@@MrZantkilleryup lol and when they’re escaping from Germany in the blimp he says “You’re old enough to be her grandfather..” and his dad replies “I’m just as human as the next guy” and Indie goes “I was the next guy!” 😅
yes I always thought it was funny even since the first time I saw the movie as a kid, the librarian stamps the book at the same time it booms against the floor, and he looks at it, like huh, poor old italian guy.
This entire scene is gorgeously shot. Look at how much Spielberg moves the camera, telling stories with it even when just shooting dialogue. The camera's constant anticipation of what the viewer will be or should be looking at is a big part of what makes Spielberg movies disarmingly easy to watch, and easy to follow for children and adults. And this scene is as good an example of that as any he's made.
@@supermariogriffin4527 Exactly how I asked: when they discover the X, it's green/black on white tile, but when he smashed it, it's all green tile. The entire square.
@@geocross237 Didn't Stan Lee made a cameo as a librarian on the Spiderman Homecoming movie where Spiderman was after someone in a library and they were causing chaos behind Stan Lee's librarian but he heard nothing because he was wearing headphones.
SpSot You’re thinking of the amazing spider man with Andrew Garfield. Spider-Man was fighting the green lizard in the library. In Spider-Man Homecoming, he was in an apartment when he overheard Spider-Man stopping what he thought was an attempted car theft, only to find out that the man was merely entering his own car.
The set design team did a great job making the "X" subtle enough that you wouldn't notice it from up close, because the stone doesn't change color, just the reflectivity. But when shooting started, Spielberg barely ended up using the work, keeping the floor entirely hidden until the big reveal. Ironically, the set design team didn't do nearly as a good a job with the upstairs bookcase... I suspect that it wasn't originally part of the set, but Spielberg or the DP made a late decision that the "X marks the spot" shot needed to show a different background behind Indy, and they just grabbed a fake bookcase from downstairs that hadn't been intended for closeups. No plan survives first contact with the enemy, as they say.
"X never marks the spot." Later: "X marks the spot." Indy stood corrected at the sighting of the latter. The former is sometimes true. Any of you heard of false exits/entrances? Pharaohs put those in their pyramids to deter and confuse grave robbers.
pirates were dummies, so to remember were the treasures were buried they always had their treasures written on a ink on a cloth and the mark meaning is the x reveals the treasures of incalculable value.
@@nolansaylor7710 There are tons of books, not even of the movies or anything either. I personally like the ones written by Wolfgang Hohlbein best. Check them out in your local library if you want.
*Christopher Dean:* They cut it before my favorite bit: "What's that?" "It's the Ark of the Covenant." "How do you know?" "Trust me." *Matt Bartley:* It's "Are you sure?" "Pretty sure…" *Christopher Dean:* How do you know? *Matt Bartley:* Trust me.
It would have been nice if they hadn't so obviously hid the floor in the preceding shots. Also the "X" was waaaay too prominent in the high angle shot. When he comes back down the x is barely visible.
It may seem minor, but - listen to their footfalls on the stone library floor. It’s SUCH a great, rich sound. You don’t really recognize it until you focus on it, but the foley work in the IJOT is so textured. It fully brings you into the world the movies inhabit.
I would just like to point out the level of craftsmanship needed to make an "X" THAT BIG not show up on marble at floor level but clearly when elevated. Amazing!!
Like all Indiana Jones Movie, this was perfection. With Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, being the best, this can be easily said as the second best, and close to its first. With Legendary Casts, Soundtracks, and storyline made the movie what its worth. Harrison Ford & Sean Connery, was such an iconic duo on this film. Compared to the last, and it's critics, this one was a clear redemption, and one where we got so much more than we deserved. We got to see the many perspectives of Indiana Jones, some old classic characters returning, and a movie that was extra long for us, with an action pact timeline. Honestly sad that they don't make movies like these anymore, and that many of the cast are gone now, and may the legend Sean Connery rest in peace. In all Honesty here, if your looking for an action pact, comedic, and with adventure movie, this is it. What a blast it was to re-watch it during Christmas.
@foodbug I agree, it was very funny. Then when he put the stamp down, he was looking at it like he was saying "I'm never going to stamp books ever again, especially since the library has to be quiet even though the library is closed now."
Never really thought about it, but its a cool detail that the arrangement of the 3 and the 7 on the pillars and the 10 on the floor actually somehow resembles a simple math equation.
I love how in history class, Professor Jones says “and X NEVER EVER marks the spot”… (talking crap about wives tales and folklore) yet in this scene he had to admit that X marks the spot 😂 There’s so much humor in this movie, I watched it probably 100 times as a kid. I absolutely love what a dim whit Markus Brody can be too 😂
Had to look this up because I just had an Indy moment. Was writing about a stained glass window in St John's Chester, which features a map and noted the fellow holding it appeared to be pointing at one spot. Looked at the spot on Google thinking "X never marks the spot" and found a very nice photo artifact - the shadow of a person who isn't there.
@mario.antonio He probably wanted to get a better look at it up high and/or maybe the bright light wasn't making the "X" too visible for him to see up close which is why he went up higher to see it.
I love how in the movie Indiana asks his dad how he knew elsa was a nazi. He replies "She talks in her sleep". Then realised his dad tapped elsa before he did. Thus indy had his dad's sloppy seconds. Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Alison Doody confessed in an interview which included Karen Allen and Kate Capshaw that she was jealous of Sean Connery in this movie. His character got the relationship with Indy rather than her. It was a father and son relationship, but she still got jealous.
The most beautiful girl in the trilogy (the last 2 didn't counts) and at least she doesn't scream every 2 minutes like Willie in the 2nd movie, i feel little sad when Elsa would reedem herself but her ambition kills her
Elsa is my favorite of the 3 women in the movies. She’s a strong, independent intellectual beauty. Not to mention she’s a doctor herself. I know she’s an antagonist and she later betrays Indy, but I think she made up her mind in the end when she, Donovan and Indy were in the room of the Holy Grail. It looks to me like she killed Donovan on purpose, and then she wanted her and Indy to have the Grail all to themselves. I’m actually really upset that she dies, but I guess she deserved it after not listening to the Knight.
Two things to comment: 1. Now you said it, Indi. X does mark the spot. 2. Perfect timing, Indi. Smash the floor at the same time the librarian stamping the book
I am positive that a prestigious historical library would not let even Indiana Jones RUIN the tile floor with out checking into thing first. They quite possibly have removed that tile with out ruining it.
I know this is late but he kind of did because the x was marked on with gloss so the light shone on it at a certain angle to see it properly that's why it's unclear when u see the floor again from a lower angle when they're breaking the tile.
Had to watch it in hd to read... Damn, it took forever to load. Definitely it speaks of 1942-43. Was that done on purpose by Spielberg? I can't see him doing that kind of goofs on purpose. I know there are many anachronistic weapons and clothes in the movie though.
Hey this is great and all, for the record it's the same x just the light shone on the gloss differently when viewed from a lower angle, but nobody seems to be asking questions like how there's an archaeological site with Roman numerals and skulls at all in the United States. I don't get it.
Jesus Christ. Why are there so many people asking where the X went?! IT'S STILL THERE! I can understand if they're color blind (nothing wrong with that, just unfortunate. luckily there's color correction glasses) but my lord!
The plot takes place in the year 1938, but when Indy looks in the grail diary, you can clearly read a note about marriage rates during the war in 1942 to 1943 and later (0:33). Indy, the time traveller ;)
One important question: How come no one discovered the entrance? Sure thing at some point they had to do some construction work or to lay some pipes and if not in the building, than in the streets...
0:33 Something seems a bit off about that particular clipping. Perhaps it's that this movie is set BEFORE all the years whose marriage rates are discussed in it.
If someone writes a M.C.U. fanfic which reuse the joke at 02:31 they could put in Stan Lee Cameo like: The heroes looked around in case someone saw them and smacked it against the floor with a loud crack just as the elderly, mustachoid librarian with backslicked silver har and big glasses stamped a book leaving him staring at the stamp and carefully place it on the table.
I laugh at the Librarian Stamper he just doing his Stamp but then he Smacks it in the Book and gives off a Loud Bang! after the 3rd Time he put it down and now is Questioning the Stamp itself!
That X is literally only on the floor when Indy looks at it from the staircase. When he's hitting it with the post and climbing down, it's just a green square. Edit: You can very faintly make out a slightly darker X in the square.
Guys I'm.. well.. no one realized that when Jones climbs up the stairs there is a big X on the floor, but at minute 3:00 you can clearly see that in the same spot there is nothing, just green floor? It is not another place i think, the columns are the same we see on the X scene.. wtf?
elder rod: Thanks for having this clip. I needed it. As a very odd thanks, in return you're welcome to my channel contents (dozens of playlists for this era). In case it helps you somehow. 😉
