@@doughbafett Well, yeah, but it's not just a movie meta-joke. Hitler was into ocult stuff and he really sent expeditions to search for biblical relics throughout Sahara
@@origynally Sho 'nuff. He didn't believe in the "Jewish book of lies" (his words, not mine) but he had archaelogists dig up all sorts of artifacts from every culture they could get to and did rituals and all that stuff.
When that snake fell on Marion, Spielberg wanted to get a good scream so he didn’t tell her it was going to happen. When she looks up really angry, she was - and she was looking at Spielberg - he was the one who dropped the snake.
As a Teenager taking my first date to this movie. She jumped into my lap at the spider scene. We were embraced the entire movie. The best first date I've ever had.
@@cdjwmusic Don't know why 6 people are voting you up, obviously the OP is saying of all the first dates he's had with however many girls, that was the best. When you 'begin' dating a new person, what else can it be other than a first date, regardless of whether you've been on other dates with other people?
Fun fact: there's a Star Wars Easter egg in Raiders; when Indy and Sallah are lifting the stone lid for the Ark, behind Indy is a pillar with hieroglyphs. One of the glyphs depicts C3PO and R2-D2.
There's a Star Wars Easter Egg on the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. There was a competition to design grotesques (an architectural element) for the building and the third-place winner was for Darth Vader.
Also the scene near the end when they are in the canyon is the same place they filmed the scene in A New Hope when Luke Skywalker is attacked by sand people
I agree completely. With this comment and the reaction. Jeez, those actors were fuckin' troopers for keeping their cool while covered with live spiders. @_@
My mom died in Sept of last year (sorry for the downer) and your reaction to the tarantula scene is probably the best laugh I have had in the past 9 months. Thank you.
Harrison Ford was sick when they filmed the scene with the sword fight. He didn't want to fight with a sword so he came up with the idea to just shoot the guy.
Btw, can we pause and respect how cool and badass Marion was in the first film? She took the cliched damsel in distress trope, took a belt of whiskey and burned that shit to the ground.
@@voodoochild1975az One of the reasons people *DESPISE* Willie in Temple of Doom so much. We were introduced to one of cinema's most badass leading ladies with Marion here only for the follow up film to (intentionally, I might add) reverse course with Willie being utterly hopeless and useless the whole film. As bad as the movie is, Marion's return is one of the highlights of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, it was so good to see her come back to put Indy in his place once more.
@@VegetaLF7 if I had to reach in to that bug tunnel to reach the lever, Indy and Short-round would have died, so I guess Willie has that going for her lol
Marion WAS a damsel in distress. She was constantly getting rescued. Indy had to pull her or push her when they ran. She didn't even have the sense to run out of a burning building by herself. When Indy fought those Arabs in Cairo she stood there in a daze. Useless just useless.
@@G.S.Productions yea, I'm still not buying it. Indy may hate snakes, but even when confronted with snakes in person, he's still far more composed than Natalie is here with spiders merely on her tv/computer screen. I think she may need some kind of fear management training before she dons her whip and fedora :D
Fun fact: Alfred Molina plays the guy in the opening scene with Indy who’s gets covered in the tarantulas (who for those who may not know also plays Doc Oc in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies), and this was his first movie role, and to haze him the very first shot they made him do was that exact shot. Think I would’ve just abandoned a promising career as an actor right then and there.
@@rpvee Indeed! I was debating which fact to post between the Alfred Molina one, the Gimli one and the infamous “Harrison Ford was sick and couldnt be bothered with a long fight scene so he just shot the guy” one 😂
Fun fact: When George Lucas was meeting with Lawrence Kasdan to write a screenplay he gave him a Photo of what he wanted the story to be like: It was a black-and-white picture of a still from an old 40s serial featuring the Lone Ranger climbing on board a truck. That’s the “feel” he wanted for the script. Kasdan nailed it.
“Where is the American government?” This is the isolationist pre WW2 US, not the post WW2 superpower juggernaut we are so used to. What you should ask, is where are the British military. They would not have allowed German military personnel to be so active in Egypt, which was basically a part of the British Empire.
@@alalalala57 Yes, it really is a very obvious question if you are at all knowledgeable about this period of history 😄. The British were obsessed with keeping control over the Suez Channel, as their empire was completely dependent on their control over the shipping lanes to India. While formally independent in this period, Egypt was still deeply connected to the British Empire. With British troops being present in the country. Any major German operation in the area, would be watched closely, and a buildup of German military would simply not be allowed.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Yes, you were isolationist before the start of WW2. It meant not getting involved with Europa and it’s power struggles. You were for example not a member of the League of Nations. The US was actively present in the americas, not much else.
I recently read a book called "Bigfoot and the Bodhisattva" where this is a plot point, the protagonist is a Himalayan yeti who lives off the brains of dead climbers and kind of absorbs their knowledge and memories that way, so now he's well-versed in the culture of the sort of western well off hipster dudes who think going for a deadly climb on one of the most dangerous mountains in the world is a nice way to "find yourself" or some other nonsense.
Truly. So many great soundtracks. These notes are part of some of our DNA. We hear this music when we're doing virtually anything, without knowing it. I cannot imagine a life without his music.
His run through the 1970s to the 1990s is beyond impressive. Like, how does a single man compose: - the iconic Superman theme - the entirety of the Star Wars soundtracks, including several major iconic themes like the opening one and the Imperial March - the Indiana Jones soundtrack - the Jurassic Park soundtrack - the ET soundtrack - the Home Alone soundtrack and I'm leaving Harry Potter out because that's 2001 but holy shit Hedwig's Theme is another masterpiece. And I'm sure I'm missing something. That's more tunes that literally billions of people remember so well they could hum them on command than... probably anyone else has ever composed. In history. It's hard without hindsight to tell who will be remembered in the future the way Mozart or Beethoven are remembered today, but I feel like John Williams is a good bet.
Amen. Someone said the most influential genre was classical music. Then talked about John Williams. I can't listen to John Williams without seeing the film in my minds eye...if you will. Yes!! His score is why Prisoner feels like the best HP movie. He is our emotional nostalgia. May James Horner ST 2 and Braveheart have the same scope and scale?
@@HaganeNoGijutsushi And also the Hook soundtrack which is my absolute favorite of the more 'lesser referenced' soundtracks. And the Jaws theme (although I've never actually seen that movie).
27:27 The American Army is roughly on par with Bulgaria at this point in history and the American Navy isn't spending a lot time in the Mediterranean either.
Yep, John Williams... probably our greatest living composer. Always love hearing your appreciation for how the soundtrack adds to a film. And just remember... this movie, with faces melting, heads exploding, and a guy being chopped up by a plane propeller... is rated PG, and the Matrix, where there's barely any blood, is rated R. Riddle me that.
I was watching this on my lunch break and almost had to turn it off when the tarantulas were on his back. Natalie's screaming had my coworkers thinking I was watching an adult movie
Such a great reaction. One of the things you realize when watching this movie in 2021 is that Marion was 15 when she had an affair with 27 year old Indiana Jones. No wonder she hated him. It does kind of make sense that the U.S. government wouldn't have had any troops in the region since it was set in 1936, way before the USA had entered the war or built up its standing arming. The ending also reminds me of Warehouse 13, one of the best TV shows ever.
I know that the "warehouses" supposedly pre-date the events of this film, but yeah, that was my first thought when they showed the inside of the Warehouse the first time.
I've called this the best movie ever made. It's got everything: drama, action, humour, romance, morals... great performances, fantastic writing, INCREDIBLE music.... It's just a masterpiece.
Hard to disagree! I constantly have to think to myself which movies come close... I usually end up with some combination of Empire, Aliens, Conan, SPRyan, Dune, LOTR, Patriot Games, Close Encounters, New Hope, Predator, Wrath of Khan, Heat, Time Bandits, Tron Legacy, ST Into Darkness, Goonies, and yes, Flash Gordon.
@@recrdholdr Why would that matter though...? Is the title character's impact on the story a clinch point for you to enjoy the movie - or were you just semi thoughtlessly reitterating some tired pop culture reference?
That warehouse scene at the end became the elevator pitch for the old SyFy-channel show "Warehouse 13" where you follow the caretakers of a storage facility where dangerous supernatural artifacts are kept safe from the public.
Another interesting factoid is that Indy and Belloq started off as friends when they younger, until Belloq stole one of Indy's research papers that he had been working on and took all the credit for it. It was so good that it made Belloq a household name in archaeology. Indy was never able to prove it was his. Belloq has been stealing from Indy his whole life.
That makes no sense, given that Belloq is the much older archeologist from whom Indy steals back the golden cross in the 4th movie, as a teenager. Unless you're pretending that the 4th movie doesn't exist? LOL
@@TheAlmaward 1st correction, the Cross of Coronado was claimed and reclaimed by Indy in the THIRD movie, not the 4th. 2nd correction, the guy who took the Cross of Coronado and that Indy got said Cross back from wasn’t Belloq, but a random other older man only referred to as Panama Hat.
At 28:50, the actor playing Rene didn't actually swallow the fly. They said the fly flew off when he closed his mouth, but the editor removed a few frames to make it look like it got eaten.
A lot of Steven Spielberg movies are tributes to the older serial movies like Buck Rogers, The Perils of Pauline, Flash Gordon, the Tarzan movies and Zorro etc.
Moleram pulling out the Heart in Temple was mine. I could never watch that fucking scene without running out of the room. But Moleram's theme song had a hot beat.
But why did they put in that 'car going off the mountain road' bit? Tanis and Cairo are in the Nile Delta -- they're _barely_ above sea level. (I know -- it does look cool.)
I know right. Chris Stuckmann gushes over it and for good reason. He explains it so well in his Problem With Action Movies Today video, how the vulnerability of the main hero is integral to the art of an action movie, how to utilise aspects of filmmaking to make you root for the hero. Note how in the truck sequence, when Indy gets shot in the arm the music changes and becomes more dire. Then the soldier comes back, punches him IN THE GUNSHOT WOUND, throws him out of the cabin, and then he has his “coming back from the brink” moment where through his own effort regains the high ground and kicks that guy’s ass. It’s god tier action movie making.
19:58 In the original release you could see reflections on the glass wall between Indy and the snakes. These were mostly removed in the 2003 DVD edition.
6:54-7:08 - Alfred Molina's first real gig in a major Hollywood production involved him being covered with spiders. Flash forward 23 years, and he's playing one of the all-time best Spider-Man villains in one of the all-time best superhero movies.
I think I heard it was his first day of shooting, too. Imagine that-- you get a real acting job, and on your first day, it's "Okay, so here's all the bigass spiders we're gonna put on you." "The what, now?" ...Not only that, but they weren't moving around enough at first, so I can only assume that really dragged out the amount time spent covered in them, while they figured out how to make them crawl around.
@@frigginjerk I heard somewhere that they were all males and they didn't move around enough for Spielberg's tastes, so they added a female to get them really scurrying.
Just as you said, this hit the spot after a long work day. Had a lot of fun watching this again with you. The coathanger got you!!! This movie was made in the style of and paid homage to the serials of the 1930s. They were short segments that ended with cliffhangers that were picked up in the next segment (next week, next month, whatever). A fun, adventurous romp.
Man I watched that movie in the theater when I was 10, I had to beg my sister who was older to go with me to the movie. She really didn't want to go because she thought it was some silly kids movie. By the end when we left the theater she was like, "that was a great movie!". Thanks for bring back great memories.
I'm guessing she didn't realize when Marion said, "I was a child. I was in love. It was wrong and you knew it!" that she was 15 when they were romantically involved and Indy was about 25 at the time. Just makes that scene hit so much harder.
That wasn't in the novel or the script. Kasdan's script actually had Marion as Belloq's romantic interest. Karen Allen improvised her own backstory. (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Ravenwood#Concept_and_creation ). - PS - Though it would sound creepy today to have a 25 year old Indy and a 15-16 year old Marion romantically involved... in 1920's Nepal, she was probably kind of old to not be married.
in the cut scene he actually said "you were 14 you knew what you were doing" - i assume 14 was the age of consent in the early 1900s.... still gross though
@@Mr.Ekshin It was in the novelization of the film. Doesn't matter who came up with the concept. It's in the movie. Also, just because something is legal, doesn't make it right, no matter what year it is.
i loved marion so much i wish she was in all of them smh she was the only leading lady in the series that wasn't insufferable for one reason or another lmfao
Am I the only person whose mind was blown when they found out that John Rhys - Davies, who plays Indiana Jone's friend (Sallah) in Cairo, also played Gimli in Lord of the Rings ?!!
I had watched Indiana Jones many times before Lord of the Rings came out so I had the same reaction when I saw Gimli. 'OMG!! That's the guy (Sallah) from Indiana Jones"
I saw this movie in the theater when I was 6 years old, and it changed my life forever. I have seen it probably 100 times since, literally. For me, it's the best movie ever made, and I can still remember the feeling I had watching it as a kid -- it's the feeling I've been chasing ever since. Because of it, I LOVE movies, and I love being told a story, and it's the reason I find myself doing things like watching other people watching and reacting to movies :)
This series was all about Lucas and Spielberg recreating their favorite action-adventure serials of the 1930s and 40s. Thus all the tropes like the "cheesy" dramatic lighting, maniacal laughter, etc.
I used to work at a college that had an archeology major, and I met several students who were definitely motivated by Indiana Jones to go into the field.
Were they disappointed? Indiana Jones was an international criminal rather than an archaeologist. Thievery, tomb raiding/robbing and the wanton destruction of historical sites not really a part of the archaeological discipline! 😂
Growing up I had a Dog named Indiana because in the last crusade you learn that he gets his adventurer name from his dog Indiana. “I got a lot fond memories of the dog”
Growing up, I owned a dog I named 'Ben'. As an adult, my wife and I chose 'Ben' for our first boy. Actually, I didn't tell her about my dog, but I was thinking about this movie.
I watched this in theaters back in 1981. I remember there was a commercial that said “If adventure had a name it would be Indiana Jones” That catchphrase was the hook for me. Now looking back at the last 40 years. I can definitely say this character is the embodiment of adventure.
That was for Temple of Doom' teaser where they used that...... Raiders had the reissue teaser trailerr that said "Indiana Jones is back... Persuded by Bellosh! and Loved *punch* by Marion.... Some of them are heroes... SOme of them are enemies... and they are all.. returning! They are all... Raiders of the Lost... Ark! *Cool whip*
fun fact, when indie shoots the guy with the sword it was actually improvised. there was supposed to be this big fight scene but harrison ford was ill and suffering a severe case of diarrhea so he just shot the guy instead.
32:10 this is the scene that will inspire years later ScyFy show "Warehouse 13", a show where a top secret gov organisation Tracks, and collects Artifacts with supernatural powers to have them out of reach from the wrong hands and stocked in the Warehouse 13
I understand the dialogue about representation, but Alfred Molina has been a shapeshifter over the decades. He was South American in this movie, Mexican in Maverick, and whatever he was in the Spider-Man movies.
This was so fun! I think you’d probably enjoy Romancing the Stone and its sequel, Jewel of the Nile - two fab movies from the 80s with Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito. Also, please could you consider reacting to Practical Magic? 😁 Thank you!
One of my best friends from college wanted to be an archeologist as a kid because of the Mummy movies. When she realized that would mean being covered in dirt, in heat, and dealing with bugs she decided to follow her other passion, art.
And makes us want to watch Citizen Kane again. Spielberg (and/or Lucas) had fun recreating the final sequence of Kane's endless warehouse. Also, I'd guess the Nazi insignia burning off the crate was probably inspired by the effect when the Rosebud lettering burns off the sled.
Hiya Natalie! Just finished watching you r reaction to this. I've been catching up with quite a few of your videos of movies I have enjoyed over the years. Late last night I watched all 3 parts from your -LOTRs: Return of the King (I'm a big LOTRs/ Hobbit film fan. ), then I watched your Gladiator video also. I swear your reactions are very entertaining lol! I had just started eating some dinner when the spider scene came up, I LOL so hard I had tears streaming on my face!😂😂 It was hysterical! I was surprised you were fine with the ton of snakes scene. 😁 I loved that scene myself though my Mother had a hard time watching. 😁 My (late) Mom enjoyed the movie because she and her brothers grew up watching the old Serial movies as kids. From the time I saw HF in SW as a teen in the 70's, had had a huge crush on him for some years lol. He was perfect as Indy. I'm a big movie fan depending on what the movie is, grew up watching the classics on TV and going to the theaters. 🎥 @nataliegold
In the novelization and comic book adaptation, they explained the Indy tied himself to the periscope of the submarine with his whip to get to the isand.
I actually liked the 4th movie, though 1&3 are my top 2- (the 2nd comes dead last for me). I loved seeing Marion again, as I fell in love with this couple in the 1st movie. I enjoyed the whole soap opera-esque of their reunion, and didn't mind the alien stuff- it felt in tune with the 50-60's "UFO's and Commies" cinema, just as this 1st one is paying homage to the serialized adventure movies of earlier decades. That being, said, I do get why so many people don't care for it.
The government guy that told Indy "top men" were working on the Ark, well, he was Porkins in Star Wars A New Hope. Porkins was an X-Wing pilot who was killed while battling the first Death Star. He has acted in many of the biggest films of his day.
Seeing Nat freak out over the spiders made me so happy lol Nat missed where Marion implied that she and Indy had a romantic tryst while she was underage
@@andrewe2057 I know lol !!! I remember watching this in the theatre as a kid and it totally flew over my head. To be fair at that time in history in many parts of the U.S. 15 was acceptable , shit, Jerry Lee Lewis married his13 year old cousin. I'm not even making that up lol
I have to admit, when I learn someone has seen a film already I tend to think they cant be surprised by it. Natalie's shitfit over the spiders has convinced me otherwise.
It depends if you haven't seen it in a very long time. I hadn't seen Home Alone since I was maybe 8 or 9. When I re-watched it about 5 years ago, a lot of it surprised me because I only remembered bits and pieces and certain scenes.
7:07 Ah, savor the irony. The subtitles read "whimpers softly", as Natalie screamed loud enough to crack the plaster. Most people in the summer of 1980: I want to be an archeologist when I grow up. Me in the summer of 1980: I want to be a film composer when I grow up.
Thank you for this reaction video! Didn't realize it had been a while since I last rewatched this series. I first watched this in the 90s when we were visiting a maternal relative and I think this was the first time I actually realized how magical movies can be.