Hey guys! As you’ll be able to tell, this video was recorded a while ago, but the sentiment of the intro is still the same. I really struggled with editing this video, and in full disclosure I’m not happy with it. However, I can only do a first time reaction once, so it is what it is. I hope you enjoy it nonetheless :) Thank you!
To answer your post analysis -- the backstory is completely explained in the other Indiana Jones films. You need to see the other films in the group; especially the 3rd one (Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail) & the 4th one (Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)... you will appreciate Raiders after you see the other films. The character development of the other films, with possibly the exception of the next one, will be there! ... as Indy says in Raiders, " Trust me! "😉
31:04 "Was this a book or anything or just something they came up with?" The template for this type of character is Alan Quartermain from H Rider Hagard's 1885 novel "King Solomon's Mines." There were four movie adaptations before Raiders, and then the success of the Indy movies enabled another adaptation in the 80's starring Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone. The character was one of the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," portrayed by Sean Connery. Indy's costume is a direct lift of the character Harry Steele, portrayed by Charton Heston in "Secret of The Incas" 1954
His name was taken from the Steve McQueen Western character called Nevada Smith (and George Lucas's Alaskan Malamute called Indiana who also inspired the look of Chewbacca.)
I've sometimes wonder how many reactors knew that the original title for this was just Raiders of the Lost Ark. As this was the first movie, success was not guaranteed, so Indiana Jones was not added until the second movie. Now, it's common to see this movie called by its new title, probably just to let people know that it is part of a franchise of movies.
I didn’t know that! It makes total sense. I feel like now people just assume franchises will work out so they start with the full title and hope for the best lol
Marion was Dr. Ravenwood's daughter. Dr. Ravenwood was Indy's older doctoral mentor, so to speak. Indy had left the Army after WWI and got into "relics", having seen the world through that lens during the big war. (Combat locations where often fast and interesting history lessons .. with occasional treasures). Dr. Ravenwood's daughter (Marion) being 17 when she first meet Indy fell for the handsome young relic hunter while Indy, Dr. Ravenwood, and Marion all explored the world as Indy learned archeology.... Indy around 24, Marion 17 going on 18 soon enough. Anyway, Indy had interest in becoming an archaeologist, studied with Dr. Ravenwood, along the way falling for his daughter, soon to be 18. Etc, etc. Unfortunately, it's up to the reader if Indiana Jones took his time long enough for Marion to cross over to being 18 or not. I'd say he did. Some say the age difference back in that time probably didn't matter as much as it does today. Certainly during 1980, when the movie was released, "she was just a child" meant more usually the notion of being naive, and young. Not always literally an outright "child".
Face palm: She's WAY over thinking it, this was based on the 1930-40s serial adventure shorts Spielberg (and everyone in the theatre) used to see for a quick 5-10 minutes before the feature film would come on....Indiana is basically 'adventure man', it doesn't go any deeper than that.
All the good character stuff is in Temple and Crusade. The first film is incredibly streamlined with not much time for character. (Why is why you hire actors as charismatic as Ford and Allen.)
Fun Facts! The idol in the intro is supposed to be overtly a supernatural object with eyes that move, but the mechanism didn't look right in closeups so they dumped the idea, but you can still see the eyes watching Indy as he approaches. The whole "length of the staff" thing was added in post production. Originally the instructions on the staff head piece were about which hole to slot the staff, a sequence which remains in the film without explanation. The idea of the adventuring college professor would get a bump out of this with many movies cashing in on the idea... badly, but The Iger Sanction is worth watching for the beautiful visuals.
Hitler and the Nazis were BIG on gathering up ancient relics and artifacts deemed to have mystical powers, including the Ark, which has never been found. They were trying to become invincible, so that part of the story is true.
@@cinemawithsteph There was quite a bit of occult like iconography found in Hitler's various lairs and in the writings of the Nazis. Even the swastika symbol had an ancient meaning of granting luck to the bearer, though instead used for evil. Each film in the trilogy (I don't count the last two since they are nowhere near the quality of the first three iconic films) is a stand alone story like the old Saturday afternoon adventure serials Indiana Jones was modeled after.
@@briantorres8508 Hitler was given the idea by Himmler and others of similar bent and became more obsessed with their crazy ideas the more he went insane.
They believed in magic. They believed that with enough willpower you could change reality. It's pretty similar to 'the power of attraction'. They believed you could manifest things into reality. Among other things of course. They had a lot of weird beliefs.
Indy and Beloche basically have the same objective, finding ancient artifacts. The difference is that Belloche relies on Indy doing the hard work, after which he just takes the artifacts from him.
Welcome back, dear. George Lucas is the filmmaker who made Star Wars. He also created the character of Indiana Jones, inspired by the pulp fiction adventures of Alan Quartermaine. After brainstorming with his friend Steven Spielberg, they conceived of the franchise and approach to the project and the rest is history. Yep, Harrison Ford is Han Solo AND Indiana Jones. Nuff said.
Hmmm ... You're asking a lot of questions at the end of this, and I would like to try and answer some of them however maybe it's not the right thing to do. It is really interesting if you want to get into it, to watch the first three movies (which are not in chronological order) and see the development of Indiana Jones from when he's a child through his adulthood. There is idealism which is subsequently crushed and later redeemed ... but you won't see it played out completely until the third movie. The fourth movie is a placeholder. Some considered it a travesty, while i thought it just wasn't up to the previous films. I didn't mind the most recent movie, but I didn't feel the need for it. I think the implications of Marion and Indiana, are that Indiana was a student of Marion's father and she was perhaps a teenager or such and they became involved. Not a massive age gap, but not entirely kosher. More frowned upon now, perhaps, than maybe in the 1930's? but still this led to Indy's falling out with Marion's father. I gleen this from what was said in this movie only, they don't really go into it further in any of the other movies that i recall. Lucas and Spielberg came up with this movie out of love for the serials that they would show before feature films in their youth ... Action for action sake, heros, etc. You were very upset with them killing people, but I'm pretty sure that was emblimatic of the action of that earlier time (maybe not the melting faces and exploding heads type of deaths, lol ... Side note about that - Spielberg's movies and the graphic level of some scenes in Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom specifically, helped lead us to the new rating of PG-13). Anyway, sorry this didn't thrill you the way it did high-school me back in 1981. Temple of Doom is the prequel to this and has a perhaps worse version if Indy, so if you are set to watch it, brace yourself. Welcome back, in any case. Maybe Willow (1988), another Lucas project might be worth a try. Cheers.
the scene where Indy shoots the flamboyant swordsman was not in the original script. Harrison Ford was supposed to use his whip to get the sword out of his attacker's hands, but the food poisoning he and the rest of the crew had gotten made him too sick to perform the stunt. Ford suggested shooting the guy and Spielberg filmed that The tarantulas on Alfred Molina (Doc Ock of Spider-Man movies) were not moving because they were all male. Then a female was added and in Molina’s words, “all hell broke loose.”
Welcome back! Indy as a handsome jerk is a good take - he's definitely not an ethical hero, but I think develops some good traits as he goes along. The big guy he fights by the plane is the late Pat "Bomber" Roach, a legendary pro wrestler with a sideline in acting - Brits of a certain age will know him from his many TV appearances, and I always get a kick out of seeing him.
For the close-up encounters with the snakes, they had placed panes of glass between the actors and the snakes. Unfortunately, the glass showed reflections in the original version. When the movie was re-released on DVD, they removed the reflections digitally.
As a big fan of both Spielberg and Harrison Ford, this is one of my favorite movies. To me, it will always be just Raiders of the Lost Ark. The "Indiana Jones and the" was added after the sequels were released. George Lucas had meant for it to be an homage to the cliffhanger adventure films he grew up with in the 40s and 50s. Some trivia: The call letters on the seaplane at the beginning of the film were OB-CPO. Images of R2-D2 and C-3PO can be seen among the hieroglyphics on a wall in the well of souls. The scene with the swordsman was supposed to be a long, choreographed fight scene but Ford, as well as most of the rest of the cast and crew, had developed dysentery and couldn't stand for more than 15 minutes at a time. They tried several times to film it as written, but couldn't make it work, so they changed it, and an iconic scene was born. Spielberg first included the coat hanger gag in his movie 1941, but cut it when it received no laughs during early screenings. He vowed to put it in every film until it worked, and this was it. Ford ad-libbed the line "It's not the years, honey, it's the milage." (not included in this reaction). Spielberg always gave his actors permission to improvise. You commented that this reaction was filmed "awhile ago", so I don't know if you're done any of the sequels yet. If not, you definitely should. The first sequel (prequel really), The Temple of Doom, is the worst of the franchise, in my opinion (though I haven't seen the last one yet). The Last Crusade is at least as good as this one, plus it costars Sean Connery. The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull isn't nearly as bad as the haters say it is, even if it does costar Shia LaBeouf.
When Indy was a young university student he studied under Abner Ravenwood. The two became close friends. He later met Marion, Abner's daughter, and the two began a romance. When Abner found out about the romance and didn't approve. Indy and Abner had a falling out, which ended his relationship with Abner and the romance with Marion. He left her heartbroken. In the novel it lead you to believe she was a high school senior. Back then the legal age was 14 for girls and 16 for boys, so at the time this was nothing out of the ordinary.
It is true that Indy can be considered a common "grave robber", but fortunately he has good morals, because everything he finds goes to a museum. As you will discover in the following films, "It belongs in a museum" is his famous motto. For info: At the end of the movie, the Ark of the Covenant is stored in Area 51.
Most of the desert chase was developed and filmed by the 2nd unit stunt team themselves, and directed by producer Frank Marshall. I think the reason the sequence holds up so well because it was basically the stunt team showing off their skills. The sliding under the truck was proposed by stuntman Terry Leonard (who performed most of it, but there are shots of Harrison Ford personally being dragged behind the truck), because he messed it up a short time earlier on a western.
You really don't want to know about Marian and Indiana's relationship. Marian Ravenwood's father was Indiana Jones's Professor. Marian Ravenwood was 16 Indiana Jones was 21! That's why she said (I was a child, it was wrong).
Raiders is a brillianty written lean and economic action adventure throwback to the pulp cliffhanger movie serials of Lucas and Spielberg's childhood. They don't need great character depth but just enough motivations to keep the story and action barrelling along which is the whole point of the film. And yes, The Mummy and countless other movies, tv shows, video games since are taking directly from Raiders.
Great to see you back, And starting with a "Classic " believe it or not Harrison Ford wasn't 1st Choice to play Indy. It was supposed to be Tom Selleck , but he was contracted to do Magnum PI tv series. So They ended up with Harrison instead, and he played him for over 40 years. 👍
Belloq wanted Marion as a prize...same way he wanted the Ark. Of course Indy cared for her. He was drinking himself numb when he thought she was dead. The reason he didn't take her from Belloq's tent was legitimate. Within the context of the story, keeping the Ark out of the Nazi's hands was the goal at all costs. The fate of the world depended on it. Besides that, they weren't likely to kill her..that wouldn't accomplish anything. And she didn't know anything about information on the medallion anyway. At the end, when he had the RPG launcher, he said all he wanted was Marion. Indy didn't kill anyone who wasn't a threat.
If Indy would've recovered the Ark before finding Marion alive, he could've cut her loose when he found her. But seeing as it was still buried when they remet, he didn't want the Nazis looking for him before digging it up.
Indy and Marion's past/relationship was explained in the bar scene in the original script but never made it to the screen. You saw them get married in the one you saw with your Dad and your brother.
I was a teen when I saw this movie and it was a cultural phenomenon. I don't think any of us wondered about Indy's and Marion's relationship. Of course, none of us could've imagined that it was anything gross. Back then it wasn't unusual for women to marry young and have kids. My Mom was 19 and my Dad was 29 when I was born. It didn't seem like it mattered to the rest of the movie though, which is probably why it was never expounded on. There are several relationships in the movie that had no back story but, as a teen, we didn't care. We took everything at face value. Back in 1936, archeology was a bit of an adventurous and dangerous job. The world was becoming a dangerous place as it marched towards World War II. Did they kill people? I wouldn't be surprised. Most archeology in the 30s occurred in lawless places. Bringing in a fabulous artifact to the British Museum of other institution would make you a celebrity, the museums at the time weren't picky about how you got it. As for killing people, they were Nazis. By the time of this movie, 1936, the Nazis were already opening their concentration camps. Laws against Jews, gypsies, gays, etc were already being enforced. Nobody felt sorry for Nazis. The Nazis were superstitious and into the occult and were already scouring the world for ancient artifacts that might be beneficial for them. In that light, Indy was trying to save civilization by making sure the Nazis didn't get their hands on it. For a teenage boy, this was all like an adventure book come to life. Watching this movie, our eyes were like cat's eyes when they're fully dilated. We were all in. Very exciting.
That was the original rendition of the script that Marion was 15 and Indy 25 but was too icky even for the 1920's and especially for the 1980's so they changed it to Marion being 17 and Indy 27. Still creepy but not pederastic.
@@ronweber1402 Too many people get too hung up on that. It wasn’t long ago in American history that you could get married and have kids legally with a wife as young as 14. Loretta Lynn did it. There are thousands of families who came from the same kind of thing. In the Old West if you weren’t married by 15, you were an old maid.
@@ronweber1402 Too many people get too hung up on that. It wasn’t long ago in American history that you could get married and have kids legally with a wife as young as 14. Loretta Lynn did it. There are thousands of families who came from the same kind of thing. In the Old West if you weren’t married by 15, you were an old maid. Even God impregnated Mary when she was about 14-15.
@@hawkmaster381 Agreed, it drives me up the wall. The age of consent around the time this film is set was 16 in the majority of the USA. Nowadays even *more* US states have that limit (it was reduced in many). The obsession with 18 is ONLY because of film-making being mostly in California where the age is and has been 18 through the last century. Back in the late 1800s it was 10-12. That is not a typo. (Except in Delaware, where it was 7!)
Great reaction, though a bit much over thinking. Some speculate that Marion was 17 at a time when the age of consent was 16. Indie was a graduate student, maybe 22. Again, not too unusual at the time. And this was based on the old B&W adventure serial films and pulp magazine stories. And also Indie is all about the relics which "should be in museums."
Hello, I just found your channel and I'm enjoying your video. I don't know if you've seen the Lord of the Rings movies yet but Indie's friend Sallah 15:02 also Plays Gimli the Dwarf in the Lord of the Rings movies. I'm looking forward to checking out more of your videos.
Yes! Lord of the Rings are some of my favorite movies of all time. I was thinking of doing a rewatch on here but I don’t know if enough people would be interested in that
@@cinemawithsteph I am interested in seeing that. The Lord of the Rings are great movies. I have the extended versions of the movies on Blu-ray. What do you think seeing Gimili as a normal person in this movie lol. Have you seen the movie called "Goonies" from the 80's? It has a really young (kid) Samwise Gamgee as the main character. Also the kid from Goonies named Data is in the next Indiana Jones movie which is called "Temple of Doom".
There was, indeed, a sword vs whip fight planned. But as most of the crew (including Ford) had a bad case dysentery from food poisoning (shot in Tunisia), someone (reports vary who depending who's telling the story) suggested "Just shoot him" and that's what they did. The only one not sick was Spielberg, who wisely had stocked up on canned foods. There's an interview with John Rhys-Davies (Sallah) on "Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum", where he tells the story. It was one of his worst experiences of shooting a movie, being so sick that he felt like dying.
You were the perfect reacter (not reactor) for this film! I just loved watching all your animated screams, icks and shreiks. So funny and so delightful! :)) Having seen this originally in a theater when it came out, my own reactions are pretty much muted at this point due to experience over the years, but it freed me up to watch and laugh with you. I enjoyed what you did in this one more than any of your others, and that's saying a lot because I really liked Reacher. Thanks so much. :))
@@cinemawithsteph What makes you so good in my mind is your absolute authenticity. It doesn't seem like you're trying to be someone else for your audience. I can learn something from that!
@@rdyer8764thank you! I do my best! Sometimes it’s hard because you’re aware there’s a camera on you, but I do my best to be as authentic as possible :)
I love this movie with my heart and soul, so we tend to ignore the Marion death fake-out. Or rather we forgive it because the rest of the film is thrilling, the leads have charisma to burn, there is excellent chemistry between the heroes and villains, beautiful shots, believable characters, witty dialogue, and grimy, physical, yet still spectacular in-camera stunts and effects. We don't forgive the exact same Chewbacca death fake-out because The Rise of Skywalker lacked all of the above.
Indiana Jones is supposed to be an enigmatic character. The role of professor is kind of like his alternate persona similar to Clark Kent and Indiana Jones, the globe trotting archeologist, is his Superman persona. Jones had a relationship with Marion when he was a colleague of her father. She was probably in her late teens or early twenties and after he and her father left on various adventures, she felt like she had been used by a somewhat older man and their feelings had not been mutual (she loved him, but not the other way 'round). Hence, the pent up anger towards Indy over the years spent apart. Though, she was kind of a scoundrel like Indy, so old feelings were rekindled when he stepped through the door of her bar.
@@cinemawithsteph No problem. I grew up with the Indiana Jones films and so tended to pick up on things through making-ofs and little hints you get on second or third viewings. Little throwaway comments made, side glances, and character traits. These older films tended to imply a lot of back story rather than spell everything out. I like a script that doesn't spoon feed you too much information and makes you figure some items out yourself.
@cinemawithsteph Just to let you know, the Indiana Jones movie that you saw with your father and brother is the 4th movie in the series, which is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull. I would suggest watching that one if you can because without spoiling it for you, there's something in that movie that's related to the Raiders of the Lost Ark that you just watched. Also, besides the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland called the Indiana Jones Adventure or also known as Indiana Jones and the Forbidden Eye, there's a stunt show at Disney's Hollywood Studios called the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, and it shows a few of the stunts that were done in Raiders of the Lost Ark, which includes the stunts of the cave with the rolling bolder, the fight in Cairo, Egypt, and the fight with the German mechanic (the fight around the airplane). So if you get the chance, I would suggest to watch a video of it on TH-cam. 😀
Nice reaction to MY favorite all time movie. I think that a lot of action movies are NOT about personal relationships but more about what the movie is really about. Dr. Jones has his own very personal relationship with archeology, that is his passion and love, all else has to take a back seat. He has feelings for Marion but she is NOT what drives him. He has a different female tagalong in each sequel.
Ford and Allen were 39 and 30. Feel free, since the movie never states, to think of them as 18 and 27 when the relationship happened. Lucas, while brainstorming the story, speculated that she could be 11, then 12, then 15, and stated "Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore." The novelization made her 15. Never idolize your favorite creators. While maybe not as icky in 1936, it was pretty icky in 1980 still. I never questioned the dress back then. Just a way to get the damsel in distress into a pretty dress. In today's lens, it is pretty odd that he had a pretty white dress around just in case he happened to capture a girl. Salah was working on the dig site with equipment. He just recruited some of his friends and took some equipment. Contacts are fine for a few hours if you're not doing work where you concentrate on stuff (and not blink). If you can't adjust, don't worry, you looked great in your glasses! Yep, The Mummy stole (very successfully) from this movie and the genre. No, we don't care about killing Nazis. Or Nazi monkeys. They (Spielberg, Lucas, Kasdan) created the story, but based it off of the serial movie adventures they'd seen as kids. It's definitely a generation gap type of thing (but a good statement on how the world has evolved to be more fair to women), but back in the day a macho selfish jerk who always succeeded made him a "hero". The fact that he got the hell beat out of him while always succeeding was what made this movie super interesting. With your view, you'll probably hate 2, and come back to your feelings here on 3, as it's generally regarded as on par with 1 but really slightly better.
Indy: July 1, 1899 Marion: March 23, 1909 Regardless of the legality concerning age of consent, and whatever was seen as acceptable, Marion recognizes that she still wasn’t really psychologically mature at her age a decade ago.
Welcome back, Steph! Hope you are well rested! As for contacts, friends tell me it takes at least 3-4 months to get used to it. However, a couple went back to eyeglasses. I never tried. I hope you do. Good luck!
@@rimasmuliolis1136 You should here the recordings, he at least admits his faults unlike some who have a whole network of federal agents attacking those that raise the question.
As an archaeologist myself, I can assure you that, yes, this is indeed what it is like. In addition to learning ancient languages, we train on various types of shooting, hand to hand combat, and obstacle courses. Evenings are spent in libraries learning history and puzzle solving. At graduation you replace your mortar board for a wide-brim fedora. /s in case that wasn't obvious! But for real, there was a more sense of adventure in the early days of archaeology, but that's also early colonial period when Westerners felt they could do whatever they wanted to the people and places they found themselves. Like outright shooting someone. These days, more time is spent in the library and the laboratory than in the field. That said, when in the field, its usually a pretty wild time. Actually, anytime you get a bunch of archaeologists together, it gets pretty wild. Cheers!
The Indiana Jones trilogy is very much in the 'pulp' wheelhouse. Fist-fights, beautiful damsels, a hero who may get roughed up but cannot be beaten, treasure, etc. Sometimes mystical, sometimes not, but usually wild over the top excitement. Pulp has been around for over a century, dating back at least to H Rider Haggard's Allan Quartermain novels of the late 1900s (adapted into 2 80s movies with Sharon Stone - King Solomon's Mine and Lost City Of Gold) The mummy is more inspired by those stories and others of the heyday (as well as the Universal Pictures Mummy) than Indiana Jones, but without the success of IJ, I doubt we would have had the 80s & 90s pulp revival. The Shadow (Alec Baldwin & Ian McKellan), The Phantom (Billy Zane), and The Rocketeer (directed by Joe Johnston, of Captain America 1) are all great examples of pulpy movies. Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park author) wrote a pulp adventure of his own that also got a movie adaptation - Congo, with Laura Linney, Tim Curry, and Ernie Hudson
Obviously, this film inspired a number of different, later films (as the Star Wars films did). Some of the most prominent: The 'Mummy' films with Brendan Frasier (they were late 90's; 'Raiders' was a 1981 release). The three Lara Croft: Tomb Raider films; The pair of films that began with 'Romancing The Stone' and continued with 'Jewel of the Nile' with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas (mid-1980s). ...It's speculation as to whether the Ghostbuster films were inspired by the success of 'Raiders'; the point in common, is that they're rag-tag adventurers poking around in dangerous areas with powerful obstacles (human and supernatural)... and that the stars are (usually) masculine, resourceful, sexy and funny, all at the same time. ALL of the above are worth seeing, and possibly reacting to. •••• Belloq isn't completely wrong when he says to Indy, "I'm a shadowy reflection of you." But in my experience, evil (or 'the road to hell') always attempts to obliterate crucial distinctions; to fail to keep separate that which is inherently separate. Both Indy and Belloq go after valuable artifacts, but Indy wants to be paid for the service of bringing hidden, priceless objects to the world (transferred from their hidden initial sites, to museums where the public can appreciate them and where scientists can study them.) Belloq wants the object (the Ark) so that Hitler's armies can defeat the world, and the Nazis can then impose totalitarian enslavement. (The film doesn't go into Belloq's motivation all that much; But, he's working with Hitler and is involved at a high level with a project that (they hope) will turn the tide towards the Nazis in the upcoming war. That's enough.) Indy's approach (now) to Marion is to offer a small fortune to her for the Staff of Ra headpiece, and (initially) to keep her out of the adventure (out of harm's way). Belloq, and the people on his side, collectively threaten to torture her, kill her, and crudely use Marion for their own purposes. Certainly G-d thought that there was a difference - when He (or his Angel of Death) destroys Belloq (after inflicting terror on him and on the Nazis), while sparing Indy and Marion. (One can argue whether Indy and Marion were spared because they kept their eyes closed and refused to look at the Holy beings, or whether they were spared because they were the only good people at the scene; Fair enough. The film emphasizes the point that they didn't look, but I like to think that G-d would have spared them even if they had "snuck a peek," because they alone were the humans at the scene representing opposition to extreme evil, and thus, were on G-d's side.)
I can't wait for you to react to "Indiana jones and the temple of doom" (1984) which is even better and my favorite of the whole franchise ;) For me, it's the ultimate adventure film ^^ But be aware it way darker than the first one. It's even more like a horror movie in which they put Indy in. In fact, it was so violent it created the PG-13 rating that didn't exist before. Also, don't be surprised by the new Indy's love interest to be incompetent and the comic relief. It was a personal joke from Spielberg and Lucas to create the next female character to be the total opposite of Marion :)
i thought it was just supposed to have turned to dust, being shattered stone tablets to begin with when they put them in.. or were they supposedly the second set that moses carved himself that were put into it, after he had shattered the first set on the ground after seeing what goons they all were down below
Always weird to me to think of people never having seen this trilogy/Star Wars as they've been so burned into my subconscious for so long....also, as an older Millennial, makes me feel ancient, lol.
Glad to see you back, Steph! Youll have fun reacting to the rest of the Indiana Jones films too! I can't recommend the newer ones, though. Just stick to the 80s 😅
She's already seen "The Kindgom of the Crystal Skull" with Shia Labeouf. If She'd like to rewatch that one here, I wouldn't mind...I've always Liked that one too!
The British Museum is filled with historical Artifacts that the British stole from other countries. They admit that they stole them and still refuse to give them back. Also, they would kill anyone who stood in their way! Most of those British "archeologists" were Knighted even though they committed genocide! Keep in mind up until the 1950s there was VERY little difference between Grave Robbing and Archeology.
i always thought it was too silly to think that he was that drunk, and just waving her off to leave.. i mean surely hes not that dumb or drunk.. so i like to think he was just playing along too, and he genuinely finds her pulling the knife out like that, funny.. and then he sees creepy man come in behind her, before he waves her off to leave.. but being genuinely creeped out by him, his face then slowely loses the smile.. but who knows, marian's super drinking powers always seemed unbelievable to me anyway, so you may just be expected to believe such things
Although I am a massive Indy fan, and especially a Raiders fan, I do have to concede that your criticism is valid. But...TRUST ME, you DON'T want to know more about their history! It will make you like Indy less! 😅 Let's just say, in the original pitch, Indy was supposed to be an overtly gray character, and Marion totally wasn't speaking figuratively when she described herself as a "child" 😬. Original concept Indy was a total scoundrel. But thankfully Spielberg and Ford softened his hard edges with their input, although he retains some of that morally gray characterization still (as you pointed out, he's willing to kill over some old treasure, he desecrates tombs and destroys ancient sites, all in pursuit of those trinkets). Also, the whole thing with Belloq and why he seemed to "care" for the girl so much more than Indy....it's seriously because he's French 😆...and French men looove their women! Lol. Nothing more to it than that 😜 Anyway, I enjoyed the vid and can't wait to see you do the other 2 in this series
I heard on a podcast that Lucas' original notes on their relationship said that they met when Indy was 25 and Marion was 11. Yikes! Spielberg was like, "we have to vague that up a bit."
Love your intro and positive energy. ❤️ welcome to our world of indiana... Adding to your thoughts and questions, you'll find answers. The worst can be the best in a diferent way. People say it suck. I love it. Just watch and give your opinion. I love all. Cgi suck on one of them but still good. Hope you enjoy.
22:37 Not seeing the problem, I totally see what you mean. I was thinking “Xenomorph from ‘Aliens’” and your thing is way better/closer. I haven’t even SEEN “Aliens”. Awesome reaction!
Thanks for sharing your reaction. It's like watching a whole new movie. I first saw "Raiders of the Lost Ark" when it came out in 1981. The monkey wasn't evil. Just that the monkey hung out with a bad crowd. The big operation must have reminded you of "The Mummy Returns." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_Returns I thought it ironic that the Ark was moved from the Well of Souls to another secret government storage site. I did wonder if there was a Staff of Ra and a map room leading to the Ark. You saw the Ark when you watched "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." There is no explanation for naughty Doctor Jones. He's just a character who lived life large.
counter that with "did he have to kill all those people?" The same people that were trying to kill HIM? YES!!!! And the notion that Belloq actually cared for Marion and Indy didn't. Come on.
i heard the scene were indy shoots the swoordsman was writin out to be a large fight scene but Harrison Ford came down with a case of dysentery so they just changed it to "ahh just shoot him"
4:55 aaaaaaaand that's where I'd 'Nope' the f*ck out & be like "You're on your own, señor"... EDIT: You figured out who he is in Star Wars LOL. George Lucas & Steven Spielberg go way back as friends. They started around the same time, they found success around the same time, they work well together (I'm guessing, anyway; they certainly come up with great entertainment when they work together)...
16:25 There was a whole fight scene prepped for the swordsman. There was just one problem: Just about everyone involved with the scene was sick with food poisoning. After several unsuccessful tries, Ford suggested to Spielberg "Why don't I just shoot the sucker?". Spielberg, by then already known to be open to improvisation & script changes due to on-set issues (see: Bruce the Mechanical Shark in 'Jaws') agreed & they shot the scene in one take.
“Screw this! Later, Dr. Jones. I’m getting out of this cave, going to MIT, moving to New York, and getting into robotics research. I’m sure nothing could go wrong with that.”
Jess Day/Zooey Deschanel from “New Girl”, Clark Kent/Superman, Dr. Henry Jones/Indiana Jones, and now Steph. I give you the “Unrecognizable-because-of-glasses-and-a-wardrobe-change” Club (tho I don’t think Indy belongs)
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg decided to make a fun action adventure movie similar to those old movies of the 1930s and 1940s, and came up with the idea of Indiana Jones. Actually, a lot was lifted out of Secret Of The Incas (1954, Charlton Heston) that went into Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Jones's leather jacket and fedora is identical to what Charlton Heston wore. In Secret Of The Incas a gold dish was placed in an insert of a cave that the sun at a certain time reflected to show the location of a large Inca relic. Sound familiar? By the way, that Inca relic was a background object in that cave at the beginning of Raiders. Another reactor who knew some archeology had watched Raiders, and said she would have been interested in studying a 2000 year old boobytrap that still worked. The Nazis were digging in the wrong place because the only reference they had was from that scarring on that Gestapo man's hand, which only had one side of the medallion. When Indy and his worker friends opened that top door to the tomb, that was 3000 year old viruses and bacteria that came out. That's why all those people died when opening King Tut's tomb. It wasn't the curse of King Tut, it was the bacteria when they all rushed into the tomb. Burning all those snakes would've been a dumb move, as there was little ventilation in the tomb. Belloch wasn't all that interested in Marion, other than wanting to get into her pants. French romantics!
I love the reactions on this channel, but if Steph didn't like the characters in Raiders, I don't think it's going to get any better for her in the next films.
20:22 Even when I saw this originally in theaters at age 12 I thought “ just because their staff was too long, that wouldn’t make their professional mapping of the position different. As an accomplished scholar Belloq would have made the right calculations based on (????????) ….. the same as Indy did. The staff would have just been too tall and given a wrong position. But Indy puts the staff in a totally different hole …….sooooooo 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ it doesn’t add up
Originally tom Selleck was going to play indiana Jones but unfortunately he couldn't because he was under contract with magnum p.i ironically magnum p.i ended up getting delayed but by then they already had casted Harrison ford truthfully though george lucas didnt even want Harrison ford but george lucas finally convinced him
Hi Steph ❤, great pick, another of my favorites series. You should continue the adventure watch the rest of the Indy movies, they fall under the categories of Action/Adventure/ Horror/ Comedy/ Romance. 🤠 Question- if you had to escape through 2 different cave exits, one crawling with snakes 🐍 and the other with tarantulas? 🕷️ which would you choose? lol
Something that always bothered me. When Indy trips the giant round rock that chases him was unnecessary. If Indy had simply took three steps back where he came from and let the rock pass over him he could have casually strolled along behind the rock.
I think the trap is such that the boulder would roll until it wedges itself in the cave entrance, so Indy has to stay ahead of it to avoid getting sealed inside forever.
Would it have trapped him in the cave though? IDK what happened to the rock? I don't remember seeing where the rock finally stopped at? These are all questions I need answered and I'm at work😅
Spielberg himself found the dress kinda weird. He left it to the actors, specifically Karen Allen, to come up with a reason why she should switch into it. She came up with the idea to hide the knife with the clothes bundle to justify it.
Some of the initial statements by the filmmakers had Marian a teen - maybe as young as 14 x during their earlier sexual involvement. But they never detail it in the films beyond what was said in that opening scene. We don't know how old Indy was, by comparison. Ford is 9 years older than Allen, but that is not a sure sign of the characters difference. He was probably in his 20s, though.
Oh I have missed You, My Friend🥰I've missed Your Smile😁and I've Missed Your Laugh!😆Thank You for Reacting to this Classic Adventure, and Your Reaction was definitely worth the wait!👍YES, 'Marion' was played by Karen Allen, who was also in "Scrooged!"👌This and the-next-3 are Original Stories Written by George Lucas, hence 'Lucasfilm' Produced! If You'd ever like to rewatch that one You've seen before ('The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull') with Shia Labeouf, here's an early Vote of Support👍because I've always Enjoyed that one too!
Hey guys! As you’ll be able to tell, this video was recorded a while ago, but the sentiment of the intro is still the same. I really struggled with editing this video, and in full disclosure I’m not happy with it. However, I can only do a first time reaction once, so it is what it is. I hope you enjoy it nonetheless :) Thank you!
No Complaints here, I'm just Glad to have You back!😇Background Lighting & Camera look Perfect to Me, btw!👌
To answer your post analysis -- the backstory is completely explained in the other Indiana Jones films. You need to see the other films in the group; especially the 3rd one (Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail) & the 4th one (Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)... you will appreciate Raiders after you see the other films. The character development of the other films, with possibly the exception of the next one, will be there! ... as Indy says in Raiders, " Trust me! "😉
@xander66644 Just a correction. The third one was called Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
@@xander66644 there is no 4th Indiana Jones movie, liar
Kids these days…this movie is incredible and iconic. Mummy doesn’t get made without it. Respect your predecessors and know your history.
31:04 "Was this a book or anything or just something they came up with?"
The template for this type of character is Alan Quartermain from H Rider Hagard's 1885 novel "King Solomon's Mines." There were four movie adaptations before Raiders, and then the success of the Indy movies enabled another adaptation in the 80's starring Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone. The character was one of the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," portrayed by Sean Connery. Indy's costume is a direct lift of the character Harry Steele, portrayed by Charton Heston in "Secret of The Incas" 1954
Very cool! Thank you for the info :)
Yes-also, robert taylor, ronald reagan, stewart granger, ray milland and even alan ladd had taken their turn wearing the leather jacket and fedora.
His name was taken from the Steve McQueen Western character called Nevada Smith (and George Lucas's Alaskan Malamute called Indiana who also inspired the look of Chewbacca.)
*Car flies off the cliff*
"OMG That's......terrible"
Well they are Nazis.....lol
Good point 😅
I've sometimes wonder how many reactors knew that the original title for this was just Raiders of the Lost Ark. As this was the first movie, success was not guaranteed, so Indiana Jones was not added until the second movie. Now, it's common to see this movie called by its new title, probably just to let people know that it is part of a franchise of movies.
I didn’t know that! It makes total sense. I feel like now people just assume franchises will work out so they start with the full title and hope for the best lol
I only add it to make sure I can put all three in a video player really easily :D.
Yeah, I only ever call it "Raiders of the Lost Ark" since that's how it was when I saw it as a kid.
Marion was Dr. Ravenwood's daughter.
Dr. Ravenwood was Indy's older doctoral mentor, so to speak.
Indy had left the Army after WWI and got into "relics", having seen the world through that lens during the big war. (Combat locations where often fast and interesting history lessons
.. with occasional treasures).
Dr. Ravenwood's daughter (Marion) being 17 when she first meet Indy fell for the handsome young relic hunter while Indy, Dr. Ravenwood, and Marion all explored the world as Indy learned archeology.... Indy around 24, Marion 17 going on 18 soon enough.
Anyway, Indy had interest in becoming an archaeologist, studied with Dr. Ravenwood, along the way falling for his daughter, soon to be 18.
Etc, etc.
Unfortunately, it's up to the reader if Indiana Jones took his time long enough for Marion to cross over to being 18 or not.
I'd say he did.
Some say the age difference back in that time probably didn't matter as much as it does today.
Certainly during 1980, when the movie was released, "she was just a child" meant more usually the notion of being naive, and young. Not always literally an outright "child".
Welcome back, Steph. Taking a break when you need it is always a good thing.
Thank you! I’ve missed posting over here
Thanks for putting this stream for us. It's good to have you back!
Face palm: She's WAY over thinking it, this was based on the 1930-40s serial adventure shorts Spielberg (and everyone in the theatre) used to see for a quick 5-10 minutes before the feature film would come on....Indiana is basically 'adventure man', it doesn't go any deeper than that.
All the good character stuff is in Temple and Crusade. The first film is incredibly streamlined with not much time for character. (Why is why you hire actors as charismatic as Ford and Allen.)
Fun Facts!
The idol in the intro is supposed to be overtly a supernatural object with eyes that move, but the mechanism didn't look right in closeups so they dumped the idea, but you can still see the eyes watching Indy as he approaches.
The whole "length of the staff" thing was added in post production. Originally the instructions on the staff head piece were about which hole to slot the staff, a sequence which remains in the film without explanation.
The idea of the adventuring college professor would get a bump out of this with many movies cashing in on the idea... badly, but The Iger Sanction is worth watching for the beautiful visuals.
Ooh I’ll have to go back and look!
I love how he breaks the staff in half to prevent them from figuring things out, like they couldn't put the two pieces back together to figure it out.
How neat would it have been had Indie reclaimed it in the final movie.
Hitler and the Nazis were BIG on gathering up ancient relics and artifacts deemed to have mystical powers, including the Ark, which has never been found. They were trying to become invincible, so that part of the story is true.
Wow, I really had no idea!!
@@cinemawithsteph There was quite a bit of occult like iconography found in Hitler's various lairs and in the writings of the Nazis. Even the swastika symbol had an ancient meaning of granting luck to the bearer, though instead used for evil.
Each film in the trilogy (I don't count the last two since they are nowhere near the quality of the first three iconic films) is a stand alone story like the old Saturday afternoon adventure serials Indiana Jones was modeled after.
Actually, Hitler was never interested in the occult. That was all Himmler. But for the sake of pure fiction, yes, Hitler was obsessed with the occult
@@briantorres8508 Hitler was given the idea by Himmler and others of similar bent and became more obsessed with their crazy ideas the more he went insane.
They believed in magic. They believed that with enough willpower you could change reality. It's pretty similar to 'the power of attraction'. They believed you could manifest things into reality.
Among other things of course. They had a lot of weird beliefs.
That U-Boat was the same one used in Das Boot. They were filming both movies at the same time and they agreed to share it.
Welcome back! Great job.
Indy and Beloche basically have the same objective, finding ancient artifacts. The difference is that Belloche relies on Indy doing the hard work, after which he just takes the artifacts from him.
You are a great person. You deserve 100,000 TH-cam subscribers or more.
Welcome back, dear. George Lucas is the filmmaker who made Star Wars. He also created the character of Indiana Jones, inspired by the pulp fiction adventures of Alan Quartermaine. After brainstorming with his friend Steven Spielberg, they conceived of the franchise and approach to the project and the rest is history.
Yep, Harrison Ford is Han Solo AND Indiana Jones. Nuff said.
Thanks for the info! I felt I had that right but wasn’t too sure :)
Hmmm ... You're asking a lot of questions at the end of this, and I would like to try and answer some of them however maybe it's not the right thing to do. It is really interesting if you want to get into it, to watch the first three movies (which are not in chronological order) and see the development of Indiana Jones from when he's a child through his adulthood. There is idealism which is subsequently crushed and later redeemed ... but you won't see it played out completely until the third movie. The fourth movie is a placeholder. Some considered it a travesty, while i thought it just wasn't up to the previous films. I didn't mind the most recent movie, but I didn't feel the need for it.
I think the implications of Marion and Indiana, are that Indiana was a student of Marion's father and she was perhaps a teenager or such and they became involved. Not a massive age gap, but not entirely kosher. More frowned upon now, perhaps, than maybe in the 1930's? but still this led to Indy's falling out with Marion's father. I gleen this from what was said in this movie only, they don't really go into it further in any of the other movies that i recall.
Lucas and Spielberg came up with this movie out of love for the serials that they would show before feature films in their youth ... Action for action sake, heros, etc. You were very upset with them killing people, but I'm pretty sure that was emblimatic of the action of that earlier time (maybe not the melting faces and exploding heads type of deaths, lol ... Side note about that - Spielberg's movies and the graphic level of some scenes in Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom specifically, helped lead us to the new rating of PG-13).
Anyway, sorry this didn't thrill you the way it did high-school me back in 1981. Temple of Doom is the prequel to this and has a perhaps worse version if Indy, so if you are set to watch it, brace yourself.
Welcome back, in any case. Maybe Willow (1988), another Lucas project might be worth a try.
Cheers.
Thanks so much for all the background info! My brother said he actually prefers Temple of Doom so that’ll be interesting lol
Their relationship was about 10 years prior, so that would have been the 1920s.
Yes, it is the actress from Scrooged. Welcome back Steph!
Thank you! Happy to be back :)
... and Starman, with Jeff Bridges.
She also played the mom in the sandlot
Imagine her surprised when she realizes the guy that wouldn't give Indy his The whip at the beginning is also Doc Ock from Spider-Man😂
Belloq had a thing for taking treasues from Indiana Jones, Marion among them. Hence the dress and dinner.
Simply put and understood! I didn’t think of it like that :)
love the captions when you speak
*I never adjusted* lol
Good to see you back 😊
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the scene where Indy shoots the flamboyant swordsman was not in the original script. Harrison Ford was supposed to use his whip to get the sword out of his attacker's hands, but the food poisoning he and the rest of the crew had gotten made him too sick to perform the stunt. Ford suggested shooting the guy and Spielberg filmed that
The tarantulas on Alfred Molina (Doc Ock of Spider-Man movies) were not moving because they were all male. Then a female was added and in Molina’s words, “all hell broke loose.”
Welcome back! Indy as a handsome jerk is a good take - he's definitely not an ethical hero, but I think develops some good traits as he goes along. The big guy he fights by the plane is the late Pat "Bomber" Roach, a legendary pro wrestler with a sideline in acting - Brits of a certain age will know him from his many TV appearances, and I always get a kick out of seeing him.
For the close-up encounters with the snakes, they had placed panes of glass between the actors and the snakes. Unfortunately, the glass showed reflections in the original version. When the movie was re-released on DVD, they removed the reflections digitally.
As a big fan of both Spielberg and Harrison Ford, this is one of my favorite movies. To me, it will always be just Raiders of the Lost Ark. The "Indiana Jones and the" was added after the sequels were released. George Lucas had meant for it to be an homage to the cliffhanger adventure films he grew up with in the 40s and 50s.
Some trivia: The call letters on the seaplane at the beginning of the film were OB-CPO.
Images of R2-D2 and C-3PO can be seen among the hieroglyphics on a wall in the well of souls.
The scene with the swordsman was supposed to be a long, choreographed fight scene but Ford, as well as most of the rest of the cast and crew, had developed dysentery and couldn't stand for more than 15 minutes at a time. They tried several times to film it as written, but couldn't make it work, so they changed it, and an iconic scene was born.
Spielberg first included the coat hanger gag in his movie 1941, but cut it when it received no laughs during early screenings. He vowed to put it in every film until it worked, and this was it.
Ford ad-libbed the line "It's not the years, honey, it's the milage." (not included in this reaction). Spielberg always gave his actors permission to improvise.
You commented that this reaction was filmed "awhile ago", so I don't know if you're done any of the sequels yet. If not, you definitely should. The first sequel (prequel really), The Temple of Doom, is the worst of the franchise, in my opinion (though I haven't seen the last one yet). The Last Crusade is at least as good as this one, plus it costars Sean Connery. The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull isn't nearly as bad as the haters say it is, even if it does costar Shia LaBeouf.
When Indy was a young university student he studied under Abner Ravenwood. The two became close friends. He later met Marion, Abner's daughter, and the two began a romance. When Abner found out about the romance and didn't approve. Indy and Abner had a falling out, which ended his relationship with Abner and the romance with Marion. He left her heartbroken. In the novel it lead you to believe she was a high school senior. Back then the legal age was 14 for girls and 16 for boys, so at the time this was nothing out of the ordinary.
It is true that Indy can be considered a common "grave robber", but fortunately he has good morals, because everything he finds goes to a museum.
As you will discover in the following films, "It belongs in a museum" is his famous motto.
For info: At the end of the movie, the Ark of the Covenant is stored in Area 51.
Great reaction to the first movie
Most of the desert chase was developed and filmed by the 2nd unit stunt team themselves, and directed by producer Frank Marshall. I think the reason the sequence holds up so well because it was basically the stunt team showing off their skills. The sliding under the truck was proposed by stuntman Terry Leonard (who performed most of it, but there are shots of Harrison Ford personally being dragged behind the truck), because he messed it up a short time earlier on a western.
You really don't want to know about Marian and Indiana's relationship. Marian Ravenwood's father was Indiana Jones's Professor. Marian Ravenwood was 16 Indiana Jones was 21! That's why she said (I was a child, it was wrong).
Raiders is a brillianty written lean and economic action adventure throwback to the pulp cliffhanger movie serials of Lucas and Spielberg's childhood. They don't need great character depth but just enough motivations to keep the story and action barrelling along which is the whole point of the film. And yes, The Mummy and countless other movies, tv shows, video games since are taking directly from Raiders.
Great to see you back, And starting with a "Classic " believe it or not Harrison Ford wasn't 1st Choice to play Indy.
It was supposed to be Tom Selleck , but he was contracted to do Magnum PI tv series. So They ended up with Harrison instead, and he played him for over 40 years. 👍
Oooh I like Tom Selleck but I can’t see him in that role 🤔
Belloq wanted Marion as a prize...same way he wanted the Ark. Of course Indy cared for her. He was drinking himself numb when he thought she was dead. The reason he didn't take her from Belloq's tent was legitimate. Within the context of the story, keeping the Ark out of the Nazi's hands was the goal at all costs. The fate of the world depended on it. Besides that, they weren't likely to kill her..that wouldn't accomplish anything. And she didn't know anything about information on the medallion anyway.
At the end, when he had the RPG launcher, he said all he wanted was Marion.
Indy didn't kill anyone who wasn't a threat.
If Indy would've recovered the Ark before finding Marion alive, he could've cut her loose when he found her. But seeing as it was still buried when they remet, he didn't want the Nazis looking for him before digging it up.
Indy and Marion's past/relationship was explained in the bar scene in the original script but never made it to the screen. You saw them get married in the one you saw with your Dad and your brother.
The actor who played Porkins is one of the government agents that gives Indiana the task of preventing the Nazis from obtaining the Ark.
Woot! Welcome back!
Thanks! Happy to be back :)
next indiana jones and the temple of doom
Oh is She ever going to Love that one...😂👌
I was a teen when I saw this movie and it was a cultural phenomenon. I don't think any of us wondered about Indy's and Marion's relationship. Of course, none of us could've imagined that it was anything gross. Back then it wasn't unusual for women to marry young and have kids. My Mom was 19 and my Dad was 29 when I was born. It didn't seem like it mattered to the rest of the movie though, which is probably why it was never expounded on. There are several relationships in the movie that had no back story but, as a teen, we didn't care. We took everything at face value. Back in 1936, archeology was a bit of an adventurous and dangerous job. The world was becoming a dangerous place as it marched towards World War II. Did they kill people? I wouldn't be surprised. Most archeology in the 30s occurred in lawless places. Bringing in a fabulous artifact to the British Museum of other institution would make you a celebrity, the museums at the time weren't picky about how you got it. As for killing people, they were Nazis. By the time of this movie, 1936, the Nazis were already opening their concentration camps. Laws against Jews, gypsies, gays, etc were already being enforced. Nobody felt sorry for Nazis. The Nazis were superstitious and into the occult and were already scouring the world for ancient artifacts that might be beneficial for them. In that light, Indy was trying to save civilization by making sure the Nazis didn't get their hands on it. For a teenage boy, this was all like an adventure book come to life. Watching this movie, our eyes were like cat's eyes when they're fully dilated. We were all in. Very exciting.
The script states that Marion's age in Raiders is 25 years old, making her around 15 at the time of the affair with a 27-year-old Indiana Jones.
Yikes 😳
That was the original rendition of the script that Marion was 15 and Indy 25 but was too icky even for the 1920's and especially for the 1980's so they changed it to Marion being 17 and Indy 27. Still creepy but not pederastic.
@@ronweber1402 Too many people get too hung up on that. It wasn’t long ago in American history that you could get married and have kids legally with a wife as young as 14. Loretta Lynn did it. There are thousands of families who came from the same kind of thing. In the Old West if you weren’t married by 15, you were an old maid.
@@ronweber1402 Too many people get too hung up on that. It wasn’t long ago in American history that you could get married and have kids legally with a wife as young as 14. Loretta Lynn did it. There are thousands of families who came from the same kind of thing. In the Old West if you weren’t married by 15, you were an old maid. Even God impregnated Mary when she was about 14-15.
@@hawkmaster381 Agreed, it drives me up the wall. The age of consent around the time this film is set was 16 in the majority of the USA. Nowadays even *more* US states have that limit (it was reduced in many).
The obsession with 18 is ONLY because of film-making being mostly in California where the age is and has been 18 through the last century.
Back in the late 1800s it was 10-12. That is not a typo. (Except in Delaware, where it was 7!)
Great reaction, though a bit much over thinking.
Some speculate that Marion was 17 at a time when the age of consent was 16. Indie was a graduate student, maybe 22. Again, not too unusual at the time. And this was based on the old B&W adventure serial films and pulp magazine stories. And also Indie is all about the relics which "should be in museums."
Actually that’s wishful thinking, Marion was 15.
@@ripleyjlawman.3162 I've seen multiple different answers to this.
That's a very young Alfred Molina as his guide.
Hello, I just found your channel and I'm enjoying your video. I don't know if you've seen the Lord of the Rings movies yet but Indie's friend Sallah 15:02 also Plays Gimli the Dwarf in the Lord of the Rings movies. I'm looking forward to checking out more of your videos.
Yes! Lord of the Rings are some of my favorite movies of all time. I was thinking of doing a rewatch on here but I don’t know if enough people would be interested in that
@@cinemawithsteph I am interested in seeing that. The Lord of the Rings are great movies. I have the extended versions of the movies on Blu-ray. What do you think seeing Gimili as a normal person in this movie lol. Have you seen the movie called "Goonies" from the 80's? It has a really young (kid) Samwise Gamgee as the main character. Also the kid from Goonies named Data is in the next Indiana Jones movie which is called "Temple of Doom".
There was, indeed, a sword vs whip fight planned. But as most of the crew (including Ford) had a bad case dysentery from food poisoning (shot in Tunisia), someone (reports vary who depending who's telling the story) suggested "Just shoot him" and that's what they did.
The only one not sick was Spielberg, who wisely had stocked up on canned foods.
There's an interview with John Rhys-Davies (Sallah) on "Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum", where he tells the story. It was one of his worst experiences of shooting a movie, being so sick that he felt like dying.
Thank you Eric for getting our girl back online 😊 love this channel
You were the perfect reacter (not reactor) for this film! I just loved watching all your animated screams, icks and shreiks. So funny and so delightful! :)) Having seen this originally in a theater when it came out, my own reactions are pretty much muted at this point due to experience over the years, but it freed me up to watch and laugh with you. I enjoyed what you did in this one more than any of your others, and that's saying a lot because I really liked Reacher. Thanks so much. :))
Oh wow, thank you! This is the one I’m least happy with, so that’s really nice to hear :)
@@cinemawithsteph What makes you so good in my mind is your absolute authenticity. It doesn't seem like you're trying to be someone else for your audience. I can learn something from that!
@@rdyer8764thank you! I do my best! Sometimes it’s hard because you’re aware there’s a camera on you, but I do my best to be as authentic as possible :)
Keep doing that and we'll keep watching. Take care!
I love this movie with my heart and soul, so we tend to ignore the Marion death fake-out. Or rather we forgive it because the rest of the film is thrilling, the leads have charisma to burn, there is excellent chemistry between the heroes and villains, beautiful shots, believable characters, witty dialogue, and grimy, physical, yet still spectacular in-camera stunts and effects.
We don't forgive the exact same Chewbacca death fake-out because The Rise of Skywalker lacked all of the above.
Indiana Jones is supposed to be an enigmatic character. The role of professor is kind of like his alternate persona similar to Clark Kent and Indiana Jones, the globe trotting archeologist, is his Superman persona.
Jones had a relationship with Marion when he was a colleague of her father. She was probably in her late teens or early twenties and after he and her father left on various adventures, she felt like she had been used by a somewhat older man and their feelings had not been mutual (she loved him, but not the other way 'round). Hence, the pent up anger towards Indy over the years spent apart. Though, she was kind of a scoundrel like Indy, so old feelings were rekindled when he stepped through the door of her bar.
Oooh I see 🤔 for some reason I want to raise an eyebrow at that still, but it gives some context. Thank you!
@@cinemawithsteph No problem. I grew up with the Indiana Jones films and so tended to pick up on things through making-ofs and little hints you get on second or third viewings. Little throwaway comments made, side glances, and character traits. These older films tended to imply a lot of back story rather than spell everything out. I like a script that doesn't spoon feed you too much information and makes you figure some items out yourself.
Raiders was an omage to the movie serials of the 30s and 40s before Television.
Welcome back beautiful ❤.... Obviously the first 3 are epic #4 is not up to par with them but still fun. I haven't seen 5 yet. Enjoy the ride.
Thanks! I’ll definitely be doing the first 3 but not sure about any more 🤔
@cinemawithsteph Just to let you know, the Indiana Jones movie that you saw with your father and brother is the 4th movie in the series, which is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull. I would suggest watching that one if you can because without spoiling it for you, there's something in that movie that's related to the Raiders of the Lost Ark that you just watched.
Also, besides the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland called the Indiana Jones Adventure or also known as Indiana Jones and the Forbidden Eye, there's a stunt show at Disney's Hollywood Studios called the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, and it shows a few of the stunts that were done in Raiders of the Lost Ark, which includes the stunts of the cave with the rolling bolder, the fight in Cairo, Egypt, and the fight with the German mechanic (the fight around the airplane). So if you get the chance, I would suggest to watch a video of it on TH-cam. 😀
Nice reaction to MY favorite all time movie. I think that a lot of action movies are NOT about personal relationships but more about what the movie is really about. Dr. Jones has his own very personal relationship with archeology, that is his passion and love, all else has to take a back seat. He has feelings for Marion but she is NOT what drives him. He has a different female tagalong in each sequel.
Ford and Allen were 39 and 30. Feel free, since the movie never states, to think of them as 18 and 27 when the relationship happened. Lucas, while brainstorming the story, speculated that she could be 11, then 12, then 15, and stated "Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore." The novelization made her 15. Never idolize your favorite creators. While maybe not as icky in 1936, it was pretty icky in 1980 still.
I never questioned the dress back then. Just a way to get the damsel in distress into a pretty dress. In today's lens, it is pretty odd that he had a pretty white dress around just in case he happened to capture a girl.
Salah was working on the dig site with equipment. He just recruited some of his friends and took some equipment.
Contacts are fine for a few hours if you're not doing work where you concentrate on stuff (and not blink). If you can't adjust, don't worry, you looked great in your glasses!
Yep, The Mummy stole (very successfully) from this movie and the genre.
No, we don't care about killing Nazis. Or Nazi monkeys.
They (Spielberg, Lucas, Kasdan) created the story, but based it off of the serial movie adventures they'd seen as kids.
It's definitely a generation gap type of thing (but a good statement on how the world has evolved to be more fair to women), but back in the day a macho selfish jerk who always succeeded made him a "hero". The fact that he got the hell beat out of him while always succeeding was what made this movie super interesting.
With your view, you'll probably hate 2, and come back to your feelings here on 3, as it's generally regarded as on par with 1 but really slightly better.
Indy: July 1, 1899
Marion: March 23, 1909
Regardless of the legality concerning age of consent, and whatever was seen as acceptable, Marion recognizes that she still wasn’t really psychologically mature at her age a decade ago.
Glad you are back - looking forward to future reactions
Welcome back, Steph! Hope you are well rested!
As for contacts, friends tell me it takes at least 3-4 months to get used to it. However, a couple went back to eyeglasses. I never tried. I hope you do. Good luck!
Thank you! I ended up giving up on them pretty quick. Driving was concerning with the amount of blinking I was doing 😅
Welcome back, Steph!
Thank you so much!
Fun fact Ford is a pilot for real that has issues with landings, several times and ATC recordings are out there of him landing in the wrong place etc.
Where's Chewy when he needs him?
@@rimasmuliolis1136 You should here the recordings, he at least admits his faults unlike some who have a whole network of federal agents attacking those that raise the question.
Welcome back, missed your face. 😁 Edit: Just...don't mention Star Wars, it only ends badly.
The computer genius over here 👏🏻
@@cinemawithsteph I appreciate the shoutout lol.
As an archaeologist myself, I can assure you that, yes, this is indeed what it is like. In addition to learning ancient languages, we train on various types of shooting, hand to hand combat, and obstacle courses. Evenings are spent in libraries learning history and puzzle solving. At graduation you replace your mortar board for a wide-brim fedora.
/s in case that wasn't obvious! But for real, there was a more sense of adventure in the early days of archaeology, but that's also early colonial period when Westerners felt they could do whatever they wanted to the people and places they found themselves. Like outright shooting someone. These days, more time is spent in the library and the laboratory than in the field. That said, when in the field, its usually a pretty wild time. Actually, anytime you get a bunch of archaeologists together, it gets pretty wild. Cheers!
"Is that the actress from Scrooged?" Yes it is - Karen Allen.
The Indiana Jones trilogy is very much in the 'pulp' wheelhouse. Fist-fights, beautiful damsels, a hero who may get roughed up but cannot be beaten, treasure, etc. Sometimes mystical, sometimes not, but usually wild over the top excitement.
Pulp has been around for over a century, dating back at least to H Rider Haggard's Allan Quartermain novels of the late 1900s (adapted into 2 80s movies with Sharon Stone - King Solomon's Mine and Lost City Of Gold)
The mummy is more inspired by those stories and others of the heyday (as well as the Universal Pictures Mummy) than Indiana Jones, but without the success of IJ, I doubt we would have had the 80s & 90s pulp revival.
The Shadow (Alec Baldwin & Ian McKellan), The Phantom (Billy Zane), and The Rocketeer (directed by Joe Johnston, of Captain America 1) are all great examples of pulpy movies.
Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park author) wrote a pulp adventure of his own that also got a movie adaptation - Congo, with Laura Linney, Tim Curry, and Ernie Hudson
Return of Steph and return of the doorstop! Hooray!
Oh nooo! I didn’t notice 😂
@@cinemawithsteph doorstop colab when? 🤣
Obviously, this film inspired a number of different, later films (as the Star Wars films did). Some of the most prominent: The 'Mummy' films with Brendan Frasier (they were late 90's; 'Raiders' was a 1981 release). The three Lara Croft: Tomb Raider films; The pair of films that began with 'Romancing The Stone' and continued with 'Jewel of the Nile' with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas (mid-1980s). ...It's speculation as to whether the Ghostbuster films were inspired by the success of 'Raiders'; the point in common, is that they're rag-tag adventurers poking around in dangerous areas with powerful obstacles (human and supernatural)... and that the stars are (usually) masculine, resourceful, sexy and funny, all at the same time. ALL of the above are worth seeing, and possibly reacting to.
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Belloq isn't completely wrong when he says to Indy, "I'm a shadowy reflection of you." But in my experience, evil (or 'the road to hell') always attempts to obliterate crucial distinctions; to fail to keep separate that which is inherently separate. Both Indy and Belloq go after valuable artifacts, but Indy wants to be paid for the service of bringing hidden, priceless objects to the world (transferred from their hidden initial sites, to museums where the public can appreciate them and where scientists can study them.) Belloq wants the object (the Ark) so that Hitler's armies can defeat the world, and the Nazis can then impose totalitarian enslavement. (The film doesn't go into Belloq's motivation all that much; But, he's working with Hitler and is involved at a high level with a project that (they hope) will turn the tide towards the Nazis in the upcoming war. That's enough.) Indy's approach (now) to Marion is to offer a small fortune to her for the Staff of Ra headpiece, and (initially) to keep her out of the adventure (out of harm's way). Belloq, and the people on his side, collectively threaten to torture her, kill her, and crudely use Marion for their own purposes.
Certainly G-d thought that there was a difference - when He (or his Angel of Death) destroys Belloq (after inflicting terror on him and on the Nazis), while sparing Indy and Marion. (One can argue whether Indy and Marion were spared because they kept their eyes closed and refused to look at the Holy beings, or whether they were spared because they were the only good people at the scene; Fair enough. The film emphasizes the point that they didn't look, but I like to think that G-d would have spared them even if they had "snuck a peek," because they alone were the humans at the scene representing opposition to extreme evil, and thus, were on G-d's side.)
If you saw the movie with Shia, she was in that Indiana Jones movie also - Jones and her got married.
I can't wait for you to react to "Indiana jones and the temple of doom" (1984) which is even better and my favorite of the whole franchise ;)
For me, it's the ultimate adventure film ^^
But be aware it way darker than the first one. It's even more like a horror movie in which they put Indy in. In fact, it was so violent it created the PG-13 rating that didn't exist before.
Also, don't be surprised by the new Indy's love interest to be incompetent and the comic relief. It was a personal joke from Spielberg and Lucas to create the next female character to be the total opposite of Marion :)
The guy in the black coat (Toht) was also Tearful Ted back then in the Catweazle series
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It's ash.
Inside the Ark was except for the stone tablets Aarons rod and a jar of manna.
The relics did burn on the ship to keep them away.
i thought it was just supposed to have turned to dust, being shattered stone tablets to begin with when they put them in.. or were they supposedly the second set that moses carved himself that were put into it, after he had shattered the first set on the ground after seeing what goons they all were down below
Fun Fact: Harrison Ford actually does like snakes but Indiana Jones doesn't lol
Always weird to me to think of people never having seen this trilogy/Star Wars as they've been so burned into my subconscious for so long....also, as an older Millennial, makes me feel ancient, lol.
Glad to see you back, Steph! Youll have fun reacting to the rest of the Indiana Jones films too! I can't recommend the newer ones, though. Just stick to the 80s 😅
I’ve heard something along those lines lol
She's already seen "The Kindgom of the Crystal Skull" with Shia Labeouf. If She'd like to rewatch that one here, I wouldn't mind...I've always Liked that one too!
Hi Steph hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
Thank you so much! I hope you do too :)
The British Museum is filled with historical Artifacts that the British stole from other countries. They admit that they stole them and still refuse to give them back. Also, they would kill anyone who stood in their way! Most of those British "archeologists" were Knighted even though they committed genocide! Keep in mind up until the 1950s there was VERY little difference between Grave Robbing and Archeology.
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They were both playing.
Renee said he grew up on it, that it was his family label so he's used to it.
Or possibly both were drunk.
i always thought it was too silly to think that he was that drunk, and just waving her off to leave.. i mean surely hes not that dumb or drunk.. so i like to think he was just playing along too, and he genuinely finds her pulling the knife out like that, funny.. and then he sees creepy man come in behind her, before he waves her off to leave.. but being genuinely creeped out by him, his face then slowely loses the smile.. but who knows, marian's super drinking powers always seemed unbelievable to me anyway, so you may just be expected to believe such things
Although I am a massive Indy fan, and especially a Raiders fan, I do have to concede that your criticism is valid. But...TRUST ME, you DON'T want to know more about their history! It will make you like Indy less! 😅 Let's just say, in the original pitch, Indy was supposed to be an overtly gray character, and Marion totally wasn't speaking figuratively when she described herself as a "child" 😬. Original concept Indy was a total scoundrel. But thankfully Spielberg and Ford softened his hard edges with their input, although he retains some of that morally gray characterization still (as you pointed out, he's willing to kill over some old treasure, he desecrates tombs and destroys ancient sites, all in pursuit of those trinkets).
Also, the whole thing with Belloq and why he seemed to "care" for the girl so much more than Indy....it's seriously because he's French 😆...and French men looove their women! Lol. Nothing more to it than that 😜
Anyway, I enjoyed the vid and can't wait to see you do the other 2 in this series
I heard on a podcast that Lucas' original notes on their relationship said that they met when Indy was 25 and Marion was 11. Yikes! Spielberg was like, "we have to vague that up a bit."
That doesn't make any sense at all. My guess is whoever said that was talking out of their ass.
This was always one of my favorite movies! Ya know you still haven't seen the next Indiana Jones movies for a while now.
Hey there! I’ve actually seen it, just haven’t finished editing but one day it’ll show up here 😅
@cinemawithsteph Well then you need to finish doing that! Like I said it's been quite a while now😂
Welcome back!
Thank you!
@@cinemawithsteph hope you are well.
Love your intro and positive energy. ❤️ welcome to our world of indiana... Adding to your thoughts and questions, you'll find answers. The worst can be the best in a diferent way. People say it suck. I love it. Just watch and give your opinion. I love all. Cgi suck on one of them but still good. Hope you enjoy.
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Not seeing the problem, I totally see what you mean. I was thinking “Xenomorph from ‘Aliens’” and your thing is way better/closer. I haven’t even SEEN “Aliens”.
Awesome reaction!
His in Star Wars as well as Han Solo
Thanks for sharing your reaction. It's like watching a whole new movie. I first saw "Raiders of the Lost Ark" when it came out in 1981.
The monkey wasn't evil. Just that the monkey hung out with a bad crowd. The big operation must have reminded you of "The Mummy Returns." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_Returns
I thought it ironic that the Ark was moved from the Well of Souls to another secret government storage site. I did wonder if there was a Staff of Ra and a map room leading to the Ark. You saw the Ark when you watched "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
There is no explanation for naughty Doctor Jones. He's just a character who lived life large.
21:43
If Indy had released Marion the whole German battalion would swarm around looking for them.
uh, yea he says exactly that
its nice to see a reactor not gushing on and on about how handsome harrison ford is.. i guess she didnt get the memo
counter that with "did he have to kill all those people?" The same people that were trying to kill HIM? YES!!!! And the notion that Belloq actually cared for Marion and Indy didn't. Come on.
i heard the scene were indy shoots the swoordsman was writin out to be a large fight scene but Harrison Ford came down with a case of dysentery so they just changed it to "ahh just shoot him"
and the actor actually died
4:55 aaaaaaaand that's where I'd 'Nope' the f*ck out & be like "You're on your own, señor"...
EDIT: You figured out who he is in Star Wars LOL.
George Lucas & Steven Spielberg go way back as friends. They started around the same time, they found success around the same time, they work well together (I'm guessing, anyway; they certainly come up with great entertainment when they work together)...
16:25 There was a whole fight scene prepped for the swordsman. There was just one problem: Just about everyone involved with the scene was sick with food poisoning. After several unsuccessful tries, Ford suggested to Spielberg "Why don't I just shoot the sucker?". Spielberg, by then already known to be open to improvisation & script changes due to on-set issues (see: Bruce the Mechanical Shark in 'Jaws') agreed & they shot the scene in one take.
@@BPhillips2000😂 ok that makes more sense! I felt there was so much potential there
“Screw this! Later, Dr. Jones. I’m getting out of this cave, going to MIT, moving to New York, and getting into robotics research. I’m sure nothing could go wrong with that.”
She looks so different without the glasses... she loses the studious look...😂
You may remember Marian from the Shia movie...
Jess Day/Zooey Deschanel from “New Girl”, Clark Kent/Superman, Dr. Henry Jones/Indiana Jones, and now Steph.
I give you the “Unrecognizable-because-of-glasses-and-a-wardrobe-change” Club (tho I don’t think Indy belongs)
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg decided to make a fun action adventure movie similar to those old movies of the 1930s and 1940s, and came up with the idea of Indiana Jones. Actually, a lot was lifted out of Secret Of The Incas (1954, Charlton Heston) that went into Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Jones's leather jacket and fedora is identical to what Charlton Heston wore. In Secret Of The Incas a gold dish was placed in an insert of a cave that the sun at a certain time reflected to show the location of a large Inca relic. Sound familiar? By the way, that Inca relic was a background object in that cave at the beginning of Raiders.
Another reactor who knew some archeology had watched Raiders, and said she would have been interested in studying a 2000 year old boobytrap that still worked.
The Nazis were digging in the wrong place because the only reference they had was from that scarring on that Gestapo man's hand, which only had one side of the medallion.
When Indy and his worker friends opened that top door to the tomb, that was 3000 year old viruses and bacteria that came out. That's why all those people died when opening King Tut's tomb. It wasn't the curse of King Tut, it was the bacteria when they all rushed into the tomb.
Burning all those snakes would've been a dumb move, as there was little ventilation in the tomb.
Belloch wasn't all that interested in Marion, other than wanting to get into her pants. French romantics!
I love the reactions on this channel, but if Steph didn't like the characters in Raiders, I don't think it's going to get any better for her in the next films.
20:22 Even when I saw this originally in theaters at age 12 I thought “ just because their staff was too long, that wouldn’t make their professional mapping of the position different. As an accomplished scholar Belloq would have made the right calculations based on (????????) ….. the same as Indy did. The staff would have just been too tall and given a wrong position. But Indy puts the staff in a totally different hole …….sooooooo 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ it doesn’t add up
How do you know what hole Belloq put the staff in?
Originally tom Selleck was going to play indiana Jones but unfortunately he couldn't because he was under contract with magnum p.i ironically magnum p.i ended up getting delayed but by then they already had casted Harrison ford truthfully though george lucas didnt even want Harrison ford but george lucas finally convinced him
Please watch Harrison Ford in *Patriot Games* and *Clear and Present Danger* . He plays character *Jack Ryan* , based on Tom Clancy's novels.
what do we learn from this, it doesn't matter how cute or pretty someone is, you should generally not judge them by their appearance
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the monkey wasnt that cute
Hi Steph ❤, great pick, another of my favorites series. You should continue the adventure watch the rest of the Indy movies, they fall under the categories of Action/Adventure/ Horror/ Comedy/ Romance. 🤠
Question- if you had to escape through 2 different cave exits, one crawling with snakes 🐍 and the other with tarantulas? 🕷️ which would you choose? lol
Happy Friday The 13th 🐈⬛️
Something that always bothered me.
When Indy trips the giant round rock that chases him was unnecessary.
If Indy had simply took three steps back where he came from and let the rock pass over him he could have casually strolled along behind the rock.
I think the trap is such that the boulder would roll until it wedges itself in the cave entrance, so Indy has to stay ahead of it to avoid getting sealed inside forever.
Would it have trapped him in the cave though? IDK what happened to the rock? I don't remember seeing where the rock finally stopped at? These are all questions I need answered and I'm at work😅
@@SergeantSalty Fair point.
Yep, the bolder blocks the entrance, hence he needs to run ahead of it (note the bolder doesn't come out of the entrance).
Spielberg himself found the dress kinda weird. He left it to the actors, specifically Karen Allen, to come up with a reason why she should switch into it. She came up with the idea to hide the knife with the clothes bundle to justify it.
Some of the initial statements by the filmmakers had Marian a teen - maybe as young as 14 x during their earlier sexual involvement. But they never detail it in the films beyond what was said in that opening scene. We don't know how old Indy was, by comparison. Ford is 9 years older than Allen, but that is not a sure sign of the characters difference. He was probably in his 20s, though.
Oh I have missed You, My Friend🥰I've missed Your Smile😁and I've Missed Your Laugh!😆Thank You for Reacting to
this Classic Adventure, and Your Reaction was definitely worth the wait!👍YES, 'Marion' was played by Karen Allen, who
was also in "Scrooged!"👌This and the-next-3 are Original Stories Written by George Lucas, hence 'Lucasfilm' Produced!
If You'd ever like to rewatch that one You've seen before ('The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull') with Shia Labeouf, here's an
early Vote of Support👍because I've always Enjoyed that one too!
Thanks for watching!
@@cinemawithsteph Your Welcome / My Pleasure!💝
Please react to all of the sequels.
Eh... she won't like Kate Capeshaw's character at all.
@@crescent4996 Will see.
Doesn't matter, the movies are still fun!
@@ernesthakey3396 agreed.
Make sure your contacts aren't inside out lol. That causes some irritation or discomfort
That specific pair were actually put in by the optometrist lol. So I feel if someone ought to have it right, it should be them 😅
Totally.
I think I do it to myself like once a week lol
missed you