing!
@@Mike-uh5xl Wish I could have seen the cartoons. I only saw the comics in kid's magazines.
The guy who gives Indy his hat in the flashback scene to Indy's teenage years was originally supposed to be Abner Ravenwood, Marion's dad. I always thought it was a shame that they removed that bit from the script.
The 4th one wasn’t too bad& it had some good action moments & brings back someone from the 1st one. 😁
It's rough, because I recognize the flaws of the film, but I actually liked it more than "Temple of Doom", mainly because the shrieking in Temple gets tiresome.
When I was younger, I was more forgiving of Willie Scott, but as I've grown older, all the shrieking, and the whining, and not helping out at all just annoys the hell out of me. As much as I don't like Shia, I dislike Kate's character more. And the Crystal Skull storyline was something George had been wanting to do for over a decade, he'd dabbled in it in "Young Indiana Jones", so I'm glad he got to make it for himself before he dies.
I think they just waited too long. When you wait 15+ years to make a sequel to your movie, sometimes you get "Rocky Balboa" or "Blade Runner 2049", and other times you get "Indiana Jones 4". And everybody (not including me) wanted Nazis and another Christian artifact again. Like Chris Gore said on G4 once, "it's the best of the Mummy movies". (And I disagree with Chris Gore quite frequently, but he kinda nailed it here).
The 4th one has it’s problems, sure. But I don’t get how the whole fridge thing is such a complaint. I mean far fetched is one thing, but freaky survival stories are not impossible. And people thinking the whole inter-dimension alien thing is “silly.”
There is literally miracles and ghosts in the original trilogy! People, magic is not real!
Elsa Schneider is played by an Irish actress named Allison Doody.
Of the original trilogy, Raiders is the best movie, but this one is the most entertaining.👍
Please watch "The Neverending Story"!
10:30 That's why you don't give negative orders in the heat of battle. Say what you want to happen, rather than distract them with the stuff you don't want them to do.
This is the best trilogy. The 4th is fine, it's just not in the league of the first 3. I recommend watching the 4th, it's not like they replace the lead or director. Maybe you'll enjoy it.
Yes the church is a real place near the Ca Rezzonico vaparetta station in the Dorsodura region of Venice. It’s now a Leonardo da Vinci museum
"In bed with popcorn" you guys friends with Cassie?
The bigger joke is Sean Connery was a big action actor himself. 21:30 I recommend Outland with Sean Connery kind of a Space Western.
Don't forget to watch the fourth one, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!
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@Stock de Ferry yes! It's the worst one but it's not that bad!