Indiana Jones inaccuracies. Add to the list.

[drusselmeyer]

Personally, I would have liked to have seen something like "Indiana Jones and the Blackbird of Malta" but for whatever reason, the adventures have to be awkward after Raiders.

There is so much weird stuff to be explored, it is astonishing that almost everything amazing was missed for these stories.

 

[pengbuzz]

Next sequel: Indiana Jones and the Social Security Check of Poverty.

 

[Lightning]

Ask the guy who built it. The real Ark has the Ten Commandments in it along with other items. This one was filled with sand and obviously boobie trapped.

If someone opens the Ark who God doesn't want to, he temporarily transforms the contents into sand (and them kills them for their hubris).

 

[drusselmeyer]

That's not what I read. There was a mention of disease and boils but nothing about sand or proton pack blasts.

I don't think sir Steven or GL read much of the original text before directing the film either. Even Demille didn't quite get it right.

As so many here have indicated indirectly: always study the source material to avoid stupid mistakes.

 

[Treadwell]

The Indiana Jones films are projected at 24fps, when the human eye can perceive a comparative framerate, studies show, of perhaps 75fps or more.

The Indiana Jones films are therefore grossly inaccurate and should not be watched.

 

[Funky]

Am i the only one who feels that "the search for Excalibur" who have been an awesome idea?

 

[greenmachines]

I think He should dedicate one show entirely to recovering the crown jewels from the Tower of London and placing them in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo.

 

[drusselmeyer]

Am i the only one who feels that "the search for Excalibur" who have been an awesome idea?

Does Indy scuba dive?

No. You are not alone. We could probably start an entire new thread about all the things IJ and the could (should?) have included.

-Irish Crown Jewels
-The Blackbird (as I mentioned previously)
-Shambala
Etc etc etc

 

[pengbuzz]

Does Indy scuba dive?

No. You are not alone. We could probably start an entire new thread about all the things IJ and the could (should?) have included.

-Irish Crown Jewels
-The Blackbird (as I mentioned previously)
-Shambala
Etc etc etc

You mean like an actual plot?

 

[greenmachines]

I think he could do a Jay Leno's Garage style series where they just open one box out of the warehouse at area 51 in each episode.

 

[drusselmeyer]

How about Warehouse 13 starring Harrison Ford?

Indiana Jones seems like such a missed opportunity after all these years.

Maybe if Sir Steven had been taped down in a chair and forced to watch the history channel for a week, he would have come up with several interesting films for IJ.

Oh well, we'll never know now.

 

[batguy]

Maybe if Sir Steven had been taped down in a chair and forced to watch the history channel for a week, he would have come up with several interesting films for IJ.

Umm . . . the History Channel is probably where 'Crystal Skull' came from.

 

[dascoyne]

I'll just post this here:

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No. If it weren't for Jones, Marion would have been tortured for the headpiece and possibly dead, Sallah would still be working for the bad guys, and the U.S. wouldn't have acquired the ark.

His mission was just to retrieve the ark. Mission accomplished. And along the way he changed some lives.

 

[dascoyne]

Wait a minute.

Jones actually led Toht to the headpiece. So, if it weren't for Jones, the bad guys likely wouldn't have found it in the first place. So he indirectly DID lead to the demise of Toht, Belloch and that other guy.

 

[Lightning]

Wait a minute.

Jones actually led Toht to the headpiece. So, if it weren't for Jones, the bad guys likely wouldn't have found it in the first place. So he indirectly DID lead to the demise of Toht, Belloch and that other guy.

They would have found her eventually regardless, following Indy was just the fastest way to find her.

 

[p51]

At the end of Raiders Indy is wielding a Russian RPG not a German Panzerfaust or Panzerschreck which would have been more accurate.

Those weapons didn't exist that early yet.
Neither did those Afrika Korps uniforms. Or for that matter many of the small arms and web gear they used...

 

[Metaluna mutant]

Wait a minute.

Jones actually led Toht to the headpiece. So, if it weren't for Jones, the bad guys likely wouldn't have found it in the first place. So he indirectly DID lead to the demise of Toht, Belloch and that other guy.

"Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away."

The Hovitos idol is basically a clue as to this. Jones does the real work, Belloq follows him and uses his allies to steal Jones' finds. He's obviously done this many times before, just as with the Hovitos idol.

I always assumed the nazis got there because Belloq told them where to go. Belloq knew about Jones' past with Marion.

 

[batguy]

Those weapons didn't exist that early yet.
Neither did those Afrika Korps uniforms. Or for that matter many of the small arms and web gear they used...

It's not hard to guess how that ended up happening.

"So the bad guys in your movie are Nazis? No problem. We have plenty of WW2 gear in the prop warehouse."

But many of the props would have been surplus stuff that was left when the war ended. That stuff would date from 1944-45 more than the early years. That's almost a decade later than the 'Raiders' setting.

And in 1981 the cinema standards were sloppier in general. People didn't have home videos or hi-res TV screens or internet forums. Filmmakers played faster & looser with the details because they could afford to. Modern-grade accuracy contributes to high production costs.

 

[drusselmeyer]

There still should have been a sequel. Jones never did find the Ark.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

The general public don't really care about historical accuracy. Just look at early mideaval films that have swords and armor from 300-400 years later and the opposing force wearing stuff from 300-400 years earlier or just rags and colors that no one really wore back then. You'd be surprised how brightly colored everything really was and very little black clothes and leather.