I'd also add the Allan Quartermaine books as a big inspiration for Indiana Jones. There's a lot of themes involved in the creation. It was probably an amalgamation of things.
The "frayed ends of a whip" refers to the popper which is attached to the fall of the whip. The popper is the part that takes most of the abuse when a whip is cracked. p
I find it funny that the prop manager for this documentary used a S&W Model 10/ M1917 (.38) revolver. Andrews stated that his Recolver was a "Colt .38" and was most likely a New Service, or a M1892. And Indy used a S&W Handejector along with the Webly "WG" Model revolver.
The greatest anti-hero to have hit the big screen. The Last Action Hero was an anti-hero. Indy’s flaws were his women. He lost them. He loses a lot of stuff. But comes out in the end the hero.
Why do people keep trying to pin this fictional character on to real historical people? George Lucas dreamed Indy up and drew inspiration from such characters as Zorro, flash Gordon and Alan Quartermaine. Any similarities to real people is quintessential!
there was no real life Indy Jones. there may have been similarities between the people mentioned in this vid but they were not the inspiration for the Indy character, To find the real inspiration for Indy you need look no farther than Harry Steele, played by a young Charleton Heston, in "Secret of the Incas". The Hat (although not a real Fedora), the leather jacket, the boots and pants, the girl as well as the signature move of placing his hat over his face when sleeping is all there in this film as well as travel to Machu Pichu in search of an ancient Incan golden sun disc and an escape in a plane. If you have the time, check it out. However, it is very slow paced compared to Indy movies.
Oops, I meant after LC had come out on VHS :P If my memory is serving me correctly, that is. And while I don't know for sure who's idea it was to change it, it wouldn't surprise me a damn bit if it was Lucas'. As we all know, nothing is ever 'quite' good enough for him the way it is; it's always about the way it's apparently 'supposed' to be. Didn't the Indiana trilogy come out about on VHS about the same time as the Star Wars did? You know, the one with the faces of Yoda, Vader and a Trooper?
Oh yeah, huh! Now that I think back that IS what it was originally called, huh. I think it was changed for the first time around the time the re-release of the 3 films as a trilogy set when Last Crusade came out on VHS.
I always wondered if Indiana Jones was real, and that Lucas and Spielberg were given permission to make a movie that was “fiction” to avoid religious beliefs crumbling and wars breaking out. If it is true and they do have the ark or grail somewhere, are you just supposed to tell a extremely religious buddhist that there religious is fake? So why not just put the man who found these things under a fake name and call it fiction. I mean it’s stupid not to make a movie on someone that amazing. Something to think about.
