I was 14 when this came out theatrically, my friends and I had no idea what the movie was about, only that it starred the guy who played Han Solo and directed by the guy who made Jaws. This is one of the greatest movies ever.👍
When I was 11 my favorite book was Jurassic Park. When a trailer for the flick first played, I stood up in the theatre, screaming, "Spielberg made Jurassic Park! They made Jurassic Park! Jurassic Park is a movie!" ...to the confusion of my friends and everyone else in the theatre.
The music soundtrack was created by John Williams who also wrote the soundtrack to just about every Spielberg and Lucas films (Jaws, Schindler's List, E.T., all the Star Wars movies, all the Indiana Jones movies, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Home Alone, Hook, etc.) He is an absolute legend and renown for his ability to make the music a character in movies.
Forget it , no movie made today with this theme comes even close to this . Classic ! Spielberg, Lucas and Williams are once in a lifetime and I was lucky enough to grow up with the work of these three geniuses of the movie industry.
Another really good movie that followed in Raiders' footsteps was The Mummy with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. It's the only one that has that perfect blend of action, romance, adventure, mythology, and horror. I vote that he watch The Mummy as a comparison piece
@@jimmyzee7040 Yes, he also did the voice of Treebeard in Lord of the Rings. I think one of my favorite roles for him, though, was on the TV miniseries "Shogun" . He had a more prominent role and was allowed to shine.
Harrison Ford became a household name starting with 1977's Star Wars. Bounty hunters look for people. Indy is an archaeologist. I think it could be said that Spielberg's fingerprints as the director are even more heavily felt than Lucas's (as the producer and co-writer). And, for those playing, this review had: 1 mention of therapy, therefore 1 shot of alcohol
Star Wars made him super famous, but I would say this movie made him a household name by himself because he was the main character in this unlike in Star Wars. Out of the 3 main younger characters, Ford became the most famous. I think him starring in this relatively soon after Star Wars and then especially it being right after Empire by a year really helped.
Not only were there planes that looked like that, but flying was considered such an extravagance that people mostly only wore their finest clothes on them.
Flying was an event and you dressed for the occasion. It wasn't until the 747 made flight affordable for the masses that the wardrobe became more informal.
they were military transports, heavy loads, used in WW2 Pacific. Called 'Flying Boats' or 'Clippers'. Could land troops and equipment at small South Pacific islands.
Kabir...in the 1930s, civil aviation was headed in the direction of using seaplanes and flying boats for long range flights. For one thing, as others have noted, aircraft that could land on water did not need large airports to be constructed for them, since their runways were the harbors and rivers of the cities they were in. For another thing, planes that could land on water were considered much safer for long distance flight, since if they had any trouble or ran into bad weather, they always had the ability to find a place to land. In fact, it was World War II and the huge number of airfields that were built all over the world that in large part first decisively steered global aviation in the direction of civil aviation centered on airports. Of course, flying boats are not nearly as good with jets as they are with propellers...the jets have to be mounted very high to keep them from ingesting too much water...so once jet airliners came along airports were a clearly superior option, and that put the absolute final nail in the coffin of the flying boats.
Indy's Egyptian friend is the actor who played Gimli in Lord Of the Rings. How could it be an icon movie since 1981 and not be incredible? In 1939 John Wayne made a movie called Stagecoach. The most famous stuntguy in movie history Yakima Canutt, invented a stunt where he jumped on the running horses, and crawled underneath the stagecoach to the back. They reproduced that stunt with Indy and the military truck.
The actor who played Satipo, the double crossing guide in the very beginning is Alfred Molina, AKA Doc Ock. This was his first film. And the boat captain was Kingsley Shacklebolt in the Harry Potter series.
@@baskervillebee6097 Raiders is my favorite film of all time. I've seen it somewhere in the vicinity of 1500 times in the 41 years since it came out ( I had just turned 6). I think I know damn near every piece of trivia associated with Raiders. Lol. It made me happy to read your comment about Stagecoach and Yakima Canutt. 👍
@@reverendB Being older, and interested in older movies, I had heard about Yakima many times. I recognized the under the truck stunt and started researching backwards. Best wishes.
GREAT choice. Now you're obliged to watch "Temple Of Doom" and "The Last Crusade". The fourth movie (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) is generally hated, but feel free to watch it and form your own opinion.
Witness, Working Girl, Presumed Innocent, Patriot Games and The Fugitive are great Harrison Ford movies and of course, an early one to watch is American Graffiti circa 1973.
When this came out it was playing on 6 separate screens of a 12 screen theater (in south FL) and the line still went around the building. If you went for an 8pm show for example and stood in line, you got in by the 10pm show... and that was with 6 of them playing in a staggered rotation.
Fun fact! The swordsman scene was supposed to be an actual fight, but Harrison ford got food poisoning the day before. He asked Spielberg about using the gun. Speiberg agreed
11:27 The monkey man is played by Vic Tablian who also played the guy who pulled the gun on indy in the opening of the film. This was an homage to the republic serials wich often used the same actors for multiple roles.
Movies from this era (80s) have a feel, especially with this being a throwback to another era with a feel, the old adventure serials from the 40s and 50s. Such a fun movie!!
My sister is an archaeologist and it's quite common in that field to become a college professor also. Of course, in your "spare time", you go and DIG. That's what she did for years and years. Of course, this is a highly romanticized version of an archaeologist's life. My sister refused to see this movie for years because she , and many others, got the idea from the promo's that Indy was what's known as a "pot hunter" -- someone who loots sites for valuables and sells them for a living - a HUGE no-no in the archaeology world. We finally convinced her to go, and she absolutely loved it, as she realized he was doing all this for the love of history/archaeology, not for anything else.
The lost ark is the Ark of the Covenant... the box holding the stone tablets upon which the 10 Commandments were carved. He was not a part time teacher and part time bounty hunter... he was a professor who was also an archeologist.
To answer a question you will ask when you start the next film (Temple of Doom), the stories don't take place in order. Raiders of the Lost Ark - 1936, Temple of Doom - 1935, Last Crusade - 1938. So the next film could be called a prequel, but it's more like an episode. They're not connected in their content other than Indy being in them.
Such a classic. I especially like John Rhys Davies as Indy's sidekick. He had a pivotal role in my favourite James Bond movie, The Living Daylights, as a Russian politician.
There are currently 4 Indiana Jones films, with a 5th on the way. Also, a television series was made back in the 90s, Young Indiana Jones, which was meant to teach kids about history & such. And, Indy's an archeaologist, not a bounty hunter.
Whether Hitler actually believed in the occult stuff is a matter of debate, but the people around him certainly did. The _Ahnenerbe_ were the people who ran searches all over the world, pursuing the kookiest of theories. Very real.....And yes, seaplanes were very much a thing until the mid-50's.
When Indy shot the huge guy with the giant sword, that wasn’t how it was written. Harrison was sick that day and couldn’t to the big fight scene with him. But this is better than anything they coulda written.
Apparently George Harris, the actor who played the ship captain, was in the later Harry Potter movies as Kingsley Shacklebolt, though looking at his credits list, I know him from playing Osman Ali Atto in Black Hawk Down.
The Ark isn’t Satanic nor have demons in it. At first it just had the Ten Commandments in it but later Aaron’s rod, some manna, anointing oil, and a chest was added. It was made clear if you look inside it or even touch it you will die.
Add to that that it is a Jewish treasure as the Ten Commandments were written by God and delivered to the Jews by Moses...and remember what the Nazis were doing to the Jews during WWII
The composer for the music is John Williams. He is arguably the most prolific movie composer. He composed for the Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series, the original Superman, Jurassic Park, Jaws, and the list goes on and on. 😁
The plane you didn't recognize was the Short Solent Mark III flying boat. This was actually an historical inaccuracy, as that particular model wasn't put into production until the 1940s. Originally, the plane was supposed to be a Martin M-130 flying boat, which would have been accurate for 1935, but the Short Solent Mark III was undergoing restoration nearby and was therefore more readily available.
This is a movie best enjoyed on the big screen. I was working for Youth News in Oakland and this was my first movie review. Stylised as the Saturday Matinee Serials, Jones was a real live Superman with non-stop action. Marion is the best Jones-Gal in the series.
Kabir, the passenger airplane that you noticed was a real aircraft type, called a flying boat. These planes were built to take off and land on water during the decades when aircraft could not fly across bodies of water in one hop, but had to go from mainland to island to island etc. If the engines broke down, the ability to set the plane down on water was a way to save the passengers and crew.
He's an Archaeologist and full time teacher, not a bounty hunter. Yes planes looked like that back then. The range on planes weren't as far as planes now so you needed the ability to land on water to refuel. Harrison Ford was already a household name at this point in 1981. He was in American Graffiti (1973), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Apocalypse Now (1979) and Star Wars (1977) and Empire Strikes Back (1980).
Back in 1981, it was just called Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was 17. It was playing at the .99 cent movie house and my friends and I saw it about 9 times.
Yes, there were "flying boats" like that. Sometimes there were called "clippers" after the fast sailing ships designed to make long trips relatively quickly. Range was not as good as modern planes, so they usually followed island chains, such as US to Hawaii to Midway to the Philipines or Japan, to China. In the Atlantic for a some routes they actually had refueling ships out in the ocean the planes would land at and refuel from. Rather risky that since they could miss the ship even with radio or seas could be rough. The Nazis did have organizations hunting for various treasures like the Ark and The Spear used stab the side of Christ when he was on the Cross. They also searched for, or fabricated, evidence for the mythical Aryan super race. Other parts researched various occult practices.
Also, in the beginning when Indy falls while running away from the rolling bolder...that was an accident. Again, they thought it was great & kept it a part of the movie.
I think that Belloq was interested in Marion because of his rivalry with Indy. As he said, “There is nothing that you possess that I cannot take away.”
Angels of death. Not demons. Demons run from God. It was fun watching it through your eyes and the discoveries you made. My 2 oldest sons and I went to see it several times when it first came out. Amazing film. Be safe
Hitler was interested in all kinds of superstitions but Himmler, the head of the SS was very keen on all kinds of mythology and the Nazis did indeed fund several expeditions to find archaeological evidence of Nordic and Germanic mythology to support their very dodgy theories on religion, race etc.
Will it have those actual powers when he finds it Ha! George L and Steven S, “Hold my beer!” I love how they based the show Warehouse 13 off of the last scene. That’s a great show too
The boat captain that you can't pinpoint... He played Kingsley Shacklebolt in the Harry Potter movies: "You may not like him minister, but you can't deny Dumbledore's got style!"
Karen Allen was the leading lady in this film. Also in the cast were John Rhys-Davies & Alfred Molina. If you're not familiar with their names, I suggest you look 'em up.
I've always loved Harrison Ford, especially the Indiana Jones character. I've watched all the movies so many times. I even named the dachshund that I rescued 4 years ago, Indy, after this character. Can't wait to see you react to the rest of the movies. 😊
OMG, I ❤️ Indiana Jones movies. The historical storyline makes archaeology interesting. My favorite is the one with Sean Connery as Indy’s dad. Also Die Hard & Bad Boys are good action movie series as well.
Howdy from Texas. This was the very first movie that I paid to go see multiple times back when it first came out. It reminded me of the 1950s action serials that used to be played in movie theaters and then on television after that in the 60s and early 70s. They were that same kind of action movies, Superman, Flash Gordon, Captain America, The Shadow, and several others. Although those early ones were not quite honest because they almost always ended with the hero going over a cliff in an out of control automobile and then the very next week when the story resumed they would replay that scene but filmed very differently and would show the hero jumping out at the very last second or something else that clearly couldn't have happened in the ending of the previous episode. So that part of the older action serials I didn't ever like. But it's the action in this movie that gives me the same vibe as those much older serials.
"Were there actual planes that looked like that?" I sometimes forget how young some of these UA-camrs are. Yes there were planes that looked like that. They were the old flying boats of the 30s and '40s. Google pictures of them, especially the interior. They were absolutely amazing. It was literally like luxury flying. Go to some of your military aviation museums in England and you'd probably see the Sunderland bombers from World War II. Same general idea.
Bounty hunters hunt for criminals, not ancient artifacts. The street peddlers had watermelons not mangoes and they were selling not giving. The score is by John Williams who did write the score for "Star Wars", but is otherwise not associated with George Lucas. He is, however, Steven Spielberg's permanent composer.
12:14 This scene was ad-libbed. It was scripted as a big dramatic fight. On the first take, Ford remembered that his character was still wearing a gun on his hip. He shot his opponent in order to deliver a funny outtake. Spielberg thought it was so great, he ditched the fight scene and kept the film as it was shot.
The sea plane from the movie was a Pan Am Clipper which in real life would have been a Martin M-130 or a Boeing 314. When they made the movie there was a Short Solent Mark III flying boat being restored that they copied for the movie (it wasn't made till the late 1940's). The plane is still at the on display at the Oakland Aviation Museum in California, and visitors can enter it. Sea planes / flying boats were far more common before WWII.
Angie? Marion was played by Karen Allen. I don't know where you got Angie. The music gives you "George Lucas vibes" because John Williams composed the score for Indiana Jones and Star Wars, as well as most of the iconic 70's and 80's blockbusters.
The actor with the pipe trying to assure Indiana Jones about the Ark is also in the Star Wars original trilogy as one of the rebellion pilots "Porkins" in "A New Hope"
I just realized they digitally took out the cobras reflection in the glass that was separating Ford and the snake. Also, the scene with the swordsman was improvised. Ford was so sick that day that instead of the long fight scene they had practiced. He just asked Spielberg if he could just shoot him so he could get back to his hotel room to rest. Turned out to be one of the best scenes in cinema.
Hitler did indeed have a occult division dedicated to finding various religious relics to try and harness the power he thought they had. The Ark for example in this is, at least if you believe what the bible says, is accurate in terms of God said no one could open it and look inside or they would die. As for the later things the movies explore, more or less fiction based ideas about things.
I was a baby when this movie came out back in 1981. I didn't see it until the early 90s and I just absolutely love it. it's crazy how some of the effects still hold up 41years later. Awesome reaction my friend and I can't wait for you to watch the rest. I know you're gonna enjoy them as well
22:07 the mummies in that scene were wax models, but it’s been known for producers to use real human bodies instead of fake ones, like the pool scene in Poltergeist.
I can't speak for planes from the 30's but in 1958 we flew from Kansas City, Missouri to San Francisco, California on a TWA Constellation, a four prop engine plane. Before jet flights for passenger lanes. Check it out, interesting design.
These music is my John Williams . He always did the sound track for George Lucas and Steven Spielberg . He has scored numerous soundtracks and won many Oscars.
What I love about the large German pugilist that fights Indiana around the airplane is that he is just excited to box Indiana. He just tells him to "get down from there and come here. let's fight" Nothing nefarious about him lol.
This kind of story owes a lot to H. Rider Haggard, a British novelist in the late 10th and early 20th centuries who wrote Great White Hunter novels starting with King Solomon's Mines. His work still impresses today, although it's definitely racially problematic. To be fair, he does treat his African native characters with respect. A few have been made into movies, although to my mind none are close to Indy. And I agree about practical and optical effects vs. CGI; as with the Star Wars prequels and more recent sequels, the 4th Indy film's CGI can't hold a candle to the films from the pre-CGI days.
@@5stardave 'Story' can be a very loose term when it comes to screenplays. Often that can mean notes from a meeting between those credited under 'Story by'. Kasdan did the plotting and expanded on their ideas for the characters. He wrote what should be seen and heard, the template the film followed in the making of the film. That makes him the writer in my book.
I was always indeferint with spiders. Didn't care for em, but wasn't afraid of em. The farm I work at I'm surrounded by tens of thousands of spiders at any given time throughout the barns, and you just get used to em crawling on you haha (They're small though,not tarantulas lol)
I was 14 when this came out theatrically, my friends and I had no idea what the movie was about, only that it starred the guy who played Han Solo and directed by the guy who made Jaws. This is one of the greatest movies ever.👍
Same..
@@paulamoya7956 It was a great time to be a young movie nerd.👍
@@jimtatro6550 I was an adult when the movie came out...AND I LOVED IT!!
I still do!!
When I was 11 my favorite book was Jurassic Park. When a trailer for the flick first played, I stood up in the theatre, screaming, "Spielberg made Jurassic Park! They made Jurassic Park! Jurassic Park is a movie!" ...to the confusion of my friends and everyone else in the theatre.
I was - 2 when it came out 🤣
The music soundtrack was created by John Williams who also wrote the soundtrack to just about every Spielberg and Lucas films (Jaws, Schindler's List, E.T., all the Star Wars movies, all the Indiana Jones movies, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Home Alone, Hook, etc.) He is an absolute legend and renown for his ability to make the music a character in movies.
My favorite
You can hear the star wars in it.
He is an archeologist and professor.
He's an archeologist and treasure hunter. Bounty hunters capture people; treasure hunters capture stuff.
Those planes were known as clippers.
I only remember 1 sequel as very worthy. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with Sean Connery as his dad.
The Best
Temple of Doom is a dark prequel that is actually a very good movie. Had it not followed Raiders, it wouldn't get all the hate.
One of the best sequels ever. Sir Sean Connery played the best role!!!!
Forget it , no movie made today with this theme comes even close to this . Classic ! Spielberg, Lucas and Williams are once in a lifetime and I was lucky enough to grow up with the work of these three geniuses of the movie industry.
Another really good movie that followed in Raiders' footsteps was The Mummy with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. It's the only one that has that perfect blend of action, romance, adventure, mythology, and horror. I vote that he watch The Mummy as a comparison piece
That is Karen Allen, a very underrated actress. Watch Starman with her and Jeff Bridges.
John Rhys-Davies, what a legend. Love him in everything I've seen him in. Such a strong presence.
He’s one of those character actors you often recognize before the leads. That voice is so distinctive.
Gimli lord of the rings
@@jimmyzee7040 Yes, he also did the voice of Treebeard in Lord of the Rings. I think one of my favorite roles for him, though, was on the TV miniseries "Shogun" . He had a more prominent role and was allowed to shine.
Harrison Ford became a household name starting with 1977's Star Wars. Bounty hunters look for people. Indy is an archaeologist. I think it could be said that Spielberg's fingerprints as the director are even more heavily felt than Lucas's (as the producer and co-writer). And, for those playing, this review had: 1 mention of therapy, therefore 1 shot of alcohol
Star Wars made him super famous, but I would say this movie made him a household name by himself because he was the main character in this unlike in Star Wars. Out of the 3 main younger characters, Ford became the most famous. I think him starring in this relatively soon after Star Wars and then especially it being right after Empire by a year really helped.
Not only were there planes that looked like that, but flying was considered such an extravagance that people mostly only wore their finest clothes on them.
They had planes like because at the time weren't many airports
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I think it was more so "if I'm gunna die on this infernal contraption I better wear my sunday best" lol
Flying was an event and you dressed for the occasion. It wasn't until the 747 made flight affordable for the masses that the wardrobe became more informal.
Also around this time is when mid air refuelling was developed so the mail planes could travel from England to Australia without stopping.
they were military transports, heavy loads, used in WW2 Pacific. Called 'Flying Boats' or 'Clippers'. Could land troops and equipment at small South Pacific islands.
Kabir...in the 1930s, civil aviation was headed in the direction of using seaplanes and flying boats for long range flights. For one thing, as others have noted, aircraft that could land on water did not need large airports to be constructed for them, since their runways were the harbors and rivers of the cities they were in. For another thing, planes that could land on water were considered much safer for long distance flight, since if they had any trouble or ran into bad weather, they always had the ability to find a place to land.
In fact, it was World War II and the huge number of airfields that were built all over the world that in large part first decisively steered global aviation in the direction of civil aviation centered on airports. Of course, flying boats are not nearly as good with jets as they are with propellers...the jets have to be mounted very high to keep them from ingesting too much water...so once jet airliners came along airports were a clearly superior option, and that put the absolute final nail in the coffin of the flying boats.
Indy's Egyptian friend is the actor who played Gimli in Lord Of the Rings.
How could it be an icon movie since 1981 and not be incredible?
In 1939 John Wayne made a movie called Stagecoach. The most famous stuntguy in movie history Yakima Canutt, invented a stunt where he jumped on the running horses, and crawled underneath the stagecoach to the back. They reproduced that stunt with Indy and the military truck.
The man serving the "bad dates" was also in LOTR. His name is Kiran Shah
The actor who played Satipo, the double crossing guide in the very beginning is Alfred Molina, AKA Doc Ock. This was his first film. And the boat captain was Kingsley Shacklebolt in the Harry Potter series.
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Your right! 😯
@@baskervillebee6097 Raiders is my favorite film of all time. I've seen it somewhere in the vicinity of 1500 times in the 41 years since it came out ( I had just turned 6). I think I know damn near every piece of trivia associated with Raiders. Lol. It made me happy to read your comment about Stagecoach and Yakima Canutt. 👍
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Being older, and interested in older movies, I had heard about Yakima many times. I recognized the under the truck stunt and started researching backwards.
Best wishes.
This one redifined all adventure movies. One of the greatest of all time.
The planes were sometimes a mix of a boat and plane. When crossing the ocean, not every island could support a runway.
It's a shame that there are NO surviving Pan Am clippers in a museum.
GREAT choice. Now you're obliged to watch "Temple Of Doom" and "The Last Crusade". The fourth movie (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) is generally hated, but feel free to watch it and form your own opinion.
Witness, Working Girl, Presumed Innocent, Patriot Games and The Fugitive are great Harrison Ford movies and of course, an early one to watch is American Graffiti circa 1973.
I second all of these movies
ILMs special efforts this movie continue to amaze me. How they pulled off the melting face is amazing.
thing is , flesh does not melt ...
When this came out it was playing on 6 separate screens of a 12 screen theater (in south FL) and the line still went around the building. If you went for an 8pm show for example and stood in line, you got in by the 10pm show... and that was with 6 of them playing in a staggered rotation.
Fun fact! The swordsman scene was supposed to be an actual fight, but Harrison ford got food poisoning the day before. He asked Spielberg about using the gun. Speiberg agreed
11:27 The monkey man is played by Vic Tablian who also played the guy who pulled the gun on indy in the opening of the film. This was an homage to the republic serials wich often used the same actors for multiple roles.
Movies from this era (80s) have a feel, especially with this being a throwback to another era with a feel, the old adventure serials from the 40s and 50s. Such a fun movie!!
My sister is an archaeologist and it's quite common in that field to become a college professor also. Of course, in your "spare time", you go and DIG. That's what she did for years and years. Of course, this is a highly romanticized version of an archaeologist's life. My sister refused to see this movie for years because she , and many others, got the idea from the promo's that Indy was what's known as a "pot hunter" -- someone who loots sites for valuables and sells them for a living - a HUGE no-no in the archaeology world. We finally convinced her to go, and she absolutely loved it, as she realized he was doing all this for the love of history/archaeology, not for anything else.
The lost ark is the Ark of the Covenant... the box holding the stone tablets upon which the 10 Commandments were carved.
He was not a part time teacher and part time bounty hunter... he was a professor who was also an archeologist.
He's an archaeologist. Not a bounty hunter.
Judges also would have accepted Tomb Raider.
@@AndrewSkow1 yes
To answer a question you will ask when you start the next film (Temple of Doom), the stories don't take place in order. Raiders of the Lost Ark - 1936, Temple of Doom - 1935, Last Crusade - 1938. So the next film could be called a prequel, but it's more like an episode. They're not connected in their content other than Indy being in them.
In Astoria, Oregon...
@@rosyclown Attached canon stories have Indy sending him to boarding school. Shorty became an archaeologist just like Indy.
@@Billis75 I got the reference, and loved that kid as soon as I recognized him.
One of my favorite movies! You'll love it! Hes a professor, not a bounty hunter. Lol Kabir, I got a kick out of your reaction to this movie!
He’s too dumb for me to enjoy his reactions. Sometimes I don’t think his eyes are attached to his brain.
Professor and archaeologist.
Such a classic. I especially like John Rhys Davies as Indy's sidekick. He had a pivotal role in my favourite James Bond movie, The Living Daylights, as a Russian politician.
He was also the voice of Aladdin's father in Aladdin: King of Thieves.
Timothy Dalton did a good job in his two Bond movies.
He wasn't a Russian Politician. He was the head of the KGB. He basically took over for General Gogol.
There are sooo many iconic movies that so many young people have not even heard of! I'm actually amazed you never heard of it.
There are currently 4 Indiana Jones films, with a 5th on the way. Also, a television series was made back in the 90s, Young Indiana Jones, which was meant to teach kids about history & such. And, Indy's an archeaologist, not a bounty hunter.
Whether Hitler actually believed in the occult stuff is a matter of debate, but the people around him certainly did. The _Ahnenerbe_ were the people who ran searches all over the world, pursuing the kookiest of theories. Very real.....And yes, seaplanes were very much a thing until the mid-50's.
Himmel was a true believer of the occult and he was Hitler's second in command
Your "Oh my god" comments at the beginning with the spiders are 100% me - as is the passing out!!
When Indy shot the huge guy with the giant sword, that wasn’t how it was written. Harrison was sick that day and couldn’t to the big fight scene with him. But this is better than anything they coulda written.
Up, he improvised. The show must go on.
Thanks for being the billionth person to write this anecdote in a comment.
@@lewstone5430 hey some ppl still haven’t heard it, fuck I’d be mad too if my name was “Lew”
I always heard that he was actually hungover.
Apparently George Harris, the actor who played the ship captain, was in the later Harry Potter movies as Kingsley Shacklebolt, though looking at his credits list, I know him from playing Osman Ali Atto in Black Hawk Down.
George Harris=Actorus awesomeness.
Fun fact: a majority of the "snakes" down in the chamber were actually legless lizards! With the exception of the cobra and a few others 😛
The Ark isn’t Satanic nor have demons in it. At first it just had the Ten Commandments in it but later Aaron’s rod, some manna, anointing oil, and a chest was added. It was made clear if you look inside it or even touch it you will die.
Add to that that it is a Jewish treasure as the Ten Commandments were written by God and delivered to the Jews by Moses...and remember what the Nazis were doing to the Jews during WWII
Lucas and Spielberg wanted to create a serial similar to the adventures they saw as kids. That is why it feels like it does.
An absolute banger classic, they don't make them like this anymore.
The composer for the music is John Williams. He is arguably the most prolific movie composer. He composed for the Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series, the original Superman, Jurassic Park, Jaws, and the list goes on and on. 😁
Sooooo glad you're watching this! One of my all time faves ever! Watch them all!
The plane you didn't recognize was the Short Solent Mark III flying boat. This was actually an historical inaccuracy, as that particular model wasn't put into production until the 1940s. Originally, the plane was supposed to be a Martin M-130 flying boat, which would have been accurate for 1935, but the Short Solent Mark III was undergoing restoration nearby and was therefore more readily available.
Cool, thanks for the history!
The next movie, Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom is technically a prequel. It is set in 1935, and this movie is in 1936.
This is a movie best enjoyed on the big screen. I was working for Youth News in Oakland and this was my first movie review. Stylised as the Saturday Matinee Serials, Jones was a real live Superman with non-stop action. Marion is the best Jones-Gal in the series.
Kabir, the passenger airplane that you noticed was a real aircraft type, called a flying boat. These planes were built to take off and land on water during the decades when aircraft could not fly across bodies of water in one hop, but had to go from mainland to island to island etc. If the engines broke down, the ability to set the plane down on water was a way to save the passengers and crew.
He's an Archaeologist and full time teacher, not a bounty hunter. Yes planes looked like that back then. The range on planes weren't as far as planes now so you needed the ability to land on water to refuel. Harrison Ford was already a household name at this point in 1981. He was in American Graffiti (1973), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Apocalypse Now (1979) and Star Wars (1977) and Empire Strikes Back (1980).
Back in 1981, it was just called Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was 17. It was playing at the .99 cent movie house and my friends and I saw it about 9 times.
Yes, there were "flying boats" like that. Sometimes there were called "clippers" after the fast sailing ships designed to make long trips relatively quickly. Range was not as good as modern planes, so they usually followed island chains, such as US to Hawaii to Midway to the Philipines or Japan, to China. In the Atlantic for a some routes they actually had refueling ships out in the ocean the planes would land at and refuel from. Rather risky that since they could miss the ship even with radio or seas could be rough.
The Nazis did have organizations hunting for various treasures like the Ark and The Spear used stab the side of Christ when he was on the Cross. They also searched for, or fabricated, evidence for the mythical Aryan super race. Other parts researched various occult practices.
Just to add to that, the plane used in the film was a Short Solent Mark III flying boat.
Both Japanese and the Americans used those planes for reconnaissance.
The large Nazi fighting Indy is English professional wrestler Pat Roach. He's been in many movies like Temple of Doom and Conan the Destroyer
Also, in the beginning when Indy falls while running away from the rolling bolder...that was an accident. Again, they thought it was great & kept it a part of the movie.
I think that Belloq was interested in Marion because of his rivalry with Indy. As he said, “There is nothing that you possess that I cannot take away.”
One of my all time favorite movies!
Angels of death. Not demons. Demons run from God.
It was fun watching it through your eyes and the discoveries you made.
My 2 oldest sons and I went to see it several times when it first came out. Amazing film.
Be safe
Hitler was interested in all kinds of superstitions but Himmler, the head of the SS was very keen on all kinds of mythology and the Nazis did indeed fund several expeditions to find archaeological evidence of Nordic and Germanic mythology to support their very dodgy theories on religion, race etc.
I can see that you would think he was a bounty hunter. That's not the case. He actually is a Professor and collector of antiquities.
Will it have those actual powers when he finds it Ha! George L and Steven S, “Hold my beer!” I love how they based the show Warehouse 13 off of the last scene. That’s a great show too
The planes were prior to airports being all over. They could land in harbors. When airports became common, these planes died out.
You’ve been reacting to a lot of my favorite movies lately
The boat captain that you can't pinpoint... He played Kingsley Shacklebolt in the Harry Potter movies:
"You may not like him minister, but you can't deny Dumbledore's got style!"
Karen Allen was the leading lady in this film. Also in the cast were John Rhys-Davies & Alfred Molina. If you're not familiar with their names, I suggest you look 'em up.
8:09 Flying boats are a real thing!
Joseph Gerbils the head of the SS was into weard acult things. Even had a castle for ceremony's. And yes traveled the world for artifacts.
LOL...Gerbils...I love that misspelling! I can't believe I have never seen that one before, it is my new favorite...my old favorite was Bitchler. 😂💯✌
Heinrich Himmler was occult nut in charge of the SS. Joseph Goebbels was the propaganda minister.
Goebbels?
Marion wouldn't have needed therapy. She had owned and ran a bar in Nepal. People back then weren't the jellyfish that most are today.
You’re right, I didn’t used to be a jellyfish , in my old age….I’m starting to swim with the fishes.
I've always loved Harrison Ford, especially the Indiana Jones character. I've watched all the movies so many times. I even named the dachshund that I rescued 4 years ago, Indy, after this character. Can't wait to see you react to the rest of the movies. 😊
I have a friend that has named every dog some form of his name...Indy, Henry, Jones...
OMG, I ❤️ Indiana Jones movies. The historical storyline makes archaeology interesting. My favorite is the one with Sean Connery as Indy’s dad. Also Die Hard & Bad Boys are good action movie series as well.
I can't watch this movie anymore without thinking how in Big Bang Theory they realize that nothing Jones did made a difference...
Howdy from Texas.
This was the very first movie that I paid to go see multiple times back when it first came out.
It reminded me of the 1950s action serials that used to be played in movie theaters and then on television after that in the 60s and early 70s. They were that same kind of action movies, Superman, Flash Gordon, Captain America, The Shadow, and several others. Although those early ones were not quite honest because they almost always ended with the hero going over a cliff in an out of control automobile and then the very next week when the story resumed they would replay that scene but filmed very differently and would show the hero jumping out at the very last second or something else that clearly couldn't have happened in the ending of the previous episode. So that part of the older action serials I didn't ever like. But it's the action in this movie that gives me the same vibe as those much older serials.
funny at the beginning of the reaction Kabir kept referring to Indiana Jones as a bounty hunter. lol
I was a small kid when I first saw this. I was not ready for the face melting scene.
I was an adult and I wasn’t ready for the melting face either...🤢🤮
My favorite videos that you do are of your reactions to movies! 😊
OMG.... I got married in 1981. Time flies.
This movie is one of my all time favorites. Glad you enjoyed it too! Cheers!
"Were there actual planes that looked like that?" I sometimes forget how young some of these UA-camrs are. Yes there were planes that looked like that. They were the old flying boats of the 30s and '40s. Google pictures of them, especially the interior. They were absolutely amazing. It was literally like luxury flying. Go to some of your military aviation museums in England and you'd probably see the Sunderland bombers from World War II. Same general idea.
Bounty hunters hunt for criminals, not ancient artifacts. The street peddlers had watermelons not mangoes and they were selling not giving. The score is by John Williams who did write the score for "Star Wars", but is otherwise not associated with George Lucas. He is, however, Steven Spielberg's permanent composer.
That was one of the greatest openings in the history of cinema.
That passenger boat/plane was real but, sitting at the dock, most of that shot was a matte painting. In the sky it was a miniature.
When you get to #4 (CRYSTAL SKULL), you'll learn more about life in warehouses.
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This scene was ad-libbed. It was scripted as a big dramatic fight. On the first take, Ford remembered that his character was still wearing a gun on his hip. He shot his opponent in order to deliver a funny outtake.
Spielberg thought it was so great, he ditched the fight scene and kept the film as it was shot.
The sea plane from the movie was a Pan Am Clipper which in real life would have been a Martin M-130 or a Boeing 314. When they made the movie there was a Short Solent Mark III flying boat being restored that they copied for the movie (it wasn't made till the late 1940's). The plane is still at the on display at the Oakland Aviation Museum in California, and visitors can enter it. Sea planes / flying boats were far more common before WWII.
Angie? Marion was played by Karen Allen. I don't know where you got Angie.
The music gives you "George Lucas vibes" because John Williams composed the score for Indiana Jones and Star Wars, as well as most of the iconic 70's and 80's blockbusters.
The actor with the pipe trying to assure Indiana Jones about the Ark is also in the Star Wars original trilogy as one of the rebellion pilots "Porkins" in "A New Hope"
I just realized they digitally took out the cobras reflection in the glass that was separating Ford and the snake. Also, the scene with the swordsman was improvised. Ford was so sick that day that instead of the long fight scene they had practiced. He just asked Spielberg if he could just shoot him so he could get back to his hotel room to rest. Turned out to be one of the best scenes in cinema.
Hitler did indeed have a occult division dedicated to finding various religious relics to try and harness the power he thought they had. The Ark for example in this is, at least if you believe what the bible says, is accurate in terms of God said no one could open it and look inside or they would die. As for the later things the movies explore, more or less fiction based ideas about things.
There never was a Moses, so there never was an Ark, in real life. 100% myth.
@@philosopher0076 Oh, edge lord here! Badass! ^_^
Not a bounty hunter. Bounty Hunters search for fugitives who fail to show up in court. Dr. Jones is an archeologist.
In the 1930's, there were many flying boats. One example: "Boeing 314 Clipper" flying boats were owned by Pan Am. They were nicknamed Yankee Clippers.
Saw this in the theater. Awesome movie. Great reaction!
I was a baby when this movie came out back in 1981. I didn't see it until the early 90s and I just absolutely love it. it's crazy how some of the effects still hold up 41years later. Awesome reaction my friend and I can't wait for you to watch the rest. I know you're gonna enjoy them as well
22:07 the mummies in that scene were wax models, but it’s been known for producers to use real human bodies instead of fake ones, like the pool scene in Poltergeist.
I can't speak for planes from the 30's but in 1958 we flew from Kansas City, Missouri to San Francisco, California on a TWA Constellation, a four prop engine plane. Before jet flights for passenger lanes. Check it out, interesting design.
Originally her eyelids said fuck me, not love you. Such a classic. Cheers bro for another splendid reaction.
If I recall correctly, they made the punch sound effect by hitting a pile of leather jackets with a baseball bat.
These music is my John Williams . He always did the sound track for George Lucas and Steven Spielberg . He has scored numerous soundtracks and won many Oscars.
"That's got to be a fast horse to catch up with a truck"
Keep in mind that's a truck on a dirt road. It makes BIG difference. :)
What I love about the large German pugilist that fights Indiana around the airplane is that he is just excited to box Indiana. He just tells him to "get down from there and come here. let's fight" Nothing nefarious about him lol.
I saw this movie at a theatre in Ottawa in the mid eighties It was fantastic on the big screen
To answer one of your questions, Hitler was obsessed with the occult.
George Lucas loves old school films of 1930s and designed this film like them, but added his own sensibility to them as well as Spielberg.
This kind of story owes a lot to H. Rider Haggard, a British novelist in the late 10th and early 20th centuries who wrote Great White Hunter novels starting with King Solomon's Mines. His work still impresses today, although it's definitely racially problematic. To be fair, he does treat his African native characters with respect. A few have been made into movies, although to my mind none are close to Indy.
And I agree about practical and optical effects vs. CGI; as with the Star Wars prequels and more recent sequels, the 4th Indy film's CGI can't hold a candle to the films from the pre-CGI days.
(7:58) Pan American Clipper. The name it was built under, Boeing 314. The movie is set in 1936. Only one problem, the 314 wasn't flying until 1938.
As a writer I have to stand up for Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote it, not George Lucas. Sorry to have to correct you but someone must.
Kasden did the screenplay, story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.
@@5stardave 'Story' can be a very loose term when it comes to screenplays. Often that can mean notes from a meeting between those credited under 'Story by'. Kasdan did the plotting and expanded on their ideas for the characters. He wrote what should be seen and heard, the template the film followed in the making of the film. That makes him the writer in my book.
I was always indeferint with spiders. Didn't care for em, but wasn't afraid of em. The farm I work at I'm surrounded by tens of thousands of spiders at any given time throughout the barns, and you just get used to em crawling on you haha (They're small though,not tarantulas lol)
I’ve got to watch this again!