Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark- First Time Watching! Movie Reaction and Review!
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The scene where he shot the swordsman is when Ford was very sick and didn't feel like doing the scripted swordfight so he just ad-libbed and shot the guy. Lol
I read that Spielburg felt bad for the other guy cause he practiced really hard for that fight scene too, lol. So I think he was also cast as the fighter that gets hacked up by the plane (and/or he's a baddie in Temple of Doom as well).
@@vodengc520 Pat Roach plays the German soldier here and the dude in Temple of Doom, but not the sword fighter.
I guess amazing then that the guy fell down and pretended to be shot.
Close, but not quite how it happened. Harrison had dysentery and couldn't perform the choreographed fight scene. Steven Spielberg, after a bit of back and forth, sarcastically commented: "What do you want me to do? You can't just shoot the guy..." The idea of which elicited chuckles from the crew. Steven then decided to do it exactly that way.
Also, there's a scene where when Indy has just entered the map room and Sallah gets caught by some Nazi guards. There's a scripted scene where Sallah is supposed to get executed by a Nazi guard. While shooting the scene, director Steven Spielberg tells John Rhys-Davis (Sallah) to bend down to match his eye line with the camera. But Davis was sick like Indy, becuase at that time, all the cast and crew (Except for Spielberg) got food poisoning from eating the local foods. And as a result, when Davis bent down as instructed, he DEFECATED in his costume in front of 200 crew members. But he didn't actually care since he was so sick.
Karen Allen, the actress playing Marion, created her own backstory.. including the idea that she had a romance with Indy when she was 16-17.
The time period is also a factor. A man in his twenties being in a relationship with a teenage girl wasn't the average, but it wasn't as taboo as it is today. Some girls even got married as young as sixteen. It doesn't make it any better, of course. It just explains the historical context.
Here is the actual transcript of the brainstroming session of the creepy old men who created this shit:
Lawrence Kasdan: I like it if they already had a relationship at one point. Because then you don't have to build it.
George Lucas: I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.
Kasdan: And he was forty-two.
Lucas: He hasn't seen her in twelve years. Now she's twenty-two. It's a real strange relationship.
Spielberg: She had better be older than twenty-two.
Lucas: He's thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve.
Lucas: It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time.
Spielberg: And promiscuous. She came onto him.
Lucas: Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it's an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he...
Spielberg: She has pictures of him.
The original post makes a lot more sense than the "actual transcript" conspiracy theory. A transcript, really? So you're saying somebody was hired to type out every conversation. Marion says, "I was only a child." 18 is a child to me. Indy says, "You knew what you were doing." Doing what? Maybe all they did was kiss. Sure, what is implied here is a little creepy, but I find it more likely that the filmmakers tried to humor Karen Allen and her made-up backstory (and keep it vague) rather than them just throwing in arbitrary statutory rape stuff just for the fun of it.
@@BrianNIL No the transcript is real. There was no typist, but there were recordings and it was typed out for a book many years after the fact. Not sure if that specific conversation thread happened though.
@@TheGeorgeD13 thanks for the info. Ultimately, the dialogue in the finished product is too vague to draw any conclusions except to say they seemed to have an inappropriate relationship on some level. This seems at odds with the Indy character who seemed annoyed (to the point of escaping) with the attention he received from his young female students. Whatever the case, Marion saying she was just a child should have been cut.
"no time for love Doctor Jones"
The actor who plays Sallah, John Rhys-Davies, also plays Gimli in the Lord of The Rings movies.
Wow, I can't believe I didn't know that.
I know....... and fun part is that John is the tallest of the fellowship.... and he plays a dwarf 😂😉
I actually met him twice at my local Sci-Fi convention. Once in 2012 and once in 2015. I even have a picture to prove it. Very nice and funny man.
More importamtly, he was on tv show Sliders.
@@lottelarsen2918 The funny bit about him being the tallest - is that the actors playing the principal 4 Hobbits (Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin) are slightly under 6 ft on average while Davies is comfortably above 6'2 or so. Which - when you have JUST Gimli and the Hobbits in the same shot (or in the same composited element of the shot) the heights actually work out quite well in that Hobbits are supposed to be somewhat (but not radically) shorter than Dwarfs. So it was less time needed to block forced perspective trickery, replacement small actors or use CGI.
The whole Marion being a child thing is not literally. Probably around 17. Which in this time period is nothing. But I always took it as Indy was the first guy she fell hard for and ended up having her heart broken and she blames him for that. She never forgave him and doesn't want to admit to herself that she is partly to blame. As he says "You knew what you were doing." Which I can believe seeing how tough she is, running a bar, drinking people under the table, punching Indy etc. I picture her as the type of woman who sees what she wants and goes after it. Though of course maybe she was a different woman back then when she first met Indy. Just a sweet innocent little girl (not literally) as she implies. But I always read into the tone of her voice that she's exaggerating her innocence and the way he hurt her out of anger and part of that anger is actually towards herself for being naive and believing back then that she could have made Indy stay with her, instead of going off on more adventures and leaving her behind. That's how I've always thought of it and that's how I strongly believe it was intended. Of course everyone else can interpret it how they like.
17 is nothing even today as the age of consent in most of the world is around 14-16.
Yeah, Eric was unhealthily hung up on an assumed worst case scenario.
A bit cringy really. (Hope he gets better)
I always thought Marion as in her late 20's/early 30's which would mean Marion and Indy's age difference wasn't that great. Their relationship was probably inappropriate but not illegal.
@4:55, a bit of fun trivia: they shot this scene in Tunisia and it was supposed to be a very long and spectacular sword fight. But Harrison Ford was sick as hell with a bad case of dysentery and he suggested this change in the script. For the best.
Oh, come on now - a 16 year old like Marion in that environment wasn't a child and he wasn't a rapist just because he was a few years older than her. They had a fling and he was maybe a bit of a player since she fell in love and he didn't (or at least he left her behind). Besides, you're assuming the age of consent at that time in that place was 18 and that's a very modern American take. It's not even 18 across the board in the US.
And not even across the western world. Where I am it is 16 when the older party is above 18, and 14 when the older party is below 18. Which makes total sense since 16 is the earliest age by which you can graduate from school and start applying for a full time job.
To everyone who is hand-waving away the fact Indy was an abusive creep and Marion was a literal child... here is the actual transcript of the brainstorming session between the creepy old men behind this movie.
Lawrence Kasdan: I like it if they already had a relationship at one point. Because then you don't have to build it.
George Lucas: I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.
Kasdan: And he was forty-two.
Lucas: He hasn't seen her in twelve years. Now she's twenty-two. It's a real strange relationship.
Spielberg: She had better be older than twenty-two.
Lucas: He's thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve.
Lucas: It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time.
Spielberg: And promiscuous. She came onto him.
Lucas: Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it's an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he...
Spielberg: She has pictures of him.
@@zammmerjammer Source? Always name your souces when transcribing or quoting something.
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Your reaction to the dude getting killed by the propeller was the best part. "I was only joking!" I can't wait for you to review Last Crusade. It's one of my all-time favorite movies!
I think when Marion said she was a child when she was in a relationship with Indiana, she meant more emotionally not literally a child. I think Marion was in her late 20's or early 30's (Karen Allen was 30 at the time) so she was probably in her late teens or early 20's when she was with Indiana. Still young but not an actual child.
The novel of the film said she was 16 when they first got together
Sadly, she was in her mid-teens. Indy is a scumbag.
Well okay then. Guess I was wrong. Scumbag it is.
@@victorsixtythree It's weird how it didn't seem weird at the time. That's partially why I like seeing these films through younger eyes. They catch stuff that I didn't realize was there.
Not every time and place had the same mores as our society today. Historically and in many cultures today, a relationship between persons the ages of Indiana and Marion wouldn't have been thought improper.
THE FIRST 3 ARE GOLDEN GEMS OF CLASSIC FILMAKING. SIMPLY BRILLIANT. HAVE A GOOD EVENING SIR ERIC
Even Temple of Doom is a classic, and I dont even like that one!
@@ThatSlowTypingGuy FUKKIN' SHORT ROUND & KALI-MAH SHOK-TE-DE.
@@thefatman2780 You call him Doctor Jones!
Some of the best movies of all time
@@thefatman2780 the ONLY good parts of temple of doom
I think the idea with the Marion/Belloc scene was that she was playing him until she got a chance to get away. We'd already seen in her introduction that the woman can hold her booze, so she played at being stupid-drunk until Belloc actually was, at which point - well, you saw what happened.
The actress was already 30 when the film was released, so say her character was 29 in the film, then she would still have been a young adult a decade earlier. So, that she claimed to be a child might not literally be that she has been one. Which makes me rather confident, then there was no rape implied, hell they do not even say they had sex.
Drudenfusz I always assumed it was figurative not literal but that she was still young impressionable and Indy should have known better.
2:55 I always wondered why he didn't just run the other way. I literally just realized it's because the purpose of the boulder is that it blocks off the only entrance. He woulda been stuck in there!
Karen Allen was 30, or close to (at least 28-29) at the time of filming. I was always under the impression she was about 17 when Indy (at somewhere between 20 & 25) had their previous relationship and that she liked to exaggerate how young she was while beating him over the head with it.
About the statutory rape thing, there was a different social perception on sex 100 years ago. Age of consent laws are actually a relatively new concept in contemporary culture. It wouldn't have been statutory rape 100 years ago.
He's referring to the writers' decision b/c the movie was made in the 80s.
@@jp3813 It doesn't matter when the film was made; it's still set in the 1930s and Indy and Marion's affair took place in the 1920s. You don't shoehorn modern values into a period piece when the social values were night-and-day.
@@rustincohle2135 That's the idealist's mentality, while the realist acknowledges that the time period in which a movie was made tends to influence its content. The film itself avoids straight out saying Marion's age, and they even cut out a scene in which it's implied that Indy slept w/ one of his students (hence he's wearing a robe when Marcus went to his house).
You've been watching all the classics of my childhood :3
Your reactions are very thoughtful and well-spoken, thanks for making and posting these, man.
Okay...I'll be the first to say 'WHAATT?? You've NEVER seen Raiders??" ...and I'll also be the first to say..."Well....it IS thirty-eight freaking years old!" LOL.
victorsixtythree I’ll be second 😁 I have seen it so many times I lost count!
I came here to say this.
Then I just felt old.
This makes the reaction alot more interesting.
The scream you commented on at 9:42 when the guy fell out the back of the truck is the "Wilhelm Scream". It's a stock scream that is in every Indiana Jones movie and I think every Star Wars movie! (at least the numbered SW episodes)
You watched RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and half your review was accusing him of rape because of a questionable age difference you don't know for certain. We're done.
Indy was an abusive creep and Marion was a literal child.
Here's the original transcript of the brainstorming session between the creepy old men who created this movie.
Lawrence Kasdan: I like it if they already had a relationship at one point. Because then you don't have to build it.
George Lucas: I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.
Kasdan: And he was forty-two.
Lucas: He hasn't seen her in twelve years. Now she's twenty-two. It's a real strange relationship.
Spielberg: She had better be older than twenty-two.
Lucas: He's thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve.
Lucas: It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time.
Spielberg: And promiscuous. She came onto him.
Lucas: Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it's an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he...
Spielberg: She has pictures of him.
An absolutely superlative movie. Great music. Great pacing. Amazingly fun action sequences with great story boarding pacing and well.. story. A real charm of a movie. Also the epic feelings and moments.
Have you ever seen Kill Bill? If not, please react to it. It's an action-packed revenge epic directed by Quentin Tarantino.
I second this. Kill Bill 1/2 are some of Tarantino's finest work.
Man, they just don’t make movies like this anymore! Everything now is remakes, re-hashed, re-cast, sloppy seconds. No more creativity or bravery to make something risky and brand new. Harrison Ford scores major with two iconic roles: Han Solo and Indiana Jones. A true legend!
I love that when Indy and Sallah 1st find the ark you can see both R2D2 and C3PO in the hieroglyphics on the wall.
The most genuine reaction I've seen in a while; thank you! The first three Indiana Jones movies are some of those which I kept on VHS.
Marion was 16-17 when they had their relationship.
Which is not strange or controversial at all considering that the age of consent is around 14-16 in most of the world today.
While shooting the plane fight with the Nazi mechanic, Harrison Ford actually suffered an ACL injury when the landing gear wheels ran over his legs. But instead of seeking medical attention from advice of the crew, Harrison just took some ice, wrapped it around his knee, and continued filming.
What a legend he was! :)
Back then, that was not rape. The law about teens needing to be 18 years old to have consensual sex is a more recent law. If the act was okay with both people and she wanted to sleep with him, it was not rape and her age did not matter.
5:24 Huh, I'd never considered the double meaning of that comment, but it makes sense since Indy feels responsible for Marion's death. Nice catch.
@19:40: Marion is very good at drinking games, as shown in her opening scene. Belloq is completely wasted and she is still lucid, pretending to be as drunk as him. She grabs the knife just in case, but he is not a threat anymore so she simply gets ready to exit and bumps into this bunch of nazis.
10: 35 -- one of the times I saw this at the theater, a guy jumped up at this point and herded his family out of the theater so they could get out of the parking lot first. He thought the movie was over. -- Also, at 13:35, the portly guy is the same actor who played Porkins in "Star Wars", Eckhardt in "Batman", and the creepy neighbor in "Hardware." Finally, there is nothing "old" about this movie. It's better than 90% of the stuff being made today.
I didnt realize it was Eckhardt from batman. I recognize it now. "Hey Eckhardt, think about the future"!
Only 90%? I would say better than 98% of today's stuff. This is a good reaction video, but an 8 out of 10 is way too low for this movie. The score (out of 10) should increase if other games, tv shows and movies are constantly paying homage to it (or just stealing from it). I'm not sure how all of the influencing results in a lower score.
Karen Allen hit her break in the film Animal House when she played the role of “Katie”
She also played the role of “Scott Smalls” in “The Sandlot”
I’m seeing your vid. for The Last Crusade, but where’s Temple of Doom?!?
Oh, and Marian is brilliant - she’s totally playing Belloq.
This was a delight! I forget how reaction-worthy these movies are.
2:55 . . . As a child, I thought that at first as well, but then I realized he would’ve been trapped inside, because the stone ball seals the entrance.
The German pilot in the flying wing who gets knocked out by Marion is Producer Frank Marshall!
One thing to keep in mind, this movie came out in 1981. Movies like this and Star Wars from 1977 ushered in a new era of the unambiguously heroic hero. The 1980's would see heroes like Rocky, Rambo and Schwarzenegger...and really even today we're still seeing these type of over-the-top heroic figures in movies. But before this, movie heroes were much less exaggerated. Movies like Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Godfather had "heroes" that were actually criminals (and not the cute Robin Hood, rob from the rich and give to the poor, type heroes, but actual murdering criminals) So, you have to imagine seeing a character like Indiana Jones on screen at the time was something quite new (well, something quite old since it harkened back to the days of swash-buckling heroes of the 1930's).
I think you’re confusing “protagonist” with “hero”
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There’s probably a gazillion comments about this, but at 4:50 Harrison Ford was supposed to have a very physical battle with the guy, but he’d been very sick (and still was). It was about all he could do to just stand there, so instead of fighting, he improvised shooting the guy instead.
He could have ran back to avoid the boulder but the boulder seals the cave when it finishes rolling down the path. He would have been sealed inside if he didnt outrun it.
The reason Harrison Ford didnt like doing the Star Wars movies (and wished to be killed) was because he considered himself a serious actor. In all the Indiana Jones movies, especially in Temple of Doom where hes going under the blood spell his acting is PHENOMENAL!
When Raiders of the Lost Ark came out in 1981, Harrison Ford (Indy) was 38 years old. Karen Allen (Marion) was 30 years old, an eight year age difference. If Indiana Jones and Marion's relationship had been ten to twelve years earlier, that would have made Indiana 28 to 30 years old and Marion 18 to 20 years old at that time. When I originally saw this movie and heard Marion exclaim that she "was just a child" I took it as her saying that she was young and heartbroken not that Indiana Jones was a creepy child molester.
Wow - looking forward to It's A Wonderful Life!
The submarine was borrowed from the film DAS BOOT which was filming in the area at the time. Spielberg asked if he could use it.
With Marion, It was different times. It was an 80's movie set back in the 30's. You actually see quite a few things that wouldn't fly now back then being not thought much about or brushed aside. I've noticed scene writers of the time especially with action movies did write some questionable stuff by today's standards. And this happened a lot with Harrison Ford's characters but also with many other leading men during the 80's. If your interested in taking a deep dive into movie heroic characters of the 80's with major flaws that might or might not have effects of society check out Pop Culture Detectives "Predatory Romance in Harrison Ford Movies" th-cam.com/video/wWoP8VpbpYI/w-d-xo.html it's an interesting look at someone taking an in depth look. If it's something you think might ruin your experience of these movies then don't watch it. But if you can look at it objectively and look at movies as products of there times and still enjoy these movies then I recommend it if you've seen all the Indiana Jones movies from the 80's and Blade Runner. Some people are always on defensive mode so I'm not saying the title of the video is correct or that I share all the same view points as the video. You can still learn from someone who has the opposite view point as you do but still disagree with it. I don't think people in our current world understand healthy debate and making points about why you think something or believe something while also being respectful and agreeing to disagree with their ideas. Too many are quick start saying how someone else is wrong or name call or insulting someone or being openly hostile towards them. Too few know how to articulate instead why they think they are correct or point out inaccuracies in someone else's view in a logical manner.
@paula Well, it ain't like Marion's age was a major factor on how great this movie is. But I do think that Back to the Future would've been attacked by the "if the genders were reversed" crowd if it's a new movie today.
Cursory googling puts Indiana at 27 and Marion at 17 when he left her and her father. Not that young considering it was the 1920s?
Harrison Ford was in his thirties when they filmed this, so not sure where you're getting that. Also, if you read the brainstorming session between Spielberg Lucas and kasdan, they actually did intend for her to have been 12 or so when Indy first slept with her
Muad'dib2288 Harrison Fords age has nothing to do with it? I googled Indiana Jones birthday (and Marion’s birthday) and did the math under the assumption that he left her and her father in 1926 like it says on her page on Wikipedia....
He was born in 1899 and she was born 1909
@@CarlyMcc 11-year-olds, Dude.
8:45 - Notice how the shadow of the stone block bounces like it's made out of something softer and/or "elasticky"?! LOL
All spiders in my house are killed on charges of trespassing.
This film is supposed to be rather rough around the edges. It's a homage to the serial films and pulp adventures of the 20's and 30's, which were all rough around the edges. That is part of its charm. It's at once a homage, a commentary and a silly romp through movie history. Also her comment that she was a "child" is relative. Being 18 to 25 to one in their 30's (which she appears to be in the film) is indeed a child. That's not statutory rape, that's the end of innocence. By the way Karen Allen, who plays Marion, priced herself out of the next two movies, and returned, clearly for a reduced fee, in the last one.
Hel Gar That’s too bad. She would have significantly improved the second movie. Kate Capshaw was a major factor in ruining the second one for me. There were other reasons, of course. But her constant screaming for the first 45 minutes of the film really bugged me.
1:54 That is the actor that played Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2, Alfred Molina.
04.55 probably one of the most famous ad-libbed moments in cinema history. I saw it in the cinema back in 1981 and that moment got a round of applause from the audience.
Not sure why you jump to their relationship involving any sex? Maybe it was just taking advantage of their relationship to get something from her father or something? That's what I took from it years ago when I first saw it. Sometimes, it's whatever you put into it that influences your judgment. I never saw that the same as you describe.
If you were a kid when this came out like me your appreciation at that time would be very high. Fun too see you watch this and Back to the Future. I miss the 80s. Then the 90s came, e eventually graduation and life sucked. The world was better and funnier back then. Things just seemed bigger and funner. More to look forward to. Even to see a movie. Go to the arcade. We had to actually talk to e ch other.
Eric , the film is set in 1936. Marion and Indiana were dating in 1926. Laws and attitudes were different then. He would have been about 25 in 1926, and it was legal to date a 15 year old then. In early centuries, before 1850s., the age of sexual consent was 14 in the USA and UK.
I've also considered that Indy could've dodged under the boulder, but it would probably have blocked his exit
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Alfred Molina: He's a British guy who's played every ethnicity but Chinese
Everyone's missing something that I got the first time I saw the movie...
"I was a child!"
That doesn't mean she was under 18. It means she was emotionally immature. I know women (and men) who are children at 30... 50 even. Him saying "You knew what you were doing" was brushing off her excuse for falling in love with him.
Note the BOY who leaves an apple on his desk
But you have to admit, a man who can instill fear by hanging up his coat is not someone to take lightly.
The Ark is actually in Ethiopia and not Egypt, but it's origin is egyptian because Moses was groomed to be a pharaoh and so he would have known about ancient egyptian magic.
You didn't see a wire on Ford's back. He injured himself and has done so on subsequent films.
It’s just called “Raiders of the Lost Ark” despite what they’re putting on the package these days.
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Happy birthday!
Thank you so much for this fantastic reaction for such a good, good movie!!! I love the Indiana Jones Trilogy and I'm so happy that you are excited to watch the other two, starting with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, then Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. You will love them, and they are even better than this first movie too. :)
For me... the ending was definitely satisfying upon seeing those who were wicked being destroyed by being burned alive, blown up, electrocuted, and by having their faces melted. It was disgusting, but satisfying for sure. Nazis were and are evil, so to see them pay the price for their evil is great.
Now... in the Bible and in Biblical stories, it's known that no man carrying the ark through the desert after it was given to them to carry the Ten Commandments in by God, could even touch it without death being the consequence of doing so. Because the stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were carved upon and therefore the ark itself became sacred relics. In the Bible, there's a passage that speaks of a man who reaches out to touch it, and he is immediately struck down. I absolutely love the history behind the Ark of the Covenant, and the History behind each of the relics shown in these movies are another big reason why I love these movies so much. The history is fascinating.
And in this movie, the power of God that protects the Ark destroyed the Nazis because they were evil and sought the Ark and its treasures for their own personal gain, while it spared Indiana Jones and Marian because it knew they were innocent and did all they could to keep the Ark out of the hands of the Nazis.
Marian and his Arab friend, Sallah were really good characters. I like them a lot. Especially Sallah, who is played by actor, John Rhys-Davies who is also know for many other famous roles such as Gimli the dwarf in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and old TV series called Sliders, which I loved, as well as a number of really old classic movies, and he's a famous voice actor too. Sallah is a fun character and I enjoy John Rhys-Davies in everything I've seen him in.. :)
I love how these movies are set in 1939, at the height of the Nazis power. They were a vile group of people, but for me, it's a fascinating time and era to learn about and to study. And Indiana Jones hates Hitler and the Nazis with every fiber of his being, making him a dangerous man fighting to destroy them in return for all their evils.
And lastly, in regards to your one concern about Indiana and Marian being together ten years ago... Indiana Jones isn't a rapist by any means. When Marian yells at him about her being a child when they were together, she didn't mean it literally. She was just saying she was young and naïve like a child. Plus... if you look up how old Karen Allen who plays Marian was at the time of the filming of this movie, she was actually thirty years old, which would make her character at least that old, perhaps a few years younger at most. And if you take away ten years, it would have made her about twenty years old give or take a few years when she first knew Indiana. And during the filming of this movie, Harrison Ford was thirty-nine years old, which would make Indiana Jones around the same age, give or take a few years as well. So by no means was Indiana Jones a rapist. I hope this makes sense to you. I very highly doubt that either George Lucas or Steven Spielberg would have made the hero of these movies such, when he's a beloved character throughout such classics films that are beloved by so many people, when these movies are quoted in so many shows and movies, as well as bring inspiration for so much.
Overall... I love these movies, and I can't wait for your reaction to the second movie whenever you can get around to watching them, as well as Back to the Future 3!! And I can't wait for your next movie reaction for It's a Wonderful Life! A beloved Christmas classic that I deeply love and have loved since I first saw it when I was a little girl. Thank you so much!!!
I just got a little confused when the notification turned up but only because I forgot that your channel is the only one I turned them on for 🙈🙈 buuut anyways same here; never saw any of the movies 😅
I'm glad you liked it Eric! It really is a true classic!
Just wanted to say for anyone who is like me or not (either VERY or slightly squeamish), when the bad guys are dieing in the end, the producers used wax figures and time lapsed them melting. That is the ONLY reason I was even able watch the clips from Eric's reaction, knowing it WASN"T really a blood-flesh-and bone body spewing guts, and even then I still felt a bit ill. I first saw this when I was around 8, I'm 24 now, and until this reaction, I have never been able to watch the ending "battle" (as if it was even a real battle; the bad guys disrespected and were up against GOD; WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??!!!).
8.47. Look at the shaddow......... The rock jumps 😂😂😂
you're blowing this statutory rape bit out of preportion, the idea is there romance was complicated giving them a strong basis to have alot of angsty emotios toward eachother,
Glad you enjoyed this. I personally wasn’t a huge fan of the 2nd film, but the Last Crusade is almost as good as the original. I’ve never seen Crystal Skull, but I’d assume most people would tell you to skip the final film.
Your mention of the dead bodies being clearly fake reminded me of the movie 'Poltergeist' (also Spielberg) where he used real bones. It isn't clear whether the actors involved knew this but as I understand it there were complaints after the fact.
The Sub is the same one from "Das Boat". You will love "Crystal Skull".
I absolutely love the second and third film in this series. Favorite movies from my childhood. First movie is fantastic but I almost never watched it compared to the second and third.
Karen Allen was 30 when this recorded. When someone says "I was a child" can also mean she was immature when it came to men.
The Holy Grail is in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
Yeah, the statutory rapist aspect gets even creepier if you read the brainstorming session between Steven Spielberg, Lawrence Kasdan, and George Lucas, where they are talking about how cool and edgy it would be if his love interest had been like 12 or something
RE: Statutory. In the 1930s, a love affair was almost always chaste. I know that's a mind blow today but although it happened you shouldn't see the era through a present-day lens. To make love to the vast majority of that generation was to be in a passionate kiss. Remember this was the before the pill era and unwed mothers had a savagely shamed life (even if they married the man).
Wait...you haven’t reacted to the Indian jones & the Last Crusade! That’s the third movie and the 2nd best Indiana Jones movie!
I've never taken Marion to mean she was *literally* a child.
This movie ending is the basis for Warehouse 13.
If he waited and ran under the big ball so he was behind it, it was heading for the entrance to block it, and he had to get out 😉
4:36 well, that confirms your Daemon. :D
Great reaction, thanks! Will you be reacting to Back to the Future 3?
I was so young when this movie came out
The crown jewel of modern Adventure cinema!
still in my top 10 movies of all time i love first Indiana Jones
DDdude When I was 13, I went to a double feature with my aunt & uncle. It was Dragonslayer & Raiders of the Lost Ark.
it was a helluva day 😊
Hey Eric, I have a hunch you might have a real problem with Film Noir and Hard boiled detective tales, the culture was very different in the 30s, I think it's implied that Marion was about 17 and Indiana was in his early 20s, college student. Actually Marion Ravenwood remains the strongest Heroine of the Indy series, she comes back in the 4th film.
Indiana, like Clint Eastwood, is an anti-hero, he's not perfect, was never meant to be perfect, on one could say he's a PC character. He's heavily modeled after James Bond.
I would like to see you react to the first 2 Terminator movies, that'd be awesome!
It's amazing how this is PG
Just checked on Google. She would have been 15 and Indy 17. This would have been in the 1910's or 20's
Admits to not seeing Harrsion Ford in anything outside of Star Wars...
I feel so old. He was such a huge star in my childhood and teens that I literally have seen EVERY movie he was ever in.
If you want two really good movies with him watch "Mosquito Coast" and "Frantic".
Times change. Also in some places the age of consent is 16, hence the joke "15 will get you 20." So if he was in his mid 20s and she 17 that may be in bad taste but not illegal.
The Lord did say, "'nuff said."
The age difference was not looked at the same way at that time dont forget it was 1930's I think and you are looking at it with 21st century eyes. Not saying it was a good thing at all but more common then. Not even sure if they had laws against it at the time.
Here's hoping to more Indiana Jones movies on this channel. And didn't he say he wanted to do the HTTYD series as well?
It's been years since the last time I watched Raiders all the way through, but I had a new thought (new for me anyways) about the ending where the ark is "buried" in the government warehouse. It had been buried for centuries in the lost city of Tanis and a few people in the movie remarked that maybe it was not meant to be found. Yet Indiana and Belloq and the Nazis insist on finding it - and the Ark makes them pay for it when they open it. I had always thought the ending was just showing government bureaucracy unaware of and unable to properly handle the Ark. But maybe the government guys could be thought of as actually protecting the ark by "burying" it in the warehouse so it would not be found, just as it should be. I dunno....just a thought.
Interesting point... If Inaidnna had not interfered with the dig the ark would have been opened in Berlin with Hitler present. Indiana Jones literately saves Hitler's life by involving himself with the ark
Incorrect. The ark would not have been found since the nazis only had half the information off the medallion
great reaction
I want a sequel where the hero does museum heists to steals all the shit Indy has stolen over there years. "This belongs to the people who it was originally stolen it from, not in a museum!"