The REAL History of the Crystal Skull - Indiana Jones Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2020
- Today we're jumping back into Indiana Jones to talk about the real history and mythology behind the crystal skull from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. What was it? Is it based on anything real? What do we know about the crystal skulls in the real world? Let's find out together!
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Dan Alroyd has revealed the truth of Crystal Skull to us all...
The Truth, was Vodka.
@@CynUnion-ji9uj Filtered using diamonds
With no glycol.
Herkimer diamonds of course!
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I honestly love Alex’s deep dives into Indie lore and real world history.
We've been here 100,000 yrs or better.
I liked Crystal Skull. The movie and the MacGuffin. I always like it when a franchise tries something new and Indy not just hunting for religious artefacts felt very refreshing.
I agree. I had hoped that Indy 5 would try something more different like Temple of Doom. It looks fine so far though.
@@AT-il4xldial didnt do anthing new it was boring
@@dboygamer8184 i can't say I wasn't disappointed
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the crystal skull from “Han Solo and the Lost Legacy” and the Solo movie (in Dryden’s ship)
There was also one in Garnac's ship during the Trandoshan hunter arc in the Clone Wars
Well, that's fanfic fuel.
"The crystal skull is super magnetic... unless it's covered by a rag or something... and it only attracts context-sensitive steel and iron."
And very weakly attracts gold coins. Strong enough to stick, but easy to brush off.
And it doesn't made sense that it attracts gunpowder, as gunpowder, or in this case smokeless powder, is not metallic and does not attract a magnet.
😂😂😂😂😂 so true
I like to think the skull has a mind of its own and only attracts objects to it when it wants to be found
But yeah the whole magnetic thing was the only real thing I considered pointless
It’s the first Indiana Jones film I saw, I remember renting it at blockbuster and making popcorn and watching it in a pillow fort with the blinds down one of my best memories
All I know about Crystal Skull is that their vodka is overpriced garbage..
Mmmorshu 😂😂😂
Ah a JonTron fan
Nice bottles though
Blame the Ghostbusters
Paint stripper vodka
An anthropology professor who researched the Hedges skull authenticity lectured at my university and I think he’d be pleased by the way you presented it
Please make a video explaining why Indiana Jones isn't allowed to go to Madagascar.
That's a thing?
@@ThatGenericPyro It was mentioned in Temple of Doom. The "Sultan of Madagascar" (never a real life thing) threatened to cut off a part of Indy if he ever returned to the country.
@@TimThomason Must be trying to hide Libertalia lol
Tim Thomason it was his misunderstanding.
@@ViperPilot16
wasn't meant to be found by Indy, but perhaps a member of the drake family
*sees new video*
I WANT TO KNOW! I WANT TO KNOW! I WANT TO-
*disintegrates*
Ohhhh! MIDNIGHT STAR!!!!
It's just me or the CRISTAL SKULL in the CLONE WARS could perfectly be from a NOGHRI hunted down by the trandoshans.
THE SKULL AND THE NOGHRI'S HEAD HAVE THE SAME SHAPE
@Devon Robinson Yeaaahhh
I'm with this in my head for soooo long
The Alien Crystal Skull also isn't the only Crystal Skull in Indiana Jones lore. Tokyo DisneySea's version of the Indiana Jones Adventure attraction focuses on one guarding the Fountain of Youth and opened like six years or so before the movie came out.
The story of the skulls is very interesting, even they are forged. You could make an entire movie about it. It was uncertain over 100 years if they are genuine or not. The quality of the carving on some of them are so good that you really think it has some spirit in it and fooled some researchers. That French guy Boban who you can track back at its first owners is seemingly a very interesting person on its own, same as the story of the different skulls wandering around the earth.
A late friend of mine had a book on Crystal skulls and showed it to me. He loved the book and was fascinated with them. I mentioned the Indiana Jones movie and loaned him my copy of the dvd for him to watch. After he watched it he didn't think that the skulls were alien but enjoyed the film.
Hey Alex, I absolutely love these Indiana Jones informative videos. Not only did I see the OT SW films in the theaters, but I also saw all the Indy films as they were released. Like you I was hooked right away. I even wore my a real WW2 bomber jacket and fedora, as well as took bullwhip lessons (still have the scars) as a kid. In short, I was a complete dork for this stuff. It’s what led to my obsession with history and become a military historian. Keep up the great content.
I just wanted to mention, Adam, what you showed when you said "Mayan calendar" is actually the Aztec calendar.
Kinda like how the guy you referred to as Adam is actually called Alex?
[Pushing glasses up] Actually, they're not aliens but interdimensional beings.
Gotta love these 6:00 AM Video drops (west coast here). Keep up the great Indiana Jones videos!
I'm telling you man, the World Between Worlds is the only explanation for those aliens being on Earth. I mean come on, there's even one in that Trandoshan's display of kills; it must be true!
Actually in the movie, one of the characters says that the aliens left to “the space between spaces”.
Even better!
Another piece of evidence for the Star Wars/Indiana Jones/ ET shared universe theory.
Davidnotbrave 2 In layman’s terms, The Fourth Dimension.
iSharkyShark Where does ET fit into it? Also, maybe Indy is a descendent of Han (explaining why they look so similar), and maybe Indy once mentioned to George Lucas at some event a legend about space wars, and George turned it into a movie?
You mean its not true? Like the Ark melting Nazis or Cups protected by a 500 Year old Knight?
The Ark is true. It contains the tablet of Moses.
At least those 2 were entertaining.
@@JediKnight207 The Crystal Skull was just something some fraudsters made up very recently. The Ten Commandments were just something some fraudsters made up 5,000 years ago.
@@LaurenceQuint fraudsters made the 10 commandments? That could offend some people
@@vt6031 Oh, well....
Loving these Indy videos! Would you ever consider doing deep dives into some of the stuff from the Indy “expanded universe” such as Fate of Atlantis and Staff of Kings?
I subscribed to your channel for Star Wars and you're still my main most consistent Star Wars watch but I have to say, as someone who's never seen Indiana Jones, I quite enjoyed these few as well as the change of pace and topic. You made me want to match these movies now. :P And hopefully it helps stave off the threat of Star Wars burnout!
I love these! Keep up the good work!
I just love that you did this!!
Omg I didn't know you did Indiana Jones content! Before The Force Awakens, I had always considered myself more of an Indiana Jones fan. Please more Indy content!!!
Alright. Time to conquer the video games, the comics, and most importantly the Young Indy series on VHS
I enjoy the occasionally Indy content. Keep up the good work guys!
Love your Indy content, keep it going.
Thanks for the Indy content! I really need to re watch these movies!
I know you don’t want to, but an Indiana Jones channel with real world history ties would be AMAZING.
Love this video! I normally don’t comment but I approve of this occasional delving into Indiana Jones!
The worst part about the "Crystal Skulls" is that it took away from something much more historical/realistic like El Dorado or The 7 cities of Gold that hold more importance to Latin America.
How did the existence of alien skulls “take away” the so called “historical” El Dorado??? 🤦♂️
I actually enjoyed this movie. I remember going to see it on opening night with one of my oldest friends. And he enjoyed also. But we know alot of people didn't like it
So Han was dimension hopping while him and Leia were split up, for a bit. I see
Cool video 📹 thanks for the information ℹ 👍🏻
Wow, didn't know you were getting into Indiana Jones! Nice! Can't wait for 5!
Congrats on 600k!!!!
We don't have crystal skulls in South America. But, please, come to Brazil visit us.
You should do a video about the history of El Dorado (or Akator in this movie). It's kind of the other McGuffin in the movie.
Star Wars Explained you have great videos and I enjoy watching. Just wanted to let you know that the image you used at 4:28 is the Aztec Calendar NOT the Mayan Calendar.
These are cool you should do a few more :)
Slow Star Wars week I take it. In any case thank you for your work on this neat video.
Great videos! I love your Indy content. Would you do a review on the TV series teenage Indiana Jones with River Phoenix?
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Great research!
Cool info thanks
Well presented!
3:18 my boy ki adi mundi after order 66
Luke Del lmao
3:26
kylo ren
bruh
I will always love this movie. For me, it's as good as the first three.
I hope they bring Indy's age closer to Harrison's for the next movie (Harrison has been quite a bit older than Indy in every movie so far) and set it in 1976 or 1977. I loved the idea of the movies' setting dictating the style. 30s adventure serial, then 50s B-Movie. And we all know what style exploded in 1977.
Wow this was a really comprehensible video! One could say it was... Crystal clear.
I appreciate the research here
One of the things that made me feel like this didn't match with the other artifacts is because we have proof that it is a tangible item, but was proven fake. Unlike the others, where we don't have a tangible artifact and may be real
Well the Ark at least was very real - not just the Israelites documented its existence. But I get what you mean.
I'll let you in on a secret. It's All mythology
Your telling me that the existence of aliens is somehow LESS “tangible” than the literal god(s) and magic artifacts??? 😇
LOVE IT!!
Thanks, I learnt something about the Indiana Jones franchise today.
As soon as Shia Lebeouf started swinging like Trazan with a group of monkeys, the "Shitdom of the Crappy skull" was over.
Because Jones using his wip to swing to the idol is somehow in your mind “”not-over”” 😒
Hey there Alex! Loved this video! I would love to submit an Indy question for the weekly Q&A.
With Indy 5 confirmed as a continuation of Ford’s Indy and not a reboot, what do you think the mcguffin for the film with be? And will we see characters like Marion, Mutt, Shortround, Sallah, etc return? I head the movie will be based in the 70’s. Could we see a deeper dive into the Cold War?
And will he have the eye patch from the series...
@Matthew Chenault Ruin Star Wars? I haven't noticed anything different about it.
“-Because it was bull." Gotta love it XD
I still like this movie (I saw it with my grandparents as a child may have bias) but I don't understand people who use the argument that the skull is nonsense while and ancient ark melts Nazi's faces and a wooden cup turns another Nazi into dust.
You may want to rewatch those movies and understand that there billion Jews Christians and Muslims are fascinated by the arc of the covenant.
Unlike the eleven people who may have heard of the crystal skulls.
That were fake anyway historically.
And that no one wanted an Indy movie with aliens.
Frank Severino I remember there’s an Indiana Jones book where he discovered an obelisk that goes to space in Mt. Sinai. It also had a Nazi with a metal arm that shoots lightning.
@@alexanderchristopher6237 books, comics, etc, don't often translate to film.
I'm just comparing it to the other three
@Matthew Chenault you're welcome to feel that way.
I simply don't.
Nor do I agree with your other assessment.
No one asked for the prequels?
We asked for nothing else for 20 years!
Perhaps we were disappointed...
But we asked
And we asked hard.
But no one asked for Indy 4.
Or Mutt.
Or the fridge.
The weird monkeys.
Interdimensional beings instead of religious Iconography
Weird sci-fi instead of magic/religious power.
It was a big departure in a series most people thought had already concluded.
So people in large part consider it a dumpster fire.
@Matthew Chenault all film is subjective Matthew.
Everything you say is right with the film is equally subjective.
No one is complaining about the runtime, poor camera work or audio.
Those can be objectively poor.
Whether or not a film worked for you is always subjective.
And the consensus is that this film didn't work for many people.
Besides the crystal skull easter egg in "Wookie Hunt," I never noticed that there is also a Mandalorian Neo Crusader helmet in there. Neato!
Indiana Jones 🤠 and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a Gem 💎 of a Movie 🎦
Indiana Jones timeline! please!! Not just the films, but the show, comics, and novels. You would own this!
Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a Good Movie!!! 😎👍
Just watched it again, damn it’s good.
Anyone else first hear of crystal skulls from listening to Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell / George Noory? Anywho, yay for more Indy content from Alex!
I'm not saying it's Aliens but...
It's Aliens. 👽
Mentioned in temple of doom
@Coelophysis believe it was one of the dialogues between Indy, Chatter Lal and captain blumberg
You both COMPLETELY missed the point "@Coelophysis." 😂
It’s ACTUALLY inter-dimensional “beings” 😱
1:30, The man after whom the skull is named tells his own brother, "I bought it at an auction", everybody still thinks it's of questionable origin and has mystic powers...
...but people aren't stupid...🙄
I loved this movie. To those who thought it was TOO WEIRD....so an 800-year-old crusader guarding a cup that can cure a gunshot wound was not weird? A box that is a radio through which you can talk to a god and has beings that shoot out of it and melt your face isn't weird? Or that one with three rocks that can dictate whether a valley has good weather and can grow food and a weird cult priest who can take the heart of a guy without killing him so the victim can be burned alive in lava isn't weird? Then you have a weird definition of weird. Cuz all of the above is weird. And I love it.
VODKA! I WANT MY VODKA!!!
I love these indy videos
I need to watch this movie again.
The crystal skull used in the movie was an elongated skull, like those found in Paracas. Important note.
I expected Indy to search the "Fountain of Youth" which was sought by Spanish Explorer Ponce De Leon. Or maybe Indy could look for the lost city of Atlantis!!!!
Or middle earth
Or a trip to Antarctica for....reasons
Would you consider videos on the macguffins in young Indiana Jones? Like how the diamond of the peacocks eye is the diamond from temple of doom?
Preparing for the Schmoedown I see lol. Rooting for you Alex, go get that belt.
To be fair, while the Ark of the Covenant is written about in texts many find compelling, it still isn't real or magical either. All the macguffins in Indiana Jones are based on wild alternate history theories. Though I'm sure you are aware of that. Thanks as always for endlessly fun content.
Interesting all ways love Star Wars and Indiana Jones hug fan.
Are you going to do the MacGuffin that was used in the Temple of doom
Mayan calendar, proceeds to show the Aztec calendar
Can you do a history of Indy and other characters?
You should cover more Lucasfilm properties. THX-1138, Willow... Howard the Duck Explained!
on the tv show, Ancient Aliens, they tested the mitchell hedges skull, and said that such a formation could store data, but they have no way of reading such an object yet to see if it does
The Mayan calendar didn’t end in 2012 it just started on a new cycle kind of like how the Gregorian calendar didn’t end in 1999 and just went into the next millennium
Linking the Mayans and Inca is an annoying thing that lots of New Age writers do. They didn’t have any kind of long term contact and I’m not aware of any exploratory contact. There was all of Central America and half of South America between them with endless deadly jungle and no long range ships. There’s even a scene in the movie where Indie translates an ancient Peruvian language into Mayan then into Spanish to English which makes less than no sense
Uri Geller has the main crystal skull which was a gift from the President of Mexico. He is planning to show it off at his museum!
Don't forget the fact that Irina Spalko is also in Rebels but under a different name
Check out The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls by Chris Morton & Ceri Louise Thomas. There are supposedly at least two ancient skulls that were tested and found to be ancient. Max the crystal skull and Sha Na Rah were tested at the British museum and found to be carved over 1500 years ago.
UFO aliens don’t sit well in an Indy movie but when they instead called them “dimensional beings” it made everything all right. Then again “Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men” was the first title for the script.
May be a little late but the number 13 kinda makes sense in my opinion because 13 is generally associated with being unlucky in many cultures so it probably wasn't randomly selected as you guessed.
During the scene where they torture Indy with the skull, they say looking into it’s eyes is a way to be brainwashed by the skull. This could be a call back to the Temple of the Forbidden Eye at Disneyland where a fictional deity known as Mara offers temple visitors one of 3 class 1 gifts. However if one looks into Maras eyes they will instead be sent to the gates of doom for eternal punishment.
There is also a crystal skull, a massive one, in Solo in Vos' office--room--thing.
Ancient Aliens is central to my favorite drinking game. You drink every time the narrator says "ancient astronaut theorists believe..."
Ahhhhhh yes!!! I've been waiting for this video! Unpopular opinion: I actually enjoyed the 4th movie, it sadly gets a bad rep
I love it, but it’s a bad movie.
oh boy my favorite star wars movie
*Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull*
I actually just met the 13th skull owner who was lead to it. I saw it, met her and know of another skull named Max. All 13 have not come together. But maybe some extra research is due. Check mt. Shasta for crystal skull and healing too.
4:28 Sorry to be that guy Alex, but I would like to throw that that photo is not a Mayan Calendar.
It is called _Piedra del Sol_ or *Mexica Sun Stone* in english, and is not an actual calendar. It only has Calendar Glyphs to reference the cyclical concepts of time and its relationship to the cosmic conflicts within the Aztec ideology. 😀😁🧐🤓
I love that movie ever since I am kid
Nice
I actually like the 4th film.
That guy from that meme... yep, that is the best explanation of him.
Since they are making an Indiana Jones 5, what artifact would you like him to go after?
That's a darn good question! The Nazca lines fascinate me, but have already been seen, and we want an artifact. Hmmm...I'll get back to you!
Would it be cool if Cate Blanchett, Who played Irina Spalko in The Indiana Jones Franchise would play as Satine Kryze in Star Wars Franchise?