*INDIANA JONES: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)* is INCREDIBLE!! | First Time Watching | REACTION 

That’s incredible!

That has to be true because of the specifics of it. Super cool!

@@franknfoot7200 it is cause i asked him and he told me

Did the pilot catch him?

Size of the fish that year!

Even though I knew nothing about the Ark, I was always thinking: "You think any kind of ritual would let you use the power of the God almighty without his consent? Many other deities, maybe, but the Biblical God? This isn't some kind of mechanism, that's literally HIS power."

There are only two times the Israelites carried the ark into combat. The first time was when they paraded around Jericho for a week, and the walls collapsed, allowing them to raze the city. God gave them this battle plan and directed them to carry the ark - because HE was the one defeating the enemy. The one other time the Israelites tried to use the ark as a battle totem and marched with the arc at the head of their army is recorded in 1 Samuel 4. The Israelites lose a battle to the Philistines and think that if they take the ark with them, they’ll surely win the second time. Because God will be on their side, right? They did not seek God’s opinion on the matter. They just grabbed the ark and hauled it back to their camp. Instead of winning, they get their butts kicked. When the Philistines heard a god had entered the Israelite camp and would fight on the Israelite’s side, they decided to just go for broke, and fought like crazy and won. The Philistines captured the ark and took it home. That didn’t work out so well for them in the end, but that’s another story. So, yeah, I have no idea what that illustration was Indy showed the g-men, because there’s only one story about fire coming out of the ark to kill someone, and that’s back in Leviticus. Right after the ark was first made and placed in the newly built Tabernacle, Moses’s brother Aaron and his two oldest sons are invested as the first ever full-time priests. Aaron’s two boys grab some censers and incense and started waving them around exactly contrary to all the rules they’d been having to study. Having brought “unauthorized fire” before God, God showed them holy fire and Aaron had to bury the ashes left and invest his two younger sons as priests. The next time someone tried that, one of the Judean kings tried to offer incense in the Temple, God settled for striking him with leprosy and he had to reign fom inside a quarantine shack they built behind the palace.

@@liljenborg2517 I'd say the illustration wasn't done by a life witness and is based on something the artist heard happened.

@@Dreamfox-df6bg The whole book and the illustration in it were actually props made for the movie (that's why the illustration of the ark so closely matches the prop-ark they made for the movie). I think that, other than the pages we see on screen, the rest of the book is blank. The artist actually did a pretty good job recreating the style of engraving with hand painted coloring from old-timey Bible illustrations.

But he didn't know the most important fact: it holds the stone tablets of the 10 commandments... (or so says the myth...)

And the heavyset G man at the beginning talking about the Ark is the same guy who played Porkins the unfortunate rebel pilot in Star Wars 77. And the sidekick who doublecrosses Indy in the opening scene is Alfred Molina.

I love 5hat guy

My screenreader pronounced "Gimli" as "Jim Lee" and I am appalled lol

@@RedCaio lol jungle jim lee

He also provides the voice of Treebeard.

Honestly that entire scene sums up the character of Indiana Jones he just doesn't have time for that kind of s*** 😂

probably wrong on my end. I was told he did the entire scene before, all the running and jumping himself and he wanted a breather before a big fight scene and in the moment thought "well, here's one for the blooper reel (BANG!!!)" I doubt my brother is correct on that though. if the sword guy wasn't in on it he wouldn't have dropped dead like that. he would've been up screaming "hey, you weren't supposed to do that"

Story goes that while filming in Egypt the whole cast and crew had food poisoning. So when Indiana Jones shoots the swordsman it was Harrison Ford's idea. He was sick and they had a lengthy fight scene to film and apparently Ford said to Spielberg "Can't I just shoot the bastard?" Also this is why Ford is sweating and exhausted looking during the city chase.

Gotta watch Witness, Working Girl, Presumed Innocent and Regarding Henry. All 4 show his wide range. Plus the show Shrinking on Apple is amazing.

Adding more to the confusion, here's what I've heard! To be fair it is a combination of everyone else's. They had spent several days filming the sword versus whip fight which is why there is some film of Ford doing it. Harrison Ford came down with dysentery while they were filming in Egypt. He was of course feeling terrible because of this, and apparently took it upon himself to say...."why wouldn't I just shoot the guy?" Apparently Spielberg must have liked it no matter who's version of events is right.😂

Thinking on the Huntsman right?

*Jack Nicholson Nodding Gif*

This comment makes me want to replay the Lego Indiana Jones games

Me replaying those games is what brought me to watch more of the movie reactions here today lol

and the destinations shown are accurate to the scene that's loading!

I was going to say pretty much the same thing. "CGI? CGI didn't exist yet!" All props, matte painting, miniatures, bluescreen, and sets. CGI has made a lot of things possible, but I think we lost something in the process.

Yep, my dad always made me listen to Indy when he said to close your eyes. It was years before I actually saw that scene!

i saw tremors when i was like 5yo so

They did the face melting with wax figures! They had them melt under a really hot spot light over a few hours, then played the footage sped up!

I still hate it 🙈

@@queendragon75 Yeah I know. I was relieved and amazed that they used wax figures to make it look SO realistic. It's incredible!! 😃👏

It really is. I'd argue The Last Crusade is probably second greatest opening scene too.

@@jbearclowater Last Crusade is my favorite overall movie of them all

There were also Aarons rod and a jar of manna. That's why it burned on the ship to keep it away.

As was clearly explained in the expositional scene about the ark at the beginning.

Well. And this was the very same boat used in the 1981 Movie "Das Boot". Spielberg borrowed it from Babelsberg Studios.

@@matt47110815 Yes and he broke it. In das Boot, in the begining, you can see a welded line on the hull, that happend during transport to the Indiana Jones Set

I've only seen Prince of Egypt like twice, but I can actually see that

I was going to say that I’m glad you did.

So this is what Gimli and Legolas were doing before Frodo rolled up with the Ring of Power. Epic.

I thought I recognized Doc Ock but I wasn't sure!

Dude - punctuation is your friend.

I was hoping other people knew that! Alfred Monila is such a great character actor! And John Rhys-Davies! Both great actors!

Don't forget Animal House!

Happy birthday, mine was 4 days ago, I share that date with OJ Simpson 😂

Happy Birthday!

Woo! July 13 Birthday buddy here toooo 😁

@@chili.bucuti happy belated birthday! I just found out that, Nathan Bedford Forrest was also born on July 13. If that name doesn't ring a bell, well, it was who, Forrest Gump was named after. More useless info I can share next year.

That can be explained away pretty simply. The map "cutscenes" were simply for our viewing pleasure as the audience, and not an actual physical map in-universe, so it's not technically an anachronism

There's another glyph of Artoo and Threepeo on the wall somewhere. Saw it in photos, but never saw it on screen.

Oh yeah I almost forgot, the name on the plane is OB-CPO

Also, a brilliant (and literal) example of Chekhov's gun

"are"

Also little known fact: John Williams also did the theme to the original TV show “Lost in Space.”

And the ship captain Katanga is Atto in black hawk down and the actor who plays Belloq is the same guy who played Ivan Ozze in the Power Rangers movie.

The brilliant use of silhouettes.

Though George & Steven began spitballing it on a beach in Hawaii as they waited for the first numbers from Star Wars' opening to come in.

Am I suffering from some kinda Mandela effect? Because I could swear that there was a scene where the Swastika burned away from within.

@@Darceus2000 Oh there is one, it's my bad, I worded the comment badly and it looks like the scene got cut, I meant it didn't show up in the reaction

@@diegocalderon5190 Oh, good! So I’m not crazy… well, not *that* crazy…🤪😂

We don't wanna go no more today!

That made me think about the Mel Brooks joke with Moses and *fifteen* commandments... 😅

And the other one where God went to the Jews and said, 'I have Commandments.' 'Commandments?' They said, 'How much are they?' 'They're free.' 'We'll take 10.'

What's crazy is me and my friends just started streaming Avatar on our discord for a friend who hasn't seen it today, then I see this comment

Lucas wanted her to be 12 years old, but Spielberg was not having it.

And Indy was going to be 25 at the time, not "early-20s".

yes, that is absolutely the last one. None exist after that.