I spent some time as a logistics coordinator in the army. This is so well thought out. The best thing you can do to lose something forever to all humanity is to put it in a military storage site. Not only will they lose track of it, they'll list it as missing, they'll fire some low level commander for losing it, and then buy a new one from Raytheon that doesn't work. I assure all the other boxes are full of dirty tent poles and truck tarps.
I should think the tablets of the ten commandments are there.. within the Ark, that is. After all, that's why it was made in the first place. It's even said earlier in the movie. The contents of the other crates fascinated me too when I first saw the movie. Perhaps there would be some remains from the more controversial parts of U.S. history? Considering how American government seems to be the usual suspect of wild cospiracy theories, this could well serve as a working hypothesis for some delicious fiction. The stock account could reveal later additions too, such as the Florida ballot boxes from the 2001 pesidential elections... If we accept that the storage, as indicated in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, is located in the Area 51, Nevada, then we are safe to assume that some salvaged articles from the alleged UFO hulk (apart from the Crystal Skull) would be there. Not in this clip, of course, as the incident would take place some time later.
"we have top men working on it, right now." translation: we basically decided to let some people store it in some warehouse where it will just sit there untouched for at least 20 years. heck, maybe at least 70 years.
Until someone decides to research it, and opens it... Unless there were security camera footage - or someone had the sense to flee before the carnage started - all the government would know was that the men vanished without a trace.
Let's be fair it was the best option, any intelligent person already know what it is. So, hide it in order to prevent idiots from messing it like some other idiotd who had their faces melt off.
You know...Indy says that the bureaucrats he talks to are "fools" and that they "don't know what they've got there." Thing is...maybe the reason the ark is locked up in a warehouse at the end of the movie is because they do know what they have.
They & Indy concur roughly on what to do with the Ark, but Indy can't be forced to give the secret on it if he doesn't know it. That, & this way, he doesn't need to lie either.
@@phosphoros3050 They don't concur. Indy and Brody both believe the Ark needs to be researched. Instead, the government puts it under the care of a janitor who stuffs it in a box and files it away in a warehouse to be forgotten.
This scene is a perfect end because it signals that there's so many more strange adventures possible in this world, and this being just one of them makes it hit so much harder. Also, that last shot is just a matte painting on glass that they put in front of the cam filming the guy with the ark. It's perfect
I wish the scene in Crystal Skull knocked open some real creative stuff. They could've told their animation team "go nuts" and spun off an SCP-style series.
I read the ending was lacking something: what happened to Marion? So they went and filmed that outside scene. Today I think they'd call it a "reshoot," though they aren't re-filming a scene. I think it's more aptly called a "pick-up." I don't think they said how they broke up, but I think she liked "a drink" better than him. And maybe Indy liked her better 10 years earlier when she was "jail bait."
The high ground line always makes me laugh - star wars fights are frequently won by the guy on the low ground, Obi wan himself picked up two wins against major bad guys while hanging off ledges defenceless!
It is ironic that you are supposed to actually hate the bureaucrats until you realize the government is the smart ones in this situation (ironic I know).
What's amazing to me is how the warehouse scene is actually a huge painting with a small cut out in the middle. And it totally makes sense. That is a brilliant illusion for 1981.
Everyone has always spoken of the ending as a sort of injustice. Actually, this is the best place for it. It takes a wise group of men to realize that the potential for unlimited power should be left unexplored and safely hidden away. As every single morality play since the beginning of telling tales has told us, when presented with the power of God, the only real choice that doesn't mess up everything is to do the same thing God does with that power, nothing.
If god didnt want it too be used then why allow it to exist? while technically it does prove his existence within the movie universe you need to research said "ark" before its an actual fact
@@ered203 The ark was supposed to contain the 10 commandments and it held all this power why would god want it to exist if he didnt intend it to be used?
@@plummet3860 It was never intended to be a weapon. It was more equivalent to a throne/symbol of the Covenant. There's actually a story in the Bible where some dudes tried to use it as a weapon and they get completely thrashed.
bringoutthelegos thousands of paintings were convincingly made in Star Wars, Indiana Jones and many other films in the 80s to achieve special effects like that. Amazing work, much better than what technology is today
It wasn't a mural, it was a matte painting. A large piece of glass was painted with the scenery, and the part that had the movement was left clear for the actual scene to take place.
@@aledowen7936 nah, its clear as day that this is a painting. With today CGI you can never distinguish real buildings from CGI generated ones. You can buy e.g. full New York model and strap it into you clip or movie or whatever you are making and nobody will suspect a thing. Things get tricky when they try to CGI characters because flesh is weird material (even though - there are plenty of scenes that there are cgi models and everybody thinks that they are real actors). Quite ironically, SW prequels get a lot of hate for excessive use of CGI... while there were very little CGI in the actual movies: nearly all of the sets were miniature models.
It's called a matte shot, the same way they created ancient Rome for 'History of world, part ll', and the space station docking scene with the Orion space liner in "2001: a Space Odyssey"
I love the Scene with Indiana Jones and Marion leaving but I also like the Scene after where they Seal up the Ark and leave in that Warehouse to remain Preserved for no one to open!
The latter is why I came. The music and overall vibe is mysterious yet increasingly threatening, like its making you wonder if others could use its power for evil... 4th movie!
I knew I was getting old when my "top men are working on it right now" reference that I have used for ages at work to describe a project/initiative that was going nowhere stopped being recognized by people. However I maintain that if more young people knew about this movie "Top Men" would still work as a meme, or whatever they call them.
Legend of a film when it first came out, this was as great as the comic book version , What a time it was. Decided to watch it on Halloween, and what a throwback. Honestly, for a movie made in the 1980s, it was done really good especially with the limited tech they had. Top tier soundtrack, storyline, and honestly the best Indiana Jones movie out of the whole series. I don't want to spoil too much, but it's worth watching, especially this one. Legend of a cast, espically the one and only Harrison "Indiana Jones" Ford. "It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage." -Harrison Ford
I remember my kid brain interpreted this to mean that those were ALL Arks. Indy risked his life to find this world history changing discovery that we all think is singular and special since the whole adventure was built around finding it, and the "buerocratic fools" of the US gov't were like "Right, here's another one. Just put it down in row 12-D; I think there's room over there. Geez, this is the third Ark this week!"
Hey, some guy said he saw Richard Dreyfuss's character get on the spaceship at the end of _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ and thought the alien that stepped out next to do sign language was him turning into an alien! Kids!
Trivia: George Lucas directed the scene on the steps with Allen and Ford. It was initially left out of the movie's final cut, but Lucas' wife Marcia told them to film it after she saw the movie so we know what happened to Karen Allen. One drawback to the scene though is that you lose some good comedic timing of cutting directly from "top men" to the warehouse scene.
Fun note, in reality the real Ark of the Covenant is kept in a small church in Ethiopia where it is guarded/tended to by a special sect of priests who alone are permitted with in it's presence and it's considered by those priests to be so holy that considerd it is too dangerous for anyone who is not in that priesthood to be around and even those priests tend to have a shortened life expectancy due to being around the Ark for so long.
The movie where it started it all and made us all love him other than the comics. I meant to post this on Halloween, but didn't have the time too as I was celebrating it. Truly a legendary film. Literally watched it on Halloween with my brother since it was apart of our childhood and I just have to say this movie never fails to impress me. Just goes to show how good movies were in the 1980s. Such a legendary cast and movie as well. - October 31, 2021. Anyways, Happy Halloween by the way. Hopefully it was amazing and went the way you wanted it too.
I’m curious is this the same warehouse in The Crystal skull ? If so that’s amazing they were literally giving us hints about future events the way Indy kept looking at the building as they were leaving says it all
In the novelisation of The Crystal Skull, Indy actually sees the Ark in it's broken crate and remarks angrily that he wondered what they'd done with it.
If we’re being honest that facility probably contains a lot of other religious artifacts that we don’t know about. Along with alien stuff, they must have millions of unknown things
Dr. Bright is no longer allowed to use the Ark of the Covenant as his office desk. We don't care if the angels make it look "super cool," it's a source of unbelievable power, not a work surface!
Same composer that did the Star Wars theme music. John Williams, who did a lot of work with Steven Spielberg films, if you listen closely You'll find out that John Williams did the theme music for E.T. Kind of like some of the movies that Robert Zemeckis directed, Alan Silvestri composed the themes for those movies. Not all though, only the ones that I've seen.
And there it goes, right next to the unicorn skull, a few copies of half-life 3, James woods, and the last surviving film reel of London after Midnight
Dr. Bright is no longer allowed to use the Ark of the Covenant as his office desk. We don't care that the angels make it look "super cool," it's a source of unbelievable power, not a work surface!
Nowadays Indy would have to carefully step around the booby traps of human bio-waste like he did in the beginning of the movie, provided by the San Fran homeless of course.
@@alucard624 Unfortunately. But that's not going to stop me from wearing them. And there's a good way to set oneself apart from the hipsters: dress sharply.
The scene with Indy and Marion was literally shot at the last minute when after a first screening, there was a complaint about how the film went straight from the briefing to the warehouse and that meant there was no resolution on what happened to Marion.
"We have top men working on it right now." How many times have I heard that from our company's I.T. department whenever the computer system went down ..
I always thought the whole "top men" thing indicated that the warehouse where they stored the Ark was a normal army warehouse. That nothing spectacular was in the other boxes. It would also give meaning to the "bureaucratic fools" comment from Indy, basically saying that the best way to ensure something is forever hidden and lost is to give it to your average bureaucratic government storage facility.
In a way, and speaking as a Cold War Historian, I would argue that the US Government is doing the smartest thing possible. When you have something that dangerous, the best thing to do is...nothing. Lock it up and keep it safe.
1:36 There should be more buildings that have mirrors on all the walls, that looks so cool & it would fool an idiot into believing that the place is actually that big lol
1:19 "DO NOT OPEN" that's it, there should be a severe warning label on that box saying "IT IS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN TO OPEN THIS BOX, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MUST THIS BOX EVER BE OPEN, THIS BOX MUST REMAIN SHUT FOR ALL ETERNITY, THE CONTENTS WITHIN THIS BOX LIES UNSPEAKABLE POWER, UNIMAGINABLE FEAR, ANY HUMAN BEING WHO OPENS THIS BOX SHALL SUFFER A MOST PAINFUL DEATH, THEREFORE NO HUMAN BEING MUST EVER OPEN THIS BOX, IT IS TO BE REMAINED SHUT FOR AS LONG AS MANKIND LIVES, NO EXCEPTIONS" then maybe a p.s. label saying "IF YOU OPEN THIS BOX, MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL"
Dr. Bright is no longer allowed to use the Ark of the Covenant as his office desk. We don't care that the angels make it look "super cool," it's a source of unbelievable power, not a work surface!
You know, what I love about this scene is how 40's they made it with Jones sticking his elbow out for Marion to put her arm through it, without looking at her, of course!! Love it!!
Dr. Bright is no longer allowed to use the Ark of the Covenant as his office desk. We don't care that the angels make it look "super cool," it's a source of unbelievable power, not a work surface!
The other boxes are nothing more than a red herring. They are filled with valueless objects of equal size and weight, as to further disguise the true box containing the Ark.
There are some scenes missing at the VERY-END of the movie AFTER the scenes that they have ended with here: After the guy with the hand truck sets the crate down and the camera follows him for a little bit as he walks with the empty hand truck, the camera then goes back to the crate with The Ark and you see the stenciled letters on the crate burning THEMSELVES off of the crate, leaving the crate unidentified by any markings or designations. I've not been able to find why these final scenes were cut after being shown in the first several viewings of the movie both in the theaters and on HBO.
Josh Hayl Yeah well unless the Ark also burns away the markings on all the other boxes, a box not having a number on it amongst a sea of labelled boxes STILL would stand out.
0:30 This scene with Marion was added because Marcia Lucas (who edited The Death Star Trench Run) told Spielberg in a rough viewing that the film lacked emotional closure.
Twenty-one years later, that same crate was still locked up in the same hanger. Maybe those "top men" had the wisdom to leave that kind of power alone and kept hidden.
The power behind the final shot is often unrecognised by audiences. If the Ark is just another artifact....how many things in there are even worse? And who knows about it?
How I imagine every new president getting briefed on this warehouse goes: President: “You’re keeping THE ARK-“ Top man: “-of the covenant in a warehouse yes sir, among other dangerous and classified relics and objects. Moses’ staff, Excalibur, a fly swatter from Africa, a couple golden plates we found in Sal Lake City, yadayada list goes on. Point is, sir, all these objects have one thing in common: try and use them, crack ‘em open, figure them out, end result is usually a crater and charred corpses. BUT, leave them alone, they’re harmless. The public doesn’t need to know magic and gods are a certainty we still cannot fully understand and you don’t deal with a riots and mass panic across the world.”
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I spent some time as a logistics coordinator in the army. This is so well thought out. The best thing you can do to lose something forever to all humanity is to put it in a military storage site. Not only will they lose track of it, they'll list it as missing, they'll fire some low level commander for losing it, and then buy a new one from Raytheon that doesn't work. I assure all the other boxes are full of dirty tent poles and truck tarps.
Haha, I love it!
A Raytheon ark of the covenant. :-/
@@EV-wp1fj 5th generation version too, at least two ahead of the tupelov version
I love this comment so much, all the other crates are just the most non important things
I know some Raytheon stuff that works.
As a kid I've always wondered... "If they have the Ark in there? What other *things* are they hiding?"
I should think the tablets of the ten commandments are there.. within the Ark, that is. After all, that's why it was made in the first place. It's even said earlier in the movie.
The contents of the other crates fascinated me too when I first saw the movie. Perhaps there would be some remains from the more controversial parts of U.S. history? Considering how American government seems to be the usual suspect of wild cospiracy theories, this could well serve as a working hypothesis for some delicious fiction. The stock account could reveal later additions too, such as the Florida ballot boxes from the 2001 pesidential elections...
If we accept that the storage, as indicated in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, is located in the Area 51, Nevada, then we are safe to assume that some salvaged articles from the alleged UFO hulk (apart from the Crystal Skull) would be there. Not in this clip, of course, as the incident would take place some time later.
well at least we know that one of it contain the alien remains
Probably a bunch of cool stuff.
Wouldn't mind a field trip there.
Kha 'Zix The alien remains were put there in 1947 though.
I'm pretty sure at least three of those crates contain my missing socks. Probably yours, too.
"we have top men working on it, right now."
translation: we basically decided to let some people store it in some warehouse where it will just sit there untouched for at least 20 years. heck, maybe at least 70 years.
Nah, we basically stored it somewhere where hopefully, nobody will infiltrate our military and get access to it.
Our eyes are on YOU Russia.
Until someone decides to research it, and opens it...
Unless there were security camera footage - or someone had the sense to flee before the carnage started - all the government would know was that the men vanished without a trace.
If it makes you feel better, they’re storing it at Area 51
What happens if someone takes a peek inside?
Let's be fair it was the best option, any intelligent person already know what it is. So, hide it in order to prevent idiots from messing it like some other idiotd who had their faces melt off.
You know...Indy says that the bureaucrats he talks to are "fools" and that they "don't know what they've got there." Thing is...maybe the reason the ark is locked up in a warehouse at the end of the movie is because they do know what they have.
galactic85 Yes, but for secrecy reasons they can't let Indy suspect that.
They & Indy concur roughly on what to do with the Ark, but Indy can't be forced to give the secret on it if he doesn't know it. That, & this way, he doesn't need to lie either.
galactic85 In Indy’s Journal, he does find out where it’s located, years afterward when the Russians raid Warehouse 51.
Sometimes too dangerous to fall into the wrong hands. The real question is, who are the top men?
@@phosphoros3050 They don't concur. Indy and Brody both believe the Ark needs to be researched. Instead, the government puts it under the care of a janitor who stuffs it in a box and files it away in a warehouse to be forgotten.
0:59 Avoid thinking about the Star Wars love theme, avoid thinking about the Star Wars love theme
Haha my thoughts exactly
Matt W me to man xD
Star wars ending 1973
Star war Empire strike back
1:35 Emperors theme
I work in a warehouse and every time they have me pushing a crate, I can't help but think of this scene.
lol.
should have indy theme playing when you leave work.
1:09
The nostalgia hits me every time I watch Indiana jones clips watching this scene makes me wanna rewatch all of the Indiana jones movies.
That's easy their all on DVD and blue ray.
Nothing tops this one. It's like fine wine. The others are beer.
@@Abr022575 Your kidding ? Did you NOT see The Last Crusade there pal ?
@@dimensionzone8048 I think it's the weakest of the first three.
@@Abr022575 of the 4
1:13 The music for this scene is so eerie & perfect. Hell, the whole score is perfect.
These films are iconic
The film is perfect
This scene is a perfect end because it signals that there's so many more strange adventures possible in this world, and this being just one of them makes it hit so much harder.
Also, that last shot is just a matte painting on glass that they put in front of the cam filming the guy with the ark. It's perfect
Seriously this ending captivated me for years, this series is a treasure
Makes me think of _Warehouse 13._
I wish the scene in Crystal Skull knocked open some real creative stuff. They could've told their animation team "go nuts" and spun off an SCP-style series.
Or perhaps the many items 'Raided' (Stolen) from around the world.
Not "just a matte painting" that took incredible skill
Props to Karen Allen for scampering up and down steps in heels.
When I was a kid in wee,1979 I used to get mixed up between Karen Allen and Margot Kidder, Kurt Russell and Jeff bridges
what heels ? thats barely a raised shoe...
Yeah she killed it
She ate it
I read the ending was lacking something: what happened to Marion? So they went and filmed that outside scene. Today I think they'd call it a "reshoot," though they aren't re-filming a scene. I think it's more aptly called a "pick-up."
I don't think they said how they broke up, but I think she liked "a drink" better than him. And maybe Indy liked her better 10 years earlier when she was "jail bait."
Obi Wan may have had the high ground, but Porkins had the Top Men
And look where it got him. Blown up on the deathstar.
I see Eckhardt actually
The high ground line always makes me laugh - star wars fights are frequently won by the guy on the low ground, Obi wan himself picked up two wins against major bad guys while hanging off ledges defenceless!
and Han Solo is asking who are these men.
1:17
Another Star Wars vet in this scene is the G-man in the background; Barrie Holland, who plays Lt. Renz in Return of the Jedi ("rebel scum!")
I wonder which crate James Woods is in?...
WKA DESIGNS you mean Ron Woods.
ROFL You shall that family guy episode aswell!
Not as small as the crate you'll be in Philistine.
OHH piece of candy!
I wonder which one Snake is in
It is ironic that you are supposed to actually hate the bureaucrats until you realize the government is the smart ones in this situation (ironic I know).
Donald Vincent True, but how often does that actually happen?
ForceMaximus84 not much
How are they the smart ones here?
George Hamilton they respect the power enough to leave it alone
hint0122 "Hey I'm just saying if God didn't want that shit to be touched then we should just not touch it"
What's amazing to me is how the warehouse scene is actually a huge painting with a small cut out in the middle. And it totally makes sense. That is a brilliant illusion for 1981.
i would pay so much money to know what they have hidden in all of those crates.
One of them is an Alien.
Gallons of oil paint and thousand of tons of green screen effects.
@@brianmerritt5410 True, but that was after WWII so it's not there yet.
Aidan McKenna nothing, air, it’s just a movie? Nothing is real
Aidan McKenna clearly it's stuff to sensitive to be made public and requires examination by top men
One of the best movie endings...
Certainly one of the best with a message about what should never be meddled with.
Everyone has always spoken of the ending as a sort of injustice. Actually, this is the best place for it. It takes a wise group of men to realize that the potential for unlimited power should be left unexplored and safely hidden away.
As every single morality play since the beginning of telling tales has told us, when presented with the power of God, the only real choice that doesn't mess up everything is to do the same thing God does with that power, nothing.
If god didnt want it too be used then why allow it to exist? while technically it does prove his existence within the movie universe you need to research said "ark" before its an actual fact
@@plummet3860 What are you even talking about?
@@ered203 The ark was supposed to contain the 10 commandments and it held all this power why would god want it to exist if he didnt intend it to be used?
@@plummet3860 Im guessing one person will eventually be born to be able to use it and not go mad with the power it has.
@@plummet3860 It was never intended to be a weapon. It was more equivalent to a throne/symbol of the Covenant. There's actually a story in the Bible where some dudes tried to use it as a weapon and they get completely thrashed.
One of the greater movie endings . . .
0:44 I love her smile, Karen Allen's cute and good actress.
Yes
"where is the ark?"
"we put it in a hangar at an Air Force Base and we're not going to tell you which Air Force Base"
Hangar 18, Air Base 51.
"... What's the air force?" (the joke here is that the airforce wasn't founded as a separate branch of the US military until 1947)
@@animalsandus7511 "goddamnit Johnson. You were not supposed to tell him that!"
@@bryanadkins6776 nice catch. I didn't think anyone would get the joke.
Can't believe that was a mural, apparently that was a giant painting, and there was a hole cut out for the guy walking away.
bringoutthelegos thousands of paintings were convincingly made in Star Wars, Indiana Jones and many other films in the 80s to achieve special effects like that. Amazing work, much better than what technology is today
bringoutthelegos that seaplane at the beginning of the movie isnt actually on water they painted the water around it
It wasn't a mural, it was a matte painting. A large piece of glass was painted with the scenery, and the part that had the movement was left clear for the actual scene to take place.
@@aledowen7936 nah, its clear as day that this is a painting. With today CGI you can never distinguish real buildings from CGI generated ones. You can buy e.g. full New York model and strap it into you clip or movie or whatever you are making and nobody will suspect a thing. Things get tricky when they try to CGI characters because flesh is weird material (even though - there are plenty of scenes that there are cgi models and everybody thinks that they are real actors). Quite ironically, SW prequels get a lot of hate for excessive use of CGI... while there were very little CGI in the actual movies: nearly all of the sets were miniature models.
It's called a matte shot, the same way they created ancient Rome for 'History of world, part ll', and the space station docking scene with the Orion space liner in "2001: a Space Odyssey"
1:38 Look at all those boxes. Something as significant as the Ark of the Covenant is just mixed in w/ the rest.
All the other boxes actually contain even more significant artifacts.
Top.
Men.
Indiana: Fools. Bureaucratic fools!
Agent Piggy: Who are you calling a fool?!
I hate mini ladd
I love the Scene with Indiana Jones and Marion leaving but I also like the Scene after where they Seal up the Ark and leave in that Warehouse to remain Preserved for no one to open!
TheSegacampGamer and Werecamp I agreed, that will keep other people safe from opening the ark.
The latter is why I came. The music and overall vibe is mysterious yet increasingly threatening, like its making you wonder if others could use its power for evil...
4th movie!
From Raiders of the Lost Ark, to now Raiders of Area 51.
pretty sure Yoda's lightsaber that fell from the senate floor is in one of those crates
One of those crates might contain the secret file where Toby puts all of Dwight's complaints.
As of The Book of Boba Fett, I can only picture Luke Skywalker scurrying around the warehouse looking for Yoda’s saber sometime after ROTJ😂🤣
I knew I was getting old when my "top men are working on it right now" reference that I have used for ages at work to describe a project/initiative that was going nowhere stopped being recognized by people. However I maintain that if more young people knew about this movie "Top Men" would still work as a meme, or whatever they call them.
One day some kids gonna say I UNDERSTOOD THAT REFERENCE !!
I'm 21 and I keep making that reference, this movie should NEVER be forgotten
After a bureaucratic authority says: “Top men.”, Indiana Jones’ natural concerns are the most effective note to end this classic on.
The last shot in on a matte painting took months to paint, apparently.
fizban7 Still deemed less work than to actually stack that number of prop boxes up, I reckon.
Well, it was worth it.
Just like the ending of From Dusk Till Dawn.
Legend of a film when it first came out, this was as great as the comic book version , What a time it was.
Decided to watch it on Halloween, and what a throwback.
Honestly, for a movie made in the 1980s, it was done really good especially with the limited tech they had. Top tier soundtrack, storyline, and honestly the best Indiana Jones movie out of the whole series. I don't want to spoil too much, but it's worth watching, especially this one.
Legend of a cast, espically the one and only Harrison "Indiana Jones" Ford.
"It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage." -Harrison Ford
That zone out shot at the end was breathtaking, makes you wonder what else they got in that warehouse…
I remember my kid brain interpreted this to mean that those were ALL Arks.
Indy risked his life to find this world history changing discovery that we all think is singular and special since the whole adventure was built around finding it, and the "buerocratic fools" of the US gov't were like "Right, here's another one. Just put it down in row 12-D; I think there's room over there. Geez, this is the third Ark this week!"
Hey, some guy said he saw Richard Dreyfuss's character get on the spaceship at the end of _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ and thought the alien that stepped out next to do sign language was him turning into an alien! Kids!
James Woods is being examined by Top Men.
Who?
Top. Men.
1:08
Pyxis the Musician what are the James woods references from?
Just watched it
@@nathanc.8821 Family Guy
Thank you random anime girl, now if youtuber's would stop being lazy and make a separate and shorter clip of this, it would make a great video prop
That shot in the warehouse always gave me chills
Who knows what all those other warehouse crates could dangerously contain?
Trivia: George Lucas directed the scene on the steps with Allen and Ford. It was initially left out of the movie's final cut, but Lucas' wife Marcia told them to film it after she saw the movie so we know what happened to Karen Allen. One drawback to the scene though is that you lose some good comedic timing of cutting directly from "top men" to the warehouse scene.
She was one of the editors that saved the original Star Wars.
@Anthony Swiss I'm a guy, but I really like the final scene with Indy and Marion.
JJdaPK I like it. We have a resolution with the male and female lead, and finally, a resolution with the Mcguffin.
@Anthony Swiss it was nowhere near as bad as as your overdramatic mind made it out to be.
@Anthony Swiss Oh grow up, the scene with Marion didn't ruin Jack.
"Raiders of the Lost Ark"(1981) is an action adventure fantasy movie masterpiece!
Not just this movie, the whole franchise is a masterpiece.
Of all the secrets and things in that warehouse, the Ark is probably the only thing that SHOULD be there.
The perfect ending to the most perfect movie of all time. ❤️
1:08-1:38 the scene and the music just makes it so creepy.
and also anyone else think of the star wars music at the end?
Fun note, in reality the real Ark of the Covenant is kept in a small church in Ethiopia where it is guarded/tended to by a special sect of priests who alone are permitted with in it's presence and it's considered by those priests to be so holy that considerd it is too dangerous for anyone who is not in that priesthood to be around and even those priests tend to have a shortened life expectancy due to being around the Ark for so long.
There's no ark there. Those priests are probably sheisters.
See I Kings 8;27
A WW2 British officer saw that "Ark" when in Ethiopia. He said it was an empty wooden box of late Medieval period.
@@deanladue5367 maybe the ark was actually made of plutonium
Wrong. The real Ark of the Covenant is one of the exhibits in my royal court. It gives me 2% Piety per month and 15% more taxes from my landed clergy.
1:18 that dude pushing James Woods in that crate 🤣
The movie where it started it all and made us all love him other than the comics. I meant to post this on Halloween, but didn't have the time too as I was celebrating it. Truly a legendary film. Literally watched it on Halloween with my brother since it was apart of our childhood and I just have to say this movie never fails to impress me. Just goes to show how good movies were in the 1980s. Such a legendary cast and movie as well.
- October 31, 2021. Anyways, Happy Halloween by the way. Hopefully it was amazing and went the way you wanted it too.
I’m curious is this the same warehouse in The Crystal skull ? If so that’s amazing they were literally giving us hints about future events the way Indy kept looking at the building as they were leaving says it all
in Indiana Jones 4, the warehouse at the beginning of that film is where the ark has been sitting for almost 20 years.
Yes it is! It's also revealed the warehouse the Ark was placed in was at area 51!
Yes, you actually see the Ark as Indy flees that warehouse; it's in one of the crates he partly smashes.
The Russians were after the Alien body that the American Government would not allow Indiana Jones nor his archaeological team examine.
In the novelisation of The Crystal Skull, Indy actually sees the Ark in it's broken crate and remarks angrily that he wondered what they'd done with it.
If we’re being honest that facility probably contains a lot of other religious artifacts that we don’t know about. Along with alien stuff, they must have millions of unknown things
Like the nephilin bones. Aliens bodies! Stargate tecnology. Who knows??
Dr. Bright is no longer allowed to use the Ark of the Covenant as his office desk. We don't care if the angels make it look "super cool," it's a source of unbelievable power, not a work surface!
Omg the music sounds like the tatooine theme in Star Wars
Same composer that did the Star Wars theme music. John Williams, who did a lot of work with Steven Spielberg films, if you listen closely You'll find out that John Williams did the theme music for E.T. Kind of like some of the movies that Robert Zemeckis directed, Alan Silvestri composed the themes for those movies. Not all though, only the ones that I've seen.
+sportsygirl8 yes, but to similar
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Well no shit.
sounds like they just unlocked the Mortis gateway
The best ending shot in a movie ever!
And there it goes, right next to the unicorn skull, a few copies of half-life 3, James woods, and the last surviving film reel of London after Midnight
I always thought the way Indy just kinda quick-shuffles down the stairs at 0:36 looked really funny
area 51/SCP the early years...
Probably a cover, as the Ark is really located at Warehouse 13, somewhere in South Dakota. Although, the Foundation would do exactly that.
@LloydSwag I don't think so😂
Dr. Bright is no longer allowed to use the Ark of the Covenant as his office desk. We don't care that the angels make it look "super cool," it's a source of unbelievable power, not a work surface!
ah the famous San Francisco city hall steps!!!!
A view to a kill, dirty harry, to name a few
is that what it is?? I was thinking the same thing but was thinking it could be ANY building like that..
@@superduperboyx those steps are popular for wedding pics
Nowadays Indy would have to carefully step around the booby traps of human bio-waste like he did in the beginning of the movie, provided by the San Fran homeless of course.
old guy boxing up and moving the Ark of the motherfucking Covenant: "Yep, just another day."
I really need a double-breasted suit.
Maybe one day Fedora's will be in style again????? That would be cool!!!
Yes you do, they are nice! I have several myself.
Fedoras are in style ... for people who can wear them well.
@@Watcher3223 Sadly hipsters have hijacked that look.
@@alucard624 Unfortunately.
But that's not going to stop me from wearing them. And there's a good way to set oneself apart from the hipsters: dress sharply.
I always liked how Ford offered his arm to Karin. You don't see that anymore.
blockmasterscott What gesture do men do nowadays?
I took this scene to mean they understood EXACTLY what they had there.
All too well, in fact.
Such a great ending. So much mystery and wonder, and that music... Kind of makes you feel this is not the real end at all.
I am still amazed that the wide shot of the warehouse scene at the end of this clip, was all a matte painting.
The ending to the X Files pilot is very similar.
1:20 Insider footage of Disney's headquarters after buying every possible I.P known to the human race.
I like how Mary's leitmotif is very similar to that of Leia in Star Wars.
Her name is Marion.
@@hunterolaughlin I thought it's Mary-Anne
The scene with Indy and Marion was literally shot at the last minute when after a first screening, there was a complaint about how the film went straight from the briefing to the warehouse and that meant there was no resolution on what happened to Marion.
This movie never gets old.
Yep, in fact, all the movies never get old.
"We have top men working on it right now."
How many times have I heard that from our company's I.T. department whenever the computer system went down ..
I always thought the whole "top men" thing indicated that the warehouse where they stored the Ark was a normal army warehouse. That nothing spectacular was in the other boxes.
It would also give meaning to the "bureaucratic fools" comment from Indy, basically saying that the best way to ensure something is forever hidden and lost is to give it to your average bureaucratic government storage facility.
The perfect ending to a perfect movie. I have to watch this again...
When Indy & Marion Where's Their Hats This Scene Reminded Me Of Casablanca!
And Indy at the bar after he thought Marion died. "Of all the places in Cairo, she lives in a mine."
In a way, and speaking as a Cold War Historian, I would argue that the US Government is doing the smartest thing possible. When you have something that dangerous, the best thing to do is...nothing. Lock it up and keep it safe.
1:36 There should be more buildings that have mirrors on all the walls, that looks so cool & it would fool an idiot into believing that the place is actually that big lol
1:19 "DO NOT OPEN" that's it, there should be a severe warning label on that box saying "IT IS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN TO OPEN THIS BOX, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MUST THIS BOX EVER BE OPEN, THIS BOX MUST REMAIN SHUT FOR ALL ETERNITY, THE CONTENTS WITHIN THIS BOX LIES UNSPEAKABLE POWER, UNIMAGINABLE FEAR, ANY HUMAN BEING WHO OPENS THIS BOX SHALL SUFFER A MOST PAINFUL DEATH, THEREFORE NO HUMAN BEING MUST EVER OPEN THIS BOX, IT IS TO BE REMAINED SHUT FOR AS LONG AS MANKIND LIVES, NO EXCEPTIONS" then maybe a p.s. label saying "IF YOU OPEN THIS BOX, MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL"
“Perhaps some things are best left forgotten....for now.”
The same person who played as Marion in this movie is it the same actor who played Marion in the 4th one.
JAY LYFE yes, it is Karen Allen and she plays Marion Ravenwood in both movies.
True, also the same guy played Indiana Jones
They both take a back to Mutt.
@ He is the worst thing that could have happened to the franchise
That storage room later became the SCP foundation!!
Dr. Bright is no longer allowed to use the Ark of the Covenant as his office desk. We don't care that the angels make it look "super cool," it's a source of unbelievable power, not a work surface!
This is one of the coolest scenes because it makes you wander what is in all of the hundreds of boxes in the wharhouse
The only time in which the bureaucrats probably made the right call
You know, what I love about this scene is how 40's they made it with Jones sticking his elbow out for Marion to put her arm through it, without looking at her, of course!! Love it!!
This is one of the best endings to any film. This is why speilberg is one of the best.
Plot twist...
it went straight to the SCP Foundation
Dr. Bright is no longer allowed to use the Ark of the Covenant as his office desk. We don't care that the angels make it look "super cool," it's a source of unbelievable power, not a work surface!
@@praiseion HAHA
They'll find Jimmy Hoffa long before they ever find that Ark again.
Jimmy Hoffa's remains are probably stored in one of those boxes
@@ErasersRoq But Raiders, hell, the entire Indy series from TOD through DOD, takes place YEARS before Jimmy Hoffa’s death…
This movie gives me extreme chills. I can't take it.
Eight people don't have top men working on it right now.
"We have top men working on it right now."
Translation: "We're stuffing it in a warehouse and we don't need you, anymore."
The other boxes are nothing more than a red herring. They are filled with valueless objects of equal size and weight, as to further disguise the true box containing the Ark.
Yeah I figured that.
There are some scenes missing at the VERY-END of the movie AFTER the scenes that they have ended with here: After the guy with the hand truck sets the crate down and the camera follows him for a little bit as he walks with the empty hand truck, the camera then goes back to the crate with The Ark and you see the stenciled letters on the crate burning THEMSELVES off of the crate, leaving the crate unidentified by any markings or designations.
I've not been able to find why these final scenes were cut after being shown in the first several viewings of the movie both in the theaters and on HBO.
Josh Hayl Yeah well unless the Ark also burns away the markings on all the other boxes, a box not having a number on it amongst a sea of labelled boxes STILL would stand out.
That scene doesn’t exist
@@davidw.2791:
🟦.... Perhaps that's Exactly why they cut the scene!
"Only 1500 of these arks are known to exist and they demand outrageous prices on Ebay".
Ive been to that warehouse. All the markings on the crates are covered by a black burn mark
This scene is more true than most would believe
Yeah. A lot of people think that the power of god is fake. Poor people! They can't even imagine how powerfull GOD is!
0:30 This scene with Marion was added because Marcia Lucas (who edited The Death Star Trench Run) told Spielberg in a rough viewing that the film lacked emotional closure.
What else is in that warehouse though? Twinkies? Dildos? A lifetime supply of bubble soap?
Twenty-one years later, that same crate was still locked up in the same hanger. Maybe those "top men" had the wisdom to leave that kind of power alone and kept hidden.
The last lines are priceless. Almost like they came straight out of *_Casablanca_* 0:39 Best Indy Movie and if you disagree you are wrong.
0:55
The suit and hat Indy is wearing ... makes me wish that's what's in style today for men's fashion.
How could Indy question Porkins like that? He said he had top men on it!
Top men....
The power behind the final shot is often unrecognised by audiences.
If the Ark is just another artifact....how many things in there are even worse? And who knows about it?
1:24 i saw james woods
How I imagine every new president getting briefed on this warehouse goes:
President: “You’re keeping THE ARK-“
Top man: “-of the covenant in a warehouse yes sir, among other dangerous and classified relics and objects. Moses’ staff, Excalibur, a fly swatter from Africa, a couple golden plates we found in Sal Lake City, yadayada list goes on. Point is, sir, all these objects have one thing in common: try and use them, crack ‘em open, figure them out, end result is usually a crater and charred corpses. BUT, leave them alone, they’re harmless. The public doesn’t need to know magic and gods are a certainty we still cannot fully understand and you don’t deal with a riots and mass panic across the world.”
0:25 "Top men"
And this kids, is why Gen X dads love the History Channel!
Isn't that the same warehouse in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?
Yes it is
What was once lost was found was lost again
This is where the final season of Game of Thrones will go.