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The role of Sallah is portrayed by John-Rhys Davies, who played Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Also, if the music seems familiar to Star Wars, it's because John Williams did both the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies.
Just to let you know where the "Don't look at it" comes from. According to the Old Testament, God actually travelled with the 12 tribes of Abraham/Israel. One of the tribes was the Levites. They were tasked with carrying the Ark and setting up God's temple and worship area, and taking it down and carrying it when travelling. That tribe was not responsible for anything else but this. They were sort of the priest caste of the 12 tribes. In the daytime, when the Israelites were travelling, God manifested as a tornado of fire and would lead the people where he wanted them to go/follow. At night, the tornado died down and slept/disappeared. Then when they were ready to travel again it would appear and they'd hit the road again. So that's why you see that huge tornado that lifted the top of the Ark into the sky. The story goes that God decreed that anyone who wasn't a Levite could not enter the space in the temple where the Ark was housed. No one was allowed to look into the Ark(the face of God) or else they would be struck down dead. This wasn't relayed through any person or prophet. This is when God addressed the people directly. One time, someone accidentally went too close to the sacred area where the Ark was and was struck down dead with a bolt of fire/electricity. So Indy knew his Bible passages and that's why he told Marion not to look.
The actor that played Sallah, also played Gimli in The Lord of the Rings. The irony is that out of all the actors in the fellowship, he was the tallest and he played a dwarf.
John Rhys-Davies also played Professor Maximilian Arturo in Sliders, and he was the voice of Jherek in "Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance" video game, of Galahad in "Wizards" and Thor in "Hulk" shows.
Really says something that when I saw this as a kid ~6 years old, I thought the face-melting was awesome, rofl. Then again, I specifically remember my parents letting us see things from Nightmare on Elm Street to Terminator to RoboCop. All before I was 10, lol.
The box basically contains god's presence on earth. If you open it without his permission, it's basically the equivalent of trying to Ding Dong Ditch him and he will smite you for being a trifling fool.
Not exactly correct. The Bible tells what happens to people who touched the ark. This is why Indy, Sala and Sala's workers never ever ever touched the ark directly.
Fun fact: that part where Indy shoots the swordsman, it was originally supposed to be an actual fight between them. However, Ford was really sick at the time so they opted for him just to shoot the gun. Iconic moment!
My understanding was while they were filming Ford just pulled out the gun and shot and the swordsman reacted. Spielberg liked it and decided to keep it.
"Is it based on a book or something?" Not quite. When George Lucas was a kid he went to the cinema where they showed short weekly serialised dramas. One was Flash Gordon, a scifi adventure, and one was King Solomons Mines, an archeology adventure. When he grew up, he made Star Wars as an homage to one, and Indiana Jones as an homage to the other.
He was also partially inspired by a famous mercenary who took over a small chain of islands off the coast of Africa in the 20th century and made himself king. Interesting fellow but his name slips my mind.
There is also another book that Lucas took inspiration from There was a Donald Duck adventure book that is basically the opening of the film. Donald Duck goes into a temple and takes a golden idol from it’s center while avoiding traps
To think, we got the script of this movie drafted when George Lucas and Steven Spielberg went on vacation in Hawaii. And it was because George was afraid that Star Wars would flop at the 1977 premiere, so he went on vacation instead. XD
And we got Harrison Ford as Indy because Tom Selleck was busy and Spielberg wanted Harrison while George didn’t want Harrison to be the star that he always casts, but Spielberg insisted. The way this masterpiece came to be and created is as priceless as the ark 😂
The Philistines did not get such luck, back when they stole it from the Jews.. They opened the ark, at the center of their city.. The entire city fell I'll and had massive tumors, and boils all over them. With claims of a bright flash of light, before the sickness. Good portion of their people died very fast. Needless to say, they returned the ark back to their owners after that tiny opening event. If you ask me personally i think there was something highly radioactive in the ark. If you ask historians, they will tell you there are 3 items in the ark. "word of god [commandments]" "Manna [body of god]" "Aaron's Rod" [Staff of creation]" = Still if these are real, each one of these would be deadly. [1] word of God = judgement [2] Manna = part of his body, this could be deadly to life of earth [2] Aaron's Rod = A item that can make life bloom out of nothing.
@@lisamaitland157 be careful who you say this to, since any kind of scientific rationale analysis of biblical events is considered heresy to many Look at the book of revelation for example…2000 years ago, someone see a vision and refers to great creatures with roars of lions and such…how else would a biblical times person describe an Apache Helicopter Gunship…?
@Lindley Francis not sure about radioactivity, but it's described as carried around using wooden poles, and there's an incident when a man touched it with bare hands (to prevent it from falling into a river?) and died instantly. Electricity?
@@mattp6089 There were bits here and there, of course, but I have to say I didn’t really enjoy Temple of Doom, all in all. The Last Crusade, however, was GREAT fun!
"All the graphics are dated" All the special effects in this movie were practical effects. There was no CGI back in 1981 (the first movie to use CGI was Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, and they were pretty primitive though impressive for the time). I'm sorry, but Raiders of the Lost Ark is not "pretty dated". This movie is timeless, as all the great sci-fi action movies from the 80's.
Its heavily based on the pulp magazines and old Saturday matinee serials from the camera actions and the over the top feel to it just with far more brutality. Its going for a certain style while updating it for the 1980s the same can be said about Tim Burton's Batman which took a lot of inspiration from 1930s to 1950s tv and films. I remember her saying the gun sounds and the sets looked unrealistic which was the point.
@Mr Magician junior Not for the blasters, but the deathstar animation when they plan the attack was computergenerated. Just a simple wireframe model, but still cg.
There was cgi in 81 but it wasn't as good as practical effects. First cg animation was in 72. You can find the video on youtube. As for the genesis scene, I wouldn't call that primitive. It looked better than most of the cg in TRON and still looked good many years later.
Mary saying “Aw, look at the burning Nazis!” in the same sort of voice one would say “Aw, look at the cute kitten!” is exactly the kind of content I’m here for.
"Seriously, Harrison Ford has never looked better than right now." LOL I love the fact she said that about the scene where he was so incredibly sick that he decided to go off script and shot the guy instead of getting into a sword fight.
Mary: I like this flute music every time they have a moment. It reminds me of Han and Leia because it’s similar It’s because John Williams did the music both for Star Wars and for this movie.
I'll share a behind the scenes story. My friend's father was the stunt coordinator for this film. Glenn Randall is his name. Glenn is also in the film as the mechanic that comes at Indy with the wrench in the fight scene in front of the plane. He had a ranch in the L.A. area and he taught Harrison to ride a horse at that ranch. One day there's a snake in the barn. Glenn is terrified and won't go near it. His wife came out with a rifle and shot the snake. Spielberg thought it was hilarious that this tough cowboy was afraid of a snake. So hilarious that he put it in the film.
Nominated for 8 Oscars including Best Picture but won for: Best Visual Effects Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing Best Film Editing Best Art Direction.
@@johncampbell756 yes, but Chariots hasn’t had an enduring legacy even close to that of any of the Indiana Jones films. More people today, including the younger crowd have either seen this movie or are very familiar with it, while not many at all these days are as familiar with Chariots of Fire. This, to me, speaks volumes towards which is the “better” movie and deserves to be called the “best picture” of that year. If a film is named as “best picture” then it stands to reason that no other film from that year would be more popular and successful, especially years later, and it DEFINITELY shouldn’t become obscure and unfamiliar to people, especially compared to other films from the same year, over time. If so, then it really wasn’t the “best” picture, was it?
@@kidwajagstang I definitely have to disagree with that statement...a film isn't good just because it's popular and quality can't be measured in numbers at the box office...now, as entertainment, I prefer to watch "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in this case, and have seen it multiple times more, but that doesn't automatically make it the better film, quality wise (it obviously HAS a lot of quality, but the key word there is "automatically")...it might be "Most People's Favorite Film of the Year", but that's not an Academy category...with popularity = quality you would have any hot garbage "comedy" winning "Best Picture" at the Oscars, and that would be downright awful ;)
@@kidwajagstang We disagree one what makes something the best picture. The Most Enjoyable and Best are not the same. Chariots was overall a better made film. It's not a big blockbuster. I love Raiders and would rather watch Raiders. That makes it more enjoyable, not better. Schindler's List was incredible, but I don't want to rewatch it. My friends and I love and quote Bring It On to this day. It is not the better film, just more enjoyable.
I believe he is a twin and he and his brother play the night guard in T2 (well, one plays the guard, the other plays the T-1000 imitating the guard) as well as the twin scientists in Gremlins 2 who love showing Gizmo dancing to Christopher Lee’s character.
minnesotajones261 I saw this at a drive-in. I was 13 and it was a double feature. Raiders of the Lost Ark & Dragonslayer. Needless to say, I had a great time🤣
"I know this music. I don't know where from, but it's very, very familiar." The score is from John Williams and was composed for the movie you're currently watching.
She probably recognized it because it's one of the most iconic themes in cinema, so much so that people have heard it being played somewhere without ever seeing the movie.
Something to keep in mind with classic films like this, much of what we take for granted was first introduced in movies v like this. Without this movie for example, Laura Croft tomb raider and The Librarian would never have existed. So much of this movie has made it into tv and film over the years.
Mary, I don't know if anyone else explained this yet in the comments, but just to be clear: Marion doesn't get affected by alcohol. That's why she swindled that giant man in her bar. When she's held captive in the wedding dress, she's merely "acting" like she's drunk; she has her wits about her.
Great, classic movie! One thing to remember about the second movie is that it's a prequel. The audience knew that when it came out in theaters. It takes place one year before the events in Raiders and Harrison Ford worked out hard to get in shape so he would look younger. You'll enjoy it.
I'm so curious to know what you think about Crocodile Dundee (1986), especially as a Aussie?! This great classic feel-good comedy was the second biggest hit worldwide in 1986 and it's still the most successful Australian movie ever! 👌🏼🥰 By the way, you will love Karen Allen in Scrooged (1988) too! ✌🏼
Nah, not really, it was Steven who always wanted to make a Bond movie, so helped George with George's idea to make a movie that was inspired by the movie serials of early Hollywood with all their cliffhangers. Just as the movie serials of Flash Gordon inspired his Star Wars.
Oddly enough the pilot for the 1960s TV series The Man from UNCLE was written by Ian Fleming. The name of the lead character was Napoleon ... wait for it ... Solo. In fact the show was originally known as Ian Fleming's Solo. Han's great great great great grandfather perhaps?
Not based on any books, but inspired by old Saturday matinee serials. Decades ago, where trailers go now, theaters used to show adventure serials before the movie started. The Indiana Jones (and Star Wars, for that matter) are inspired by those serials.
@@michaeljohn1978 Not exactly. Spielberg made the comment to Lucas that he wanted to do a Bond film. Lucas said, "I've got something better than that." He then pitched Indiana Smith (the original character name), based on the old Saturday morning serials. It was always based on the Saturday morning serials, not James Bond. Spielberg's connection to the project just came out of a comment that he made that he wanted to do a Bond film. The project pre-dates the comment, just not Spielberg's involvement. Spielberg's comment: he loved it, except one thing, could they change the last name? Lucas proposed Jones instead of Smith.
The end scene (the staircase) is actually *inside* San Francisco’s City Hall, acting as *outside* in Washington D.C. Indy’s house, the white plane he boards. and the exterior of the university are also in the Bay Area, as well as where they did the special effects (and where George Lucas lives). Now there is a statue of Indy and Yoda there.
Do you know what location was used as the university exterior? It definitely wasn't Letterman Hospital on the Presidion (where ILM is now with the Yoda statue), nor any location on Stanford or UC Berkeley.
In captain America the first avenger when Schmidt finds the tesseract he says "and the fuhrer digs for trinkets in the desert" as a reference to Indiana Jones
@@LarryBonson yes Hitler was obsessed with the occult but he never sent teams of archeologist with full military units to look for them. Disney had bought Lucas films at that point and owned the rights to Indiana Jones. Plus, Schmidt was looking for a magic artifact, Belloq was looking for a magic artifact the comparison would be made eventually. Plus screen writers and Kevin feige Have both confirmed that it was a reference
13:46 This originally was to be a fight between whip and sword. There is footage of how it was supposed to go down. But as they were shooting it, Harrison Ford suffered from major stomach problems due to food poisoning and told Steven Spielberg that he only had a few minutes of energy left. Steven just told him to just shoot him. It just goes to show you, never bring a knife to a gun fight.
While 'Raiders' is first in release order, "Temple of Doom" happens before this one! p.s. when he flees the night club, it says 'Club Obi-Wan' in neon lights!
I remember seeing this on the big screen back in the early eighties. I thought it was one of the coolest movies ever. I also thought that one guy looked a lot like Tom Cruise, too.
Speaking of Alfred Molina I can't wait to see him come back as Doc Ock in Spider-Man No Way Home. Yes despite we saw him die in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2, it doesn't matter because the Spider-Verse is happening
Maybe it's happening... idk, Andrew Garfield hasn't said anything about coming back. Probably because Sony's CEO fired him for not showing up to an awards show because he was sick.
I am amazed that you are just now watching Raiders, but glad that you can share it. I agree with you about leaving Marion captive in the tent, but I've had many years to get used to it. And she is very capable.
If you were still curious about why Marion hates him so much in the beginning, it's implied that when they first fell in love 10 years prior, there was a significant age difference between them & Marion was underage. Original drafts of the script were going to touch on that part of the relationship, but for obvious reasons, they only hinted at the nature of their relationship.
Yeah, it was scripted to be a long sword fight, but Harrison Ford fell ill during production (I think it was malaria, but I'm sure someone will correct me) and was so weak that there was no way he could do the fight. So they just had Indy shoot the swordsman instead, and it turned into one of the most memorable and funny moments in the movie.
Yeah, him and most of the crew had dysentary. The script called for Indy to have a long fight with sword guy. Between frequent trips to the bathroom, Ford's said "Why don't I just shoot him?" The rest is history.
Still love that Big Bang Theory episode where Amy tells Sheldon that Indy had no bearing on the outcome of the movie. If he had or hadn’t been there throughout , the Nazi’s would open the chest and die. This revelation causes the gang to become really bummed out as they loved this movie.
I don’t agree. The creepy nazi guy followed Indy to Nepal, which means they didn’t know where Marion was, which means they wouldn’t have found the well of souls.
@@vinnygi that’s a matter of opinion as there is no real proof that they did follow him. For all the audience knows, their arrival is just more coincidence. Now you’re probably right but there isn’t anything definitive in the scenes previous to the bar plus there is nothing to suggest they wouldn’t have figured out who had the medallion.
That's because they obsess over plot but not story. The plot could have happened without Indy, but the story, the bit you watch and care about, couldn't.
Something interesting, in the scene where indy and sallah are rolling the Ark if you look real hard they pass a hieroglyphic of C3P0 and Artood2 on the wall
The next Indiana Jones movie to watch is Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Karen Allen who does Marion isn't in it, you don't see Marion again until Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Karen Allen is also in the movies The Sandlot, and Scrooged.
There's also two hieroglyphs in the Well of Souls of Threepio and Artoo. You can see one pair of them when Indy and Sallah lift up the heavy crypt inclosing the Ark, they're on a post/pole behind Indy on his right side.
The truck out of Tanis scene was inspired by old B-movie Westerns that George Lucas loved as a kid. It was also the jumping off point for creating the whole character
"Harrison Ford never looked better." Temple of Doom, Blade Runner, are also peak Harrison Ford. He is 46/47 in the third part and he looks very, very good.
So glad to you watching the greatest action adventure film! This film is perfectly directed, written, cast, shot, edited, stunt work, and scored! It’s my 2nd favorite film, next to the first Star Wars. If you watch it in black & white and in pan @ scan, it looks like a 1930s film.
13:41 Harrison was suffering with a bug (I forget which one exactly) the script called for an elaborate set piece sword fight and he just wanted to get back to the hotel so he shot the other guy instead
Those spiders on Alfred Molina (Doc Ock of Spider-Man 2) were real. They had trouble getting the spiders to move and didn’t want people thinking they were props. Turns out they were all male. So they added one female and in Molina’s words “ all hell broke loose.” 😆
In the movie where Indy is flying from San Francisco to Nepal, his plane flies over Vietnam. It was pointed out that Vietnam was still called Cochin China in 1936, so they had to re-film that scene.
One of the US Army Intelligence men is William Hootkins, who played Porkins, the first rebel pilot to die attacking the Death Star in Star Wars: A New Hope, and he also played Lt. Eckhardt, the crooked cop in Tim Burton’s Batman.
A top 10 movie of all time. On a scale of 1 to 10 this is most definitely a 10. Very nostalgic if you are into old fashioned looking and story telling. This movie has become a classic and is very re-watchable. Great acting and action packed! Feel better soon!
I was greatly amused when you said Harrison Ford never looked better right after the famous "shooting the Cutlass wielding maniac" scene. Mainly because Ford was originally meant to fight the guy in black, but was feeling really sick and weak that day (food issues), and thought of just shooting the guy as a low energy yet amusing way to end the scene. Also, I don't know if you picked up on it, but the actor who played Sallah, John Rhys-Davies, also played Gimli in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Just dont ever ask him about his feeling on the prosthetics he needed to wear when filming.
Tom Selleck was originally cast as Indiana Jones however he had commitments to a little show called ‘Magnum PI’ so when Spielberg and Lucas were looking for other candidates for the titular role Spielberg suggested Harrison Ford was Indiana after having seen and early screening of the Empire Strikes back however George Lucas didn’t want to be like his friend Martin Scorsese and just cast his friend Robert De Niro in all his films And having already worked with Ford in both his 1973 film ‘American Graffiti’ and the two Star Wars film he didn’t want to just cast Ford again and Ford was reluctant to sign onto another multi picture deal George Lucas also didn’t want to cast Ford as Han Solo at first as he’d already work with him in American Graffiti but when he came in to help others read lines it became apparent that he was the right choice Other people considered for Han Solo included Sylvester Stallone, Al Pacino, Kurt Russell and Christopher Walken
The 'under the truck' stunt was first done by stunt man Yakima Canute in John Ford's (1939?) film 'Stage Coach' staring a very young and unknown actor, John Wayne. Canute falls between the horses and under the stage coach.
@5:41 Mary: "Anakin hates snow, and Indiana Jones hates snakes." Me: "... Is she still a little loopy?" Mary: "I meant sand... I'm still a bit loopy." 😄😂😂😂😂😂
@@AshrafAnam I was referring to her possibly still feeling the effects of whatever medication she might have had when her wisdom tooth was removed. I'm American, but I also think of "loopy" as a term referring to feeling dizzy or having a hangover, lol.
loved the reaction! you asked about if this was based on some old book it was actually based on old black and white movie serials both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg watched as kids they were like multi part short eps played before the actual movie in the theatres back in the day so you would come back to the theater every month to see what happened next,and they included a lot of stuff from them like to make continuity easier the hero never lost his hat so no matter how hard he gets hit or in car chase or what ever the hat stays on lol. you see even more in the later movies. and that is why he keeps getting the ark then losing it again if you split it into 10 or 15 min bits there would be a cliff hanger at the end of every ep. the scene with the truck where he goes under it they dug like a 8 inch trench that was a half mile long to give the stunt man enough clearance to make it under with out being squished lol. so is a book i am writing the most famous is the guy with the big sword in the market in the original script there was supposed to be a huge fight with him and on the day harrison just said i have a gun wouldnt i just shoot him so thats how they filmed it.
you know this music, that is JOHN WILLIAMS, the greatest composer for music when it comes to film of all time, there is no one else on his level, not yet anyway no one else has the body of work spanning over 60 years, all of his work stands the test of time. Indiana jones, jaws, star wars superman it is all great.
I like the fact that when she ask if we would like to see the sequels, she only mentions the 2nd and 3rd but not the 4th film. Nobody asks for the forth film.
9:53 I'm sure Abner told her something like, "Never let this medallion out of your sight, daughter. It's the key to the most fabulous archeological treasure on earth, worth much more than money!" before he passed on.
Two other good Harrison Ford movies from the same era are BLADE RUNNER (which got a sequel just a few years ago, BLADE RUNNER 2049, which he is also in) and WITNESS.
Glad you enjoyed the film! I do hope you'll give the 4th film a chance. It's not very well liked by the majority of people, which is unfortunate, because it's my favorite one. I think people forget that it's not meant to be taken seriously and maybe it's an acquired taste. I think it's a great adventure film, and I leave it to you to decide weather to watch it when the time comes.
This movie is a classic, and the third film is almost as good. The second one is less good than the other two, but still worth seeing once. Don't bother with the fourth. It sucks. This is one of my favorite movies of all time. :) That last scene, with the box in the warehouse, meant the U.S. government essentially did exactly the same thing with the Ark that the pharoahs did. It also inspired the television series, Warehouse 13 Moreover, do you remember a throwaway comment in "Captain America: The First Avenger"? The Red Skull mentioned that the fuhrer was wasting his time, "...hunting trinkets in the desert." :) This film, although itself inspired by the old serials in the 1920s and 1930s that used to play in cinemas, in turn inspired many movies that followed it.
"Don't bother with the fourth." But the fourth does have one thing Mary will want to see that isn't in the 2nd and 3rd. The 22 Young Indy films made between the 3rd and the 4th are also really good.
Its actually in the "bible" of this series that Indy never gets to keep what hes after. It always gets taken away at the end somehow. Btw up until 2005 this was just called RAIDERS of the LOST ARK.. Indiana Jones wasnt added to the title until the DVD box set came out and George Lucas decided to change it. Luckily thanks to Spielberg they didnt change the title in the movie itself or any of the FX.
