This wasnt jsut a simple action film, this was the movie that redefinied action moives for an entire generation and went down in history as one of the greatest modern action films of all time.
Bringing that classic early to mid 20th century “tales of adventure” style to modern filmmaking was a brilliant move, and it all hit such a sweet spot. I don’t think many (if any) other filmmakers (even specifically among the most talented of the time) could have made it work quite as marvelously.
When Indy and Sallah are retrieving the Ark from the Well of souls, when they remove the lid from the sarcophagus, the Arks in if you pause the film and look over Indies right shoulder there's a beam with hieroglyphics on it right above Idies shoulder is a hieroglyph of R2-D2 and C-3PO.
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark was George Lucas’ modern take on serial movies such as The Perils of Pauline (1933) and Flash Gordon (1936).
The movie takes place in 1936. In 1926, he and Marion were seeing each other which her father disapproved. She was 17. Lots of people are hung up on that saying Indy is a perv, but age of consent in the US for half the states in 1926 was 14-16 years old. Maybe icky now, but he wouldn't have known any better. back then.
My grandparents were of this generation. Both grandfather's were 10yrs older and my one grandmother got married the same day she graduated hs. Even wore the same dress 😅
Yup. Indy was 26-27 at the time, and with Abner Ravenwood being his professor/mentor/friend, they had a falling out as Indy had a relationship that ended badly with his daughter Marion.
Plus it's not clear to what extent anything happened. Clearly there was an attraction and intense feelings but things were different back then. Yes, pre-marital sex definitely did happen but it was not common place.
Cars back then were not more fragile. In fact they were far more tough than cars today. They didn't have as many safety features (because people weren't as concerned with safety back then), but the structure of the cars themselves were far more tough and sturdy.
Mercedes-Benz being in this movie isn't really product placement (but it is a bit) but it is being on brand because the Mercedes-Benz is a German company. So it makes perfect sense it would be in this movie.
It's set in the 30s, when Americans and Europeans didn't have much reservation of collecting valuable stuff in Africa, Asia, or South America. But now it's very much illegal. Legal Eagle made a whole video on modern laws that Indiana Jones would have broken on his adventures.
The idea of not looking when the Ark is opened comes from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Old Testament. In the story, God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah and tells Lot and his wife and children not to look at his wrath he is about to unleash on the cities. Lot's wife does look back, and God turns her into a pillar of salt. So Indy figures, they shouldn't look at God's wrath.
Yes, plus the Hebrew priesthood were from the tribe of Levi. Non-Levites that handled the Ark or dared perform the rituals were destroyed by God (or swallowed by the Earth, same thing I guess). Dressing up and knowing the ritual was not enough. Also, daring to look upon the face of God was also a death sentence.
The main stunt man for the under the truck scene was Terry Leonard (google images where they pose together. Freakish how similar Terry and Harrison looked back then). He was proposing this stunt because he messed it up in a western a short time earlier (the whole stunt is a western staple). However, some shots of Indy dragged behind the truck are actually Harrison Ford himself. When asked if he was worried doing it just before the filmed, he answered "No, if it were dangerous, they would have shot more of the rest of the movie".
I watched as Harrison Ford either received or won a Film Award. At the podium he called up on stage his stunt double. & I'm paraphrasing. 'It's as much his, as it is mine. You see him on screen as much as you see me & he deserves the credit too.' My admiration for Harrison Ford skyrocketed.
An absolute love letter to the old serials of the 40s and 50s that Lucas and Spielberg remembered from childhood. Cliffhangers, dramatic action, a gal Friday who could hold her own, all the standard tropes of a lost age of film. I have a videotape of all the chapters of a serial called The Crimson Ghost, a "high tech" spy story that was done in 1946 or 1947 that had these tropes. And it was obviously just after WWII since the hero's gal Friday could shoot a gun, drive a truck, fly a plane, and wore slacks. 😀 This movie also features British bodybuilder, actor, wrestler, and all around real life nice guy Pat Roach, the only other person to be in all three Indiana Jones movies, though as different characters in each as his characters tended to die. He was two characters in this movie: the giant Sherpa who died in the bar fight at the beginning and the burly German who had an unfortunate encounter with the propeller. He'll be back in the second and third movies, though only in an eyeblink of a scene in the third since the rest of his screen time, including his death scene, ended up on the cutting room floor. He also had a key role in the film Willow, a movie that is very worth a watch. One other thing I love about this movie is the use of light and shadows, especially in the more dramatic scenes as characters faces are shadowed but their eyes are lit to show the thoughts and feelings of the character simply through their eyes. There really were no laws about antiquities in the 30s. For many archaeologists the desire was to collect as many artifacts as possible so they can be studied and learned from before they were damaged or destroyed by those who didn't think them significant. Many of the things we know about the lives of past civilizations are due to these "grave robbers" who managed to penetrate desolate, lost, forgotten, or "impenetrable" sites to gather knowledge from within. And while I absolutely support a mechanism to return these treasures to the museums of the civilizations to which they once belonged, it is quite possible that in many instances without these early archaeologists there would be little for the museums to show but artist's conceptions of how things might have looked. Also, everyday work clothes made in this era were VERY sturdy. When he passed away in 1993 at the age of 96 my grandfather still had a couple of very old work shirts and a pair of work pants that I knew and had seen that he wore often when working in his garden or in his little workshop in his basement until he had a stroke when he was 91. He had had them for decades and had worn them while looking for daily work as a machinist or laborer in Depression Era Chicago. They were very worn, almost threadbare in places, but still intact and in pretty good shape. So while the clothes worn for the under the truck stunt were probably going to have some small rips and tears they weren't going to be shredded like cheap modern clothes would be. In several instances in the Old Testament when the wrath of God is about to descend on the unjust, the just close or avert their eyes and are spared, thus Indy knows to avert his eyes and warns Marian to do the same. I believe there was a scene that was cut where Indy was told this, but I'm not sure about that. And, as I joked with my best friend after we saw this in the theater, God's wrath is also tidy. After the pillar ascends to the heavens and the lid returns to the Ark there are no corpses, no signs of violence, nothing at all to mark that Belloq and the Germans were ever there. That was the eeriest thing of all to me. And Indy and Marian's bonds were gone too, showing perhaps that not only were they spared, but that they were intentionally freed as well. A nice unnoticed touch. I've heard that the scene at the very end, where the workman is wheeling the crate far into the depths of a massive warehouse, was the inspiration for SyFy's well done show Warehouse 13. I still love that show. 🙂 Great reaction! Keep up the good work and I look forward to your reaction to the next two movies!
The Mercedes logo was not product placement but the primary German vehicle producer of the era (including all military trucks) under Karl Benz, who also at the request of Hitler designed and built his people's car or Voltz Wagon.
Karl Benz mainly built the Mercedes-Benz vehicles after he'd merged his Benz car company with Gotlieb Daimler's Mercedes car company. Ferdinand Porsche was commissioned by Adolf Hitler to build the car company Volkswagen, which is why early model Porsche engines can fit in a Volkswagen chassis
@charlesmaurer6214 Volkswagen was built by Ferdinand Porsche, not Karl Benz. That's a major part of why earlier Porsche engines can be used in a Volkswagen Also, Mercedes-Benz was a product of a merger of companies owned by Gotlieb Daimler and Karl Benz. Cars made by Daimler before the merger were named "Mercedes," and Karl Benz's automobiles simply bore his surname. When Daimler and Benz merged their companies into 1926, they'd hyphenated the names Mercedes-Benz
This is an old movie done in a much older style as it is an homage to 30's & 40's film serials which had a genre known as "cliffhangers" today subsumed into the "adventure" genre.
Exactly, and it's knowing the Biblical history of the Iraelite people back then and their customs. "Averting your eyes" in avoiding looking directly at things was the way to show reverence, respect, humility, etc. for things or places that represented the presence of God. Looking right at it was considered arrogant and disrespectful.
0:25 "I haven't really watched a lot of '80s movies..." >You've been missing out on an awesome decade for action/adventure movies. Also, this movie was rated PG and is one of the reasons the term "'80s PG" is a thing. 29:34 >It took me way too long to figure out why there was a disco ball in this scene.
At 6:00 the term you're looking for is "grave robber." The military men hint around this term when they say "What can we call it?....the obtainer of rare antiquities."
That's right. No update needed. Just leave the original title as it is. I insist on it because I saw it during its theatrical release in 1981 (I was 8) and nobody consulted me about tacking the main character's name onto the title.
@@sithlordkaeyl21 Just out of curiosity, the original Star Wars trilogy. Do you refer to the first movie as Star Wars or A New Hope? Because in the original theatrical release, "Episode IV" and "A New Hope" were absent.
@@MrFishPirate, what does that have to do with anything? Am I coming on TH-cam to tell someone that whatever version of the title THEY use is wrong? No, because I know that people younger than me are most likely going to use the updated version of the title, which doesn’t affect me personally, and doesn’t really matter.
Back in the 20s and 30s, archeology was not very different than grave robbing. All the rules and laws weren't established back then, and Archeology was basically like tomb raiding.
Fun Fact! The Golden Idol, mooning the audience, from the intro is a poke at the Film Academy Awards who had snubbed two of Spielberg's hugely successful movies prior to this. Its eyes move. The effect didn't work very well so they dropped most of those scenes, but the scene where Indy is jumping back and forth you can see the eyes watching him as he approaches.
I'm from southwest missouri, US. Block buster, well produced movies didn't really become a thing until Jaws and Star Wars, so at this time they were still a new thing, and we were only getting about three or so a year at this point, so these were a real treat you didn't want to miss, especially if they were getting good reviews and doing well at the theater and lots of praise from people you knew. That following school year (I was 15 years old) this was a very much talked about movie amoug us kids. It became instantly famous.
Likely Indy told her not to look, because he surmised divine wrath was impending. In the Old Testament, Lots wife was turned to a pillar of salt, for witnessing the destruction of Sodom.
Yes, the Ark brought death. There were stories of people getting sick after being close to it. The symptoms suggested radiation poisoning so the Ark must have contained radioactive material.
There's a cut scene with the wise man who translates the headpiece, who tells him and Sallah the prophecy of not looking, Besides, the whole lighting, thunder, fire pillar, not looking when God's wrath is unleashed is extreme Old Testament tropes.
You are exactly right when you say it has a western vibe. This was highly inspired by the Westerns and Adventure serials and comedic serials of old Hollywood. This is Harrison Ford's pride and joy. It's the character that made him a household name. Harrison loved doing this even more than Star Wars. If you choose to continue you will learn more about Indy and even more about who he is and what made into the man and character he is.
When Marianne was surrounded by the corpses, I was like "Girl, close your mouth right now!", and I'm certain I'm not the only one who thought that too. 😂
So I was hanging with some guys I knew when I lived in Chicago, and one of them used the term "brick shithouse" in reference to a passing woman (we sometimes use the phrase to describe an attractive, thicc woman). I am rarely clever, but for some reason I chimed in, "yeah, unnecessarily solid", and everyone fell about the place. I've been waiting to say something that funny again for 25 years now... 😂
24:47 "I Love The Music, It's So Fun, It Does Remind Me Of 'Star Wars' A Little Bit" Well, there's a good reason why it's so similar to the Star Wars score. it's because the scores for the Indiana Jones movies and the Star Wars movies were scored by the same composer, John Williams
17:03 No he's not an asshole. If he had released her it would have been discovered and then the whole German battalion at the dig site would swarm around like angry hornets looking for them.
I like that scene in the tent more every year, this is him almost becoming his rival. Risking everything even the woman he loves for the prize, it's only at the end where he truly realizes it
I’m so happy you liked this movie. It’s one of my favorites, I saw it in the theater in 1982 when I was 8 years old. Back in the 80s kids movies, kids tv, basically everything was scary and gory. We only had G, PG, and R so PG movies had a bunch of dark/scary/gory stuff that they don’t put in kids movies anymore (This is part of the reason Gen-X kids grew up into the type of adults we are now).
32:02 Toht's melting head was made of gelatin over a stone skull, they had two propane heaters and a heat gun blasting at it, and instead of the usual 24 frames per second, they filmed at 1 frame per second (and I think the shot may have been sped up even more in post production). The fire effect was added over Belloq's head exploding to take the film's rating from R down to PG (PG-13 didn't exist yet, that was actually a result of the second Indiana Jones movie).
The scene where Indy just shoots the sword-wielding boss, it was improvised because there was a dysentery outbreak on set. Harrison Ford had it so bad, he couldn't do the planned fight scene because he had to go relieve himself right away.
Funnily enough, Steven Spielberg was waiting for the shooting of The Shining to finish so he could film 'The Well of Soul' scenes (the snake temple). The Overlook Hotel and the Well of Souls were shot on the same set, at Elstree studios in England.
Great reaction! The score sounds like Star Wars, as it was composed by John Williams, who did both, and did the scores for many other all time great films. Also, “the eyes are the windows to the soul”. So, Indy and Marion did not bear witness to the power of God. Also, they didn’t have pure evil in their hearts, as the rest of the nazis did, and the spirits knew that, so they killed them in righteousness,
1:45 Post WWI and Pre WW2 (though it looks like you've found it) 3:20 Well, what did you expect? He's like 37 when this was filmed, and 32 when A New Hope was. (Not saying that he got worse when he got older). 8:54 What happened between them was quite disturbing, especially their age gap combined with Marion being a minor when that happened. 12:25 This scene almost didn't happen. Apparently, Harrison got sick during filming. He realized that the sword-fight scene wasn't going to go well, so he requested to change the script. Spielberg agreed, and so this scene was born (which pretty much made the film even more famous. Also, I would say that Harrison being sick allowed him to easily fit the "I don't have time for this" expression). And lastly, because of all the wasted time and effort the actor had to go through being in vain, Harrison paid him compensation. 18:17 The Egyptian Cobra and Horned Viper are two examples of extra-venomous snakes in Africa, particularly Egypt, 18:54 Cobra. However, despite the scene being located in Africa, the cobra there is a Monocled Cobra, which is exclusive to Southern Asia. 19:08 Can't blame him. If I hated something in front of me and I had the equipment to do so, it would be hard for me to not kill it. Plus, considering that there were venomous cobras in the pile, it's quite justified. Would you like to be bitten by a venomous snake? 20:51 According to the lore, that guy, who is Belloq, was constantly plagiarizing Indy's work and somehow successfully covered up any evidence he could use against him. 22:40 The foreshadowing of the death of his opponent....... 24:46 Not surprising that the soundtracks were both made by the same guy, none other than John Williams. 25:34 Yes. That is a truck that was used by Nazi Germany's military during WW2. It was a L3000, but this one was basically a heavily modified GMC CCKW. Also, Mercedes Benz (which is, as we all know, German) was quite popular among upper class during Nazi Germany (and still is, but worldwide), and figures such as Hitler himself had one, a 770k. 25:47 No [ _ ]. Don't even mention that his left arm was shot. 29:11 Submarines are actually nicknamed U-boats, though I get your point. 29:39 To be precise, a RPG (while both a Bazooka and RPG are rocket launchers, the projectile in the former is inside the weapon while in the latter, the projectile is sticking out). However, this was actually custom built, and meant to resemble an anti-tank weapon, since RPGs had not been invented yet. In fact, the Indiana Jones Wiki specifies it as a Grenade Launcher,which isn't completely false, since RPG stands for Rocket Powered Grenade) 29:49 This has become a quite funny meme on the internet. Still beats me how Paul Freeman did it so casually and acted as if it didn't exist. 30:35 Multiple theories surfaced about why this was the case. The most common ones include 1. the tablets eroded thanks to centuries of disregard and being untouched, and 2. the contents were hidden by this sand by God, as most were not worthy to see them. 31:58 Yes. They made a copy of Ronald Lacey's head out of wax, then covered a skull with it, and sandwiched between them was red gelatin, which made it look like blood and flesh during the melting. The model was dressed up, put under extreme heat, and melted for hours on camera. However, it took so long for the skull to be exposed that the footage had to be heavily sped up. 32:28 I think the novelization or a deleted scene/original draft had an old man reading Marion's medallion. He say there that it said that a person will die if he looks inside the Ark
The submarine and the U-boat bunker are actually borrowed from the German movie "Das Boot", which was shot around the same time. I'm not quite sure, but I also believe that the voice you hear over the PA system in the U-boat bunker (just before Indy got his too-small uniform) is one of the actors of "Das Boot".
When George Lucas first approached Spielberg about his archeology adventure movie Spielberg is listening him describe his idea behind the picture and suddenly Spielberg gets real excited and asks, "Ooh! Ooh! Can I do a scene where the guy gets chased by a giant boulder? I've always wanted to do a scene where a guy gets chased by a giant rolling boulder!" Lucas is like, "Yeah...I ..guess .. so..?" like..Wha ? The two men have lived very similar lives and have very similar interest but their personalities are completely different. Lucas is laid back and laconic where as Spielberg gets excited like a kid in a toy store.
8:57 The original backstory was for Marion Ravenwood to have been about fifteen at the time of her original relationship with Jones, but Lucas and Spielberg eventually realized how bad that made Indy look. So they made her about eighteen at the time, which isn't much better, since Jones was a graduate student when he studied under Abner Ravenwood.
I saw a mini documentary on the face melting effect. It was a lot of work to get the wax to melt right, and they had only 5 head models to try it with. They finally got it on the last take, and it's glorious 8-)
She was 15 and he was 25 when they first met. A pretty normal age difference for the 30s. My grandfather was 29 when he married my grandmother, who was 17, and that was in the 1940s. People really didn't start caring about that age difference as much until college became widely available to the masses, as opposed to only the rich kids. Before that time, a man could support his family with a simple labor job, no college necessary. Most women were looking for a man who would provide and protect, and most men were looking for a woman young enough to bear several children and energetically raise them while maintaining the house. Things have changed a lot in a century, but people are a product of their environment.
The scene where Indy shoots the guy with a sword was originally supposed to be a longer fight scene but it had to be shortened due to Ford having major food poisoning(you can even see how sh*tty he was feeling when the camera zooms in on his face).
In the original script, and filming, the bronze piece told where to place the staff, in the holes on the ground, and not what length it was supposed to be. They decided this would confuse audiences, so they fixed it in post with a lot of ADR, but the scene of Indy finding the right hole, and bypassing the one used by the other team, remains.
My question is why did Indiana find a new hole to put the staff in? That has something to do with it too. Belloq is a smart academic and would have the same research . So why would the Nazi staff position been different? The height was the only thing in question.
The words "sexy" and "archeologist" really don't go together, and this was even more true in the days before "Raiders of the Lost Ark" came out. I was fortunate enough to see the film in 1981, in theaters (at age 14). "This film is about an archeologist, who goes on dangerous adventures around the world, breaking into ancient tombs seeking old artifacts, while thwarting or outsmarting bad guys. It also occurs in the 1930s, while the Nazis are rising to power." It actually doesn't sound like the most interesting film, when it's described that way. But, it's written by the man who wrote "Star Wars" and directed by the guy who directed "Jaws." Maybe it's worth a shot," thought the 14-year-old me, in 1981. :D The truth is, even a large collection of talented people, can't guarantee a good film - let alone one that's a genre-defining critical and box office success. We're lucky to have this film, and these characters. •••• "The amount of people MURDERED in this film (by Indy and Marion)..." I know that you're not really aghast at the deaths and gore in this film, but I'll reply in the light-hearted spirit with which you made your initial comment: If 'murder' means 'taking the life of an innocent person' ( a person who doesn't deserve to be killed), how often does that actually happen in this film (deaths initiated by Indy or Marion)? The people who die are people who attempt to kill Indy or Marion first - which would make their deaths 'killing in self-defense,' rather than murder. Other deaths are Nazi soldiers or people who are allied with them (such as the men in the side car, whom Indy swerves into with the truck, and forces them to drive over a cliff). We are supposed to view them as men allied with an evil, wicked cause, and to not feel (too) sorry for them, nor view their deaths as murder. While World War II hasn't started when this story takes place, we viewers know that it is going to; those Nazi soldiers are properly grouped into the larger group of military deaths associated with WW II. It's also (obviously) an action-adventure story, so we're not supposed to think about deaths of incidental characters that much. :)
the way Indy knew to shut his eyes was two things one; a deleted scene, from the old man who translated the head piece he told Indy not to look at what came out. (as it wasn't meant to be open by anyone and especially horrible Nazis; who were judged by the spirits/angels and were murdered) also number 2 with Indy's knowledge of the Ark he might of known not to look at it. in the stories and myths of the Ark it was supposed to have the 10 commandments in it along with a rod, a bowl of mana and something else i think. these supernatural creatures most likely if it was real etc judged everyone and could tell Indy and Marion were innocents and not like the nazis; as they survive. they destroyed the tv and machinery first, then the people.
18:55 In the original version of this movie (before they restored it) you could see the reflection of this cobra in the sheet of glass that separated it from Harrison Ford. Also, a quick footnote. cobras are NOT poisonous...the term is "VENOMOUS".
24:30 "Cars back in those days were so fragile; no way it would survive that." You have it backwards. Early cars were all steel. Steel engine, steel chassis, steel frame, steel body, steel, steel, steel. Modern cars are mostly plastic and aluminum to reduce weight and raise gas mileage. Ram a 2024 Tesla, or even a 2024 Corolla, with that 1936 Mercedes-Benz and the modern car will be spread all over the road and the Benz will need little more than a fresh coat of paint.
Love the slang translator but as a Brit, one of the things I like about Aussie reactors is we speak the same slang. I was just remembering someone saying “Bloody hell, mate!” and you said “Bloody hell..” and the “Built like a brick sh…….” caption came up. It’s comforting to hear familiar sounds after watching reactors from other countries for a while.
16:45 "You would never leave a person you love. What an a-hole." I don't think you're seeing the big picture. If he takes Marion out of the tent, the whole camp will know within minutes. He will NEVER get the Ark after that. Or if he leaves her there, gets the Ark secretly, hides it, then he can come back and get her. Either way he saves Marion but only one way is he able to get both Marion and the Ark.
29:00 "OMG is it a sumbarine? I thought it was a boat. It must be a sumbarine." Nope. It's a submarine. As in "sub" (below) and "marine" (water). Also called a U-boat (U for "underwater"), so I guess it's a boat too, but by this time they were less like boats and more like ships that happened to be able to function underwater.
You'll have a ton of fun with the next two, they're amazing. Indiana Jones fashion is the fashion of the era, that whole sophisticated masculine and traditional thing. It's a great look.
You mentioned how good the music for the movie is and how it kind of reminded you of the Star Wars music a little bit. That's because a great man by the name of John Williams created the music for the Indiana Jones movies and Star wars along with so many other movies over the years. John Williams is known for creating great and memorable music for movies.
It's funny to me that you aren't more afraid of spiders. Australia is one of the few places where an irrational fear of spiders is, in fact, completely rational! lol
30:35 Inside the Ark was except for the stone tablets Aarons rod and a jar of manna. The relics burned on the ship to keep them away. The Ark was supposed to be God's dwelling place on earth and the manna was his food.
Welcome to the world of Indiana Jones, Dr. Quokka. LOL 5 films in this wonderful saga, and easily, some of Harrison Ford's best work outside of Star Wars. You're going to enjoy yourself with this universe. Have fun!
In the times of the Ark of the Covenant, it was kept in the innermost chamber of the Hebrew tabernacle, the massive tent that traveled with the Hebrews as they wandered the desert for 40 years. Most people were forbidden from even looking upon it for fear that the power of god would strike them dead where they stood. Only the high priests were permitted to enter into the presence of the ark to give up offerings to God. Indiana knew this and would have warned Marion to close her eyes in case something like that was about to happen. It's a good thing he did, too.
the young guy in the beginning of raiders with indy is the same actor who plays doc oc. he's really young in this. harrison ford wasn't the first choice to play Indy; long story short they couldn't find anyone else and he fit perfectly etc.
This is again, George Lucas's fascination with the old movie serials he saw as a kid. Star Wars starts off like a chapter in a Flash Gordon serial. You arrive at the theater without having seen the earlier chapters but a crawl at the beginning gets you up to speed, and then you're dropped right in the middle of the action. It's a shame they didnt continue with the cliff hanger format for the rest of the films but that's why Star Wars: A New Hope starts off the way it does. That's how a Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers serial was like if you hadnt seen it all the way from the beginning.
Can I just point out that it was not just us (England) who took items from other countries. We get the blame, but other countries have done it - many well before we did. We were just probably better at it than most were. However, we are the only country that gets continually blamed for it.
& in at least one case (Elgin Marbles) they were paid for. Granted not the right people, the Ottoman Empire & not the Greeks. But they were the people in charge of them at the time.
@@benschultz1784 But unless you can freeze frame it in high rez you can NOT see it. The numbers are plain for all to see. In fact the freighter was called the Bantha Wind but never saw that in the movie.
If you liked Indy in Raiders, be sure to watch the sequel, The Temple of Doom. It premiered in 1984 and Harrison Ford bulked up his muscles for that role. As they say nowadays, he was ripped (and so was his shirt--it was in tatters). 😀
The sword used by the guy Indy shot is called a simitar and it is a traditional Islamic sword for beheading any who fails to follow Islam. It also was used to remove hands of thieves under Islamic law. It is not that useful in war but was considered a swift means of delivering the Justice of Allah.
"I didn't realize this movie was so violent." The US added a new category to it's rating scheme because of the ending of this movie. Before it was just G, PG, R, and X. They added PG-13.
Back then anything that is buried and lost over time was treasure and was claimed by the finder or the person funding the hunt. And a lot of these items that have be saved by museums would have been lost or destroyed by other religious factions. as has been done in recent times.
"I didn't realize this movie was so violent."
Oh you ain't seen nothing yet
This wasnt jsut a simple action film, this was the movie that redefinied action moives for an entire generation and went down in history as one of the greatest modern action films of all time.
Bringing that classic early to mid 20th century “tales of adventure” style to modern filmmaking was a brilliant move, and it all hit such a sweet spot. I don’t think many (if any) other filmmakers (even specifically among the most talented of the time) could have made it work quite as marvelously.
When Indy and Sallah are retrieving the Ark from the Well of souls, when they remove the lid from the sarcophagus, the Arks in if you pause the film and look over Indies right shoulder there's a beam with hieroglyphics on it right above Idies shoulder is a hieroglyph of R2-D2 and C-3PO.
Ewoks must have gotten in there to contribute their own addition of “our god and his companion.”
The first time I’ve seen a reactor worried for the poor snakes
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"That's A Lot In The 1930s, Right?"
Yes, $3000 in 1936 would be equivalent to $66,683.91 today's money
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark was George Lucas’ modern take on serial movies such as The Perils of Pauline (1933) and Flash Gordon (1936).
The movie takes place in 1936. In 1926, he and Marion were seeing each other which her father disapproved. She was 17. Lots of people are hung up on that saying Indy is a perv, but age of consent in the US for half the states in 1926 was 14-16 years old. Maybe icky now, but he wouldn't have known any better. back then.
My wife’s grandparents were married at 15 around then!
My grandparents were of this generation. Both grandfather's were 10yrs older and my one grandmother got married the same day she graduated hs. Even wore the same dress 😅
Yup. Indy was 26-27 at the time, and with Abner Ravenwood being his professor/mentor/friend, they had a falling out as Indy had a relationship that ended badly with his daughter Marion.
Plus it's not clear to what extent anything happened. Clearly there was an attraction and intense feelings but things were different back then. Yes, pre-marital sex definitely did happen but it was not common place.
Agreed
Cars back then were not more fragile. In fact they were far more tough than cars today. They didn't have as many safety features (because people weren't as concerned with safety back then), but the structure of the cars themselves were far more tough and sturdy.
Yeah, today's cars have so much plastic.
Mercedes-Benz being in this movie isn't really product placement (but it is a bit) but it is being on brand because the Mercedes-Benz is a German company. So it makes perfect sense it would be in this movie.
You needed to see the face melting when you were 10 and it was 1981. Epic as you lot would say
It's set in the 30s, when Americans and Europeans didn't have much reservation of collecting valuable stuff in Africa, Asia, or South America.
But now it's very much illegal. Legal Eagle made a whole video on modern laws that Indiana Jones would have broken on his adventures.
Ya what Indiana Jones did was essentially looting. Taking only valuable artifacts without documenting anything and many times destroying the site.
I still don't. I often do it whenever there's something valuable to exchange with plastic toys.
The idea of not looking when the Ark is opened comes from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Old Testament. In the story, God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah and tells Lot and his wife and children not to look at his wrath he is about to unleash on the cities. Lot's wife does look back, and God turns her into a pillar of salt. So Indy figures, they shouldn't look at God's wrath.
Yes, plus the Hebrew priesthood were from the tribe of Levi. Non-Levites that handled the Ark or dared perform the rituals were destroyed by God (or swallowed by the Earth, same thing I guess). Dressing up and knowing the ritual was not enough. Also, daring to look upon the face of God was also a death sentence.
"Does Egypt have snakes?" The asp killed Cleopatra.
@@SCharlesDennicon That's so mean! 😂
Perfectly directed, written, cast, acted, designed, produced, choreographed, shot, edited, and scored!
Satipo (Indy's assistant from the opening sequence) is Alfred Molina, who was also Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Actually, that character's name was Sapito
The main stunt man for the under the truck scene was Terry Leonard (google images where they pose together. Freakish how similar Terry and Harrison looked back then). He was proposing this stunt because he messed it up in a western a short time earlier (the whole stunt is a western staple). However, some shots of Indy dragged behind the truck are actually Harrison Ford himself. When asked if he was worried doing it just before the filmed, he answered "No, if it were dangerous, they would have shot more of the rest of the movie".
I watched as Harrison Ford either received or won a Film Award. At the podium he called up on stage his stunt double. & I'm paraphrasing. 'It's as much his, as it is mine. You see him on screen as much as you see me & he deserves the credit too.' My admiration for Harrison Ford skyrocketed.
An absolute love letter to the old serials of the 40s and 50s that Lucas and Spielberg remembered from childhood. Cliffhangers, dramatic action, a gal Friday who could hold her own, all the standard tropes of a lost age of film. I have a videotape of all the chapters of a serial called The Crimson Ghost, a "high tech" spy story that was done in 1946 or 1947 that had these tropes. And it was obviously just after WWII since the hero's gal Friday could shoot a gun, drive a truck, fly a plane, and wore slacks. 😀
This movie also features British bodybuilder, actor, wrestler, and all around real life nice guy Pat Roach, the only other person to be in all three Indiana Jones movies, though as different characters in each as his characters tended to die. He was two characters in this movie: the giant Sherpa who died in the bar fight at the beginning and the burly German who had an unfortunate encounter with the propeller. He'll be back in the second and third movies, though only in an eyeblink of a scene in the third since the rest of his screen time, including his death scene, ended up on the cutting room floor. He also had a key role in the film Willow, a movie that is very worth a watch.
One other thing I love about this movie is the use of light and shadows, especially in the more dramatic scenes as characters faces are shadowed but their eyes are lit to show the thoughts and feelings of the character simply through their eyes.
There really were no laws about antiquities in the 30s. For many archaeologists the desire was to collect as many artifacts as possible so they can be studied and learned from before they were damaged or destroyed by those who didn't think them significant. Many of the things we know about the lives of past civilizations are due to these "grave robbers" who managed to penetrate desolate, lost, forgotten, or "impenetrable" sites to gather knowledge from within. And while I absolutely support a mechanism to return these treasures to the museums of the civilizations to which they once belonged, it is quite possible that in many instances without these early archaeologists there would be little for the museums to show but artist's conceptions of how things might have looked.
Also, everyday work clothes made in this era were VERY sturdy. When he passed away in 1993 at the age of 96 my grandfather still had a couple of very old work shirts and a pair of work pants that I knew and had seen that he wore often when working in his garden or in his little workshop in his basement until he had a stroke when he was 91. He had had them for decades and had worn them while looking for daily work as a machinist or laborer in Depression Era Chicago. They were very worn, almost threadbare in places, but still intact and in pretty good shape. So while the clothes worn for the under the truck stunt were probably going to have some small rips and tears they weren't going to be shredded like cheap modern clothes would be.
In several instances in the Old Testament when the wrath of God is about to descend on the unjust, the just close or avert their eyes and are spared, thus Indy knows to avert his eyes and warns Marian to do the same. I believe there was a scene that was cut where Indy was told this, but I'm not sure about that.
And, as I joked with my best friend after we saw this in the theater, God's wrath is also tidy. After the pillar ascends to the heavens and the lid returns to the Ark there are no corpses, no signs of violence, nothing at all to mark that Belloq and the Germans were ever there. That was the eeriest thing of all to me.
And Indy and Marian's bonds were gone too, showing perhaps that not only were they spared, but that they were intentionally freed as well. A nice unnoticed touch.
I've heard that the scene at the very end, where the workman is wheeling the crate far into the depths of a massive warehouse, was the inspiration for SyFy's well done show Warehouse 13. I still love that show. 🙂
Great reaction! Keep up the good work and I look forward to your reaction to the next two movies!
John Williams, who composed the music for Star Wars, also did the music for Indiana Jones.
The Mercedes logo was not product placement but the primary German vehicle producer of the era (including all military trucks) under Karl Benz, who also at the request of Hitler designed and built his people's car or Voltz Wagon.
Karl Benz mainly built the Mercedes-Benz vehicles after he'd merged his Benz car company with Gotlieb Daimler's Mercedes car company. Ferdinand Porsche was commissioned by Adolf Hitler to build the car company Volkswagen, which is why early model Porsche engines can fit in a Volkswagen chassis
Volkswagen.
@charlesmaurer6214 Volkswagen was built by Ferdinand Porsche, not Karl Benz. That's a major part of why earlier Porsche engines can be used in a Volkswagen
Also, Mercedes-Benz was a product of a merger of companies owned by Gotlieb Daimler and Karl Benz. Cars made by Daimler before the merger were named "Mercedes," and Karl Benz's automobiles simply bore his surname. When Daimler and Benz merged their companies into 1926, they'd hyphenated the names Mercedes-Benz
This is an old movie done in a much older style as it is an homage to 30's & 40's film serials which had a genre known as "cliffhangers" today subsumed into the "adventure" genre.
The Ark represents the power of god. As humans, we aren’t meant to see. Indy would know this as a professor.
Exactly, and it's knowing the Biblical history of the Iraelite people back then and their customs. "Averting your eyes" in avoiding looking directly at things was the way to show reverence, respect, humility, etc. for things or places that represented the presence of God. Looking right at it was considered arrogant and disrespectful.
0:25 "I haven't really watched a lot of '80s movies..."
>You've been missing out on an awesome decade for action/adventure movies.
Also, this movie was rated PG and is one of the reasons the term "'80s PG" is a thing.
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>It took me way too long to figure out why there was a disco ball in this scene.
At 6:00 the term you're looking for is "grave robber." The military men hint around this term when they say "What can we call it?....the obtainer of rare antiquities."
Don't let them trick you. The movie title is "Raiders of the Lost Ark," not "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark."
Yes, that's what the original title was. They'd added the "Indiana Jones" name to the title when they did a re-release
Oh no!!!!! What’s wrong with people nowadays?!? How dare they use the updated title of a movie?!?
That's right. No update needed. Just leave the original title as it is. I insist on it because I saw it during its theatrical release in 1981 (I was 8) and nobody consulted me about tacking the main character's name onto the title.
@@sithlordkaeyl21 Just out of curiosity, the original Star Wars trilogy. Do you refer to the first movie as Star Wars or A New Hope? Because in the original theatrical release, "Episode IV" and "A New Hope" were absent.
@@MrFishPirate, what does that have to do with anything? Am I coming on TH-cam to tell someone that whatever version of the title THEY use is wrong? No, because I know that people younger than me are most likely going to use the updated version of the title, which doesn’t affect me personally, and doesn’t really matter.
Back in the 20s and 30s, archeology was not very different than grave robbing. All the rules and laws weren't established back then, and Archeology was basically like tomb raiding.
Some were done with good intentions of preservation. Many were done with not so good intentions.
Archeology did not get "modern" until the advent of Heinrich Schliemann, who rediscovered, and largely excavated the site of the city of Troy.
Fun Fact! The Golden Idol, mooning the audience, from the intro is a poke at the Film Academy Awards who had snubbed two of Spielberg's hugely successful movies prior to this. Its eyes move. The effect didn't work very well so they dropped most of those scenes, but the scene where Indy is jumping back and forth you can see the eyes watching him as he approaches.
I'm from southwest missouri, US. Block buster, well produced movies didn't really become a thing until Jaws and Star Wars, so at this time they were still a new thing, and we were only getting about three or so a year at this point, so these were a real treat you didn't want to miss, especially if they were getting good reviews and doing well at the theater and lots of praise from people you knew. That following school year (I was 15 years old) this was a very much talked about movie amoug us kids. It became instantly famous.
Likely Indy told her not to look, because he surmised divine wrath was impending. In the Old Testament, Lots wife was turned to a pillar of salt, for witnessing the destruction of Sodom.
Yes, the Ark brought death. There were stories of people getting sick after being close to it. The symptoms suggested radiation poisoning so the Ark must have contained radioactive material.
There's a cut scene with the wise man who translates the headpiece, who tells him and Sallah the prophecy of not looking, Besides, the whole lighting, thunder, fire pillar, not looking when God's wrath is unleashed is extreme Old Testament tropes.
The guy who went into the propeller is Pat Roach, who is also in the second movie.
He also made a cameo in the third movie.
You are exactly right when you say it has a western vibe. This was highly inspired by the Westerns and Adventure serials and comedic serials of old Hollywood.
This is Harrison Ford's pride and joy. It's the character that made him a household name. Harrison loved doing this even more than Star Wars. If you choose to continue you will learn more about Indy and even more about who he is and what made into the man and character he is.
14:19
"I Forget What That's Called, I Know They're Super Poisonous"
That particular snake is a king cobra
When Marianne was surrounded by the corpses, I was like "Girl, close your mouth right now!", and I'm certain I'm not the only one who thought that too. 😂
So I was hanging with some guys I knew when I lived in Chicago, and one of them used the term "brick shithouse" in reference to a passing woman (we sometimes use the phrase to describe an attractive, thicc woman). I am rarely clever, but for some reason I chimed in, "yeah, unnecessarily solid", and everyone fell about the place. I've been waiting to say something that funny again for 25 years now... 😂
LMAO
24:47
"I Love The Music, It's So Fun, It Does Remind Me Of 'Star Wars' A Little Bit"
Well, there's a good reason why it's so similar to the Star Wars score. it's because the scores for the Indiana Jones movies and the Star Wars movies were scored by the same composer, John Williams
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No he's not an asshole.
If he had released her it would have been discovered and then the whole German battalion at the dig site would swarm around like angry hornets looking for them.
Venom when they bite you, poison when you bite them.
I like that scene in the tent more every year, this is him almost becoming his rival. Risking everything even the woman he loves for the prize, it's only at the end where he truly realizes it
Belloq and Jones are, and always have been, one and the same.
24:48
The reason you feel Star Wars vibes is because it's John Williams that made the score for both movie series.
Marion was 17 Indy was 27. Indy worked for Marion Father.
Wow... a girl in the 1930's making it all the way to 17, and she was NOT yet married with kids? She's in serious danger of becoming an old seamstress.
@@Mr.Ekshin Shes 27 at the time of Raiders.
@@LeighMet - Wow... basically an old maid. No wonder she's a heavy drinker.
I’m so happy you liked this movie. It’s one of my favorites, I saw it in the theater in 1982 when I was 8 years old. Back in the 80s kids movies, kids tv, basically everything was scary and gory. We only had G, PG, and R so PG movies had a bunch of dark/scary/gory stuff that they don’t put in kids movies anymore (This is part of the reason Gen-X kids grew up into the type of adults we are now).
When I watched this in the theatre, when it first came out, the audience cheered when Indy shot the sword wielding thug.
32:02 Toht's melting head was made of gelatin over a stone skull, they had two propane heaters and a heat gun blasting at it, and instead of the usual 24 frames per second, they filmed at 1 frame per second (and I think the shot may have been sped up even more in post production). The fire effect was added over Belloq's head exploding to take the film's rating from R down to PG (PG-13 didn't exist yet, that was actually a result of the second Indiana Jones movie).
The scene where Indy just shoots the sword-wielding boss, it was improvised because there was a dysentery outbreak on set. Harrison Ford had it so bad, he couldn't do the planned fight scene because he had to go relieve himself right away.
Hearing iced koala tell me that da Vinci code reminds me of raiders hurts me in the deep places. 😢😂😂
Funnily enough, Steven Spielberg was waiting for the shooting of The Shining to finish so he could film 'The Well of Soul' scenes (the snake temple). The Overlook Hotel and the Well of Souls were shot on the same set, at Elstree studios in England.
Great reaction!
The score sounds like Star Wars, as it was composed by John Williams, who did both, and did the scores for many other all time great films.
Also, “the eyes are the windows to the soul”. So, Indy and Marion did not bear witness to the power of God. Also, they didn’t have pure evil in their hearts, as the rest of the nazis did, and the spirits knew that, so they killed them in righteousness,
1:45 Post WWI and Pre WW2 (though it looks like you've found it)
3:20 Well, what did you expect? He's like 37 when this was filmed, and 32 when A New Hope was. (Not saying that he got worse when he got older).
8:54 What happened between them was quite disturbing, especially their age gap combined with Marion being a minor when that happened.
12:25 This scene almost didn't happen. Apparently, Harrison got sick during filming. He realized that the sword-fight scene wasn't going to go well, so he requested to change the script. Spielberg agreed, and so this scene was born (which pretty much made the film even more famous. Also, I would say that Harrison being sick allowed him to easily fit the "I don't have time for this" expression). And lastly, because of all the wasted time and effort the actor had to go through being in vain, Harrison paid him compensation.
18:17 The Egyptian Cobra and Horned Viper are two examples of extra-venomous snakes in Africa, particularly Egypt,
18:54 Cobra. However, despite the scene being located in Africa, the cobra there is a Monocled Cobra, which is exclusive to Southern Asia.
19:08 Can't blame him. If I hated something in front of me and I had the equipment to do so, it would be hard for me to not kill it. Plus, considering that there were venomous cobras in the pile, it's quite justified. Would you like to be bitten by a venomous snake?
20:51 According to the lore, that guy, who is Belloq, was constantly plagiarizing Indy's work and somehow successfully covered up any evidence he could use against him.
22:40 The foreshadowing of the death of his opponent.......
24:46 Not surprising that the soundtracks were both made by the same guy, none other than John Williams.
25:34 Yes. That is a truck that was used by Nazi Germany's military during WW2. It was a L3000, but this one was basically a heavily modified GMC CCKW. Also, Mercedes Benz (which is, as we all know, German) was quite popular among upper class during Nazi Germany (and still is, but worldwide), and figures such as Hitler himself had one, a 770k.
25:47 No [ _ ]. Don't even mention that his left arm was shot.
29:11 Submarines are actually nicknamed U-boats, though I get your point.
29:39 To be precise, a RPG (while both a Bazooka and RPG are rocket launchers, the projectile in the former is inside the weapon while in the latter, the projectile is sticking out). However, this was actually custom built, and meant to resemble an anti-tank weapon, since RPGs had not been invented yet. In fact, the Indiana Jones Wiki specifies it as a Grenade Launcher,which isn't completely false, since RPG stands for Rocket Powered Grenade)
29:49 This has become a quite funny meme on the internet. Still beats me how Paul Freeman did it so casually and acted as if it didn't exist.
30:35 Multiple theories surfaced about why this was the case. The most common ones include 1. the tablets eroded thanks to centuries of disregard and being untouched, and 2. the contents were hidden by this sand by God, as most were not worthy to see them.
31:58 Yes. They made a copy of Ronald Lacey's head out of wax, then covered a skull with it, and sandwiched between them was red gelatin, which made it look like blood and flesh during the melting. The model was dressed up, put under extreme heat, and melted for hours on camera. However, it took so long for the skull to be exposed that the footage had to be heavily sped up.
32:28 I think the novelization or a deleted scene/original draft had an old man reading Marion's medallion. He say there that it said that a person will die if he looks inside the Ark
The submarine and the U-boat bunker are actually borrowed from the German movie "Das Boot", which was shot around the same time. I'm not quite sure, but I also believe that the voice you hear over the PA system in the U-boat bunker (just before Indy got his too-small uniform) is one of the actors of "Das Boot".
7:50 - For display & preservation. More than the locals did
Just wait until you watch The Last Crusade! ❤
Try watching the Firefly series . I think you would love it.
When George Lucas first approached Spielberg about his archeology adventure movie Spielberg is listening him describe his idea behind the picture and suddenly Spielberg gets real excited and asks, "Ooh! Ooh! Can I do a scene where the guy gets chased by a giant boulder? I've always wanted to do a scene where a guy gets chased by a giant rolling boulder!"
Lucas is like, "Yeah...I ..guess .. so..?" like..Wha ?
The two men have lived very similar lives and have very similar interest but their personalities are completely different. Lucas is laid back and laconic where as Spielberg gets excited like a kid in a toy store.
8:57 The original backstory was for Marion Ravenwood to have been about fifteen at the time of her original relationship with Jones, but Lucas and Spielberg eventually realized how bad that made Indy look. So they made her about eighteen at the time, which isn't much better, since Jones was a graduate student when he studied under Abner Ravenwood.
Hey… she knew what she was getting into.
I saw a mini documentary on the face melting effect. It was a lot of work to get the wax to melt right, and they had only 5 head models to try it with. They finally got it on the last take, and it's glorious 8-)
She was 15 and he was 25 when they first met. A pretty normal age difference for the 30s. My grandfather was 29 when he married my grandmother, who was 17, and that was in the 1940s.
People really didn't start caring about that age difference as much until college became widely available to the masses, as opposed to only the rich kids.
Before that time, a man could support his family with a simple labor job, no college necessary. Most women were looking for a man who would provide and protect, and most men were looking for a woman young enough to bear several children and energetically raise them while maintaining the house.
Things have changed a lot in a century, but people are a product of their environment.
The scene where Indy shoots the guy with a sword was originally supposed to be a longer fight scene but it had to be shortened due to Ford having major food poisoning(you can even see how sh*tty he was feeling when the camera zooms in on his face).
"He broke his stick so no else could find it." What's stopping anyone from holding the two broken pieces together?
In the original script, and filming, the bronze piece told where to place the staff, in the holes on the ground, and not what length it was supposed to be. They decided this would confuse audiences, so they fixed it in post with a lot of ADR, but the scene of Indy finding the right hole, and bypassing the one used by the other team, remains.
I'd have broken it in 3 pieces and taken a short middle piece with me.
My question is why did Indiana find a new hole to put the staff in? That has something to do with it too. Belloq is a smart academic and would have the same research . So why would the Nazi staff position been different? The height was the only thing in question.
Oooo yesss Indiana Jones!! Loving the reactions as always Quokka!
Notice that in this story the Ark of the Covenant went from government storage to government storage where it was "safe?"
George Lucas, Stephen Spielberg, Lawrence Kasdan, John Williams, Harrison Ford. How could it not be one of the greatest films of all time?! 🤘
The words "sexy" and "archeologist" really don't go together, and this was even more true in the days before "Raiders of the Lost Ark" came out. I was fortunate enough to see the film in 1981, in theaters (at age 14). "This film is about an archeologist, who goes on dangerous adventures around the world, breaking into ancient tombs seeking old artifacts, while thwarting or outsmarting bad guys. It also occurs in the 1930s, while the Nazis are rising to power." It actually doesn't sound like the most interesting film, when it's described that way. But, it's written by the man who wrote "Star Wars" and directed by the guy who directed "Jaws." Maybe it's worth a shot," thought the 14-year-old me, in 1981. :D The truth is, even a large collection of talented people, can't guarantee a good film - let alone one that's a genre-defining critical and box office success. We're lucky to have this film, and these characters.
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"The amount of people MURDERED in this film (by Indy and Marion)..." I know that you're not really aghast at the deaths and gore in this film, but I'll reply in the light-hearted spirit with which you made your initial comment:
If 'murder' means 'taking the life of an innocent person' ( a person who doesn't deserve to be killed), how often does that actually happen in this film (deaths initiated by Indy or Marion)? The people who die are people who attempt to kill Indy or Marion first - which would make their deaths 'killing in self-defense,' rather than murder. Other deaths are Nazi soldiers or people who are allied with them (such as the men in the side car, whom Indy swerves into with the truck, and forces them to drive over a cliff). We are supposed to view them as men allied with an evil, wicked cause, and to not feel (too) sorry for them, nor view their deaths as murder. While World War II hasn't started when this story takes place, we viewers know that it is going to; those Nazi soldiers are properly grouped into the larger group of military deaths associated with WW II. It's also (obviously) an action-adventure story, so we're not supposed to think about deaths of incidental characters that much. :)
The third movie of the series is my favorite by far!
That is a good one.
the way Indy knew to shut his eyes was two things one; a deleted scene, from the old man who translated the head piece he told Indy not to look at what came out. (as it wasn't meant to be open by anyone and especially horrible Nazis; who were judged by the spirits/angels and were murdered) also number 2 with Indy's knowledge of the Ark he might of known not to look at it. in the stories and myths of the Ark it was supposed to have the 10 commandments in it along with a rod, a bowl of mana and something else i think. these supernatural creatures most likely if it was real etc judged everyone and could tell Indy and Marion were innocents and not like the nazis; as they survive. they destroyed the tv and machinery first, then the people.
18:55 In the original version of this movie (before they restored it) you could see the reflection of this cobra in the sheet of glass that separated it from Harrison Ford.
Also, a quick footnote. cobras are NOT poisonous...the term is "VENOMOUS".
24:30 "Cars back in those days were so fragile; no way it would survive that."
You have it backwards.
Early cars were all steel.
Steel engine, steel chassis, steel frame, steel body, steel, steel, steel.
Modern cars are mostly plastic and aluminum to reduce weight and raise gas mileage.
Ram a 2024 Tesla, or even a 2024 Corolla, with that 1936 Mercedes-Benz and the modern car will be spread all over the road and the Benz will need little more than a fresh coat of paint.
Love the slang translator but as a Brit, one of the things I like about Aussie reactors is we speak the same slang. I was just remembering someone saying “Bloody hell, mate!” and you said “Bloody hell..” and the “Built like a brick sh…….” caption came up. It’s comforting to hear familiar sounds after watching reactors from other countries for a while.
I actually added the slang translator because someone commented once asking what I meant 🤣🤣
16:45 "You would never leave a person you love. What an a-hole."
I don't think you're seeing the big picture.
If he takes Marion out of the tent, the whole camp will know within minutes. He will NEVER get the Ark after that.
Or if he leaves her there, gets the Ark secretly, hides it, then he can come back and get her.
Either way he saves Marion but only one way is he able to get both Marion and the Ark.
Plus, if they found her missing and started a search, both of them would probably be caught right away.
29:00 "OMG is it a sumbarine? I thought it was a boat. It must be a sumbarine."
Nope.
It's a submarine.
As in "sub" (below) and "marine" (water).
Also called a U-boat (U for "underwater"), so I guess it's a boat too, but by this time they were less like boats and more like ships that happened to be able to function underwater.
You'll have a ton of fun with the next two, they're amazing.
Indiana Jones fashion is the fashion of the era, that whole sophisticated masculine and traditional thing. It's a great look.
You mentioned how good the music for the movie is and how it kind of reminded you of the Star Wars music a little bit. That's because a great man by the name of John Williams created the music for the Indiana Jones movies and Star wars along with so many other movies over the years. John Williams is known for creating great and memorable music for movies.
I’ve yet to watch the older Indiana Jones movies, so glad you gave this a chance! Your reactions and comments are always top tier ❤
Awww thank you so much Hannah! 🫶🤍
@@icedquokka (if you like Harrison Ford's early work as a romantic lead, you should watch Witness, from 1985 😎👍)
25:41 Fun Fact: This is really Harrison Ford being dragged behind the truck.
It's funny to me that you aren't more afraid of spiders. Australia is one of the few places where an irrational fear of spiders is, in fact, completely rational! lol
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Inside the Ark was except for the stone tablets Aarons rod and a jar of manna.
The relics burned on the ship to keep them away.
The Ark was supposed to be God's dwelling place on earth and the manna was his food.
Welcome to the world of Indiana Jones, Dr. Quokka. LOL
5 films in this wonderful saga, and easily, some of Harrison Ford's best work outside of Star Wars. You're going to enjoy yourself with this universe. Have fun!
don't forget Witness!
One of the Nazis in the truck scene was a teacher at my school. I think he's the one in the truck that Indy punches.
In the times of the Ark of the Covenant, it was kept in the innermost chamber of the Hebrew tabernacle, the massive tent that traveled with the Hebrews as they wandered the desert for 40 years. Most people were forbidden from even looking upon it for fear that the power of god would strike them dead where they stood. Only the high priests were permitted to enter into the presence of the ark to give up offerings to God.
Indiana knew this and would have warned Marion to close her eyes in case something like that was about to happen. It's a good thing he did, too.
“Maybe in the next movie the female character will be better written”
Who wants to tell iced koala?????.
the young guy in the beginning of raiders with indy is the same actor who plays doc oc. he's really young in this. harrison ford wasn't the first choice to play Indy; long story short they couldn't find anyone else and he fit perfectly etc.
Oh, how I wish Marian HAD been brought back for parts II and III. Well, for part II, in particular. #IYKYK
She did show up again in 'Indiana Jones & The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull'...
This is again, George Lucas's fascination with the old movie serials he saw as a kid. Star Wars starts off like a chapter in a Flash Gordon serial. You arrive at the theater without having seen the earlier chapters but a crawl at the beginning gets you up to speed, and then you're dropped right in the middle of the action. It's a shame they didnt continue with the cliff hanger format for the rest of the films but that's why Star Wars: A New Hope starts off the way it does.
That's how a Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers serial was like if you hadnt seen it all the way from the beginning.
"Oh my god" counter required
“I didn’t realize this movie it was so violent ?!?!”
Uh, maybe do what Indy does at the end. Shut your eyes.
So the fight against the sword guy was going to be a long fight but Harrison Ford was sick so they changed it to ford just shooting him
[it wasn't just Harrison Ford. a good chunk of the cast/crew got dysentery - fever, vomiting, stomach pain, bloody stool &/or explosive diarrhea]
Can I just point out that it was not just us (England) who took items from other countries. We get the blame, but other countries have done it - many well before we did. We were just probably better at it than most were.
However, we are the only country that gets continually blamed for it.
& in at least one case (Elgin Marbles) they were paid for. Granted not the right people, the Ottoman Empire & not the Greeks. But they were the people in charge of them at the time.
DID you notice the Star Wars Easter Egg on the Float Plane? The Tail Number, OB-3PO for OBwan-c3PO
Oh I didn’t notice!! I’ll have a re watch and check
Shoot I'm 50 and I've watched this movie 100's of times and never noticed that! Learn something new everyday
There's plenty of Star Wars Easter eggs throughout the series. There's also a mural of R2-D2 and C-3P0 in the Well of the Souls
@@benschultz1784 But unless you can freeze frame it in high rez you can NOT see it. The numbers are plain for all to see. In fact the freighter was called the Bantha Wind but never saw that in the movie.
The eighties were great for fun, feel good movies that weren’t too deep. We could use a few of those now.
If you liked Indy in Raiders, be sure to watch the sequel, The Temple of Doom. It premiered in 1984 and Harrison Ford bulked up his muscles for that role. As they say nowadays, he was ripped (and so was his shirt--it was in tatters). 😀
Great fun reaction beautiful ❤.... As far as what is illegal remember this is 1936 almost 90 years ago 😊
The prequel tell you why he's afraid of snakes.
No, that's the sequel.
Last Crusade isn't a prequel - it has a flashback intro.
Temple of Doom is the prequel.
The opening scenes of Last Crusade is the one that shows where where Indy developed his fear of snakes
The sword used by the guy Indy shot is called a simitar and it is a traditional Islamic sword for beheading any who fails to follow Islam. It also was used to remove hands of thieves under Islamic law. It is not that useful in war but was considered a swift means of delivering the Justice of Allah.
Indy knew not to watch when the ark was open from a deleted scene where the old man the read the medallion for him told him not to watch
Spielberg makes a beautiful movie no matter what the budget
Snakes in Egypt? Absotively, posolutely. It is said that Cleopatra suicides by clasping an asp to her bosom while on a Nile barge.
"I didn't realize this movie was so violent." The US added a new category to it's rating scheme because of the ending of this movie. Before it was just G, PG, R, and X. They added PG-13.
That was the next one.
Back then anything that is buried and lost over time was treasure and was claimed by the finder or the person funding the hunt. And a lot of these items that have be saved by museums would have been lost or destroyed by other religious factions. as has been done in recent times.
1981 wasn't that long ago, I remember it well
You should definitely check out more 80s movies! Fun reaction!!