When they put all the spiders on the assistants back, they just sat there not moving. So the wrangler put a female spider on his back too which made the makes go into a frenzy and creeped the guy out naturally.
Young people today (say, under 50) and many reactors don’t understand that this movie was conceived as a tribute to the B adventure movies and serials that George Lucas loved when growing up. It mimics the breakneck pace, variety, cliffhangers, and carefree gaps in logic of those old films. For example, when Indy says, “I’m making this up as I go,” you folks didn’t react at all. When I saw this in the theater in 1981, the audience roared with laughter, because many of us understood that this was the spirit of those old serials. Those of us younger than George Lucas had seen some of them on TV in the 1960s. The revelation of the Ark’s power was explicitly prefigured early in the movie with the illustration and discussion of the “lightning” (or death ray if you prefer). Your bafflement at the final, iconic scene is because you missed the joke that everyone recognized in 1981. In the years just before this movie appeared, huge controversy had raged concerning excessive government secrecy. It was a standing joke that the government had tons of secrets squirreled away in some warehouse. Audiences then loved that ending.
It does seem like a bit of a throwback to the epic adventure movies. Not too long after the fact, but a little bit. Yet on the other hand a lot of the action sequences and their cinematography and editing look to have been breakthrough and highly influential to the action blockbuster movies that would dominate the '80s & '90s.
I'm not sure this is an age thing, I'm at _most_ a decade older than them and I picked up on all that. I wonder if maybe they're just not all that bright 😅
I find it surprising that many reactors do not pick up on the scar of the headpiece in the hand of the Gestapo guy: That's where the Nazis got the copy of the headpiece. But since they only had the front half, as only the front half had burned itself into the hand, they did not know that their staff of Ra was too long.
If you care to hear the opinion of a stubborn purist, the first movie didn't have Indiana Jones in the title. It's just The Raiders of the Lost Ark. As happens so often these days, the powers that be feel they have to retrofit the title to more associate a popular movie with the franchise that grew from it.
I got nephews and nieces older or around their age that I showed them these films TV shows they already grew up on so it's amazing reactors never grew up on these films I guess like music reactors they must've been sheltered living under a rock.
I like that this movie has horror scenes like the opening of the Ark and the scene with screaming mummies because a movie centering on an archeologist searching for ancient relics in creepy tombs and temples should have a dose of horror in it. It’s a really great movie.
The submarine and the sub bunker are the same ones used in "Das Boot", which was filmed at the same time. I'm not quite sure, but I also think that you hear one of the actors from "Das Boot" over the PA system of the bunker.
Watching their generation watch this stuns me as to how much of the movie is actually lost on them. So many things that were just common knowledge and you would instantly get it. I guess too much of a disconnect of culture and things lost in just a few short generations.
@@NoriMori1992 I'm a Gen Xer when I was a toddler in the mid 70s I picked up alot of stuff in films on TV that I shouldn't probably my brain function differently.
As a long time Spielberg and Harrison Ford fan, this is one of my favorite movies. To me, it will always be just Raiders of the Lost Ark. The "Indiana Jones and the" was added after the sequels were released. Everyone always asks why Satipo tasted the poison. The blow dart was likely coated with snake venom. Venom can be toxic if injected into the tissue, under the skin, or into the bloodstream. It has little to no effect in the stomach. Swallowing a tiny amount wouldn't have harmed him. The call letters on the seaplane at the beginning of the film were OB-CPO. Images of C-3PO and R2-D2 can be seen among the hieroglyphs on a wall in the Well of Souls. The scene with the swordsman was written as a long, choreographed fight scene, but Ford, as well as most of the rest of the cast and crew, had developed dysentery and couldn't stand for more than fifteen minutes at a time. They tried several times to film it as written, but couldn't make it work. So they changed it, and an iconic scene was born. Spielberg originally included the coat hanger gag in his film 1941, but it was cut after it received no laughs during early screenings. He vowed to include it in every movie he made until it worked, and this was it. Ford ad-libbed the line "It's not the years, honey, it's the milage." (not included in this reaction) Spielberg is known for giving his actors permission to improvise. The first sequel (prequel, really), The Temple of Doom, is, in my opinion, the worst of the franchise (though I haven't seen the last one yet). The Last Crusade is at least as good as this one, plus it costars Sean Connery. The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull isn't nearly as bad as the haters say, even though it does costar Shia LaBeouf.
Just FYI - the next three films... Temple of Doom is a prequel, set in 1935 (one year prior) - Last Crusade is 1938, and Crystal Skull is 1957. I love that you called the monkey man, Monkey Man. That's his name in the end credits!!!
Hey Sam & Tristan. I just wanted to give you a little perspective about this movie. George Lucas had just released Star Wars (the first movie - it was later renamed with "the new hope" when the second movie came out), and Stephen Spielberg was doing well after Jaws and ET. They started to talk about what they could do next, and some of their own big influences in movie-making. One thing they both hit on was the serial adventure movies of the forties and fifties. Each month the studios would come out with a new installment of the serial. It was like a single episode from a TV show, where the plot was always that the hero would succeed, get them out of one sticky problem, and the show would end with the bad guys winning again and leaving the heroes in another cliffhanger that they couldn't escape. These were the adventures of that day. And it kept the kids coming back to the theatre month after month for the next installment. These two great film makers decided to put their incredible talents together and create a modern movie based on these old adventure serials. That is why each section of the Raiders of the Lost Ark ends with Indy getting the object again, only to have the bad guys get it back and leave them in another cliffhanger. It was and still is one of the best adventure flicks - ever! Hope this helps.
thats what makes indiana and marcus so honorable in this movie, they just want to get the artifacts for historical significance and he truly does give it allto the museum
Honorable men are always on the side of right, but not all those on the side of right have honor. Indy and Marcus are not necessarily honorable. Indiana will go down in the history as the man who found the Ark, and Marcus who manages the museum will probably be the most famous person to ever be a curator of that museum, and have a wing of the museum named after him. They there's all the money they will get. They could certainly be honorable, or greedy. When your opponents are actual Nazis its easy to look like the hero.
The Elgin Marbles belong in a museum. And they are in one. Ergo they are in the right place. All the British Indiana Joneses say so, so they cannot be wrong. Men of honour, they were.
The first time I ever saw him was in the original 1980 TV miniseries Shogun, where he played the Portuguese sea captain Rodrigues. I found him memorable, and recognized him instantly when I saw him in Raiders.
The German officer Dietrich was played by Wolf Kahler, who played a German General in an episode of Band of Brothers. Paul Freeman, who played Belloq, was the priest in Hot Fuzz Alfred Molina, who played Satipo, was *NOTABLE CHARACTER* in *MCU MOVIE*
That boulder at the beginning was made of many lightweight materials . . . . on their own. But the final product ended up weighing over 600 pounds. Harrison Ford was actually afraid as he tried to outrun it. Hitler and the Nazis were nearly obsessed with the occult and searched throughout the world for artifacts to make him and Germany more powerful.
Yeah, Hitler's astrologer told him that the British/American invasion of France would be at Calais, so the idiot told his generals that the Normandy invasion was just a fake to fool the Nazi army.
One Sunday morning in the spring of 1981, I saw a small ad for a sneak preview of some movie called Raiders of the Lost Ark. The title was weird and then I aw it was by George Lucas AND Stephen Spielberg so I was all in. It was in the middle of the afternoon and the theater was empty except for one other guy who sat down close to the front. I was immediately captivated by this almost as much as I had been for Star Wars a few years before. When it got to the submarine scene I realized that my jaw hurt from being simultaneously hung open in amazement and clenched in dread for an hour and a half! It would be many weeks before advertisements started playing for Raiders, but I spent the entire time up until opening telling everyone I knew what an amazing movie it was.
You know, with the benefit of hindsight... it is HILARIOUS that the guy going into the temple with Indy at the beginning was so heavily covered in spiders... given that... well, the actor would later go on to play Doc Oc in the second Toby McGuire Spider-Man movie XD But yeah, Indiana Jones is one of those characters I really grew up with, and he... may or may not be a significant part of why I wear the kind of hat that I do... I did see this movie, but I watched The Last Crusade much more often growing up, and it wasn't until a fair bit later that I watched The Temple of Doom.
@minnesotajones261 no not series. The autocorrect changed when I typed serial. It's a serial comic based SERIES. Didn't know I had to be so literal. Come on
@@claytonhaag6931 If you know you misspelled it then you might as well edit the original comment. And who said anything about being literal? Spelling things correctly has nothing to do with literalness.
35:3335:3535:4135:4335:4435:4635:4835:4935:5235:54 The purpose of those wooden poles they are using is because no one except the people who made the Ark are allowed to touch it nor look inside it, that’s why they also made those wooden poles so anyone else can hold it in fact there’s a story in the Bible where a man was caring the Ark on a carriage of some sort but the Ark was tipping so the guy tried to make sure it wouldn’t fall but when he touched it he turned into a pillar of salt.
The opening scene is taken from a staple of old adventure movies. One kind of these adventure movies was the "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" type of story: A bunch of unsavory characters must work together to find a treasure, as each only holds part of the information to find it. Along the way, mostly near the end, people turn on each other to keep more (all) of the treasure for themselves. For people growing up with these movies (they were run on saturday mornings on TV during the 1970s a LOT), the opening scene was immediately understandable as the climax of such a story.
You should look up images of old 1930's & 1940's adventure movie posters; it will help you appreciate the VERY PALPABLE nostalgia this film instilled for my late father's generation when released (I'm 61 now).
harrison ford was supposed to have a big choreographed fight scene with the man with the large scimitar. but he was suffering from dysentery during the time they filmed. so he asked "Can i just shoot him?"
Some of Spielberg/ Lucas’ best work. One of the greatest action/ adventure films ever made… decades later, a couple of bad sequels DESTROYED its reputation! Yeah, it’s just a guy with a hat and a whip. You got it
Purpose of the Ark of the Covenant, First it functions quite simply as a chest or box in which the Israelites could carry the Ten Commandments, which were written on stone tablets. On a spiritual level, the Ark also functioned as a place from which Yahweh could speak to Moses and the Israelite priests.
This Movie came out decades before Harry Potter. So the case is more likely the Harry Potter's creators stole it from this Movie; not the other way around as stated early in your critique. Too many special effects, really, in comparison to what passes for Movies today. Really?
This film came out before JK Rowling created the first Harry Potter book. I seen reactors say that when watching Troll saying they took the name Harry Potter from the books and movies I was like are you people stupid she stole the name from Troll.
0:52 Indiana Jones is an archeologist who apparently steals national treasures from other countries, as we see in the first part. 4:15 Tarantulas aren't harmful to humans. Here in Arizona, we like them because they kill scorpions, which can harm humans very badly. 19:18 I remember visiting Cairo at age 15, my biggest memories are seeing the Pyramids from the freeway and smelling the city sewer everywhere.
I’ve actually shared my theory that the reason that man wanted Marian was because of his claim earlier in the movie. “What was briefly yours is now mine.” He wanted to include her in that list. To prove he can take Anything and everything from Indiana when he sees fit to do so. Especially since he realized how much she meant to him. “The girl was mine!” He saw her as a prize against Indiana.
Just as they lift out the Ark out of its sarcophagus, there's a blink-and-you-miss it shot of hieroglyphics with a drawing of R2-D2 and C-3PO in it. Also, the registration of the seaplane is "OB-CPO", as in Obi-Wan Kenobi and C-3PO.
"Raiders of the Lost Ark": An homage to 1930's cliff hanger movies, with enough stunts for THREE such movies. Marion Ravenwood, Indy's equal, who could drink a Neaderthal under the table but was all Woman. This movie convinced a generation of college students to "dig in the dirt" as now-Cool Archeologists. Yep, you could say I liked "Dr. Henry Jones, Jr." from the start.;)
When he shot the sword man on the market place, there was supposed to be longer sword vs. whip fight, and they started to shoot a bit of that. However, half of the crew including Ford came down with dysentery from food poisoning (it was filmed in Tunisia). Only Spielberg was unaffected, as he survived on canned food. Anyway, no one wanted to film a few days of a complex fight scene, so someone came up (who varies on who's telling the story) with "Just shoot the guy!", so that's what they did. John Rhys-Davies called it one of his worst experiences making a film (search for "Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum" to get the whole interview.)
Fun facts: The guy who livked the poison, Alfred Molina, played Doctor Octopus in Spider Man movies. Also, Harrison Ford was the driver of the jeep that Marty grabs on in Back to the Future. He also played the prinicpal r in ET when Elliot sets the frogs free, but it was deleted
Next to Back to the Future, this is my second favorite trilogy (not counting the last two of course). The 3rd one (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the best one in my opinion).
No, the Boulder, which is made of lightweight fiberglass never ran over Harrison Ford. I saw it when it was released. The film was originally called "Raiders of the Lost Ark" but George Lucas thought his audience was stupid and added the words, Indiana Jones to the beginning of each film. He did the same with Star Wars. The first film was actually just titled "Star Wars" but he back and added, "A New Hope". I was 26.
What an idiotic comment it wasnt caled that because george lucas 'thought the audience was stupid".... stupid..... It was a tribute to the pulp adventure features of his and Spielbergs youth which always refererenced the names of the hero along with the title. Indiana jones is a direct tribute to those sereallsed cinematic adventures.
@mikegandalf That's fine and it worked well for the rest of the movies, but most original fans consider it silly and unnecessary to go back and rename ROTLA just so it "matches" the others. It's the same with Star Wars and First Blood.
I already know that I'm going to love this reaction! 😊 Welcome to the Indiana Jones movie series. So excited for you two to watching these movies. The first three(out of the five movies)are my favorites. Fun Fact: 22:30 - 22:41 The script originally called for Indy to have a long drawn out fight with the swordsman. However, on the day of filming Harrison Ford(along with most of the cast)got food poisoning and just decided to have Indy shoot the swordsman instead. And it became one of the most memorable moments in the movie. I grew up with this movie. And back in the day the scene at the end with the face melting used to scare the you know what out of me. LOL! Now it's still gross, but doesn't bother me as much. Up next is "Indiana and the Temple of Doom". Looking forward to the next reaction. 😊
Everybody in the production got sick while filming in Tunisia, which doubled for Egypt. Everybody except Steven Spielberg, who brought cases and cases of distilled water to drink, and ate nothing but cans of cold Campbell's Spaghetti-os, one of his favorite foods.
@user-mg5mv2tn8q - But back then, they were Franco American SpaghettiOs, as Campbell hadn't replaced their name yet(which wouldn't happen until the late '90s).
You're absolutely right. I almost typed Franco-American, because that sounded so familiar with Spaghetti-Os, but then figured I'd better google it to make sure. Google gave me the more recent brand name, not the pertinent one.
This is easily one of the greatest movies ever made. Just a magnificent, non-stop thrill ride. Harrison Ford, and Karen Allen head a stellar cast. Have to give you 'kids' credit, for at least taking the time to see it. A few moments here and there were lost on you, that we Gen-Xers think of as brilliant, but thats to be expected. This is when Hollywood still cared about putting out good product for the sake of art. (God forbid.) Knowing that if a film was well made, an audience would find it. Lucas and Spielberg. They're pretty decent.
@@NoriMori1992 How is that “creepy”? In all honesty it’s pretty common for a student to have a crush on her professor. We’re so woke today, a depiction of that gets called creepy.
The canyon that Belloq, Marion and the Nazis are walking through near the end is the same canyon that R2 D2 was rolling through in the first Star Wars movie just before he was picked up by the Jawas.
The rat in the Nazi Symbol burning off the crate scene was epileptic and had an attack when they were filming. Spielberg thought it added to the scene and left it in.
She wore the nice and Beautiful dress because he asked her to. If I was in her place I would wear it too. I would also, like she did, know that the right thing to do to wear the backless dress properly would be to remove my bra first! The only thing I wouldn't like would be sitting on that flower in the back of her rear end every time I sat down! LOL! I love being able to run in heels. They are the only shoes I wear! I got rid of all of my flat shoes and all of my heels shorter than 4 inches years ago. I also have a range of heels from 5 & a half inches to my Ballet heels, which are 7 inches. I also have Ponygirl boots that have no heels but that put my arch almost as strict as the Ballet heels, which is having to stand or walk on the end of my toes! 😉👱♀️👗👠❤️
33:14 Good to know if wild animals ever attack you outdoors, whoever's with you ahouldn't make a move to protect you. Just joshin' -- but Indy **is** acting in self defense. He didn't choose to go down there
39:20: After reading the Harry Potter books (before watching the movies) I hoped the scene with "Bathilda" in the first of the Deadly Hallows movies would have been something like that. (It wasn't...)😅
There was a tv show on SyFy about the warehouse at the end. It was called Warehouse 13 and it was about all of the stuff stored there. Personally I think the older movies are better than newer movies that are all cgi...and some of that done worse than the limited cgi we had back in the 70's and 80's. We didn't even have internet when this came out.
I thought she had a shoulder and chest bruise but it was a shadow 😂 I discovered you guys while reacting to back to the future. You guys are are witty 👍
Harrison Ford's costar in that movie, Kate Capshaw, is living proof that "Got her job by sleeping with the director" is not a complementary phrase. Apparently a wonderful person off-camera, but she made the world a better place when she retired from acting.
MY God ... today's people have to have a say on everything. Just take it as an adventure movie as it was meant to be and stop having so many stupid opinions as seeing it through today's warped world !
They did that? I didn’t hear any of what you’re claiming they said. And it’s literally a commentary video. Idk what is wrong with you and your upvoters.
We forgive the fake out of Marion's death, even thought it makes no sense, because everything else in Raiders is so good. The score, the characterisation, the chemistry (both between Indy, Marion and Sallah, but also between Indy, Belloq and the Nazis), Indy's unathletic but determined everyman-ness, the ruggedness of the in-camera stunts, the practical effects, the composition of the shots, the sense of humour, the charisma of the leads, the believability of the interactions, and the sheer vim of it all. It makes the incredible credible. It suspends your disbelief. We do not forgive the exact same Chewbacca death fake-out because The Rise of Skywalker has none of those things.
That genuinely doesn't really tell you much. It doesn't tell you what all is going to happen, what role the ark will play, how they'll get it, the tone of the movie, etc.
I always think it's funny to see Americans react to this movie. You're supposed to be so religious, yet very few seems to be that familiar with scripture. I'm an atheist, but know the bible (and how ridiculous it is, but that's another matter). When Moses came down from the mountain with the stone tablets with the ten commandments, he saw that the people where worshipping false gods, got mad and crushed the tablets. So the content of the ark probably would be something like that, but every reactor I've watched think that Jones put "the sand" there, before the chaos starts. Also, although it contradicts itself regarding this, the bible says that you should avert your eyes from godly shenanigans, or else you will die. You should not look at god (although in some sections of the bible it's okay to do it), or angels. And let's not forget Lot's wife who turned to salt just because she looked over her shoulder (It's apparently much worse to do that than to offer your daughters up to be gangra-ed, like Lot did).
At the end its basically wrath of God bottled up in that casket. Because it contained parts of 10 commandments Moses brought back from God to the Jews. You know, those- thou shalt not cheat, steal, etc. While he was gone, Jews turn back to paganism so Moses in anger smashed them. Jews later put them in that casket, and it became like a war banner for them. These are all at the time of this movie well known facts from Old Testament to like 99% of people watching this in Judeo-Christian countries of the west. But it's understandable that young people of today maybe don't have that as clear reference watching what is happening because west is less and less religious, people don't go to church or Sunday School, and I guess education about history of religion in public schools is bad. And it makes sense that if they were made out of stone that it would turn to dust in 1000s of years they were inside. At the end Indy figured it out from that picture at the beginning of a movie that if they look, they will be turned to dust.
Here’s some information about the actual Ark of the Covenant in the Hebrew Bible, the Ark of the Covenant is the large golden chest that carries the tablets the Ten Commandments were written on. In addition to its physical attributes, it was also imbued with mystical and spiritual significance. Some Jews thought it contained the presence of Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, Hebrews 9:4 states that the Ark contained "the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant." Revelation 11:19 says the prophet saw God's temple in heaven opened, "and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple." Hebrews 9:4 states that the Ark contained "the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant." Revelation 11:19 says the prophet saw God's temple in heaven opened, "and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple."
I'm prepared to suspent a lot of disbelief for this thrill ride, but the idea that Indy is dragged beneath and behind a speeding truck, and STILL manages to keep his hat on, is just a bridge too far, for me.
In the old serials, on which this movie is based, the stunt men usually kept their hats on so they didn't have to get their hair styled to match the actor they were doubling for.
so you had no problem with him climbing his whip back onto the truck even though one was shot. The movie is on homage from a Saturday serial adventure for 10 year olds, so lighten up Francis.
When they put all the spiders on the assistants back, they just sat there not moving. So the wrangler put a female spider on his back too which made the makes go into a frenzy and creeped the guy out naturally.
Young people today (say, under 50) and many reactors don’t understand that this movie was conceived as a tribute to the B adventure movies and serials that George Lucas loved when growing up. It mimics the breakneck pace, variety, cliffhangers, and carefree gaps in logic of those old films.
For example, when Indy says, “I’m making this up as I go,” you folks didn’t react at all. When I saw this in the theater in 1981, the audience roared with laughter, because many of us understood that this was the spirit of those old serials. Those of us younger than George Lucas had seen some of them on TV in the 1960s.
The revelation of the Ark’s power was explicitly prefigured early in the movie with the illustration and discussion of the “lightning” (or death ray if you prefer).
Your bafflement at the final, iconic scene is because you missed the joke that everyone recognized in 1981. In the years just before this movie appeared, huge controversy had raged concerning excessive government secrecy. It was a standing joke that the government had tons of secrets squirreled away in some warehouse. Audiences then loved that ending.
The last shot was also inspired by the closing of Citizen Kane where the reveal of "Rosebud" is found amid many items to be destroyed.
It does seem like a bit of a throwback to the epic adventure movies. Not too long after the fact, but a little bit. Yet on the other hand a lot of the action sequences and their cinematography and editing look to have been breakthrough and highly influential to the action blockbuster movies that would dominate the '80s & '90s.
I'm not sure this is an age thing, I'm at _most_ a decade older than them and I picked up on all that. I wonder if maybe they're just not all that bright 😅
@@NoriMori1992 Some people just don't look into the past at all so they have absolutely no idea about it.
They didn't get a lot of things. They're kinda stupid.
Who gives a shit about special effects? 1981 had better movie making than 2024. CG doesn't make a movie better.
Furthermore the special effects look better to me than CG. They look real because it is real.
This movie is ALL practical effects and live stunts. Absolutely amazing.
They had CGI in the Ark opening scene.
I find it surprising that many reactors do not pick up on the scar of the headpiece in the hand of the Gestapo guy: That's where the Nazis got the copy of the headpiece. But since they only had the front half, as only the front half had burned itself into the hand, they did not know that their staff of Ra was too long.
If you care to hear the opinion of a stubborn purist, the first movie didn't have Indiana Jones in the title. It's just The Raiders of the Lost Ark. As happens so often these days, the powers that be feel they have to retrofit the title to more associate a popular movie with the franchise that grew from it.
Just like Rambo
Leprechaun video boxes put Jennifer Aniston on the cover later, too.
I think it was just so the videos of the different movies could be arranged together in store shelves.
@@PaulWinkleAnd Star Wars
@@kevinshelley2803 Star Wars was always Star Wars
It's so weird to me seeing adults not knowing these movies. I keep forgetting I have kids your age and they don't either! Holy hell, I feel old!
You should show your kids the movies!
I got nephews and nieces older or around their age that I showed them these films TV shows they already grew up on so it's amazing reactors never grew up on these films I guess like music reactors they must've been sheltered living under a rock.
I like that this movie has horror scenes like the opening of the Ark and the scene with screaming mummies because a movie centering on an archeologist searching for ancient relics in creepy tombs and temples should have a dose of horror in it. It’s a really great movie.
The submarine and the sub bunker are the same ones used in "Das Boot", which was filmed at the same time. I'm not quite sure, but I also think that you hear one of the actors from "Das Boot" over the PA system of the bunker.
Watching their generation watch this stuns me as to how much of the movie is actually lost on them. So many things that were just common knowledge and you would instantly get it. I guess too much of a disconnect of culture and things lost in just a few short generations.
I'm not sure it's an age thing. I'm at _most_ a decade older than them and I picked up on all that stuff.
@@NoriMori1992 I'm a Gen Xer when I was a toddler in the mid 70s I picked up alot of stuff in films on TV that I shouldn't probably my brain function differently.
10:03 - That joke is cleverer than most people realize..."eye" love you. 😆
Thank you!! I’ve been wondering if someone would point that out. I love that joke. It made me and my mom laugh so hard.
By the way, the actor who licks the poison in the beginning of the movie, is Doc Octopus in Spiderman movies.
Alfred molina was great in this movie even with a short-lived role in the film
Loved him in "Maverick" too.
He's a total weirdo.
The South American tribal people used protein-based poison on their darts, not harmful if swallowed.
@@albertjimeno807 Looks whose talking.
As a long time Spielberg and Harrison Ford fan, this is one of my favorite movies. To me, it will always be just Raiders of the Lost Ark. The "Indiana Jones and the" was added after the sequels were released.
Everyone always asks why Satipo tasted the poison. The blow dart was likely coated with snake venom. Venom can be toxic if injected into the tissue, under the skin, or into the bloodstream. It has little to no effect in the stomach. Swallowing a tiny amount wouldn't have harmed him.
The call letters on the seaplane at the beginning of the film were OB-CPO.
Images of C-3PO and R2-D2 can be seen among the hieroglyphs on a wall in the Well of Souls.
The scene with the swordsman was written as a long, choreographed fight scene, but Ford, as well as most of the rest of the cast and crew, had developed dysentery and couldn't stand for more than fifteen minutes at a time. They tried several times to film it as written, but couldn't make it work. So they changed it, and an iconic scene was born.
Spielberg originally included the coat hanger gag in his film 1941, but it was cut after it received no laughs during early screenings. He vowed to include it in every movie he made until it worked, and this was it.
Ford ad-libbed the line "It's not the years, honey, it's the milage." (not included in this reaction) Spielberg is known for giving his actors permission to improvise.
The first sequel (prequel, really), The Temple of Doom, is, in my opinion, the worst of the franchise (though I haven't seen the last one yet). The Last Crusade is at least as good as this one, plus it costars Sean Connery. The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull isn't nearly as bad as the haters say, even though it does costar Shia LaBeouf.
Connery added a lot to The Last Crusade, especially the improvised line, "She talks in her sleep." James Bond to the end.
Just FYI - the next three films... Temple of Doom is a prequel, set in 1935 (one year prior) - Last Crusade is 1938, and Crystal Skull is 1957. I love that you called the monkey man, Monkey Man. That's his name in the end credits!!!
Hey Sam & Tristan.
I just wanted to give you a little perspective about this movie.
George Lucas had just released Star Wars (the first movie - it was later renamed with "the new hope" when the second movie came out), and Stephen Spielberg was doing well after Jaws and ET. They started to talk about what they could do next, and some of their own big influences in movie-making.
One thing they both hit on was the serial adventure movies of the forties and fifties. Each month the studios would come out with a new installment of the serial. It was like a single episode from a TV show, where the plot was always that the hero would succeed, get them out of one sticky problem, and the show would end with the bad guys winning again and leaving the heroes in another cliffhanger that they couldn't escape. These were the adventures of that day. And it kept the kids coming back to the theatre month after month for the next installment.
These two great film makers decided to put their incredible talents together and create a modern movie based on these old adventure serials. That is why each section of the Raiders of the Lost Ark ends with Indy getting the object again, only to have the bad guys get it back and leave them in another cliffhanger.
It was and still is one of the best adventure flicks - ever!
Hope this helps.
thats what makes indiana and marcus so honorable in this movie, they just want to get the artifacts for historical significance and he truly does give it allto the museum
Is indianana my grandmother from India?
Honorable men are always on the side of right, but not all those on the side of right have honor.
Indy and Marcus are not necessarily honorable. Indiana will go down in the history as the man who found the Ark, and Marcus who manages the museum will probably be the most famous person to ever be a curator of that museum, and have a wing of the museum named after him. They there's all the money they will get.
They could certainly be honorable, or greedy.
When your opponents are actual Nazis its easy to look like the hero.
The Elgin Marbles belong in a museum. And they are in one. Ergo they are in the right place. All the British Indiana Joneses say so, so they cannot be wrong. Men of honour, they were.
Indiana is stealing artifacts from other countries to take back to the states.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 What? You got to stay off the drugs.
Indy´s friend, Sallah, it´s played by John Rhys Davies; who also played the dwarf Gimli in Lord of The Rings trilogy.
The first time I ever saw him was in the original 1980 TV miniseries Shogun, where he played the Portuguese sea captain Rodrigues. I found him memorable, and recognized him instantly when I saw him in Raiders.
The German officer Dietrich was played by Wolf Kahler, who played a German General in an episode of Band of Brothers.
Paul Freeman, who played Belloq, was the priest in Hot Fuzz
Alfred Molina, who played Satipo, was *NOTABLE CHARACTER* in *MCU MOVIE*
@@user-mg5mv2tn8q I also remember him in Shogun he played in alot of films and TV I like in the 80s and 90s.
That boulder at the beginning was made of many lightweight materials . . . . on their own. But the final product ended up weighing over 600 pounds. Harrison Ford was actually afraid as he tried to outrun it. Hitler and the Nazis were nearly obsessed with the occult and searched throughout the world for artifacts to make him and Germany more powerful.
Yeah, Hitler's astrologer told him that the British/American invasion of France would be at Calais, so the idiot told his generals that the Normandy invasion was just a fake to fool the Nazi army.
One Sunday morning in the spring of 1981, I saw a small ad for a sneak preview of some movie called Raiders of the Lost Ark. The title was weird and then I aw it was by George Lucas AND Stephen Spielberg so I was all in. It was in the middle of the afternoon and the theater was empty except for one other guy who sat down close to the front. I was immediately captivated by this almost as much as I had been for Star Wars a few years before. When it got to the submarine scene I realized that my jaw hurt from being simultaneously hung open in amazement and clenched in dread for an hour and a half! It would be many weeks before advertisements started playing for Raiders, but I spent the entire time up until opening telling everyone I knew what an amazing movie it was.
Just called RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
You know, with the benefit of hindsight... it is HILARIOUS that the guy going into the temple with Indy at the beginning was so heavily covered in spiders... given that... well, the actor would later go on to play Doc Oc in the second Toby McGuire Spider-Man movie XD But yeah, Indiana Jones is one of those characters I really grew up with, and he... may or may not be a significant part of why I wear the kind of hat that I do... I did see this movie, but I watched The Last Crusade much more often growing up, and it wasn't until a fair bit later that I watched The Temple of Doom.
These are based on the cereal comics from back in the day. Real down and dirt, nitty gritty fast paced like you already assessed. Good stuff guys...
Series, not cereal.
Corn Flakes comedy?
@minnesotajones261 no not series. The autocorrect changed when I typed serial. It's a serial comic based SERIES. Didn't know I had to be so literal. Come on
@@claytonhaag6931 If you know you misspelled it then you might as well edit the original comment. And who said anything about being literal? Spelling things correctly has nothing to do with literalness.
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The fly did actually fly away but Spielberg thought it was a funny idea to cut away a few frames there.
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Those men digging with Indy are Sallahs men.
52:45 actually he’s dressed like a jewish priest from the time of the Ark.
In the Bible it is forbidden to look or touch what is inside the Ark of the Covenant. Any who does dies, that is why they had to keep their eyes shut.
35:33 35:35 35:41 35:43 35:44 35:46 35:48 35:49 35:52 35:54 The purpose of those wooden poles they are using is because no one except the people who made the Ark are allowed to touch it nor look inside it, that’s why they also made those wooden poles so anyone else can hold it in fact there’s a story in the Bible where a man was caring the Ark on a carriage of some sort but the Ark was tipping so the guy tried to make sure it wouldn’t fall but when he touched it he turned into a pillar of salt.
The opening scene is taken from a staple of old adventure movies. One kind of these adventure movies was the "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" type of story: A bunch of unsavory characters must work together to find a treasure, as each only holds part of the information to find it. Along the way, mostly near the end, people turn on each other to keep more (all) of the treasure for themselves. For people growing up with these movies (they were run on saturday mornings on TV during the 1970s a LOT), the opening scene was immediately understandable as the climax of such a story.
You should look up images of old 1930's & 1940's adventure movie posters; it will help you appreciate the VERY PALPABLE nostalgia this film instilled for my late father's generation when released (I'm 61 now).
harrison ford was supposed to have a big choreographed fight scene with the man with the large scimitar. but he was suffering from dysentery during the time they filmed. so he asked "Can i just shoot him?"
24:30 24:31 24:31 24:32 24:33 24:33 24:33 24:34 24:34 24:34 24:35 24:35 24:35 24:36 24:36 24:37 you know that actually is true the Ark is used is used to communicate with God.
Some of Spielberg/ Lucas’ best work. One of the greatest action/ adventure films ever made… decades later, a couple of bad sequels DESTROYED its reputation! Yeah, it’s just a guy with a hat and a whip. You got it
Purpose of the Ark of the Covenant, First it functions quite simply as a chest or box in which the Israelites could carry the Ten Commandments, which were written on stone tablets. On a spiritual level, the Ark also functioned as a place from which Yahweh could speak to Moses and the Israelite priests.
This Movie came out decades before Harry Potter. So the case is more likely the Harry Potter's creators stole it from this Movie; not the other way around as stated early in your critique. Too many special effects, really, in comparison to what passes for Movies today. Really?
This film came out before JK Rowling created the first Harry Potter book. I seen reactors say that when watching Troll saying they took the name Harry Potter from the books and movies I was like are you people stupid she stole the name from Troll.
The guy who betrays Indy in the first scene is played by Alfred Molina, who was absolutely nuts in Boogie Nights.
One of my fave movies ,huge indy fan
Indiana Jones, the Lara Croft of the 1980's 😉
No doubt about it!!!
Who's that?
0:52 Indiana Jones is an archeologist who apparently steals national treasures from other countries, as we see in the first part. 4:15 Tarantulas aren't harmful to humans. Here in Arizona, we like them because they kill scorpions, which can harm humans very badly. 19:18 I remember visiting Cairo at age 15, my biggest memories are seeing the Pyramids from the freeway and smelling the city sewer everywhere.
I’ve actually shared my theory that the reason that man wanted Marian was because of his claim earlier in the movie.
“What was briefly yours is now mine.”
He wanted to include her in that list.
To prove he can take Anything and everything from Indiana when he sees fit to do so.
Especially since he realized how much she meant to him.
“The girl was mine!”
He saw her as a prize against Indiana.
Just as they lift out the Ark out of its sarcophagus, there's a blink-and-you-miss it shot of hieroglyphics with a drawing of R2-D2 and C-3PO in it.
Also, the registration of the seaplane is "OB-CPO", as in Obi-Wan Kenobi and C-3PO.
"Raiders of the Lost Ark": An homage to 1930's cliff hanger movies, with enough stunts for THREE such movies. Marion Ravenwood, Indy's equal, who could drink a Neaderthal under the table but was all Woman. This movie convinced a generation of college students to "dig in the dirt" as now-Cool Archeologists. Yep, you could say I liked "Dr. Henry Jones, Jr." from the start.;)
The warehouse is obviously in ... AREA 51 ...
With Bigfoot!
Waitaminute....Jones kills dozens of people in the film, and your problem with him is he burns up some snakes?
When he shot the sword man on the market place, there was supposed to be longer sword vs. whip fight, and they started to shoot a bit of that. However, half of the crew including Ford came down with dysentery from food poisoning (it was filmed in Tunisia). Only Spielberg was unaffected, as he survived on canned food. Anyway, no one wanted to film a few days of a complex fight scene, so someone came up (who varies on who's telling the story) with "Just shoot the guy!", so that's what they did. John Rhys-Davies called it one of his worst experiences making a film (search for "Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum" to get the whole interview.)
Right after he shoots the guy, you can see that Ford looks ill. The story I read is Ford came up with this idea.
Fun facts: The guy who livked the poison, Alfred Molina, played Doctor Octopus in Spider Man movies. Also, Harrison Ford was the driver of the jeep that Marty grabs on in Back to the Future. He also played the prinicpal r in ET when Elliot sets the frogs free, but it was deleted
Next to Back to the Future, this is my second favorite trilogy (not counting the last two of course). The 3rd one (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the best one in my opinion).
No, the Boulder, which is made of lightweight fiberglass never ran over Harrison Ford. I saw it when it was released. The film was originally called "Raiders of the Lost Ark" but George Lucas thought his audience was stupid and added the words, Indiana Jones to the beginning of each film. He did the same with Star Wars. The first film was actually just titled "Star Wars" but he back and added, "A New Hope". I was 26.
I think they were talking about the Stunt Show at Disney in Florida, one of the stunt men got ran over once.
What an idiotic comment it wasnt caled that because george lucas 'thought the audience was stupid".... stupid..... It was a tribute to the pulp adventure features of his and Spielbergs youth which always refererenced the names of the hero along with the title. Indiana jones is a direct tribute to those sereallsed cinematic adventures.
@mikegandalf That's fine and it worked well for the rest of the movies, but most original fans consider it silly and unnecessary to go back and rename ROTLA just so it "matches" the others. It's the same with Star Wars and First Blood.
@@ericwalker8636 That's not the point, the point is OP is wrong about why they changed it.
I already know that I'm going to love this reaction! 😊
Welcome to the Indiana Jones movie series. So excited for you two to watching these movies.
The first three(out of the five movies)are my favorites.
Fun Fact: 22:30 - 22:41 The script originally called for Indy to have a long drawn out fight with the swordsman. However, on the day of filming Harrison Ford(along with most of the cast)got food poisoning and just decided to have Indy shoot the swordsman instead. And it became one of the most memorable moments in the movie.
I grew up with this movie. And back in the day the scene at the end with the face melting used to scare the you know what out of me. LOL! Now it's still gross, but doesn't bother me as much.
Up next is "Indiana and the Temple of Doom".
Looking forward to the next reaction. 😊
Everybody in the production got sick while filming in Tunisia, which doubled for Egypt. Everybody except Steven Spielberg, who brought cases and cases of distilled water to drink, and ate nothing but cans of cold Campbell's Spaghetti-os, one of his favorite foods.
@user-mg5mv2tn8q - But back then, they were Franco American SpaghettiOs, as Campbell hadn't replaced their name yet(which wouldn't happen until the late '90s).
You're absolutely right. I almost typed Franco-American, because that sounded so familiar with Spaghetti-Os, but then figured I'd better google it to make sure. Google gave me the more recent brand name, not the pertinent one.
This is easily one of the greatest movies ever made.
Just a magnificent, non-stop thrill ride.
Harrison Ford, and Karen Allen head a stellar cast.
Have to give you 'kids' credit, for at least taking the time to see it.
A few moments here and there were lost on you, that we Gen-Xers think of as brilliant, but thats to be expected.
This is when Hollywood still cared about putting out good product for the sake of art. (God forbid.)
Knowing that if a film was well made, an audience would find it.
Lucas and Spielberg.
They're pretty decent.
56:37 It's one of the best jokes in the history of movies. So many layers. I'm glad that that warehouse remained undisturbed forever and ever.
Why "so weird" about the "I love you" scene?
What shocked you about this simple little comic moment?
I think because she wrote it on her eyelids, it’s just odd. (But the oddness makes it comedic.) At least I think that’s why they said that
Because it's a weird and creepy thing to do. They never said it wasn't a funny scene.
@@NoriMori1992 How is that “creepy”? In all honesty it’s pretty common for a student to have a crush on her professor. We’re so woke today, a depiction of that gets called creepy.
Hi Tristan, I'm Tristan too.
Hey fellow Tristan. Looking good brother
Did you see
C three p o and r two d two? There's a drawing of them that you can see when Indy is lifting up the ark.
The canyon that Belloq, Marion and the Nazis are walking through near the end is the same canyon that R2 D2 was rolling through in the first Star Wars movie just before he was picked up by the Jawas.
54:19 54:20 54:25 54:26 54:28 54:30 54:33 54:34 54:34 that’s why you don’t mess with the power of God.
once she said animal abuser i turned this bullshit off - theres only so much bullshit a viewer can take
17:45 "They burn to the f*cking ground, Eddie"
There are 5 movies, 1st and 3rd are great, 4th and are good, and 2nd is alright
Great reaction!
The rat in the Nazi Symbol burning off the crate scene was epileptic and had an attack when they were filming. Spielberg thought it added to the scene and left it in.
It’s a creepy scene
@@albertjimeno807 True BUT it goes to show that MANY of the best scenes in films are accidents.
@@Capohanf1 Oh yeah I meant that in a good way. It enhanced an already creepy scene
You cut out a little too much of the map room sequence
Watch Speed!
She wore the nice and Beautiful dress because he asked her to. If I was in her place I would wear it too. I would also, like she did, know that the right thing to do to wear the backless dress properly would be to remove my bra first! The only thing I wouldn't like would be sitting on that flower in the back of her rear end every time I sat down! LOL! I love being able to run in heels. They are the only shoes I wear! I got rid of all of my flat shoes and all of my heels shorter than 4 inches years ago. I also have a range of heels from 5 & a half inches to my Ballet heels, which are 7 inches. I also have Ponygirl boots that have no heels but that put my arch almost as strict as the Ballet heels, which is having to stand or walk on the end of my toes! 😉👱♀️👗👠❤️
My two new favorite darling couple..hope you enjoyed the movie
Great reaction indianas best friend sola is Gimli out of lord of the rings
3rd was my fave, any after that is thumbs down
Sam, I hope you are doing okay. From your shoulder and chest, it seems like you might have been in a collision or something. Be safe!
33:14 Good to know if wild animals ever attack you outdoors, whoever's with you ahouldn't make a move to protect you.
Just joshin' -- but Indy **is** acting in self defense. He didn't choose to go down there
39:20: After reading the Harry Potter books (before watching the movies) I hoped the scene with "Bathilda" in the first of the Deadly Hallows movies would have been something like that. (It wasn't...)😅
There was a tv show on SyFy about the warehouse at the end. It was called Warehouse 13 and it was about all of the stuff stored there.
Personally I think the older movies are better than newer movies that are all cgi...and some of that done worse than the limited cgi we had back in the 70's and 80's. We didn't even have internet when this came out.
I thought she had a shoulder and chest bruise but it was a shadow 😂
I discovered you guys while reacting to back to the future. You guys are are witty 👍
The next one “The temple of doom.” Way to much screaming.( You’ll see )
Harrison Ford's costar in that movie, Kate Capshaw, is living proof that "Got her job by sleeping with the director" is not a complementary phrase. Apparently a wonderful person off-camera, but she made the world a better place when she retired from acting.
Not just a huge warehouse. Area 51.
Movie sound isn’t recorded in mono. The More You Know.
55:25 55:26 55:27 55:28 55:30 55:30 no the US government confiscated it.
MY God ... today's people have to have a say on everything. Just take it as an adventure movie as it was meant to be and stop having so many stupid opinions as seeing it through today's warped world !
They did that? I didn’t hear any of what you’re claiming they said. And it’s literally a commentary video. Idk what is wrong with you and your upvoters.
@@albertjimeno5315 You must be deaf as well as blind.
We forgive the fake out of Marion's death, even thought it makes no sense, because everything else in Raiders is so good. The score, the characterisation, the chemistry (both between Indy, Marion and Sallah, but also between Indy, Belloq and the Nazis), Indy's unathletic but determined everyman-ness, the ruggedness of the in-camera stunts, the practical effects, the composition of the shots, the sense of humour, the charisma of the leads, the believability of the interactions, and the sheer vim of it all. It makes the incredible credible. It suspends your disbelief.
We do not forgive the exact same Chewbacca death fake-out because The Rise of Skywalker has none of those things.
19:56 actually literally everything it’s made out of comes from the earth.
The next movie is a prequel and the movie after that is a sequel then after that is another sequel and another.
SPIELBERG THE GOAT
22:44 - "What does that mean?"🤔
It means that even back in the 1930s, Americans had a self-righteous sense of entitlement.🤷♂️
Saving the world twice and being the remaining superpower on the planet will do that.
@@zedwpd Do you really believe that America saved the world during ww1? Also, it was the soviet union who did most of the heavy lifting during ww2.
I don't know what this movie is about...
Title: Raiders of the lost ark...
That genuinely doesn't really tell you much. It doesn't tell you what all is going to happen, what role the ark will play, how they'll get it, the tone of the movie, etc.
26:30 Lots of people have / complain about "bad dates" these days ...
If "they're following us", then how did the dart get there before they did?
51:23 Steven Spielberg requested the editors to remove one frame so it will look like he did eat it.
When she says I’m an American it was in the 30s when everyone liked us 😂.
and the 40's when they need help winning a war, and in the 8-'s when we became the last remaining super power.
I always think it's funny to see Americans react to this movie. You're supposed to be so religious, yet very few seems to be that familiar with scripture. I'm an atheist, but know the bible (and how ridiculous it is, but that's another matter).
When Moses came down from the mountain with the stone tablets with the ten commandments, he saw that the people where worshipping false gods, got mad and crushed the tablets. So the content of the ark probably would be something like that, but every reactor I've watched think that Jones put "the sand" there, before the chaos starts.
Also, although it contradicts itself regarding this, the bible says that you should avert your eyes from godly shenanigans, or else you will die. You should not look at god (although in some sections of the bible it's okay to do it), or angels. And let's not forget Lot's wife who turned to salt just because she looked over her shoulder (It's apparently much worse to do that than to offer your daughters up to be gangra-ed, like Lot did).
My Brit wife says you are generalizing too many groups at once.
Way to stereotype. Not every American is a Bible-thumping Fundamentalist MAGA. And I’m not SUPPOSED to be anything fyi.
First of all we try to convince people that we haven't seen the movie.
Second, we look as engaged as possible, even if we think the movie is crap.
28:12 ... Barely an inconvenience.
Great reaction guys but the film is just called RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. It wasn't till the sequels they added Indiana Jones in the titles. 😊👍
Guys love your reactions ❤❤
But we need more MCU reactions - please 🙏🏻🥹
You both need to do reasdarch tn understand about the significance of the arb in the old testament to the Hebrews.
48:51 48:51 48:53 48:53 I interpret that as God not agreeing with the Nazis decisions.
At the end its basically wrath of God bottled up in that casket. Because it contained parts of 10 commandments Moses brought back from God to the Jews. You know, those- thou shalt not cheat, steal, etc. While he was gone, Jews turn back to paganism so Moses in anger smashed them. Jews later put them in that casket, and it became like a war banner for them.
These are all at the time of this movie well known facts from Old Testament to like 99% of people watching this in Judeo-Christian countries of the west. But it's understandable that young people of today maybe don't have that as clear reference watching what is happening because west is less and less religious, people don't go to church or Sunday School, and I guess education about history of religion in public schools is bad.
And it makes sense that if they were made out of stone that it would turn to dust in 1000s of years they were inside. At the end Indy figured it out from that picture at the beginning of a movie that if they look, they will be turned to dust.
Here’s some information about the actual Ark of the Covenant in the Hebrew Bible, the Ark of the Covenant is the large golden chest that carries the tablets the Ten Commandments were written on. In addition to its physical attributes, it was also imbued with mystical and spiritual significance. Some Jews thought it contained the presence of Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, Hebrews 9:4 states that the Ark contained "the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant." Revelation 11:19 says the prophet saw God's temple in heaven opened, "and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple." Hebrews 9:4 states that the Ark contained "the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant." Revelation 11:19 says the prophet saw God's temple in heaven opened, "and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple."
was really hoping to see the rest of the marvel reactions, are you two done with that?
he explores EVERYWHERE ask his lady friends lol
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It's ash.
Inside the Ark was except for the stone tablets Aarons rod and a jar of manna.
The relics did burn on the ship to keep them away.
I'm prepared to suspent a lot of disbelief for this thrill ride, but the idea that Indy is dragged beneath and behind a speeding truck, and STILL manages to keep his hat on, is just a bridge too far, for me.
In the old serials, on which this movie is based, the stunt men usually kept their hats on so they didn't have to get their hair styled to match the actor they were doubling for.
so you had no problem with him climbing his whip back onto the truck even though one was shot. The movie is on homage from a Saturday serial adventure for 10 year olds, so lighten up Francis.
Me too I hate snakes I hate'em so damn much