@@vincegamer No, it really doesn't. This is a prime example of someone watching a movie or reading a script and not actually understanding. The cult, the thuggie cult, is not intended to be a depiction of "India."
ToD is a wildly misunderstood masterpiece. The script is layered with allusion to Hindu theology that are mostly lost on Western viewers. And the gross feast is something Hindus would never eat and Indy's first clue something is amiss. To elaborate on some theological aspects - Indy falls from the sky as an avatar of Shiva to save the village and vanquish the cult defaming his wife (Kali would be most offended that they are using her name to make people worship a demon 😅). His mythical quest to the underworld and back leads him to the realization that the elder was right and he uses the power of Shiva to ignite the Shankara stones, which he is not burned by when he catches the last one.
Thank you for saving me the trouble of writing this! I felt a great spiritual hole in my life from a strangely early age; at age 9 I was already fascinated by world religions and theology. I had read the Bible front to back multiple times by the time I was 12, by which time I had also purchased a copy of the Tao Te Ching, the Upanishads and was searching for a good introduction to the Holy Vedas, as this was the early 90s, before the Internet, and I lived in a small town in Southeastern USA (though I was born in, and lived my first 7 years in Manchester, England), where I could not find a guru. However, I had read the Gita, and I had read some very good and accurate descriptions of Hindu theology; My point is, I probably saw this for the first time at 7 or 8; when I next saw it I was probably 13 or 14, and I was at one of my bandmates’ gaff, drinking beers and smoking hashish spliffs. We were watching the trilogy in chronological order (not in order of release, but in the order in which these events were supposed to have happened). Whilst watching this film, I suddenly realised the whole thing was an Hindu mythological allegory, and I got so excited, and my mate was like ‘What are you on about, man?’ And just thought I’d smoked too much. But I watched it again the next day, and knew I was right. Bloody great film. Maybe the BEST of the three-it’s simply so good it went right over the tops of the heads of Western critics.
@@matthiasobst4533 😂 No argument here! One of the scenes that always makes me laugh is when Indy and Short Round are talking by the fire, and, meanwhile, in the background, Willi is creating utter bedlam as she runs into countless forms of either jungle wildlife, or what she -receives to be jungle wildlife.
I'm Chinese an' I've always thought the introductory musical number was fine. (Capshaw's accent is a little ehh.. to hear to my ear, but I think it's perfectly fine for a non-native speaker and character who's likely only memorized it for singing.) I wouldn't consider much of the opening scene to be problematic today. The depiction of Indian culture however... has many more issues, only the least of which is that no one of Indian heritage I've seen watch this has been able to make out much of what some of the villagers are saying (probably because it was filmed in Sri Lanka, so perhaps they were speaking Sinhala and Tamil). Otoh, one ought to keep in mind that Indiana Jones is a pulp action-adventure series. Apart from that pulp stories and fiction in general from the actual 1930s tended to exoticize and caricaturize foreign cultures, and that tends to become part of the fabric of the genre, it likewise exaggerates and caricaturizes Western cultures too, from American to German. (Consider the depiction of Nazis in the Indiana Jones series, and much post-WW2 fiction in general, compared to the depiction of them in Schindler's List, which is far more serious, yet both depictions coming from the same director. In action films where the heroes punch Nazis, they're Evil but Conquerable, at least in the small scope, by a Rugged Hero.)
AFAICT is just the musical Anything Goes translated into Chinese (though which Chinese language i don't know enough to say, I'd guess Mandarin, but I don't know if that's appropriate for Shanghai in the 30s or if Cantonese or Yue or something else would be more appropriate). As a historian, the only thing I'd complain about is that I thought Anything Goes was more popular in the 20s than the 30s.
@@EyeMCreative Absolutely YES! *The Goonies* is one of my childhood’s defining films, along with *Beetlejuice* and the *Star Trek* films. *Star Trek IV* is one of my earliest memories of going to a cinema. It was only my father and I, as my sister was still a baby and couldn’t be counted on to stay quiet, and my mum was never much for Star Trek, anyway.
The scene in which he whips the sword from the guy’s hand, then uses it to chase off the second attacker, only to suddenly turn and run from an entire attacking horde, is almost a precise mirror of the scene in *Star Wars* in which Han bluffs his way into scaring off a squad of stormtroopers on his own, only to come running back down the same hallway in the next moment, an entire platoon after him.
This MIGHT be my favourite of the 4 that I've seen (no Dial of Destiny for me, yet) but it's a tough call. Raiders is iconic in SO many ways, and will be extremely difficult to surpass, but Temple is just such a fun ride and excites me far more than Raiders. I also appreciate that, although they didn't go super in-depth into Ark/Christian lore in he first one, it was still pretty well grounded in certain aspects of the theology, and I appreciate the depth they went to in Temple with Hindu theology and kept this one fairly well grounded in that. From what I understand at least. The lost potential career of Ke Huy Quan is easily one of the more tragic things to happen in Hollywood history (barring actors' deaths and certain criminal behaviour) in a long time. Just imagine the action-adventure star we could have had if he'd been able to even 'just' pursue more work like this and Goonies, obviously with the roles growing as he grew, or the brilliant work akin to EEAAO that we could have seen from him! That being said, though, his work in EEAAO may not have had the impact it did if he HAD had a longer career...either way, I'm just glad he's back and getting the recognition he deserves. For my money, Temple of Doom is absolutely an equal Indy/Short Round movie, and both shone bright as fuck.
The Indy / Short Round love story (the parent / child affection) is the one that matters most, as it establishes who Indy is. It sets up both the intro sequence for Last Crusade where we see Indy as a teen (he sees himself in Short Round) and the parent / child friction with Henry Sr., as well as the relationship Indy has with Helena (and her connection to Teddy) in Dial of Destiny. Two bits of trivia -- making this film is where Spielberg met Kate Capshaw. Pat Roach, the actor who plays the big fellow in the mine fight scene, is the same guy Indy fights in the Raiders plane scene (when he and Marion are trying to escape the desert) who meets his demise in the propellers.
and it should be noted that spielberg and capshaw didn't like each other at the time but they somehow became infatuated with one another despite the fact that they were married to other people at the time. it would be around the early 90s is when they reconnected and fell in love and got married. she also got him back in touch with his old jewish faith and she converted to judaism. that's love.
YES! The Indy-Short Round familial love story is by far my favourite love story in these movies. The two of them together just click so well, and they show so much genuine care and affection for each other.
The mine guard who got put through the rock crusher, is played by the same actor who played the German soldier who went through the airplane propeller in "Lost Ark".
I heard that he was also the large sword man who Indy shot! It was to be a big fight but Harrison Ford was sick so they just shot him and made him a German so he could have the big fight later!
Love Shortround! He was by far the best part of this movie! Please tell me you've seen Goonies! He was GREAT as Data! I saw him in that BEFORE I saw him in this, even though I grew up in the 80's and Indiana Jones, I was Gonnies a TON of times! Paved the way for Stranger Things!
Not quite right... the Rape of Nanking happened in 1937, after the 2nd Sino-Japanese war kicked off. I reckon Indy just happened to be passing through the city.
When I saw "Jacqui - *TEMPLE OF DOOM* Reaction", I said to myself: does she know what she's getting into?. Can you imagine the anguish level a 9-year-old kid can reach watching this for the first time at the movie theatre at 1985?
It's a small thing, but the shot of Indy looking through the hole from the crusher room and saying "we are going to die" is amazing. He goes through several facial expressions, and they're all perfect.
“Inappropriate”…in Shanghai in 1935, an attractive blonde woman singing songs in Chinese would have been a profitable draw for local audiences. There is nothing “inappropriate” about that…except that it’s a shady criminal establishment. She’d be lucky if she wasn’t being pimped… Anyway, if you’re into Ke Huy Quan, you also need to watch The Goonies. Also, trivia: this movie was the primary reason for the creation of the PG-13 rating. People were shocked by the gore/horror being ramped up so much from the first one. Strange movie in that regard. Seems to me ripping somebody’s heart out should get an R either way. But the same could be said for the melting faces in the first one.
5:15 - We didn't see it in this reaction. But you would have when recording. The "British" man who lead Indy, Willie and Short Round to that plane was Dan Aykroyd from the original Ghostbusters movies. And if you'd like to stay on the "Ke Huy Quan Train". The Goonies, which came out the year after this movie, is for you.
Really is too bad the timing was not right for there to a end credit scene in Dial Of Destiny that would have shown a now middle age Short round reunited with Dr. Jones.
This was the movie that got so many parents up in arms that they created the PG-13 rating after the film came out (the first PG-13 film was Red Dawn directed by John Millius the following year. Between the bugs, the banquet from Hell, Mola Ram pulling the heart from the man's chest, and a few other things, parent groups were furious that this was PG and not R-rated. The actor who plays Mola Ram is Amrish Puri, who was a huge Hindi film actor specializing in (you guessed it!) villains. However, his most significant success was in 1995 with the romantic film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The Braveheart Takes The Bride) directed by Aditya Chopra and starring Shah Ruhk Khan, Kajol, Anupam Kher, and Puri. The film won every Indian film award, and as of 2020 (with a few gaps like COVID) was still playing in cinemas in Mumbai after 24 years, making it one of the most successful films in Indian Cinema history. As a Westerner, I have seen it a couple of times, and it is a fun film with some great songs. Puri's role as Kajol's father living in London and longing for his beloved home in Punjab, India is nuanced and powerful. And the love story between Shah Rukh and Kajol has charm and emotion to spare (they have done several films together). Just a few years after this came out, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw (Willie Scott) fell in love and married. At the time of filming, they became friends and were married to other people. When Ke Huy Quan won his Oscar, all three of the main leads of ToD were at the Oscar Ceremony. That fact kind of gets glossed over since Kate Capshaw is no longer working as an actress, she's seen as either Mrs. Spielberg or Jessica Capshaw's mom (Dr. Arizona Robbins from Grey's Anatomy).
Did u notice that a) the club they escape from at the beginning is called club obi wan and b) the posh english guy that takes them to the plane is dan Aykroyd in an uncredited part
Amrish Puri, who plays the villain Mola Ram, was a beloved Bollywood actor with a long career playing mostly villains. This is pretty much all he’s known for in the west, but he gives such a wonderful performance, full of malevolent glee. I think this gets considered a weaker entry because the supporting characters steal the show from Indy. Even Kate Capshaw’s Willie Scott, who most people find annoying, is still extremely memorable.
Personally, like many Indy fans, I considered Last Crusade the best film and my favorite, then Raiders, then finally Temple (followed by CS a fair bit down, and I still need to see Dial). Then for another good man years, Raiders became my favorite and I'd gotten a bit weary of LC although I still think it has the best writing and overall story. But, probably just in the last year, I've grown to re-appreciate Temple again. Not only is the darkness of the story a refreshing turn (and trip), it really is just the most non-stop roller coaster (even literally) of action across and through a bewildering string of settings and setpieces. In fact, I'd probably say I'm starting to join the generally small minority of fans who consider Temple their favorite. Sure, Nazis are evil and punchable, but Temple really solidifies and defines not just Indy but the entire archetype: treasure-hunting, fortune-seeking, fighting an entire evil army (of death-worshiping cultists), and on his own (for the most part), saving his friends, taking hits along the way, saving his friends and other innocents, coming through it all by the skin of his teeth, using his deep knowledge of peoples and cultures and his own wits to just barely survive by the skin of his teeth, often at some cost.
1. Many folks don't care for this one very much but I do. It's all kinds of fun. 2. Just a small suspension of belief regarding the lifeboat drop out of the plane, and the coal car landing perfectly on the tracks.🙄 IRL Ford could fly that plane. 3. When I was in the US Navy I got to eat monkey (but not monkey brains) and tasted dog in the Philippines. 4, Shortround is "Billy Badass"🤬😎 5. Disneyland already has a "Temple of the Lost Ark" so another one of the rides through. the tunnel/mine would be cool too. If you can still afford it.🙄 6. Kate Capshaw got the Willie gig because she was dating and later became Spielberg's wife. 7. Fun fact: The actor that gets pulled into the rock crusher is the same guy that gets hit with the airplane propeller in "Temple of Doom".
This is absolutely not the weakest of the original trilogy. Not by a long shot. The editing alone should be studied by every filmmaker. Michael Kahn did such a phenomenal job, he should have gotten an Oscar every single year since 1984, just 'cause. The opening 15-20mn, from the Paramount logo to the trio arriving at the Indian village is so masterfully edited, it feels like a continuous shot (even though there are time jumps and actual cuts). The movie is also a beautiful homage to so many different genres: the opening is obviously a nod to 50s musicals and gangster movies, with some slapstick thrown in, the bedroom banter scene in the palace is a joyful wink at the 30s-40s, Hayes-code era, screwball comedies (I Was a Male War Bride, The Awful Truth...), the whole sacrifice thing brings back elements of the pulpy, adventure films of the 30s, and so on... This movie is an absolute love-letter to cinema and it's not just in the references: the effects were all done by modernizing old techniques (like stop-motion and matte-painting) or finding clever ways to incorporate them without the audience knowing (for instance, I've seen the film more times than I can count, and it's only recently that I've noticed stop motion was used in the cart chase scene). I'm going to stop there because this is already too long for a comment, but I could go on forever about the merits of Temple. It's that good!
They're insane. Temple is easily the best. Raiders is way too tame by comparison, and Last Crusade started the G rated era for Jones with it's watered down violence.
Fun fact, the TV show "Mythbusters" tested the raft scene in this movie and scientifically determined that the falls from the plane and over the cliff with the landings shown are actually survivable.
One factoid I love is Short Round is a reference to a character of the same name in Samuel Fuller's The Steel Helmet. Highly recommended for students of cinema.
The Spielberg/Lucas divorce movie. Kind of noticeable, isn’t it? That’s why the tone is a bit darker, the boys were in a bad mood. Still, it has some amazing set pieces and Mola Ram is one of *the* great villains, plus it does have Short Round, who I prefer to Connery, and the second best fight against Pat Roach.
Did you catch the Dan Aykroyd cameo just before Indy got on the plane? Also the meteor in the "fortune and glory, kid" scene was an actual coincidental meteor. Perfect timing.
Welcome back! I would definitely be interested in a reaction to "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." And I agree with whoever told you this was a weak entry in the series (but that's not to say that it's bad! Even when you have multiple good movies, one of them has to be the weakest of the bunch). I'm an anomaly when it comes to these movies anyway. My favorite is "The Last Crusade," then "Raiders of the Lost Ark," then "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," and "Temple of Doom" last. I haven't seen "Dial of Destiny," so I can't rank that one yet. I will watch it eventually just because it's Indiana Jones. I didn't actually realize that this was Ke Huy Quan's first movie. I saw him in "The Goonies" first, and for some reason I just always assumed that was his first role. Still, he's easily the MVP of this movie, and was fun in "The Goonies" too. I definitely recommend watching it if you haven't seen it (and if you're a fan of Ke Huy Quan, it's obviously a must-see). Hope your week is off to a great start! ✌🤓
Welcome back!! 🥳🤠 I think think this is movie is one of those cases where in the time where it came out in it wasn't the best but with the overall decline of the franchise after the third one it has become much more appreciated. I still have some problems with it, but it is very much not as bad as some people make it out to be. I can' wait for you to get to The Last Crusade, even if you have seen it. It is my favourit movie of all time and I think you are going to have a great time with it! It is just such a MOVIE movie if that makes any sense 😂
If you have never seen it, you should watch The Goonies from 1985. Ke Huy Quan was in that as well, alongside Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Kerri Green and Martha Plimpton.
@11:43, this is one of the more common critiques of Temple of Doom. Indian cuisine, much of which is vegetarian, is not anything like this. The food here is completely made up for the sole purpose of grossing you out. It is not a representation of a different cultural norm. To the extent the filmmakers were trying to signal to the audience that they should know something was amiss by the absence authentic Indian food, I don't think they succeeded in making that clear. I think instead, whether intentional or not, it ends up perpetuating old stereotypes that all of India is wild and savage and barbaric, that what is being portrayed is a real cuisine.
I don't have as much to say about this movie but I don't really hate this one like some fans do. It's of course not my favorite, but when one understands that these Indy films are inspired loosely on the black and white movie serials that George Lucas saw as a kid in the movie theaters, this makes more sense. It's not supposed to be realistic. It's just supposed to be fun with scares and surprises and action sequences back to back. Okay maybe I do have a little to say about this film. It's fun. It is admittedly not AS good as Raiders or Crusade, but even when movies like this are bad they're still pretty good.
Just think. Ke Huy Quan has gone from Short Round in "The Temple Of Doom" to winning an Academy Award for playing Waymond Wang in "Everything Everywhere All At Once". What a treasure.
Loved the reaction! It's good to see you posting content again. I'm sure I speak for all the viewer's here, were happy to have you back! REDDER IS BETTER! M-
If you feel like watching more of Ke Huy Quan when he was younger, I suggest you watch The Goonies. In it, you may also recognize several other future movie stars.
short round and data were my boys back then. i was so happy for ke huy quan when he won his oscar. he was my boy back in the day as a kid. i would get extremely defensive if i hear anyone say anything about those 2 characters.
Why is it inappropriate for her to sing in Chinese? That's an overreaction. Starlets did that back in those days due to the depression having ravaged careers in the States. I'm half Mexican and live in Mexico, and I don't have a problem when anyone from any country sings songs in Spanish :)
Oh, before you can complete viewing Indiana Jones, you need to view the 30-? Episodes of the television series, Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, from the 1990’s. The opening of Last Crusade inspired the tv series, two actors play Indy, as a child, and as a teen/college age. Filmed around the world, series was staffed with talent in cast and crew -sets up some aspects and characters of the films -innovative TV for it’s time, based in history, with real characters and events as backdrop to Indy’s adventures.
12:13 There is in fact no official timeframe for distinguishing archeology from grave robbery. Exec ignoring cultural differences and political implications, there are intense debates within the archeological community even now. The primary exception is the field of rescue archeology, where the risk of damage to the artifact or site tends to override other issues. Of course, in that case, cultural and legal differences are even more significant as no one is going to bother Sandman rescue archeologists to a site that no one thinks of as significant, whereas if, just about anything zal BE significant. It is truly mind boggling how much we've learned about ancient people from studies of nothing but garbage heaps.
Chronologically, this movie goes first (other than the opening to Last Crusade) in the franchise. Which, when you pay attention to Indy’s character arc, he goes from someone as low and scummy as Beloq. But over time (and it’s probably because of the Temple of Doom) his character develops into someone who was as idealistic as he was when he was younger. And I think his character arc reaches his resolve when he and his father reconcile with each other.
I wouldn't say it's not as good, but it's darker. A lot of people like this one the best. If you watch Last Crusade again, you would likely appreciate it more having seen the first two. The female lead was asked to be annoying by Spielberg. Opinion is divided on that approach to the role. The show Myth Busters launched a life raft from an airplane and determined that it was possible to survive such a drop.
This movie and Gremlins were responsible for the PG-13 Rating. They were considered too graphic for PG, but not enough to merit an R.Willie was written to be terrible because of marital strife among the creators. She ended up Mrs. Spielberg, which hold true to this day. Part of the hate for it come from the fact that they follow up Marion (who was sassy and useful) with Willie (who was a loud plot complication). Part is that it was a prequel, so you knew he'd be fine. Part of it was the whole mine escape scene had the feel of trying to sell the theme park ride. (see also, The Hobbit). Part was the unanswered question of what happened to Short Round. between here and Raiders. And stalagmites have a G for "Ground." I have within the last month put my hand on he dog's chest and said "Kali-Ma." It's not an usual thing. We also used to use it when I taught martial arts.
Jaqui, if you were to meet Dr. Jones, and go on an adventure -where would you go, and what artifact to find? I believe your attire in this video could be fine in the 1930-40's.
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I'm not sure why singing in Mandarin is inappropriate. She is after all an Entertainer employed in club in China.
Yeah, bit of a jumping of the gun there to virtue signal without actually understanding context.
The Shanghai bits were not bad. It's only when they get to India that it gets truly offensive
@@vincegamer No, it really doesn't.
This is a prime example of someone watching a movie or reading a script and not actually understanding.
The cult, the thuggie cult, is not intended to be a depiction of "India."
Because she should be singing in Cantonese if it's Hong Kong.
@@brendanmontague2143 it's not Hong Kong, it's Shanghai.
ToD is a wildly misunderstood masterpiece.
The script is layered with allusion to Hindu theology that are mostly lost on Western viewers. And the gross feast is something Hindus would never eat and Indy's first clue something is amiss.
To elaborate on some theological aspects -
Indy falls from the sky as an avatar of Shiva to save the village and vanquish the cult defaming his wife (Kali would be most offended that they are using her name to make people worship a demon 😅). His mythical quest to the underworld and back leads him to the realization that the elder was right and he uses the power of Shiva to ignite the Shankara stones, which he is not burned by when he catches the last one.
In an unfilmed scene Indy actually comments how weird it is for the citizens of the palace to be eating raw meat.
The novelisation fills in a lot.
Thank you for saving me the trouble of writing this! I felt a great spiritual hole in my life from a strangely early age; at age 9 I was already fascinated by world religions and theology. I had read the Bible front to back multiple times by the time I was 12, by which time I had also purchased a copy of the Tao Te Ching, the Upanishads and was searching for a good introduction to the Holy Vedas, as this was the early 90s, before the Internet, and I lived in a small town in Southeastern USA (though I was born in, and lived my first 7 years in Manchester, England), where I could not find a guru. However, I had read the Gita, and I had read some very good and accurate descriptions of Hindu theology; My point is, I probably saw this for the first time at 7 or 8; when I next saw it I was probably 13 or 14, and I was at one of my bandmates’ gaff, drinking beers and smoking hashish spliffs. We were watching the trilogy in chronological order (not in order of release, but in the order in which these events were supposed to have happened). Whilst watching this film, I suddenly realised the whole thing was an Hindu mythological allegory, and I got so excited, and my mate was like ‘What are you on about, man?’ And just thought I’d smoked too much. But I watched it again the next day, and knew I was right. Bloody great film. Maybe the BEST of the three-it’s simply so good it went right over the tops of the heads of Western critics.
@@riphopfer5816 Willy is still annoying as f***, we can agree?
@@matthiasobst4533 😂 No argument here! One of the scenes that always makes me laugh is when Indy and Short Round are talking by the fire, and, meanwhile, in the background, Willi is creating utter bedlam as she runs into countless forms of either jungle wildlife, or what she -receives to be jungle wildlife.
I'm Chinese an' I've always thought the introductory musical number was fine. (Capshaw's accent is a little ehh.. to hear to my ear, but I think it's perfectly fine for a non-native speaker and character who's likely only memorized it for singing.) I wouldn't consider much of the opening scene to be problematic today.
The depiction of Indian culture however... has many more issues, only the least of which is that no one of Indian heritage I've seen watch this has been able to make out much of what some of the villagers are saying (probably because it was filmed in Sri Lanka, so perhaps they were speaking Sinhala and Tamil). Otoh, one ought to keep in mind that Indiana Jones is a pulp action-adventure series. Apart from that pulp stories and fiction in general from the actual 1930s tended to exoticize and caricaturize foreign cultures, and that tends to become part of the fabric of the genre, it likewise exaggerates and caricaturizes Western cultures too, from American to German. (Consider the depiction of Nazis in the Indiana Jones series, and much post-WW2 fiction in general, compared to the depiction of them in Schindler's List, which is far more serious, yet both depictions coming from the same director. In action films where the heroes punch Nazis, they're Evil but Conquerable, at least in the small scope, by a Rugged Hero.)
Chinese also and I agree.
AFAICT is just the musical Anything Goes translated into Chinese (though which Chinese language i don't know enough to say, I'd guess Mandarin, but I don't know if that's appropriate for Shanghai in the 30s or if Cantonese or Yue or something else would be more appropriate). As a historian, the only thing I'd complain about is that I thought Anything Goes was more popular in the 20s than the 30s.
@@Great_Olaf5 Maybe that explains why she's singing it in a Chinese theatre? Fading popularity back home, but fresh and foreign there?
If you haven’t seen it, Jacqui, Ke Huy Quan also stars in another ‘80’s classic, The Goonies. And a ‘90’s hit with Brendan Fraser, Encino Man.
I wish he had more scenes in Encino Man.
@@LordVolkov Awesome that him and Brendan both got academy awards last year and were together in that movie.
Yeah, if she hasn't seen it she NEEDS to add Goonies to her list to watch here
@@EyeMCreative Absolutely YES! *The Goonies* is one of my childhood’s defining films, along with *Beetlejuice* and the *Star Trek* films. *Star Trek IV* is one of my earliest memories of going to a cinema. It was only my father and I, as my sister was still a baby and couldn’t be counted on to stay quiet, and my mum was never much for Star Trek, anyway.
Yes, absolutely. If you haven't seen Goonies, you should put it in the queue. It's one of my faves. Early Ke Huy Quan and Sean Astin.
The scene in which he whips the sword from the guy’s hand, then uses it to chase off the second attacker, only to suddenly turn and run from an entire attacking horde, is almost a precise mirror of the scene in *Star Wars* in which Han bluffs his way into scaring off a squad of stormtroopers on his own, only to come running back down the same hallway in the next moment, an entire platoon after him.
First reactor I've seen who immediately noticed that this film is set before ROTLA and didn't have to be told.
good observation
The first 3 Indiana Jones movies should be required viewing. Masterpieces.
exactly. i only watch the original trilogy. there is no 4th film. it NEVER HAPPENED!!!!!
@@thevoid99 No 4th or 5th 👍
There are 4 movies. I only like 4 because it gave Indy a family.
There are only three, just as there us only one Highlander movie.
It's funny that they filmed the bats flying over and called them vampire bats when they are really fruit bats. Vampire bats are actually very small.
Small, nocturnal, and not found in India.
Vampire bats are native to northern Mexico and the Caribbean
This MIGHT be my favourite of the 4 that I've seen (no Dial of Destiny for me, yet) but it's a tough call. Raiders is iconic in SO many ways, and will be extremely difficult to surpass, but Temple is just such a fun ride and excites me far more than Raiders. I also appreciate that, although they didn't go super in-depth into Ark/Christian lore in he first one, it was still pretty well grounded in certain aspects of the theology, and I appreciate the depth they went to in Temple with Hindu theology and kept this one fairly well grounded in that. From what I understand at least.
The lost potential career of Ke Huy Quan is easily one of the more tragic things to happen in Hollywood history (barring actors' deaths and certain criminal behaviour) in a long time. Just imagine the action-adventure star we could have had if he'd been able to even 'just' pursue more work like this and Goonies, obviously with the roles growing as he grew, or the brilliant work akin to EEAAO that we could have seen from him! That being said, though, his work in EEAAO may not have had the impact it did if he HAD had a longer career...either way, I'm just glad he's back and getting the recognition he deserves. For my money, Temple of Doom is absolutely an equal Indy/Short Round movie, and both shone bright as fuck.
I honestly prefer ToD to Last Crusade.
There are only three Indiana Jones movies.
The Indy / Short Round love story (the parent / child affection) is the one that matters most, as it establishes who Indy is. It sets up both the intro sequence for Last Crusade where we see Indy as a teen (he sees himself in Short Round) and the parent / child friction with Henry Sr., as well as the relationship Indy has with Helena (and her connection to Teddy) in Dial of Destiny. Two bits of trivia -- making this film is where Spielberg met Kate Capshaw. Pat Roach, the actor who plays the big fellow in the mine fight scene, is the same guy Indy fights in the Raiders plane scene (when he and Marion are trying to escape the desert) who meets his demise in the propellers.
Let’s not talk about Dial of Destiny, please.
I don't think you need to worry about a brief reference to parallels without further elaboration @@MasterSkywalker91
and it should be noted that spielberg and capshaw didn't like each other at the time but they somehow became infatuated with one another despite the fact that they were married to other people at the time. it would be around the early 90s is when they reconnected and fell in love and got married. she also got him back in touch with his old jewish faith and she converted to judaism. that's love.
YES! The Indy-Short Round familial love story is by far my favourite love story in these movies. The two of them together just click so well, and they show so much genuine care and affection for each other.
The mine guard who got put through the rock crusher, is played by the same actor who played the German soldier who went through the airplane propeller in "Lost Ark".
Pat Roach
I heard that he was also the large sword man who Indy shot! It was to be a big fight but Harrison Ford was sick so they just shot him and made him a German so he could have the big fight later!
Love Shortround! He was by far the best part of this movie! Please tell me you've seen Goonies! He was GREAT as Data! I saw him in that BEFORE I saw him in this, even though I grew up in the 80's and Indiana Jones, I was Gonnies a TON of times! Paved the way for Stranger Things!
Its quick, but at the beginning indy says he found shortround in nanking, intimating that shortround survived the massacre of nanking.
Not quite right... the Rape of Nanking happened in 1937, after the 2nd Sino-Japanese war kicked off. I reckon Indy just happened to be passing through the city.
When I saw "Jacqui - *TEMPLE OF DOOM* Reaction", I said to myself: does she know what she's getting into?.
Can you imagine the anguish level a 9-year-old kid can reach watching this for the first time at the movie theatre at 1985?
It's a small thing, but the shot of Indy looking through the hole from the crusher room and saying "we are going to die" is amazing. He goes through several facial expressions, and they're all perfect.
“Inappropriate”…in Shanghai in 1935, an attractive blonde woman singing songs in Chinese would have been a profitable draw for local audiences. There is nothing “inappropriate” about that…except that it’s a shady criminal establishment. She’d be lucky if she wasn’t being pimped… Anyway, if you’re into Ke Huy Quan, you also need to watch The Goonies. Also, trivia: this movie was the primary reason for the creation of the PG-13 rating. People were shocked by the gore/horror being ramped up so much from the first one. Strange movie in that regard. Seems to me ripping somebody’s heart out should get an R either way. But the same could be said for the melting faces in the first one.
Technically, this is the SECOND movie.... Good to see you again!
Great to see you back! I know this is the dark one, and it doesn't get as much affection as Raiders and Last Crusade, but who doesn't love Shorty?
Thank you! It's great to be back, and YES! WE LOVE SHORTY!!! 😄
Dan Aykroyd actually makes a very quick cameo in this one, he's the guy with the glasses talking to Indy just before getting on the plane
Shoutout to the ladies who know the Wilhelm scream, spread the word! This should be unknown no more 😂
5:15 - We didn't see it in this reaction. But you would have when recording. The "British" man who lead Indy, Willie and Short Round to that plane was Dan Aykroyd from the original Ghostbusters movies.
And if you'd like to stay on the "Ke Huy Quan Train". The Goonies, which came out the year after this movie, is for you.
why is her singing "horribly inappropriate"? Why would it be horribly inappropriate to learn a song in a different language?
And it was a Chinese-owned club in China.
It’s not.
Really is too bad the timing was not right for there to a end credit scene in Dial Of Destiny that would have shown a now middle age Short round reunited with Dr. Jones.
This is a masterpiece!! The best of the bunch!! Its darker and less comedic and so some critics prefered the lighter tone.... but its brilliant...
You didn’t notice the *name* of the nightclub?
This will be my favorite Indy movie until the day I die. It's so entertaining
This was the movie that got so many parents up in arms that they created the PG-13 rating after the film came out (the first PG-13 film was Red Dawn directed by John Millius the following year. Between the bugs, the banquet from Hell, Mola Ram pulling the heart from the man's chest, and a few other things, parent groups were furious that this was PG and not R-rated.
The actor who plays Mola Ram is Amrish Puri, who was a huge Hindi film actor specializing in (you guessed it!) villains. However, his most significant success was in 1995 with the romantic film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The Braveheart Takes The Bride) directed by Aditya Chopra and starring Shah Ruhk Khan, Kajol, Anupam Kher, and Puri. The film won every Indian film award, and as of 2020 (with a few gaps like COVID) was still playing in cinemas in Mumbai after 24 years, making it one of the most successful films in Indian Cinema history. As a Westerner, I have seen it a couple of times, and it is a fun film with some great songs. Puri's role as Kajol's father living in London and longing for his beloved home in Punjab, India is nuanced and powerful. And the love story between Shah Rukh and Kajol has charm and emotion to spare (they have done several films together).
Just a few years after this came out, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw (Willie Scott) fell in love and married. At the time of filming, they became friends and were married to other people. When Ke Huy Quan won his Oscar, all three of the main leads of ToD were at the Oscar Ceremony. That fact kind of gets glossed over since Kate Capshaw is no longer working as an actress, she's seen as either Mrs. Spielberg or Jessica Capshaw's mom (Dr. Arizona Robbins from Grey's Anatomy).
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Missed you, Jacqui ❤
Glad you continue to watch Indiana Jones 🤠
Thank you! 😄 It's great to be back, and I definitely hope to finish the franchise at some point!
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Did u notice that a) the club they escape from at the beginning is called club obi wan and b) the posh english guy that takes them to the plane is dan Aykroyd in an uncredited part
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If we EVER got another Indy project…I’m gonna need Ke to come back as a grown Shortround going on his own Indy adventure.
The Adventures of Dr Round is the revival I am waiting for.
Amrish Puri, who plays the villain Mola Ram, was a beloved Bollywood actor with a long career playing mostly villains. This is pretty much all he’s known for in the west, but he gives such a wonderful performance, full of malevolent glee.
I think this gets considered a weaker entry because the supporting characters steal the show from Indy. Even Kate Capshaw’s Willie Scott, who most people find annoying, is still extremely memorable.
This movie was filmed in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰. Ke Huy Quan is of Vietnamese descent.
Ke Huy Quan did have another iconic role in Goonies after this.
Personally, like many Indy fans, I considered Last Crusade the best film and my favorite, then Raiders, then finally Temple (followed by CS a fair bit down, and I still need to see Dial). Then for another good man years, Raiders became my favorite and I'd gotten a bit weary of LC although I still think it has the best writing and overall story.
But, probably just in the last year, I've grown to re-appreciate Temple again. Not only is the darkness of the story a refreshing turn (and trip), it really is just the most non-stop roller coaster (even literally) of action across and through a bewildering string of settings and setpieces.
In fact, I'd probably say I'm starting to join the generally small minority of fans who consider Temple their favorite. Sure, Nazis are evil and punchable, but Temple really solidifies and defines not just Indy but the entire archetype: treasure-hunting, fortune-seeking, fighting an entire evil army (of death-worshiping cultists), and on his own (for the most part), saving his friends, taking hits along the way, saving his friends and other innocents, coming through it all by the skin of his teeth, using his deep knowledge of peoples and cultures and his own wits to just barely survive by the skin of his teeth, often at some cost.
You should check out Goonies! Ke Huy Quan was in that as well, tho it does have stereotypical tropes as temple does
1. Many folks don't care for this one very much but I do. It's all kinds of fun.
2. Just a small suspension of belief regarding the lifeboat drop out of the plane, and the coal car landing perfectly on the tracks.🙄
IRL Ford could fly that plane.
3. When I was in the US Navy I got to eat monkey (but not monkey brains) and tasted dog in the Philippines.
4, Shortround is "Billy Badass"🤬😎
5. Disneyland already has a "Temple of the Lost Ark" so another one of the rides through.
the tunnel/mine would be cool too. If you can still afford it.🙄
6. Kate Capshaw got the Willie gig because she was dating and later became
Spielberg's wife.
7. Fun fact: The actor that gets pulled into the rock crusher is the same guy that gets hit with the airplane propeller in "Temple of Doom".
2:57: What’s wrong with an American singer performing in a Shanghai club in the 30s?
"Something tells me this would not fly today."
Who cares. People need to get over themselves. It's a movie.
Nothing inappropriate about the opening.
This is absolutely not the weakest of the original trilogy. Not by a long shot. The editing alone should be studied by every filmmaker. Michael Kahn did such a phenomenal job, he should have gotten an Oscar every single year since 1984, just 'cause. The opening 15-20mn, from the Paramount logo to the trio arriving at the Indian village is so masterfully edited, it feels like a continuous shot (even though there are time jumps and actual cuts). The movie is also a beautiful homage to so many different genres: the opening is obviously a nod to 50s musicals and gangster movies, with some slapstick thrown in, the bedroom banter scene in the palace is a joyful wink at the 30s-40s, Hayes-code era, screwball comedies (I Was a Male War Bride, The Awful Truth...), the whole sacrifice thing brings back elements of the pulpy, adventure films of the 30s, and so on... This movie is an absolute love-letter to cinema and it's not just in the references: the effects were all done by modernizing old techniques (like stop-motion and matte-painting) or finding clever ways to incorporate them without the audience knowing (for instance, I've seen the film more times than I can count, and it's only recently that I've noticed stop motion was used in the cart chase scene). I'm going to stop there because this is already too long for a comment, but I could go on forever about the merits of Temple. It's that good!
32:13 Do you ever wonder why we're here?
Sorry, had to make the reference! 😂
The diamond Indy was trying to negotiate with Lao Che was in the Young Indiana Jones series.
Whoever told you this is a weaker entry in the franchise, was gravely mistaken. This is one of the strongest!
This was the best!! I watched it 7 times in the theater !!!
Agreed! It was my favorite growing up.
Correct! It is the third strongest!
This was my FAVOURITE as a kid.
They're insane. Temple is easily the best. Raiders is way too tame by comparison, and Last Crusade started the G rated era for Jones with it's watered down violence.
That whole dinner scene is why this movie got banned in India. Not even for the scene with the human sacrifice, if you can belive it.
Fun fact, the TV show "Mythbusters" tested the raft scene in this movie and scientifically determined that the falls from the plane and over the cliff with the landings shown are actually survivable.
Jacqui, you know the big guy he was fighting thats the same actor from the fight around the plane in raiders of the lost ark
One factoid I love is Short Round is a reference to a character of the same name in Samuel Fuller's The Steel Helmet. Highly recommended for students of cinema.
indeed. samuel fuller is a must for all film students. he is one of the best.
Great film by Sam Fuller, but Shortround was named after the dog of writers Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz.
Hey! Welcome back! You’ve been sincerely missed! 🖤
Thank you so much! I missed you guys too!!! 😄
The Spielberg/Lucas divorce movie. Kind of noticeable, isn’t it? That’s why the tone is a bit darker, the boys were in a bad mood.
Still, it has some amazing set pieces and Mola Ram is one of *the* great villains, plus it does have Short Round, who I prefer to Connery, and the second best fight against Pat Roach.
Did you catch the Dan Aykroyd cameo just before Indy got on the plane?
Also the meteor in the "fortune and glory, kid" scene was an actual coincidental meteor. Perfect timing.
Welcome back! I would definitely be interested in a reaction to "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." And I agree with whoever told you this was a weak entry in the series (but that's not to say that it's bad! Even when you have multiple good movies, one of them has to be the weakest of the bunch). I'm an anomaly when it comes to these movies anyway. My favorite is "The Last Crusade," then "Raiders of the Lost Ark," then "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," and "Temple of Doom" last. I haven't seen "Dial of Destiny," so I can't rank that one yet. I will watch it eventually just because it's Indiana Jones.
I didn't actually realize that this was Ke Huy Quan's first movie. I saw him in "The Goonies" first, and for some reason I just always assumed that was his first role. Still, he's easily the MVP of this movie, and was fun in "The Goonies" too. I definitely recommend watching it if you haven't seen it (and if you're a fan of Ke Huy Quan, it's obviously a must-see). Hope your week is off to a great start! ✌🤓
I'm just curious but anyone else notice in the recent Dial Of Destiny promo images that Dr Jones looks a lot like Freddy Krueger from the reboot?
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I think think this is movie is one of those cases where in the time where it came out in it wasn't the best but with the overall decline of the franchise after the third one it has become much more appreciated. I still have some problems with it, but it is very much not as bad as some people make it out to be.
I can' wait for you to get to The Last Crusade, even if you have seen it. It is my favourit movie of all time and I think you are going to have a great time with it!
It is just such a MOVIE movie if that makes any sense 😂
If you have never seen it, you should watch The Goonies from 1985. Ke Huy Quan was in that as well, alongside Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Kerri Green and Martha Plimpton.
Apparently, the the poison didn't have an immediate effect on Indy, seeing as he was still quite active while looking for the antidote.
Fun fact: the big thuggee that Indy fights is played by the big dude he fights in the plane scene in Raiders.
Why would the opening be inappropriate today??
24:19 is my FAVORITE frame of Indy. He's PISSED.
@11:43, this is one of the more common critiques of Temple of Doom. Indian cuisine, much of which is vegetarian, is not anything like this. The food here is completely made up for the sole purpose of grossing you out. It is not a representation of a different cultural norm. To the extent the filmmakers were trying to signal to the audience that they should know something was amiss by the absence authentic Indian food, I don't think they succeeded in making that clear. I think instead, whether intentional or not, it ends up perpetuating old stereotypes that all of India is wild and savage and barbaric, that what is being portrayed is a real cuisine.
I don't have as much to say about this movie but I don't really hate this one like some fans do. It's of course not my favorite, but when one understands that these Indy films are inspired loosely on the black and white movie serials that George Lucas saw as a kid in the movie theaters, this makes more sense. It's not supposed to be realistic. It's just supposed to be fun with scares and surprises and action sequences back to back. Okay maybe I do have a little to say about this film. It's fun. It is admittedly not AS good as Raiders or Crusade, but even when movies like this are bad they're still pretty good.
Just think. Ke Huy Quan has gone from Short Round in "The Temple Of Doom" to winning an Academy Award for playing Waymond Wang in "Everything Everywhere All At Once". What a treasure.
One little scene that was edited out was the one with a man leading the trio to the plane. That man happened to be actor Dan Aykroyd.
...and by the way, the woman lead is Kate Capshaw better known as: Mrs. Steven Spielberg(October 12, 1991 - present) (5 children)
Loved the reaction! It's good to see you posting content again.
I'm sure I speak for all the viewer's here, were happy to have you back!
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It was so funny watching her get grossed out at the dinner scene!
If you feel like watching more of Ke Huy Quan when he was younger, I suggest you watch The Goonies. In it, you may also recognize several other future movie stars.
I don't care what anyone says, I unabashedly love this movie just as much as the other two in the trilogy!
I can't explain why, but Temple of Doom is my all-time favourite movie. Whaddayagonnado...
As a Union man, major respect for the union message. Solidarity Forever!
Most Valuable Player, right? I had to look it up - to me, MVP meant "Minimum Viable Product" :D
"That wasn't the way he wanted to get spat on tonight." 😂
short round and data were my boys back then. i was so happy for ke huy quan when he won his oscar. he was my boy back in the day as a kid. i would get extremely defensive if i hear anyone say anything about those 2 characters.
This is my favorite movie in the trilogy!
The big guy indy fights at the end is the same actor that played the big bald boxer he fought in the last movie that got choppped by the propeller...
Why is it inappropriate for her to sing in Chinese? That's an overreaction. Starlets did that back in those days due to the depression having ravaged careers in the States. I'm half Mexican and live in Mexico, and I don't have a problem when anyone from any country sings songs in Spanish :)
Oh, before you can complete viewing Indiana Jones, you need to view the 30-? Episodes of the television series, Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, from the 1990’s.
The opening of Last Crusade inspired the tv series, two actors play Indy, as a child, and as a teen/college age. Filmed around the world, series was staffed with talent in cast and crew -sets up some aspects and characters of the films -innovative TV for it’s time, based in history, with real characters and events as backdrop to Indy’s adventures.
I've always remanded the difference between stalactites since they have a C like ceiling and stalagmites have a G pomme ground
12:13 There is in fact no official timeframe for distinguishing archeology from grave robbery. Exec ignoring cultural differences and political implications, there are intense debates within the archeological community even now. The primary exception is the field of rescue archeology, where the risk of damage to the artifact or site tends to override other issues. Of course, in that case, cultural and legal differences are even more significant as no one is going to bother Sandman rescue archeologists to a site that no one thinks of as significant, whereas if, just about anything zal BE significant. It is truly mind boggling how much we've learned about ancient people from studies of nothing but garbage heaps.
I'm curious. Have you watched the second season of Loki? Ke Huy Quan plays a leading character in Loki.
3:52 The name on the band stands 大闹 dànào appropriately means to cause havoc or to run amok.
16:39 I was taught "tights come down" :D Slightly rude but definitely memorable!
If you wanted more of the Wilhelm scream, you get a good amount in this movie.
By the way, this is the movie where Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg fell in love.
You didn't deem to notice the name of the club...Club Obi-Wan. Directed by Spielberg but written (or cowritten i don't remember) by George Lucas
21:25 "I'm not gonna say it, I'm not gonna say it..." No, but you already THOUGHT it! LOL
So you are a huge Ke Huy Quan fan, and yet you haven't seen this? Hhhmmm...
You should watch the National Treasure movies which are like the Indiana Jones movies.
I grew up on those movies, and I absolutely love them! Great recommendation!
I remember the difference between stalactites and stalagmites thus:
stalaCtite = Ceiling
stalaGmite = Ground
The animatronic human sacrifice was realistic enough that they had to add flames in the foreground to avoid an R rating
Temple Of Doom is fantastic. It simply doesn't have as much heart as the others.
Ky Huy Quan is also in "Goonies" from Richard Donner.
Chronologically, this movie goes first (other than the opening to Last Crusade) in the franchise. Which, when you pay attention to Indy’s character arc, he goes from someone as low and scummy as Beloq. But over time (and it’s probably because of the Temple of Doom) his character develops into someone who was as idealistic as he was when he was younger. And I think his character arc reaches his resolve when he and his father reconcile with each other.
"Not the way he wanted to be handcuffed tonight." Kinky. :)
I wouldn't say it's not as good, but it's darker. A lot of people like this one the best. If you watch Last Crusade again, you would likely appreciate it more having seen the first two.
The female lead was asked to be annoying by Spielberg. Opinion is divided on that approach to the role.
The show Myth Busters launched a life raft from an airplane and determined that it was possible to survive such a drop.
This movie and Gremlins were responsible for the PG-13 Rating. They were considered too graphic for PG, but not enough to merit an R.Willie was written to be terrible because of marital strife among the creators. She ended up Mrs. Spielberg, which hold true to this day.
Part of the hate for it come from the fact that they follow up Marion (who was sassy and useful) with Willie (who was a loud plot complication). Part is that it was a prequel, so you knew he'd be fine. Part of it was the whole mine escape scene had the feel of trying to sell the theme park ride. (see also, The Hobbit). Part was the unanswered question of what happened to Short Round. between here and Raiders.
And stalagmites have a G for "Ground."
I have within the last month put my hand on he dog's chest and said "Kali-Ma." It's not an usual thing. We also used to use it when I taught martial arts.
Personally I like this better than Last Crusade. I thought the humor in LC was too much, where this had a much darker tone, and much better imagery.
17:30 It's always wonderful to witness someone discovering why the PG-13 rating came into existence.
16:42 I had the difference between them explained to me in a different way.
Yeah, my dad always was quick on the breast jokes.
Jaqui, if you were to meet Dr. Jones, and go on an adventure -where would you go, and what artifact to find? I believe your attire in this video could be fine in the 1930-40's.
Imagine seeing that sacrifice scene as an 8 year old