I mean...the instructions for the Ark are included in the Bible, and they clearly indicate the entire thing is supposed to be gilded. It was to be about 51 inches long, 31 inches high, and 31 inches wide, and completely gilded. The rods / staves to carry it were never to be removed from the rings, so, yes, they should have been with the Ark. The prop used in this film is actually a pretty decent replica of what the Ark supposedly looked like. Meanwhile, the Holy Grail isn't referenced in the Bible at all; the first recorded mention of the thing is from more than 1000 years after Jesus' death. Indy's supposition that it would be plain is based on the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was a simple carpenter, and, according to the Biblical accounts, never behaved as a king...which is one of many reasons the Jewish leaders of the day rejected him as the Messiah. Since there are actual instructions for the Ark's creation free for anyone to read, there's no reason for the Ark to look as plain as the Grail from _The Last Crusade._ Finally, Indy knew not to touch the Ark or look inside it because he had studied the lore around the Ark. The stories surrounding the Ark in the Bible clearly indicate that no one is to touch the thing (hence the hardware for carrying it by poles), and in one story, seventy people are killed for just looking inside it. Based on the supernatural things he had already observed, I've always assumed he was erring on the side of caution when he told Marion not to look at the thing when the Nazis opened it. (Yes, I'm aware that the sins in these videos are largely tongue in cheek and that CinemaSins is just having a laugh.)
I find it quite idiotic that the enemy of the israelites would seek to possessed the Ark of the covenant, since the last time it happened many curses fell upon the people who did it. Also what's your take on the spear that pierced Lord Jesus side?
Thank you I was going to say the same thing. There's a definite reason why the movie replica of the ark looks the way it does, and it wasn't because the script writers made it up.
@Manek Iridius What "gold idol" are you talking about? The Ark? That wasn't an idol, it wasn't worshipped as an idol, and it wasn't made by Christians...
the funnier part about this is that. Harrison ford was actually suffering from dysentery / diarrhea. it was supposed to be a whip vs sword duel. but they were pressed with time beacuse on how hard the scene would be with fords condition so he just said let me just shoot the guy.
The "don't look at it" plot hole was actually explained in a deleted scene where the old translater told Indy that it was forbidden to look at the contents of the ark.
In case you missed it in the movie, the floor of the map room has many holes to account for time of day/year. Indy has notes that tell him which hole to use. Not a sin at all.
I concur. After a rewatch, not only does Indy consults his own notes about the map room, he brushes the floor to examine it because IN THE HEIROGLYPHICS there is a symbol that suggests the rod has to be placed there for the light to go through it (it's the match stick with the wavy lines - I used to be a linguistics student so it made sense to me at the time) and he realizes Belloq had used the staff in the same place somewhere before but had made the wrong calculations due to the length of the staff used.
Huh, I always assumed the time of year would affect it too. Clever find! I think it was such a good movie that they struggled to sin it and just took what they could find.
It's a CALENDAR. This also erases the other sin of 'it hits the map room at different times every day'... that's what the different holes were for. Indy was looking up the right hole to use for that date to place the staff.
plausible usually implies that under certain conditions and with multiple attempts it should be doable. It might be something that could happen but I still feel like it is fairly sinful to have the whip swing work first try.
@@et3182 it’s exactly like throwing knives bro. First try with zero practice it’s absolutely plausible. But after tons of practice and perfecting techniques, it’d definitely have a much greater chance to work.
It is indeed possible. Used to do that in the woods as a kid with a slightly shorter whip than the full length one in the movie. It held really well most of the time, sometimes the branch would break but still stay attached to the whip and tag you on it’s way down.
The iconic final scene in the warehouse is Spielberg's nod to the equally iconic final scene of Citizen Kane which pans over thousands of the title characters collected possessions until we see the one object that defines the plot and meaning of the film.
To answer a couple of the sins phrased in the form of questions: 1) The Ark of the Covenant is made out of gold when the Holy Grail is made out of wood for two reasons. First, because the makers of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade wanted to be clever and do something about Jesus being a carpenter, so they conveniently forgot the Holy Grail is the cup Jesus drank from at the Last Supper-- a meal which occurred after his arrival in Jerusalem, during which he was said to have been greeted by many followers, and a city in which he had never lived, since Jesus was from Galilee, not Judea-- and which Joseph of Arimathea, the local member of the ruling council who had accepted responsibility for burying Jesus after his death, caught his blood in... meaning it almost certainly wasn't the cup of a carpenter because there's very little chance Jesus lugged a complete dinner set around with him everywhere he went so he could throw impromptu banquets. Second, it's gold because Exodus 25: 10-16 details how God instructed the Hebrews to build the Ark, and those verses can be summed up as "and God said, let there be bling." It says the entirety of the Ark is either to be made out of gold or completely overlaid with it. 2) There's a deleted scene in which the holy man Indy and Sallah speak to explains the rules of handling the Ark, and in the Well of Souls, another scene confirms Indy remembers this and takes it seriously. However, it's not really necessary to resort to that, because it's already been demonstrated to us earlier in the movie that Indiana Jones knows his Bible very well, and the Bible says God commanded the Hebrews not to do three things with the Ark of the Covenant, on penalty of death-- they could not touch the Ark of the Covenant, they could not let the Ark of the Covenant touch the ground, and they were not allowed to look inside the Ark of the Covenant or upon anything in it. If you pay close attention, for all he acts like an irreverent cynic the rest of the time, Indiana Jones is obedient to God's commands at all times when dealing with the Ark. He only uses the poles Exodus instructs the Hebrews to use to carry it, and makes sure no one touches the Ark itself. He partially assembles the crate the Ark is to be moved into before moving it from its resting place in the Well of Souls, so he doesn't have to set it on the ground, but rather can set it on the bottom of the crate and build the rest of the crate around it. And third, when they open the Ark and he sees that something is going to come out, he doesn't look and makes sure Marion doesn't, either. That's what he's doing; he's obeying the Bible. The Nazis, on the other hand, break all three commandments. They set the Ark on the ground when Indy threatens to blow it up, and then again for the opening ritual. They touch the Ark to take the lid off, and Toht, Dietrich, and Belloq all look directly into the Ark once the lid is removed. The rest of the Nazis look at the spirit that comes out. As for what the spirit is, there are two possibilities, but in all likelihood what you're seeing is supposed to represent a manifestation of God, since no one dies until the spirit shows its face. In Exodus 33, when Moses asks God to reveal His glory to him (in other words, let Moses see what He looks like), God replies "I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name 'The Lord.' And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. But you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live." Again, that's something Indiana Jones-- who has clearly studied the Old Testament-- would have known. Either way, it doesn't come out of nowhere, and as others have noted, the pillar of fire isn't Nazi mist traveling to Heaven. It's God cleansing the Earth of all who defiled His Ark and the Covenant housed inside.
The reason why Indy knows the bible really well because of His dad is an royal pain in the ass (Not Sean Connery.Henry Jones Sr) but Lloyd Owens Henry Jones Sr
@@dan2007kohn Yeah that is what I was going to say. The pillar of flame is old testiment stuff. It led the way for Jews to escape Egypt in Exodus. Cinemasins is apparently a heathen
Funny fact : Indy was supposed to fight that sword guy but everyone on set was so sick because of food poisoning that Harisson was like "F this fight scene I feel like I'm about to sh*t my pants, lets just shoot the guy". And they all thought i was funnier and they kept it
@@emiliewttqnd2526 yeah Ford had bad dissentry whilst filming In Egypt and the Egyptian actor who had trained for a whole sword fight was extremley pissed that he didn’t have his screen time extended haha
Upon rewatching the opening scene, I noticed something pretty funky. I can imagine a lot of people missed this, but in the beginning of the movie, there are two very prevalent bird sounds. The first is a kookaburra, which is a common trope when it comes to rainforests in movies. However, it is endemic to Australia and New Guinea and should not be in South America. The second bird call that sticks out to me, happens right after the dart scene (the dart they found in the tree). It is the call of a willow ptarmigan... which is native to the tundras of Canada and Scandinavia.. they also should not be there.
"This situation with Marion requires further explanation!" "Right, so ten years ago, when Indy was 26 and Marion was 15-" "Further explanation not required!"
All right cinemasins, this time you have gone too far. You have no right to sin a clasic like this. I hate your channel but I don't like geting yelled at in the comments. Screw it... Cinemasin fukin sucks. They arn't pardoy of satire, thats just something they say to deflect criticism. Plus most of there sins are things they think are wrong with the movie, and most of the time they are wrong about the things they try to criticize. If you want proff of this go watch Th3birdmans cinemasins videos. You can't have 80 percent of you sins be "real" and have the rest of them be bad jokes. If you like cinemasins thats fine. This is America after all. BTW sorry for spaming but if I did't almost no one whould read this. You can yell at me in comments for spaming, I'm fine with that.
@Freedom FighterTheir actual ages don't really matter. Think about all those movies/shows with mid-20's playing teenagers: If they're playing teenagers, then they are teenagers. Marion Ravenwood was supposedly in her mid-twenties for "Raiders" and she was a teenager when she was with a 20-something Indy. As for the statutory rape; yes it was illegal at that time but I think it's safe to infer that Professor Ravenwood, after finding out about his protege "schtupping" his jailbait daughter, ran Indy off and kept it quiet so as to preserve her reputation (and his for letting this happen under his nose.)
@@busimagen I've heard people say Marion was 13, I've heard people say 14, I've heard people say 16. It makes it more salacious if Indy was having sex with a underage girl; her being the daughter of his mentor just adds that extra skeeviness to the background of the bar scene. The particulars are irrelevant since, as you have stated, it is not explicitly stated in the movie how old Ravenwood was at the time of her relationship with Indiana. The big problem is the idea that he took advantage of her naivete as well as her "hero worship" coupled with his betrayal of his mentor by banging the professor's daughter. Couple that with her willingness to be with him at the end of the movie and their subsequent child popping up in "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and you get people throwing fits in modern day.
The Marion tent sequence wasnt about Belloq trying to get her drunk to get her to talk. It was about Marion drinking him into a stupor so she could escape. She's not a damsel in distress. (its why the scene of her outdrinking other drunks was there to begin with.)
@@johnjsal not every plan works. That’s the point of the scene. You try, you fail. In fact, every plan works then fails. In the beginning, Jones gets the artifact but then belloq gets it. He stops the nazis from getting the medallion but then they made a replica, Indy stops the truck but then it explodes, Indy finds the ark but then belloq finds him and takes it, the scene we talked about, Indy destroys the plane but then the ark goes on a truck, Indy grabs the ark and put it on a ship but then the nazis attack it. Indy gets in the submarine and gets a rpg but gets outnumbered. Usually in movies, plans mostly fail just to have another plan, that’s how you make a story.
This was one of the first gaffs I ever noticed in a movie, and it continues to bug me to this day. And it could have been fixed by simply changing one word: “but, *ADD* one Kadam, for the Hebrew God, whose Ark this is”. Staff goes from 5’ to 7’... Technically, still not as long as the staff shown, but at least it is closer to the right height...
@@Wolf359inc Not to mention the fact that Sallah is Egyptian and he would probaly translate the Kadams in meters not in inches and when i saw this movie i was still a kid so i was confused. 72 inches is about 182 cm and 62 inches(one kadam removed)is about 158 cm and the stick is way longer then Indiana Jones.
1:35 Honestly I have to agree with that. Characters with funny dialogue and quips between each are great sometimes, but watching a stoic character doing what he does best can be even better.
Regarding the "I was a child..." line, it's as creepy as it sounds. During the story breaking sessions, where Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan sat down to work out the story, they came up with the idea of Marion having been a young teenager she and Indy had their affair and that's why Indy fell out with Marion's father. They talked about what age she might have been and they ultimately decided to keep it vague but they were considering her being around 13 or 14 with Indy having been in his early 20s. The "I was a child" line and a line during the exposition scene about Indy and Ravenwood having fallen out are the only parts of the idea that survived. Speaking of the story breaking sessions though, there's transcripts available for them online that are really worth checking out. They work out the story, the characters, action sequences (including some like the mine cart sequence that ended up in Temple Of Doom) and it's a fascinating read. Just google "Raiders Lucas Spielberg and Kasdan story session transcript" or something like that. It's not hard to find.
Yeah, both Raiders and Temple of Doom strongly suggested that Indy had done a lot of questionable stuff in his past. (And that whole business with Nurhachi's ashes is beyond sketchy.) That's one reason I'm not the biggest fan of Last Crusade. Turning Indy into a literal boy scout and smoothing down his rough edges made him less interesting as a character, imo.
Jeez, when you put this info together with what actually happened in real life between Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher during the filming of Star Wars a few years before this movie, this just gets really uncomfortable.
I mean the original tablets of the commandments are hand written by God, then Moses chucked them at people and God made him rewrite them. So to answer your question, yeah most people prefer to protect the original cut and not the cover song.
All right cinemasins, this time you have gone too far. You have no right to sin a clasic like this. I hate your channel but I don't like geting yelled at in the comments. Screw it... Cinemasin fukin sucks. They arn't pardoy of satire, thats just something they say to deflect criticism. Plus most of there sins are things they think are wrong with the movie, and most of the time they are wrong about the things they try to criticize. If you want proff of this go watch Th3birdmans cinemasins videos. You can't have 80 percent of you sins be "real" and have the rest of them be bad jokes. If you like cinemasins thats fine. This is America after all. BTW sorry for spaming but if I did't almost no one whould read this. You can yell at me in comments for spaming, I'm fine with that.
As an Indian-American, Temple of Doom should start with 1000 sins for the all questions I got if people in India eat snakes and monkey brains... In truth, yeah, there probably are people that do, but not like THAT.
@@nahor88 That can't be right, a forty year old man told me that all Indians eat snakes. He even gave me a bit to eat. I don't think I liked it very much, because it made me feel very sleepy. I didn't see much of that guy after that...
That is a brutal drinking game. Another brutal drinking game is from Lord of the Rings. Everytime Legolas says something obvious and pointless everyone has to take a shot.
Regarding the "sun changes every day" thing: you're right, but that means that the series of holes on the floor has dates on it and you place it based on the date. That's why there isn't just one hole. So take off that sin. That also explains why Belloq used a different hole when he set it on a different day, and thus the sand over the place Indy is using. So...two sins off of your sin tally.
All that is true...but you'd still have to be in the room during the right month, if not the right week. The sun moves 46.7° laterally between December and June in Cairo, or about .25° per day. The sun's angular size is roughly .5°, so it moves about half its width laterally every day of the year. (Yes, I'm aware this is an oversimplification as the rate of lateral movement isn't constant, being fastest near the equinoxes, and slowest near the solstices.) The floor appears to have 30 rows of 12 holes in which to place the staff. That would indicate that the sun will pass through the hole in the ceiling only 12 days every six months. The staff would have to be moved left or right to align directly with the sun, one hole each day, to catch the light as it does. Since the sun is also moving vertically across the sky at 15° per hour, the staff will have to be moved toward or away from the map depending what time of day the medallion is being used. If we calculate the angular size of the hole in the ceiling, we can figure out how long you have each day use the map, and which hole you have to use. The formula for angular size is: Angular Size = (object size * 57.29)/distance. The hole appears to be about 4 feet across, and the medallion on the staff appears to be 15-20 feet away from the hole. So, we can plug those numbers into the equation and get an approximate angular size for the hole between 11.5 - 15.3°, in relation to the medallion on the staff. That means the sun will only shine through that hole for one hour, at most, during the 12 days the sun is aligned laterally with the hole. That means each row of holes is only good for about 2 minutes each of the 12 days the sun is aligned laterally with the hole. So, there's really no need to remove those sins at all...because for this map can only work for a total of 24 hours each year, divided into one hour per day increments, for a total of twelve consecutive days every six months.
The tent/Marion sequence is totally important!, are you nuts? It sets up the contrast to with Well of Souls sequence. It reveals a lot about Belloq's character, Marion's character, the rivalry between Indy and Belloq, and there is also the payoff from the drinking competition in Marion's bar.
If the swordman HAD actually fought Jones, cinemasins probably would’ve said something along the lines of _”you have a gun, just shoot the motherf*cker already”_
All right cinemasins, this time you have gone too far. You have no right to sin a clasic like this. I hate your channel but I don't like geting yelled at in the comments. Screw it... Cinemasin fukin sucks. They arn't pardoy of satire, thats just something they say to deflect criticism. Plus most of there sins are things they think are wrong with the movie, and most of the time they are wrong about the things they try to criticize. If you want proff of this go watch Th3birdmans cinemasins videos. You can't have 80 percent of you sins be "real" and have the rest of them be bad jokes. If you like cinemasins thats fine. This is America after all. BTW sorry for spaming but if I did't almost no one whould read this. You can yell at me in comments for spaming, I'm fine with that.
@@gamerdude4534 please stop spamming. Who cares. Birdman only defends movies that he likes. Where’s EWW CS: The Room, Birdemic, Cats, Shrek 3, Spies in Disguise, and The Grinch huh? Sinning the movies with jokes doesn’t make any sense but the Nostalgia Critic, TheUnusualSuspect and Dartigan does him and they are fine. Go back to your Echo-chamber defending a shitty movie that you like.
@@gamerdude4534 Birdman himself states at the beginning of virtually every movie that he loves cinemasins and is just poking fun. You’re just a salty fanboy with no capability of critical thinking.
There's a bunch of guys with no traditional head coverings (keffiyeh, shemagh, etc.) sitting in the same area, jeans guy stands up and walks out. Guess the crew was taking a smoke break together.
Well Jeans have been around since the 1800's....They became more common and popular in the late 50's and 60's but they were around in the 40's and 30's....also White T-shirts have been around for a long time as well.
One thing that stuck in my mind for decades was the "undue weight" given to Abner Ravenwood. He's established as an important character in the Army Intelligence briefing, we're told he's the expert on Tanis and not a Nazi -- the latter detail is the sort of thing you only bother to mention if the person is going to actually appear in the movie. Then Indy goes off to Nepal to find him, but Marion just tells him Abner's dead, and that's it. Then, decades later, I finally watched/read some making-of stuff on the movie, and found out Abner WAS supposed to be in the movie, that Indy would find him in Nepal with Marion, but then he'd get killed in the gunfight. Now it makes so much more sense...
The Indiana Jones movies are the perfect combination of action, adventure, mystery and comedy. The last one was not in the same category of the first 3, but it was still fun to watch.
The sword scene where he shoots the guy was Ford's idea. He and the crew ate some bad food and got dysentery so they were constantly running for the bathroom. Ford said to Spielberg, "I have a gun, I can just shoot him." The scene was originally designed to be this huge fight. Anyway after they shot it, they loved it so that is how it was put in the movie and became one of the most iconic scenes up there with "I think you are going to need a bigger boat." The sword guy was pretty pissed off though becsue he had practiced a huge scene and it was literally cut from the movie.
Right? Jeremy's so hot and bothered about the Hebrews missing the point that he, ironically, completely misses the point of the golden calf - it was a warning about worshiping false idols. Casting the ark from gold is completely different as that was made out of worship to the true God of the Hebrews. The calf and the ark could have been made out of marble, wood or any other material and the point would have been the same.
@@drewcassibry8267 in his review of The Book of Eli, Jeremy says he was a preacher's kid, so even if he's not a Christian anymore theres really no reason he wouldn't know this stuff.
The calf was made of gold BECAUSE they worshipped it. The Ark being gold implies the same thing. They were placing undue respect on the Ark. That's why you're not supposed to worship angels, popes, or Mary. Making it gold is akin to sacrilege even not considering the greed implications. That's why there aren't many, if any, golden statues of Christ.
Yeah, apparently Lucas was in a meeting with Spielberg and Kasdan and ran the idea past them, and they thought the idea of Indy seducing a fifteen or sixteen year old added some interesting moral ambiguity to his character. Then Lucas explained no, no... he meant Indy seduced her when she was like twelve or thirteen. Then Kasdan said you could hear a pin drop as he and Spielberg exchanged worried glances before they explained that while audiences will put up with a less than virtuous hero, such as one who was a womanizer, they simply would not tolerate a protagonist who was an out-and-out child molester, and convinced him to make Marion older. You have to admit, though, Lucas's version goes a lot farther towards explaining Abner's utter hatred for him. To quote my brother when his daughter was that age, "if I ever caught anyone doing that to Cheyenne, I'd tear his arm off and beat him to death with it."
@@AndiGravity It makes my head hurt! As far as morally ambiguity goes you'd think they could have just acknowledged Jones was a looter of precious archeological sites! which he ALSO deflowered... omg... was THAT Lucas' angle? Ruining pristine sites to steal it's greatest treasure? As a palate cleanser: Did you know Indiana Jones was based on a famous archeologist/looter by the name of Giovanni-Battista Belzoni? He was a dynamite first. questions later sort of fellow.
@@noneuklid -- Yeah, and I'm not accusing the man of anything here, but after finding out this behind the scenes from Spielberg and Kasdan and then the prequel trilogy, it does sort of leave you wanting to say "gee, George, you keep, uh... you keep circling back around to this idea of falling in love with a little kid and eventually getting all romantic with them. Is there something you feel like you need to tell... you know what? Never mind. When you have as much talent as you do, we just all agree not to notice as long as you keep your hands to yourself. We'd just all like to say we're sorry for giving you shit about the prequel trilogy. We were wrong. We know that now. Could you film a _Stellar Battle Campaign_ trilogy for us? Maybe something set several years after the conclusion of an interstellar conflict between an oppressive government regime and a Rebel All... Resista... Insurgent Federation?"
@@AndiGravity That's not quite how it comes off in the transcript of their Story Conference. It's a foolish idea in the first place, but it also passes quickly. indiefilmhustle.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-story-conference-transcript/
One of my favorite movies of all time. I grew up watching it repeatedly, again and again and again. "Satipo" is the name of a city in Peru and would be a weird name for a person. "Sapito" means "little toad" in Spanish, and I can easily imagine it being used as a nickname. Even though Satipo is the official name, I think Sapito fits better.
indiana actually knows alot of local customs, slangs, etc from different countries. so a toad being a "hopper' , meaning someone that jumps around switching teams, is an accurate insult he would do just to kind of rub it in.
@@iGaveLiaHIV wasn't it just eyeliner? and even if it was a pen or ink, as long as it doesn't go into the eyes it's all fine. I mean so many women and men use eye-make up daily and it's no problem whatsoever.
"This needs a LOT more explaining than it gets." Indiana met Marion and had a sexual relationship with her when he accompanied her father on an archeological dig in 1925. She was born in 1909 so she would have been either 15 or 16 years old, depending on exactly when she was born and when the two met. Indiana was 10 years older than her. When they were coming up with the story Lucas suggested that the relationship to begin at age 11 but after Spielberg objected and Lucas suggested 15. Then Spielberg wanted Marion to be promiscuous and "come on" to Indiana. The age of consent in Illinois (where Abner Ravenwood, Marion's father, lived in 1925) was 16 (it was 10 years old in the 1880s). So, depending on her exact age the relationship could be either statutory rape or just very inappropriate if it had taken place in Chicago. However, it's much more likely that the relationship took place on the expedition in the Middle East or Southwest Asia and the age of consent (if there even was one) was undoubtedly much lower. There! Now you have the whole backstory.
Harrison Ford (33/34) had a sexual relationship with Carrie Fisher (19/20). Although Carrie was a few years older than Marrion, it's still ironic the similarity between Harrison and Indy.
*However, it's much more likely that the relationship took place on the expedition in the Middle East or Southwest Asia and the age of consent (if there even was one) was undoubtedly much lower.* How would you know? That's quite an assumption to make is it not?
@@Gzilla313 what does Carrie fisher have to do with anything I wish people like you would stop bring up this irrelevant stuff about star was up Carrie fisher and Harrison ford were both adults period it was total legal karen allen character marion ravenwood was 15 years old and underage when Harrison Ford's indiana Jones was 25 and they had sex the first time together which is disgusting and illegal
i just realized something: the reason indy puts the staff in a different hole then Belloq is because that grid of holes is basically a calendar telling you where to put the staff on the corresponding day. this brings up another issue with how the astronomical placement of the sun and the hole on earth would be very different 5000+ years apart. but still very impressive detail in the movie.
The "Don't look at it!" isn't completely out of the blue: when we see a picture of the ark at the start, the Jewish people have their eyes closed. It's one hell(!) of a leap to make the connection, but it was there.
Also, in 1 Samuel 6:19, it says: "But God struck down some of the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy of them to death because they looked into the ark of the Lord." (NIV) Having studied the lore surrounding the Ark, and having seen the supernatural shenanigans surrounding this adventure, it makes perfect sense that Indy would tell Marion not to look at the thing. Just like he told Sallah not to touch it, since the Bible indicates that God will kill anyone who touches it. 2 Samuel 6:6-7, "When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had stumbled. And the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God." 1 Chronicles 13:9-10, "When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark, because the oxen had stumbled. And the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, and He struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God."
You missed one. At 2:07 he carries a small bag of sand that's supposed to match the weight of the golden idol. The problem is that gold is twice as heavy as lead (per unit volume) and even heavier than uranium, so certainly a lot more than a small bag of sand half filled with air. The gold idol has twice as much volume as the bag so it should be roughly six times as heavy. If it's two litres in volume (my guess) then the idol would weigh 88 pounds. And he threw those 88 pounds across a 12 foot gaping hole during his escape. P.S. The raw material value of that golden idol at today's prices would be $2.3 million. P.S. Was the lazy eye on the idol done intentionally to make it look creepy?
The Ark is clearly described in the Bible- The Book of Exodus gives detailed instructions on how the Ark is to be constructed. It is to be 21⁄2 cubits in length, 11⁄2 in breadth, and 11⁄2 in height (approximately 131×79×79 cm or 52×31×31 in). Then it is to be gilded entirely with gold, and a crown or molding of gold is to be put around it. Four rings of gold are to be attached to its four corners, two on each side-and through these rings staves of shittim-wood overlaid with gold for carrying the Ark are to be inserted; and these are not to be removed.[12] A golden lid, the kapporet (translated as "mercy seat" or "cover") which is covered with 2 golden cherubim, is to be placed above the Ark. Missing from the account are instructions concerning the thickness of the mercy seat and details about the cherubim other than that the cover be beaten out the ends of the Ark and that they form the space where God will appear. The Ark is finally to be placed under the veil of the covering.
Also, the Golden Calf was wrong not because it was made of gold, but because the Israelites worshipped it - a false god. Also also, the Holy Grail is a Christian myth, while the Ark is Jewish.
The thing with Belloq and the fly...I heard somewhere that it's actually a literal frame or two that's missing, which is why it looks like he swallows the fly - the fly actually flew off.
> This "Don't look at the ark" idea comes out of nowhere. It isn't even hinted at! Actually, it was mentioned at the beginning, when Indy pointed out that the people in the drawing were looking down and not at the ark. Averting their eyes from god.
Correct. I understand there was also meant to be an explicit summary of what happens if just anyone looks at the ark and why. I've forgotten though; was that a deleted scene or was it never filmed?
It wouldn’t be a Cinemasins without them being smug a-holes over some plot hole that turns out they just weren’t paying attention and was not plot hole at all.
@@AlexRN also missed: 9:42 "How do they know it's not the arc" because it's not covered wood covered in gold (Exodus 25: 11) "You shall overlay it with pure gold [...]" and again at 10:31 why the ark should be golden sin 10:43 with long wooden rods that fix perfectly... Exodus 25: 14 "And you shall put poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them". The poles with 2 people carring the arc are also visble in the column in Rome commemorating the sack of Gerusaleme by the Romans
What I appreciate most about this video and the film it breaks down: so many of the sins are done for the sake of good cinema. For example, it's absolutely true that the lighting in Marion's bar that creates the Indy silhouette doesn't make sense, but it's ALSO true that it's a terrific visual shot. Raiders was made as an homage to 1930s serials, and of course those serials were full of goofs and such...thus, Raiders needed to have them to fulfill its mission. It should be appreciated that this is the purpose of CinemaSins: to highlight these things in amusing fashion, NOT to criticize by default. All films have sins, but not all sins are "bad"!
Thank you. IMO it's impossible to know what Indiana Jones and Star Wars are about without knowing who Alan Quatermane (sp?) and Flash Gordon are. They're meant to be fun, not some deep psychological delving of the human condition.
I haven’t heard him this animated in a long time. And it’s nice to see them go back to their original style: genuine sins about visual details and plot technicalities.
I’m surprised he missed the extra in modern day clothes (jeans and white t-shirt) walking in the back of the shot when Indy is drinking his sorrows away - 6:25 Definitely worth a few sins!!
All right cinemasins, this time you have gone too far. You have no right to sin a clasic like this. I hate your channel but I don't like geting yelled at in the comments. Screw it... Cinemasin fukin sucks. They arn't pardoy of satire, thats just something they say to deflect criticism. Plus most of there sins are things they think are wrong with the movie, and most of the time they are wrong about the things they try to criticize. If you want proff of this go watch Th3birdmans cinemasins videos. You can't have 80 percent of you sins be "real" and have the rest of them be bad jokes. If you like cinemasins thats fine. This is America after all. BTW sorry for spaming but if I did't almost no one whould read this. You can yell at me in comments for spaming, I'm fine with that.
@@gamerdude4534 I never understand people who criticize long running series's on TH-cam, you've obviously watched enough to make up your mind about it, and that's fine, it's absolutely your right to not like something. So stop watching it, it's an on demand service so no-one is forcing you to. When people do this it looks to all that they are purposely setting out to write something negative just for the sake of writing something negative. I'm not having a go at you as an individual, I'm just curious what it is you expect when you do something like this, are you seaking confirmation from others with the same outlook as you?
14:44 Indy's familiar with the requirements for Rabbis to be purified before approaching the ark. He knows he and Marion are not purified, and therefore should not presume to look upon the opened Ark. Old Testament 101.
When CinemanSins "Doesn't read the book" before sinning movie adaptations, does that include the Bible for this movie? The Holy Grail was a workman's cup because Jesus was poor, but the Bible has very detailed instructions for making the Ark of the Covenant out of gold, including specifying the winged creatures you see on top. His point about the Golden Calf is a pretty significant misunderstanding.
@Freedom Fighter I don't recall anything in the Biblical account of the Ark's creation indicating Aaron was the one to build it. I'm not saying you're wrong, just noting that I'd never heard that. The design of the Ark in this film, though, is fantastic...specifically because they made it look a little more Egyptian than later-era Hebrew/Jewish. It's attention to detail like this, even details that most people won't spot or recognize, that exemplifies why modern movie-making has taken such a turn for the worse.
Yeah the background Biblical knowledge that he references throughout this video is pretty contradictory to his normal "The books do not matter" rule, and that's coming from me as a Christian
You missed the bit where somehow Indy survived the voyage in or on the submarine. Either: - It dives at some point, leaving him to drown, - It stays on the surface, leading to the crew spotting him on the empty deck - Or Indy somehow gets INSIDE the sub, in which case he'd have been either spotted and caught, or in a disguise already.
I think the sub did not have to dive as diving makes it go slower, at that time Germany wasnt at war yet to need to hide from anyone. So he probably sat on top until it began docking and hopped off and swam underwater the last bit
@@NoNo-kj4ce There is a deleted scene of him holding on to the periscope . So I guess you are sorta right for what they intended in the movie but opted to edit out. I always just imagined he slipped in through a torpedo tube .
@@davidlindsay9564 Ahh thanx for the clarification. And of fricken course the whip is in there. One of my favorite aspects as a 10 year old kid when this movie came out :)
A very big sin you should add: When Indy hitches a ride on the U-boat, does the U-boat stay on the surface the whole time? If that's the case normally a crew member or two would be on the conning tower to help guide the boat and act as lookouts. If not, how did Indy survive hanging on the conning tower under water? If he got into the boat wouldn't somebody see him? It's not like a U-boat is a luxury cruise ship with plenty of places to hide. *DING*
How about Indy showing up in a snowstorm in the Himalayas wearing only his leather jacket, button-up shirt (with the top two buttons open) and fedora? And how about Marion besting a Sherpa in a serious drinking contest involving around 20 shots, but after he keels over, she's completely sober? And there's no way that little town in Tunisia is Cairo. Even in the 30s it was a metropolis and had several centuries' worth of monumental architecture.
@@valmarsiglia -- This is something that runs in my mother's side of the family. I never questioned the drinking scene because I've seen my mom out-drink men twice her size dozens of times. And you're kind of right. It's extremely difficult for us to get drunk. We just start to feel relaxed (which is not a natural state of existence for us). It does have its drawbacks, though. You should see the ungodly amount of anesthetic dentists and doctors have to pump into us to numb us out because our bodies just slough the stuff off.
It always bugged me that the supposedly "lost" Well of Souls was apparently easily accessible through that side wall right next to the Nazi airstrip/small military base and nobody bothered to look in there.
Or the fact that there were a gazillion mummies there which would probably have got some museums or private collectors wanting to buy them. Failing that some guy desperate for Mummy Brown could buy them as "supplies".
The "Speed of a Man" dart lobby Sin. I've thought about this, and it seems the traps were made for somebody progressing into the room, not running out of the room. Somebody walking into the room would step on the brick then the dart would launch into him as he moved forward. Indy knew this, of course.
Its about time!! But i cant believe you missed the Wilhelm Scream during the truck chase.. and the extra/crew member in t-shirt accidentally being seen in the background! 6:24
One of the things I appreciate most is the true appreciation of the craft shown by taking OFF sins where warranted. Cinema Sins is here to protect a sacred art form!
7:15 sin rebuttal: Isn't that what the giant grid of holes is for? I assumed as a kid that that was a puzzle but the way Indy casually finds the hole he needs would indicate it is much more basic. So the slots on the grid are to account for the different angles of the sun for the time of day it hits the map room. The time of day ("about 9 in the morning") would stay relatively consistent varying by minutes and not hours (plus the Egyptians probably used the sun to tell the time so it would always be the same "time" when the sun hits the map room) Further proving this idea,, the hole Indy needs is completely obscured by sand, while a hole a little bit away (a few days earlier) is clear i.e. the nazis cleared the sand from their slot and it filled the ones around it. It would also explain the hieroglyphs in the center, as each one would correspond to an Egyptian month or something similar.
God rewrote them to make sure we got them correctly. He also said to put a jar of manna in it as well. People couldn’t look inside because of our sinful nature and we can’t see God. He sent Jesus to fix our relationship with Him that’s why we no longer need the ark or the holy of holys.
You should do everything wrong with The Hunchback of Notre dame. Glad that my comment got this many likes this movie is great and it deserves to be sinned.
According to the late William Goldman, action-adventure is one of the hardest genres of movies to make. I agree that everything listed in this video is correctly showing stuff that's not consistent or realistic, but "Raiders" was/is one of the greatest action-adventure films ever made. CinemaSins *can* point out all the "wrong" stuff, and the flick still holds up. I still "liked" the video. Thanks.
I’m watching this movie for probably the 100th time and it never gets old. The older I get the more I appreciate how good it is but the more I notice it’s little flaws. The main love interest of the protagonist dies in a fiery explosion, and one of his best friends says “life goes on”. Like really?
*I gotta wonder how long it took location scouts to find a mountain for both "Raiders" and "Last Crusade" that would fit a fade from the Paramount mountain...*
The book of Exodus describes Ark of the Covenant in great detail: its exact dimensions, the type of wood it was carved out of, that it was covered in gold overlay, the position and pose of the two angel statues on the lid, the rods used to carry it, etc. The prop ark they built for Raiders is actually a very accurate recreation of the ark as described in the Bible.
@@stephenh5944 Stephen Spielberg and the other guy that made the film had a discussion about how old she should be, they were even considering making her younger when he reunites with her in the bar
"Don't put anything on your eyelids" So like I dont remember the scene well but.. um... theres so many things you can put on your eyelids, such as an eyeliner that could also have written that
Yeah like it's not like they didn't have eyeliner in the 30s. Eyeliner goes back to ancient Egypt. 🤷 It blows my mind how utterly oblivious men are to how makeup works.
So to write a message on your eyelids, you would have to close one eye while you write it reversed in a mirror using the other eye. Hold while the eye liner dries, Then swap eyes and do it again. They should be taking a sin off for effort!
Gotta say, as a Christian, I love how you handled the Biblical aspects of this movie! It's hard to do without expressing your own beliefs, but you knew your stuff and managed to steer clear of the religious debate at the same time. Kudos to you! As a movie lover, I've always loved the scene where Indy just shoots the sword guy, so I'm very glad to see that sins were taken off there. It makes me laugh every time.
About the aesthetic design of the ark. In the Old Testament there’s a fairly detailed description of what the ark looked like, so they were replicating that description
Really surprised you didn’t bring up the fact that Indiana Jones somehow managed to stowaway on a submarine A. Without being noticed and B. Somehow got onboard when it was about to dive, meaning the airtight hatches would’ve been closed and locked.
I thought they figured it was to similar to something they already had and the fight got too long, so they went for this instead. It's a fun Harrison Ford moment, much like "I love you" - "I know" from ESB.
All right cinemasins, this time you have gone too far. You have no right to sin a clasic like this. I hate your channel but I don't like geting yelled at in the comments. Screw it... Cinemasin fukin sucks. They arn't pardoy of satire, thats just something they say to deflect criticism. Plus most of there sins are things they think are wrong with the movie, and most of the time they are wrong about the things they try to criticize. If you want proff of this go watch Th3birdmans cinemasins videos. You can't have 80 percent of you sins be "real" and have the rest of them be bad jokes. If you like cinemasins thats fine. This is America after all. BTW sorry for spaming but if I did't almost no one whould read this. You can yell at me in comments for spaming, I'm fine with that.
Just finished watching this movie and I noticed a huge mistake. In the scenes where Indy is fighting the buff mechanic and Marion gets trapped in the cockpit, she originally is stuck in the cockpit with the dead pilot and controls to fly the plane. In the following scenes, we see her in the other cockpit with the machine gun shooting at the truck full of nazis. Indy even tries to save her the first time from that cockpit but fails. Once the mechanic is dead and Indy finally goes to save her again, she is back in the original cockpit with the dead pilot and airplane controls. Seen this movie probably 20+ times and can't believe I'm just now noticing this.
I mean...the instructions for the Ark are included in the Bible, and they clearly indicate the entire thing is supposed to be gilded. It was to be about 51 inches long, 31 inches high, and 31 inches wide, and completely gilded. The rods / staves to carry it were never to be removed from the rings, so, yes, they should have been with the Ark. The prop used in this film is actually a pretty decent replica of what the Ark supposedly looked like. Meanwhile, the Holy Grail isn't referenced in the Bible at all; the first recorded mention of the thing is from more than 1000 years after Jesus' death. Indy's supposition that it would be plain is based on the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was a simple carpenter, and, according to the Biblical accounts, never behaved as a king...which is one of many reasons the Jewish leaders of the day rejected him as the Messiah. Since there are actual instructions for the Ark's creation free for anyone to read, there's no reason for the Ark to look as plain as the Grail from _The Last Crusade._
Finally, Indy knew not to touch the Ark or look inside it because he had studied the lore around the Ark. The stories surrounding the Ark in the Bible clearly indicate that no one is to touch the thing (hence the hardware for carrying it by poles), and in one story, seventy people are killed for just looking inside it. Based on the supernatural things he had already observed, I've always assumed he was erring on the side of caution when he told Marion not to look at the thing when the Nazis opened it.
(Yes, I'm aware that the sins in these videos are largely tongue in cheek and that CinemaSins is just having a laugh.)
I find it quite idiotic that the enemy of the israelites would seek to possessed the Ark of the covenant, since the last time it happened many curses fell upon the people who did it. Also what's your take on the spear that pierced Lord Jesus side?
Thank you I was going to say the same thing. There's a definite reason why the movie replica of the ark looks the way it does, and it wasn't because the script writers made it up.
@Manek Iridius What "gold idol" are you talking about? The Ark? That wasn't an idol, it wasn't worshipped as an idol, and it wasn't made by Christians...
@Manek Iridius Anything can be considered idol worship if you revere it higher than God. That means it can be people, places, and things.
@Manek Iridius Cept the ark wasn't worshipped. Idols are worshipped. But calm down, good grief. Scratch an atheist, find a fundamentalist.
The part where he takes off sins for the sword guy getting shot is priceless
the funnier part about this is that. Harrison ford was actually suffering from dysentery / diarrhea.
it was supposed to be a whip vs sword duel.
but they were pressed with time beacuse on how hard the scene would be with fords condition so he just said let me just shoot the guy.
Spoilers! *ding
@@GrabaCuppaPodcast impersonating *ding x2*
@@jasonbuckley4118 nah
@@jasonbuckley4118 and food poisoning !
When Cinemasins takes off a sin for logos: A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
Me seeing a -1 to start the video: Hello there!
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14:36 So Bird Box basically
A historical event
@@firedoctor1 So true.
The "don't look at it" plot hole was actually explained in a deleted scene where the old translater told Indy that it was forbidden to look at the contents of the ark.
Was it deleted? I could’ve swore I seen it when watching the movie.
@@nonameman7114
Deleted? Sounds like a giant dick move since people would actually understand what is going on with this bit of information.
@@nonameman7114 I'm sure it wasn't deleted. I remember seeing that scene at the theater.
You'd think something important like that would've been included in the movie
NEEEEEEERD *ding*
JK lol
In case you missed it in the movie, the floor of the map room has many holes to account for time of day/year. Indy has notes that tell him which hole to use. Not a sin at all.
I concur. After a rewatch, not only does Indy consults his own notes about the map room, he brushes the floor to examine it because IN THE HEIROGLYPHICS there is a symbol that suggests the rod has to be placed there for the light to go through it (it's the match stick with the wavy lines - I used to be a linguistics student so it made sense to me at the time) and he realizes Belloq had used the staff in the same place somewhere before but had made the wrong calculations due to the length of the staff used.
lol
Huh, I always assumed the time of year would affect it too. Clever find! I think it was such a good movie that they struggled to sin it and just took what they could find.
Yeah but why is the character Indy so short?
It's a CALENDAR. This also erases the other sin of 'it hits the map room at different times every day'... that's what the different holes were for. Indy was looking up the right hole to use for that date to place the staff.
“Always overdressing for the wrong occasions” -man wearing black 3 piece suit in the desert
I think that might have been the point. There’s a subversion to Spielberg’s films that’s often overlooked.
Lol. Have seen this movie 100 times and never thought of that. Good comment.
Also Indy wearing a leather jacket in the jungle.
J MO same bruh
Double-breasted, too!
They actually tested whether or not a whip could tie itself around a log and support a man's weight on mythbusters, and it was plausible.
plausible usually implies that under certain conditions and with multiple attempts it should be doable. It might be something that could happen but I still feel like it is fairly sinful to have the whip swing work first try.
@@et3182 it’s exactly like throwing knives bro. First try with zero practice it’s absolutely plausible. But after tons of practice and perfecting techniques, it’d definitely have a much greater chance to work.
It is indeed possible. Used to do that in the woods as a kid with a slightly shorter whip than the full length one in the movie. It held really well most of the time, sometimes the branch would break but still stay attached to the whip and tag you on it’s way down.
@@Hypyramid You are aware of the existence of friction, right?
@@Hypyramid Ok then.
The iconic final scene in the warehouse is Spielberg's nod to the equally iconic final scene of Citizen Kane which pans over thousands of the title characters collected possessions until we see the one object that defines the plot and meaning of the film.
"Rosebud"
On a wooden kiddie cot.
Then gets smashed up and chucked into furnace 🔥
To answer a couple of the sins phrased in the form of questions:
1) The Ark of the Covenant is made out of gold when the Holy Grail is made out of wood for two reasons. First, because the makers of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade wanted to be clever and do something about Jesus being a carpenter, so they conveniently forgot the Holy Grail is the cup Jesus drank from at the Last Supper-- a meal which occurred after his arrival in Jerusalem, during which he was said to have been greeted by many followers, and a city in which he had never lived, since Jesus was from Galilee, not Judea-- and which Joseph of Arimathea, the local member of the ruling council who had accepted responsibility for burying Jesus after his death, caught his blood in... meaning it almost certainly wasn't the cup of a carpenter because there's very little chance Jesus lugged a complete dinner set around with him everywhere he went so he could throw impromptu banquets.
Second, it's gold because Exodus 25: 10-16 details how God instructed the Hebrews to build the Ark, and those verses can be summed up as "and God said, let there be bling." It says the entirety of the Ark is either to be made out of gold or completely overlaid with it.
2) There's a deleted scene in which the holy man Indy and Sallah speak to explains the rules of handling the Ark, and in the Well of Souls, another scene confirms Indy remembers this and takes it seriously. However, it's not really necessary to resort to that, because it's already been demonstrated to us earlier in the movie that Indiana Jones knows his Bible very well, and the Bible says God commanded the Hebrews not to do three things with the Ark of the Covenant, on penalty of death-- they could not touch the Ark of the Covenant, they could not let the Ark of the Covenant touch the ground, and they were not allowed to look inside the Ark of the Covenant or upon anything in it.
If you pay close attention, for all he acts like an irreverent cynic the rest of the time, Indiana Jones is obedient to God's commands at all times when dealing with the Ark. He only uses the poles Exodus instructs the Hebrews to use to carry it, and makes sure no one touches the Ark itself. He partially assembles the crate the Ark is to be moved into before moving it from its resting place in the Well of Souls, so he doesn't have to set it on the ground, but rather can set it on the bottom of the crate and build the rest of the crate around it. And third, when they open the Ark and he sees that something is going to come out, he doesn't look and makes sure Marion doesn't, either. That's what he's doing; he's obeying the Bible.
The Nazis, on the other hand, break all three commandments. They set the Ark on the ground when Indy threatens to blow it up, and then again for the opening ritual. They touch the Ark to take the lid off, and Toht, Dietrich, and Belloq all look directly into the Ark once the lid is removed. The rest of the Nazis look at the spirit that comes out.
As for what the spirit is, there are two possibilities, but in all likelihood what you're seeing is supposed to represent a manifestation of God, since no one dies until the spirit shows its face. In Exodus 33, when Moses asks God to reveal His glory to him (in other words, let Moses see what He looks like), God replies "I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name 'The Lord.' And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. But you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live."
Again, that's something Indiana Jones-- who has clearly studied the Old Testament-- would have known.
Either way, it doesn't come out of nowhere, and as others have noted, the pillar of fire isn't Nazi mist traveling to Heaven. It's God cleansing the Earth of all who defiled His Ark and the Covenant housed inside.
The reason why Indy knows the bible really well because of His dad is an royal pain in the ass (Not Sean Connery.Henry Jones Sr) but
Lloyd Owens Henry Jones Sr
He didn’t go to Sunday school.
And all that gobbledygook can be summed up by saying Jones was a scholar who did his research very well.
Damn, man. You really know your stuff. Impressive.
@@dan2007kohn Yeah that is what I was going to say. The pillar of flame is old testiment stuff. It led the way for Jews to escape Egypt in Exodus. Cinemasins is apparently a heathen
The sword guy getting shot scene is literally what I always think of when someone says, "don't bring a knife to a gun fight".
Funny fact : Indy was supposed to fight that sword guy but everyone on set was so sick because of food poisoning that Harisson was like "F this fight scene I feel like I'm about to sh*t my pants, lets just shoot the guy". And they all thought i was funnier and they kept it
@@emiliewttqnd2526 yeah Ford had bad dissentry whilst filming In Egypt and the Egyptian actor who had trained for a whole sword fight was extremley pissed that he didn’t have his screen time extended haha
This movie is truly timeless, never not in the mood for it.
Yes! Adore this movie!
I feel the same with every Spielberg movie
One of my favorite movies of all time
It's a stupid movie where the main character is pointless to the plot I'm sorry but it's true
@@abeharmala8945 Edgy👍
Upon rewatching the opening scene, I noticed something pretty funky. I can imagine a lot of people missed this, but in the beginning of the movie, there are two very prevalent bird sounds. The first is a kookaburra, which is a common trope when it comes to rainforests in movies. However, it is endemic to Australia and New Guinea and should not be in South America. The second bird call that sticks out to me, happens right after the dart scene (the dart they found in the tree). It is the call of a willow ptarmigan... which is native to the tundras of Canada and Scandinavia.. they also should not be there.
Yep, I got that... Kookaburras in 'South America.' That's not right😂 they're are Australian native birds.
Jonathan, good ear! They do that a lot in movies.
@@iknowuare4716 Yes?
Good ears!
And Spielberg would’ve gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kid
"This situation with Marion requires further explanation!"
"Right, so ten years ago, when Indy was 26 and Marion was 15-"
"Further explanation not required!"
So bad the FBI shows up before the FBI is even created
@@danielseelye6005 They made time travel to resolve that
All right cinemasins, this time you have gone too far. You have no right to sin a clasic like this. I hate your channel but I don't like geting yelled at in the comments. Screw it... Cinemasin fukin sucks. They arn't pardoy of satire, thats just something they say to deflect criticism. Plus most of there sins are things they think are wrong with the movie, and most of the time they are wrong about the things they try to criticize. If you want proff of this go watch Th3birdmans cinemasins videos. You can't have 80 percent of you sins be "real" and have the rest of them be bad jokes. If you like cinemasins thats fine. This is America after all. BTW sorry for spaming but if I did't almost no one whould read this. You can yell at me in comments for spaming, I'm fine with that.
@Freedom FighterTheir actual ages don't really matter. Think about all those movies/shows with mid-20's playing teenagers: If they're playing teenagers, then they are teenagers. Marion Ravenwood was supposedly in her mid-twenties for "Raiders" and she was a teenager when she was with a 20-something Indy.
As for the statutory rape; yes it was illegal at that time but I think it's safe to infer that Professor Ravenwood, after finding out about his protege "schtupping" his jailbait daughter, ran Indy off and kept it quiet so as to preserve her reputation (and his for letting this happen under his nose.)
@@busimagen I've heard people say Marion was 13, I've heard people say 14, I've heard people say 16. It makes it more salacious if Indy was having sex with a underage girl; her being the daughter of his mentor just adds that extra skeeviness to the background of the bar scene.
The particulars are irrelevant since, as you have stated, it is not explicitly stated in the movie how old Ravenwood was at the time of her relationship with Indiana. The big problem is the idea that he took advantage of her naivete as well as her "hero worship" coupled with his betrayal of his mentor by banging the professor's daughter. Couple that with her willingness to be with him at the end of the movie and their subsequent child popping up in "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and you get people throwing fits in modern day.
The Marion tent sequence wasnt about Belloq trying to get her drunk to get her to talk. It was about Marion drinking him into a stupor so she could escape. She's not a damsel in distress. (its why the scene of her outdrinking other drunks was there to begin with.)
Yeah, but she still doesn't escape, so nothing comes from it anyway.
@@johnjsal not every plan works. That’s the point of the scene. You try, you fail. In fact, every plan works then fails. In the beginning, Jones gets the artifact but then belloq gets it. He stops the nazis from getting the medallion but then they made a replica, Indy stops the truck but then it explodes, Indy finds the ark but then belloq finds him and takes it, the scene we talked about, Indy destroys the plane but then the ark goes on a truck, Indy grabs the ark and put it on a ship but then the nazis attack it. Indy gets in the submarine and gets a rpg but gets outnumbered. Usually in movies, plans mostly fail just to have another plan, that’s how you make a story.
@@andreimcallister1365 you the real mvp
I don't understand how someone could not get this.
Plans are useful but ultimately useless
The 5 foot tall staff, per the movie's own rules about the staff height, towers over Indy.
must be french feet
This was one of the first gaffs I ever noticed in a movie, and it continues to bug me to this day. And it could have been fixed by simply changing one word: “but, *ADD* one Kadam, for the Hebrew God, whose Ark this is”. Staff goes from 5’ to 7’... Technically, still not as long as the staff shown, but at least it is closer to the right height...
I noticed that a long time ago too. I'm surprised Jeremy didn't sin it.
@@Wolf359inc Not to mention the fact that Sallah is Egyptian and he would probaly translate the Kadams in meters not in inches and when i saw this movie i was still a kid so i was confused. 72 inches is about 182 cm and 62 inches(one kadam removed)is about 158 cm and the stick is way longer then Indiana Jones.
Just assume Indy is a dwarf.
1:35 Honestly I have to agree with that. Characters with funny dialogue and quips between each are great sometimes, but watching a stoic character doing what he does best can be even better.
Mythbusters showed it was plausible a whip could grab a branch long enough to swing on it.
Regarding the "I was a child..." line, it's as creepy as it sounds. During the story breaking sessions, where Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan sat down to work out the story, they came up with the idea of Marion having been a young teenager she and Indy had their affair and that's why Indy fell out with Marion's father. They talked about what age she might have been and they ultimately decided to keep it vague but they were considering her being around 13 or 14 with Indy having been in his early 20s. The "I was a child" line and a line during the exposition scene about Indy and Ravenwood having fallen out are the only parts of the idea that survived.
Speaking of the story breaking sessions though, there's transcripts available for them online that are really worth checking out. They work out the story, the characters, action sequences (including some like the mine cart sequence that ended up in Temple Of Doom) and it's a fascinating read. Just google "Raiders Lucas Spielberg and Kasdan story session transcript" or something like that. It's not hard to find.
Yeah, both Raiders and Temple of Doom strongly suggested that Indy had done a lot of questionable stuff in his past. (And that whole business with Nurhachi's ashes is beyond sketchy.) That's one reason I'm not the biggest fan of Last Crusade. Turning Indy into a literal boy scout and smoothing down his rough edges made him less interesting as a character, imo.
So, there's about a decent 10 yr age gap between the two. Huh. Neat.
So basically, Indy should be a registered sex offender.
Jeez, when you put this info together with what actually happened in real life between Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher during the filming of Star Wars a few years before this movie, this just gets really uncomfortable.
Don't know if anyone'll get this, but now I'm going to have Gypsies, Tramps, & Thieves stuck in my head. Heehee.
I mean the original tablets of the commandments are hand written by God, then Moses chucked them at people and God made him rewrite them.
So to answer your question, yeah most people prefer to protect the original cut and not the cover song.
All right cinemasins, this time you have gone too far. You have no right to sin a clasic like this. I hate your channel but I don't like geting yelled at in the comments. Screw it... Cinemasin fukin sucks. They arn't pardoy of satire, thats just something they say to deflect criticism. Plus most of there sins are things they think are wrong with the movie, and most of the time they are wrong about the things they try to criticize. If you want proff of this go watch Th3birdmans cinemasins videos. You can't have 80 percent of you sins be "real" and have the rest of them be bad jokes. If you like cinemasins thats fine. This is America after all. BTW sorry for spaming but if I did't almost no one whould read this. You can yell at me in comments for spaming, I'm fine with that.
@@gamerdude4534 you aware you replied to a comment and not in general comments, dood?
@@gamerdude4534 Are you a spambot, or is Birdman paying you? Seriously, what are you getting out of this?
@@obinnaonyeije not a bot and I'm not geting paid just spreading what I belive.
@@gamerdude4534 Learn to spell.
If you sin Temple of The Doom, you should make a bonus round every time Willie's screaming
As an Indian-American, Temple of Doom should start with 1000 sins for the all questions I got if people in India eat snakes and monkey brains...
In truth, yeah, there probably are people that do, but not like THAT.
@@nahor88 That movie was all sorts of problematic.
@@nahor88 That can't be right, a forty year old man told me that all Indians eat snakes. He even gave me a bit to eat. I don't think I liked it very much, because it made me feel very sleepy. I didn't see much of that guy after that...
That would break the Sinometer, its not calibrated to go that hig
That is a brutal drinking game. Another brutal drinking game is from Lord of the Rings. Everytime Legolas says something obvious and pointless everyone has to take a shot.
The Steven Spielberg Das Boot joke works on several levels, because that’s ACTUALLY the submarine from Das Boot.
I was so hoping the part where Jones Shoots the Sword Man Got A Sin Removed
It got 3 🤠
...and taken off with no comment, because we all know why.👍🏼✌🏼
fun fact that scene was improv. Harrison ford was just super sick and decided to do that (if im correct).
This is one of the best and most original movies ever
@@froggobonano Yeah I believe he had heatstroke because of the weather and the long hours.
@@ew6483: Not just heatstroke, but food poisoning. They were picking actual, baked-in flies out of the bread.
Regarding the "sun changes every day" thing: you're right, but that means that the series of holes on the floor has dates on it and you place it based on the date. That's why there isn't just one hole. So take off that sin.
That also explains why Belloq used a different hole when he set it on a different day, and thus the sand over the place Indy is using. So...two sins off of your sin tally.
Huh, never thought of that. That's pretty smart.
Thanks. If I didn’t find this comment, I would’ve mentioned it. I used to explain this part to my kids. There’s a calendar on the floor.
All that is true...but you'd still have to be in the room during the right month, if not the right week. The sun moves 46.7° laterally between December and June in Cairo, or about .25° per day. The sun's angular size is roughly .5°, so it moves about half its width laterally every day of the year. (Yes, I'm aware this is an oversimplification as the rate of lateral movement isn't constant, being fastest near the equinoxes, and slowest near the solstices.) The floor appears to have 30 rows of 12 holes in which to place the staff. That would indicate that the sun will pass through the hole in the ceiling only 12 days every six months. The staff would have to be moved left or right to align directly with the sun, one hole each day, to catch the light as it does.
Since the sun is also moving vertically across the sky at 15° per hour, the staff will have to be moved toward or away from the map depending what time of day the medallion is being used. If we calculate the angular size of the hole in the ceiling, we can figure out how long you have each day use the map, and which hole you have to use. The formula for angular size is: Angular Size = (object size * 57.29)/distance. The hole appears to be about 4 feet across, and the medallion on the staff appears to be 15-20 feet away from the hole. So, we can plug those numbers into the equation and get an approximate angular size for the hole between 11.5 - 15.3°, in relation to the medallion on the staff. That means the sun will only shine through that hole for one hour, at most, during the 12 days the sun is aligned laterally with the hole. That means each row of holes is only good for about 2 minutes each of the 12 days the sun is aligned laterally with the hole.
So, there's really no need to remove those sins at all...because for this map can only work for a total of 24 hours each year, divided into one hour per day increments, for a total of twelve consecutive days every six months.
@@frocat5163 NEEEEERRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!
You dont think any of the writers here are intelligent enough to grasp what most people saw on the first watch when they were like.. 10, 12 years old?
The holes on the map room floor are what day to use. Thats why belloqs was two ahead of Indy
EXACTLY! The movie actually did a good job of putting the info there for you to find if you were obsessing about that sort of question.
I'm surprised I didn't notice that!
I was waiting for someone to point that out.
The tent/Marion sequence is totally important!, are you nuts? It sets up the contrast to with Well of Souls sequence. It reveals a lot about Belloq's character, Marion's character, the rivalry between Indy and Belloq, and there is also the payoff from the drinking competition in Marion's bar.
The ending scene is practically the premise for the Syfy show "Warehouse 13," one of my favorite TV shows of all time.
I'm rewatching the series right now!
Finally, I’ve found someone on the Internet who loves that show! It’s one of my favorites too
There are dozens of us
@@OrionMelodyMusic weren’t you outraged when SyFy cancelled it
@@matthacker3481 I know I was. The writing quality dipped a bit, in my opinion, in Season 4, but Season 5 came back strong... then it was over.
4:25 "That was Very Darude of that sandstorm." That actually got me laughing hard.
I was looking for this comment!! 🤣🤣
Darude of a sandstorm: Priceless! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sapito is "little frog" in spanish, indie was probably making fun of him.
Making fun of the guy that just died.... Indy is a savage
Actually it's little toad :p
It would be even more ironic if Indy called him "pequeño pulpo."
Not the first Spielberg credit flub. Donald Dubin in Minority Report was credited as Donald Doobin in the end credits.
Maybe he was a French kid when Indy met him.
If the swordman HAD actually fought Jones, cinemasins probably would’ve said something along the lines of _”you have a gun, just shoot the motherf*cker already”_
“You Americans always overdress.”
-guy wearing a 3 piece suit in an ancient crypt
All right cinemasins, this time you have gone too far. You have no right to sin a clasic like this. I hate your channel but I don't like geting yelled at in the comments. Screw it... Cinemasin fukin sucks. They arn't pardoy of satire, thats just something they say to deflect criticism. Plus most of there sins are things they think are wrong with the movie, and most of the time they are wrong about the things they try to criticize. If you want proff of this go watch Th3birdmans cinemasins videos. You can't have 80 percent of you sins be "real" and have the rest of them be bad jokes. If you like cinemasins thats fine. This is America after all. BTW sorry for spaming but if I did't almost no one whould read this. You can yell at me in comments for spaming, I'm fine with that.
@@gamerdude4534 please stop spamming. Who cares. Birdman only defends movies that he likes. Where’s EWW CS: The Room, Birdemic, Cats, Shrek 3, Spies in Disguise, and The Grinch huh? Sinning the movies with jokes doesn’t make any sense but the Nostalgia Critic, TheUnusualSuspect and Dartigan does him and they are fine. Go back to your Echo-chamber defending a shitty movie that you like.
@none ....and that was the joke!
@@gamerdude4534 Nobody cares
@@gamerdude4534 Birdman himself states at the beginning of virtually every movie that he loves cinemasins and is just poking fun. You’re just a salty fanboy with no capability of critical thinking.
I’m surprised he didn’t mention the guy in literal blue jeans and a white tea shirt at 6:25
There's a bunch of guys with no traditional head coverings (keffiyeh, shemagh, etc.) sitting in the same area, jeans guy stands up and walks out. Guess the crew was taking a smoke break together.
If you look closely you can see camera men around the set, some of them look out of place. It’s like doing where’s Waldio in a movie.
Well Jeans have been around since the 1800's....They became more common and popular in the late 50's and 60's but they were around in the 40's and 30's....also White T-shirts have been around for a long time as well.
@Connorshark We have confirmation that the cast can be seen in multiple shots. The props director is the most obvious, since he's not even hiding.
One thing that stuck in my mind for decades was the "undue weight" given to Abner Ravenwood. He's established as an important character in the Army Intelligence briefing, we're told he's the expert on Tanis and not a Nazi -- the latter detail is the sort of thing you only bother to mention if the person is going to actually appear in the movie. Then Indy goes off to Nepal to find him, but Marion just tells him Abner's dead, and that's it. Then, decades later, I finally watched/read some making-of stuff on the movie, and found out Abner WAS supposed to be in the movie, that Indy would find him in Nepal with Marion, but then he'd get killed in the gunfight. Now it makes so much more sense...
The Indiana Jones movies are the perfect combination of action, adventure, mystery and comedy. The last one was not in the same category of the first 3, but it was still fun to watch.
The last one actually holds up well… just watched it last year
@@Grandizer8989 Holds up well and fun to watch, but not very memorable.
The sword scene where he shoots the guy was Ford's idea. He and the crew ate some bad food and got dysentery so they were constantly running for the bathroom. Ford said to Spielberg, "I have a gun, I can just shoot him." The scene was originally designed to be this huge fight. Anyway after they shot it, they loved it so that is how it was put in the movie and became one of the most iconic scenes up there with "I think you are going to need a bigger boat." The sword guy was pretty pissed off though becsue he had practiced a huge scene and it was literally cut from the movie.
Moses was upset about the golden calf because his people started worshipping it, not because it was golden.
It was a joke =P
Right? Jeremy's so hot and bothered about the Hebrews missing the point that he, ironically, completely misses the point of the golden calf - it was a warning about worshiping false idols. Casting the ark from gold is completely different as that was made out of worship to the true God of the Hebrews.
The calf and the ark could have been made out of marble, wood or any other material and the point would have been the same.
Yeah I didn’t realize how much of this movie doesn’t make sense if you weren’t raised in the church lol
@@drewcassibry8267 in his review of The Book of Eli, Jeremy says he was a preacher's kid, so even if he's not a Christian anymore theres really no reason he wouldn't know this stuff.
The calf was made of gold BECAUSE they worshipped it. The Ark being gold implies the same thing. They were placing undue respect on the Ark. That's why you're not supposed to worship angels, popes, or Mary. Making it gold is akin to sacrilege even not considering the greed implications. That's why there aren't many, if any, golden statues of Christ.
"I was a child! I was in love! It was wrong and you knew it!"
Even in 1981 this should have sounded bad! XD
Yeah, apparently Lucas was in a meeting with Spielberg and Kasdan and ran the idea past them, and they thought the idea of Indy seducing a fifteen or sixteen year old added some interesting moral ambiguity to his character. Then Lucas explained no, no... he meant Indy seduced her when she was like twelve or thirteen.
Then Kasdan said you could hear a pin drop as he and Spielberg exchanged worried glances before they explained that while audiences will put up with a less than virtuous hero, such as one who was a womanizer, they simply would not tolerate a protagonist who was an out-and-out child molester, and convinced him to make Marion older.
You have to admit, though, Lucas's version goes a lot farther towards explaining Abner's utter hatred for him.
To quote my brother when his daughter was that age, "if I ever caught anyone doing that to Cheyenne, I'd tear his arm off and beat him to death with it."
@@AndiGravity It makes my head hurt!
As far as morally ambiguity goes you'd think they could have just acknowledged Jones was a looter of precious archeological sites!
which he ALSO deflowered... omg... was THAT Lucas' angle? Ruining pristine sites to steal it's greatest treasure?
As a palate cleanser: Did you know Indiana Jones was based on a famous archeologist/looter by the name of Giovanni-Battista Belzoni? He was a dynamite first. questions later sort of fellow.
@@AndiGravity Oh the 80's. I always thought she meant she was a college freshman. I choose to continue believing that.
@@noneuklid -- Yeah, and I'm not accusing the man of anything here, but after finding out this behind the scenes from Spielberg and Kasdan and then the prequel trilogy, it does sort of leave you wanting to say "gee, George, you keep, uh... you keep circling back around to this idea of falling in love with a little kid and eventually getting all romantic with them. Is there something you feel like you need to tell... you know what? Never mind.
When you have as much talent as you do, we just all agree not to notice as long as you keep your hands to yourself. We'd just all like to say we're sorry for giving you shit about the prequel trilogy. We were wrong. We know that now. Could you film a _Stellar Battle Campaign_ trilogy for us? Maybe something set several years after the conclusion of an interstellar conflict between an oppressive government regime and a Rebel All... Resista... Insurgent Federation?"
@@AndiGravity That's not quite how it comes off in the transcript of their Story Conference. It's a foolish idea in the first place, but it also passes quickly. indiefilmhustle.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-story-conference-transcript/
One of my favorite movies of all time. I grew up watching it repeatedly, again and again and again.
"Satipo" is the name of a city in Peru and would be a weird name for a person. "Sapito" means "little toad" in Spanish, and I can easily imagine it being used as a nickname. Even though Satipo is the official name, I think Sapito fits better.
indiana actually knows alot of local customs, slangs, etc from different countries. so a toad being a "hopper' , meaning someone that jumps around switching teams, is an accurate insult he would do just to kind of rub it in.
Cinemasins: “Don’t put things on your eyelids!!”
People who wear eyeliner: 👀
Pretty sure ink is different
@@iGaveLiaHIV wasn't it just eyeliner? and even if it was a pen or ink, as long as it doesn't go into the eyes it's all fine. I mean so many women and men use eye-make up daily and it's no problem whatsoever.
What about fake eyelashes? Some of them look like leaf rakes ffs...
Eyeliner of that period probably was pretty dangerous!
And nowadays really long stupid ass eyelashes 🤦
The "Snakes on a Plane" reference got a LOL out of me. Gotta give you credit for that one.
"This needs a LOT more explaining than it gets."
Indiana met Marion and had a sexual relationship with her when he accompanied her father on an archeological dig in 1925. She was born in 1909 so she would have been either 15 or 16 years old, depending on exactly when she was born and when the two met. Indiana was 10 years older than her. When they were coming up with the story Lucas suggested that the relationship to begin at age 11 but after Spielberg objected and Lucas suggested 15. Then Spielberg wanted Marion to be promiscuous and "come on" to Indiana.
The age of consent in Illinois (where Abner Ravenwood, Marion's father, lived in 1925) was 16 (it was 10 years old in the 1880s). So, depending on her exact age the relationship could be either statutory rape or just very inappropriate if it had taken place in Chicago.
However, it's much more likely that the relationship took place on the expedition in the Middle East or Southwest Asia and the age of consent (if there even was one) was undoubtedly much lower.
There! Now you have the whole backstory.
Thanks! I wish I didn’t
Harrison Ford (33/34) had a sexual relationship with Carrie Fisher (19/20). Although Carrie was a few years older than Marrion, it's still ironic the similarity between Harrison and Indy.
*However, it's much more likely that the relationship took place on the expedition in the Middle East or Southwest Asia and the age of consent (if there even was one) was undoubtedly much lower.*
How would you know? That's quite an assumption to make is it not?
@@Gzilla313 what does Carrie fisher have to do with anything I wish people like you would stop bring up this irrelevant stuff about star was up Carrie fisher and Harrison ford were both adults period it was total legal karen allen character marion ravenwood was 15 years old and underage when Harrison Ford's indiana Jones was 25 and they had sex the first time together which is disgusting and illegal
@@dorisbove2210 lot of people defending pedophilia
i just realized something: the reason indy puts the staff in a different hole then Belloq is because that grid of holes is basically a calendar telling you where to put the staff on the corresponding day. this brings up another issue with how the astronomical placement of the sun and the hole on earth would be very different 5000+ years apart. but still very impressive detail in the movie.
Ok the “ this romance is gunna produce a kid named mutt” really got me hahaha
Indy was the dog's name however.
6:15 "Im surprised this sword guy didn't shoot Han first".
Boo
Funny
Boo AND funny! :-D
@@harrisontucker8397 Are you saying "Boo" or "Boo-urns"?
He should’ve said “maclunkey”.
The "Don't look at it!" isn't completely out of the blue: when we see a picture of the ark at the start, the Jewish people have their eyes closed. It's one hell(!) of a leap to make the connection, but it was there.
Also, in 1 Samuel 6:19, it says: "But God struck down some of the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy of them to death because they looked into the ark of the Lord." (NIV) Having studied the lore surrounding the Ark, and having seen the supernatural shenanigans surrounding this adventure, it makes perfect sense that Indy would tell Marion not to look at the thing. Just like he told Sallah not to touch it, since the Bible indicates that God will kill anyone who touches it.
2 Samuel 6:6-7, "When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had stumbled. And the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God."
1 Chronicles 13:9-10, "When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark, because the oxen had stumbled. And the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, and He struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God."
@@frocat5163 I seem to recall also there is a deleted scene where this is covered (or at least was planned to be in the film)
Also it destroyed the cameras right before, which clued Indy into the fact that it didn't want to be seen (or filmed)
Foreshadowing trope
You missed one. At 2:07 he carries a small bag of sand that's supposed to match the weight of the golden idol. The problem is that gold is twice as heavy as lead (per unit volume) and even heavier than uranium, so certainly a lot more than a small bag of sand half filled with air. The gold idol has twice as much volume as the bag so it should be roughly six times as heavy. If it's two litres in volume (my guess) then the idol would weigh 88 pounds. And he threw those 88 pounds across a 12 foot gaping hole during his escape. P.S. The raw material value of that golden idol at today's prices would be $2.3 million. P.S. Was the lazy eye on the idol done intentionally to make it look creepy?
Its hard to believe but that ending scene with the ARK actually spawned a great TV Show Warehouse 13.
Dude, I miss Warehouse 13, that show was amazing. The Librarians was similar to it, miss that one too.
The Ark is clearly described in the Bible-
The Book of Exodus gives detailed instructions on how the Ark is to be constructed. It is to be 21⁄2 cubits in length, 11⁄2 in breadth, and 11⁄2 in height (approximately 131×79×79 cm or 52×31×31 in). Then it is to be gilded entirely with gold, and a crown or molding of gold is to be put around it. Four rings of gold are to be attached to its four corners, two on each side-and through these rings staves of shittim-wood overlaid with gold for carrying the Ark are to be inserted; and these are not to be removed.[12] A golden lid, the kapporet (translated as "mercy seat" or "cover") which is covered with 2 golden cherubim, is to be placed above the Ark. Missing from the account are instructions concerning the thickness of the mercy seat and details about the cherubim other than that the cover be beaten out the ends of the Ark and that they form the space where God will appear. The Ark is finally to be placed under the veil of the covering.
Also, the Golden Calf was wrong not because it was made of gold, but because the Israelites worshipped it - a false god.
Also also, the Holy Grail is a Christian myth, while the Ark is Jewish.
"wait, THAT's his burn?"
no, his burn is on his hand
That's a burn about a burn. That's a second-degree burn!
He should have been called Mr Burns
I was saying boo-urns
@@agalah408 But he looks more like Smithers.
I applaud this thread. 👏
The thing with Belloq and the fly...I heard somewhere that it's actually a literal frame or two that's missing, which is why it looks like he swallows the fly - the fly actually flew off.
I believe an editor of the movie made it so it looked like he swallowed the fly.
> This "Don't look at the ark" idea comes out of nowhere. It isn't even hinted at!
Actually, it was mentioned at the beginning, when Indy pointed out that the people in the drawing were looking down and not at the ark. Averting their eyes from god.
Can confirm!
Correct. I understand there was also meant to be an explicit summary of what happens if just anyone looks at the ark and why. I've forgotten though; was that a deleted scene or was it never filmed?
It wouldn’t be a Cinemasins without them being smug a-holes over some plot hole that turns out they just weren’t paying attention and was not plot hole at all.
@@AlexRN also missed:
9:42 "How do they know it's not the arc" because it's not covered wood covered in gold (Exodus 25: 11) "You shall overlay it with pure gold [...]" and again at 10:31 why the ark should be golden sin
10:43 with long wooden rods that fix perfectly... Exodus 25: 14 "And you shall put poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them". The poles with 2 people carring the arc are also visble in the column in Rome commemorating the sack of Gerusaleme by the Romans
@@AlexRN Smug a-holes? I think you're reading too much into it and have extremely paper thin skin
What I appreciate most about this video and the film it breaks down: so many of the sins are done for the sake of good cinema. For example, it's absolutely true that the lighting in Marion's bar that creates the Indy silhouette doesn't make sense, but it's ALSO true that it's a terrific visual shot. Raiders was made as an homage to 1930s serials, and of course those serials were full of goofs and such...thus, Raiders needed to have them to fulfill its mission. It should be appreciated that this is the purpose of CinemaSins: to highlight these things in amusing fashion, NOT to criticize by default. All films have sins, but not all sins are "bad"!
Thank you. IMO it's impossible to know what Indiana Jones and Star Wars are about without knowing who Alan Quatermane (sp?) and Flash Gordon are. They're meant to be fun, not some deep psychological delving of the human condition.
I haven’t heard him this animated in a long time. And it’s nice to see them go back to their original style: genuine sins about visual details and plot technicalities.
2:38 I ALWAYS thought he said: "Adios Stupido" 🤣
He does
6:18 "I can't wait for the inevitable George Lucas Special Edition where he makes the Swordsman shoot Indy first."
And all the South American tribesmen are replaced by Ewoks!
@@jimb.7523 And all of the Nazi's guns were replaced by Walkie Talkies
@@jimb.7523 And the word "Nazi" has been changed to "person with differing political ideology"
Poor Harrison Ford does not deserve that. Not twice!
My brother and I couldn’t get enough of this movie when we were kids. “No movie is without sin” but this one comes close!
Except for the fact that Indiana Jones had 0 outcome on the movie
@@chrismorgan6472 He found the Ark.
juicev25 the nazis would have found the ark opened it up and all died. Just like what happened
@@chrismorgan6472 Weren’t they digging in the wrong spot?
juicev25 if Indiana Jones wasn’t in they would Have gotten the medallion and dug in the correct spot.
I love the naming of different movies that "The Sorcers apprentice "Alfred Molina had been in
I’m surprised he missed the extra in modern day clothes (jeans and white t-shirt) walking in the back of the shot when Indy is drinking his sorrows away - 6:25
Definitely worth a few sins!!
Jeans were invented in 1873 and t-shirts were issued as a standard under garment for sailors by the US Navy in 1913, so this is totally plausible.
Hah! Never heard of that one. Now I can't unsee it 😁
CS: "That was very Darude of that sandstorm"
Me: I wonder how many of these I do not get xDDD
Made me laugh out loud.
All right cinemasins, this time you have gone too far. You have no right to sin a clasic like this. I hate your channel but I don't like geting yelled at in the comments. Screw it... Cinemasin fukin sucks. They arn't pardoy of satire, thats just something they say to deflect criticism. Plus most of there sins are things they think are wrong with the movie, and most of the time they are wrong about the things they try to criticize. If you want proff of this go watch Th3birdmans cinemasins videos. You can't have 80 percent of you sins be "real" and have the rest of them be bad jokes. If you like cinemasins thats fine. This is America after all. BTW sorry for spaming but if I did't almost no one whould read this. You can yell at me in comments for spaming, I'm fine with that.
@@gamerdude4534 I never understand people who criticize long running series's on TH-cam, you've obviously watched enough to make up your mind about it, and that's fine, it's absolutely your right to not like something. So stop watching it, it's an on demand service so no-one is forcing you to. When people do this it looks to all that they are purposely setting out to write something negative just for the sake of writing something negative.
I'm not having a go at you as an individual, I'm just curious what it is you expect when you do something like this, are you seaking confirmation from others with the same outlook as you?
@@J4M3ST1T3 I never understand people who think an apostrophe is used to form a pluralized word. Are people trying to change English on purpose?
@Lando Lastname: yeah very amusing
The screewriter is truly sorry, Jeremy. He meant "South America, Earth"
14:44 Indy's familiar with the requirements for Rabbis to be purified before approaching the ark. He knows he and Marion are not purified, and therefore should not presume to look upon the opened Ark. Old Testament 101.
Yes, but I feel a throwaway line explaining that somewhere in the story would’ve benefited the movie’s climax and how Indy knows that
When CinemanSins "Doesn't read the book" before sinning movie adaptations, does that include the Bible for this movie? The Holy Grail was a workman's cup because Jesus was poor, but the Bible has very detailed instructions for making the Ark of the Covenant out of gold, including specifying the winged creatures you see on top. His point about the Golden Calf is a pretty significant misunderstanding.
Not everyone has read the bible 🤷♀️
FYI: Jeremy is a preacher's kid.
@Freedom Fighter I don't recall anything in the Biblical account of the Ark's creation indicating Aaron was the one to build it. I'm not saying you're wrong, just noting that I'd never heard that. The design of the Ark in this film, though, is fantastic...specifically because they made it look a little more Egyptian than later-era Hebrew/Jewish. It's attention to detail like this, even details that most people won't spot or recognize, that exemplifies why modern movie-making has taken such a turn for the worse.
@@kayar-s7713 Y'know Albert Einstein read it and had said some very interesting things about it.
Yeah the background Biblical knowledge that he references throughout this video is pretty contradictory to his normal "The books do not matter" rule, and that's coming from me as a Christian
6:24
A regular guy walks part on set
(Left side)
i'm surprised he didn't sin it or even point it out
You beat me to it!
Damn, I never noticed that!
Dang I never noticed that!
You missed the bit where somehow Indy survived the voyage in or on the submarine. Either:
- It dives at some point, leaving him to drown,
- It stays on the surface, leading to the crew spotting him on the empty deck
- Or Indy somehow gets INSIDE the sub, in which case he'd have been either spotted and caught, or in a disguise already.
I think the sub did not have to dive as diving makes it go slower, at that time Germany wasnt at war yet to need to hide from anyone. So he probably sat on top until it began docking and hopped off and swam underwater the last bit
@@NoNo-kj4ce There is a deleted scene of him holding on to the periscope . So I guess you are sorta right for what they intended in the movie but opted to edit out.
I always just imagined he slipped in through a torpedo tube .
he lashes himself to the periscope with the whip.
@@Mk101T he ties himself to the periscope with the whip, its in the script,novel, and comic.
@@davidlindsay9564 Ahh thanx for the clarification. And of fricken course the whip is in there. One of my favorite aspects as a 10 year old kid when this movie came out :)
Indy: "Take this. Wave it at anything that slithers."
CinemaSins: "This is a very dangerous thing to say to a woman you have a sexual past with."
LMAO
A very big sin you should add: When Indy hitches a ride on the U-boat, does the U-boat stay on the surface the whole time? If that's the case normally a crew member or two would be on the conning tower to help guide the boat and act as lookouts. If not, how did Indy survive hanging on the conning tower under water? If he got into the boat wouldn't somebody see him? It's not like a U-boat is a luxury cruise ship with plenty of places to hide. *DING*
surprised the sudden R2D2 and C3PO in the ark room glyphs didnt get a sin
princess Leah was there too.
How about Indy showing up in a snowstorm in the Himalayas wearing only his leather jacket, button-up shirt (with the top two buttons open) and fedora? And how about Marion besting a Sherpa in a serious drinking contest involving around 20 shots, but after he keels over, she's completely sober? And there's no way that little town in Tunisia is Cairo. Even in the 30s it was a metropolis and had several centuries' worth of monumental architecture.
Indy removes his parka and toque outside in order to woo Marion with his casual machoness
Theory: Marion is (somehow) completely impervious to alcohol. Her drunken stupor before was just for show.
@@pvanukoff Would be a handy skill to have, though it'd suck if you wanted to catch a buzz ;)
@@valmarsiglia -- This is something that runs in my mother's side of the family. I never questioned the drinking scene because I've seen my mom out-drink men twice her size dozens of times.
And you're kind of right. It's extremely difficult for us to get drunk. We just start to feel relaxed (which is not a natural state of existence for us).
It does have its drawbacks, though. You should see the ungodly amount of anesthetic dentists and doctors have to pump into us to numb us out because our bodies just slough the stuff off.
It always bugged me that the supposedly "lost" Well of Souls was apparently easily accessible through that side wall right next to the Nazi airstrip/small military base and nobody bothered to look in there.
Or the fact that there were a gazillion mummies there which would probably have got some museums or private collectors wanting to buy them. Failing that some guy desperate for Mummy Brown could buy them as "supplies".
The "Speed of a Man" dart lobby Sin. I've thought about this, and it seems the traps were made for somebody progressing into the room, not running out of the room. Somebody walking into the room would step on the brick then the dart would launch into him as he moved forward. Indy knew this, of course.
Its about time!!
But i cant believe you missed the Wilhelm Scream during the truck chase.. and the extra/crew member in t-shirt accidentally being seen in the background! 6:24
Huh, so Indiana Jones did it before the Mandalorian, funny. 😆
I always thought he said “adios stupido.” Like he was stupid for trying to run away with the idol.
One of the things I appreciate most is the true appreciation of the craft shown by taking OFF sins where warranted. Cinema Sins is here to protect a sacred art form!
He also likes to spew his leftist, lib- btard democrat and femboy rhetoric
7:15 sin rebuttal: Isn't that what the giant grid of holes is for? I assumed as a kid that that was a puzzle but the way Indy casually finds the hole he needs would indicate it is much more basic. So the slots on the grid are to account for the different angles of the sun for the time of day it hits the map room. The time of day ("about 9 in the morning") would stay relatively consistent varying by minutes and not hours (plus the Egyptians probably used the sun to tell the time so it would always be the same "time" when the sun hits the map room) Further proving this idea,, the hole Indy needs is completely obscured by sand, while a hole a little bit away (a few days earlier) is clear i.e. the nazis cleared the sand from their slot and it filled the ones around it. It would also explain the hieroglyphs in the center, as each one would correspond to an Egyptian month or something similar.
Underrated comment dude
THEY must have switched baskets. The line is "THEY must have switched baskets."
And J.J. Abrams borrowed the idea and turned it into TWO SHIPS that we thought Chewie was on... #ZoetropeFilmTropes
"100" isn't the number of sins, it's this movie's score on the final exam.
It’s the rotten tomato score
The way you can hear him smiling throughout this fills me with joy
Indiana Jones series in a nutshell : sin 1 sentence: Too good to be true.
The Ark of the Covenant also contains Aaron brother of Moses’ budded staff and a jar of manna, there’s your unnecessary fun fact for the day 🙃
also... if i remember correctly didn't Moses BREAK the tablets? would have been rocks in there instead of sand.
God rewrote them to make sure we got them correctly. He also said to put a jar of manna in it as well. People couldn’t look inside because of our sinful nature and we can’t see God. He sent Jesus to fix our relationship with Him that’s why we no longer need the ark or the holy of holys.
1:30 that was proved by Mythbusters to be possible
Yup.
I was looking for this comment
This film was my childhood. I watched it at least 30 times. As a grown up I still love it and it fights with The Usual Suspects for the top spot.
You should do everything wrong with The Hunchback of Notre dame. Glad that my comment got this many likes this movie is great and it deserves to be sinned.
Yes please
As long as there aren't any sins on Hellfire. Awesome song!
@@jessicareutercastrogiovann5796 HELLFIRE HELLFIRE...
@@jessicareutercastrogiovann5796 if he does do Hunchback and doesn't take sins off for Hellfire, I'll unsubscribe.
@@jessicareutercastrogiovann5796 Agreed.
According to the late William Goldman, action-adventure is one of the hardest genres of movies to make. I agree that everything listed in this video is correctly showing stuff that's not consistent or realistic, but "Raiders" was/is one of the greatest action-adventure films ever made. CinemaSins *can* point out all the "wrong" stuff, and the flick still holds up.
I still "liked" the video. Thanks.
I'm not sure how close the boulder was to getting Dr. Jones, but it was on a roll.
LOL, nice!
Ba-dum ttsss
Dang, that joke rocks!
Mork pushed it... we know he was tight with the boulder!
I’m watching this movie for probably the 100th time and it never gets old. The older I get the more I appreciate how good it is but the more I notice it’s little flaws. The main love interest of the protagonist dies in a fiery explosion, and one of his best friends says “life goes on”. Like really?
I really hope Thursday's sins video is The Grinch (2018), that way you'll have successfully sinned all three Grinch movies.
Or Mickey's Christmas Carol for another Christmas Carol movie sins.
I always interpreted the holes to represent the day/month/whatever, which allows for accurate placement of the staff.
That is a really good and reasonable theory
*I gotta wonder how long it took location scouts to find a mountain for both "Raiders" and "Last Crusade" that would fit a fade from the Paramount mountain...*
South Park movie did the same...
The book of Exodus describes Ark of the Covenant in great detail: its exact dimensions, the type of wood it was carved out of, that it was covered in gold overlay, the position and pose of the two angel statues on the lid, the rods used to carry it, etc. The prop ark they built for Raiders is actually a very accurate recreation of the ark as described in the Bible.
She's 25 years old when Indy comes back from leaving her 10 years ago, you do the math of why she says she was a child in love
How do we know she was 25? Serious question.
@@stephenh5944 Stephen Spielberg and the other guy that made the film had a discussion about how old she should be, they were even considering making her younger when he reunites with her in the bar
@@palerider1313 - Right, but there isn't anything explicitly said in the movie that tells us that.
Indiana Jones and the Statutory Rape
"Don't put anything on your eyelids"
So like I dont remember the scene well but.. um... theres so many things you can put on your eyelids, such as an eyeliner that could also have written that
Yeah like it's not like they didn't have eyeliner in the 30s. Eyeliner goes back to ancient Egypt. 🤷 It blows my mind how utterly oblivious men are to how makeup works.
So to write a message on your eyelids, you would have to close one eye while you write it reversed in a mirror using the other eye. Hold while the eye liner dries, Then swap eyes and do it again. They should be taking a sin off for effort!
Gotta say, as a Christian, I love how you handled the Biblical aspects of this movie! It's hard to do without expressing your own beliefs, but you knew your stuff and managed to steer clear of the religious debate at the same time. Kudos to you!
As a movie lover, I've always loved the scene where Indy just shoots the sword guy, so I'm very glad to see that sins were taken off there. It makes me laugh every time.
He shot him because he had diarrhea and couldn’t stand up much lol
About the aesthetic design of the ark. In the Old Testament there’s a fairly detailed description of what the ark looked like, so they were replicating that description
Two things.
First, that new intro is cool as hell.
Second, that's the first time I've seen a negative sin count at the start...
Was gonna mention that.
Has there even been a CinemaSins that starts out in the minus?
Really surprised you didn’t bring up the fact that Indiana Jones somehow managed to stowaway on a submarine A. Without being noticed and B. Somehow got onboard when it was about to dive, meaning the airtight hatches would’ve been closed and locked.
6:16 Fun Fact: this scene was meant to be one of the longest fight scenes, but he had a really bad fever so he improvised and mad this scene
I thought they figured it was to similar to something they already had and the fight got too long, so they went for this instead. It's a fun Harrison Ford moment, much like "I love you" - "I know" from ESB.
A fever? He had the shits.
When I was a kid I was actually scared to look during the ark opening scene because I thought my face would melt
The silent sin removal after the sword guy is hilarious
I actually always thought Indy said „Adios stupido“ in the escape at the beginning.
"Shoplifting." That woman never lifted that shop! Nor could she. Lol.
Bah dum tss
All right cinemasins, this time you have gone too far. You have no right to sin a clasic like this. I hate your channel but I don't like geting yelled at in the comments. Screw it... Cinemasin fukin sucks. They arn't pardoy of satire, thats just something they say to deflect criticism. Plus most of there sins are things they think are wrong with the movie, and most of the time they are wrong about the things they try to criticize. If you want proff of this go watch Th3birdmans cinemasins videos. You can't have 80 percent of you sins be "real" and have the rest of them be bad jokes. If you like cinemasins thats fine. This is America after all. BTW sorry for spaming but if I did't almost no one whould read this. You can yell at me in comments for spaming, I'm fine with that.
Are you assuming her preparedness to lift a shop?
@@jeffreyhejny7522 only Hulk could lift a shop lol
@@thomaslance5428, Maybe She-Hulk, but the Hulk is a weakling who couldn't lift a fly.
Just finished watching this movie and I noticed a huge mistake. In the scenes where Indy is fighting the buff mechanic and Marion gets trapped in the cockpit, she originally is stuck in the cockpit with the dead pilot and controls to fly the plane. In the following scenes, we see her in the other cockpit with the machine gun shooting at the truck full of nazis. Indy even tries to save her the first time from that cockpit but fails. Once the mechanic is dead and Indy finally goes to save her again, she is back in the original cockpit with the dead pilot and airplane controls. Seen this movie probably 20+ times and can't believe I'm just now noticing this.
Good catch..and I doubt she could’ve crawled thru the plane like you can in a bomber…
The 2 cockpits are connected.
Wait... a removed sin for logos? *Thats impossible!*