![]() "I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne," says Professor Jones. The birds are scared into flight and the plane collides with the flock and crashes and burns. Professor Jones suddenly opens up his umbrella, flaps it around and starts clucking like a chicken while advancing on birds on the sand. One plane turns through the air and bears down on the hapless pair. Indiana and his father, Professor Henry Jones, are in a car being chased by a couple of German aeroplanes and end up crashing on a beach. It's a perfect heart-leaping-into-the-mouth moment filled with suspense as the rope bridge halves slam into the sides of the chasm.Ī favorite funny moment from The Last Crusade. Indy - cheer! - decides to battle the odds and sever the bridge's support ropes with a machete. Indy's Temple of Doom adventures reach their climatic moment when our hero finds himself trapped on a rope bridge spanning a huge chasm and a river infested with crocodiles. Bugs, snakes slithering out of larger snakes, sheep eyeballs in soup - but the best moment is the arrival of chilled monkey brains served in monkey heads with the crowns sliced off. Dr Jones is discussing cult activity with guests while increasingly stomach-churning dishes are served up, much to the dismay and disgust of Short Round and Willie who are providing the light relief. The banquet scene in Temple of Doom is a brilliant juxtaposition of seriousness and comedy and still makes us laugh to this day. It's classic edge of the seat stuff as Short Round gets used like a rope in a tug-o-war match while the carts zip perilously along tracks precariously balanced on wooden beams high, high up the air. Its highlight is the mine shaft scene where a thrilling fight commences in racing mine carts. Indy and his sidekicks have sneaked into the huge underground complex that's home to the Thuggee cult but naturally it's not long before they're discovered by the bad guys and a mass chase ensues. If you know what it means, please let us know. Throughout the ritual, the victim continually chants "Ohm num Shiva" (that may be phonetically interpreted). In the uncut version of the movie, Ram is seen lifting the still-beating heart into the air, which bursts into flames when the victim plunges into the fire. Will he die? Nah, of course he won't, but it's a brilliantly tense moment that smacks of James Bond-style escapes from peril.Įvil Mola Ram magically "ripping" the heart out the sacrificial victim before dropping him into a fiery pit of hell defines the gruesomeness of Temple of Doom in delicious fashion. Locked in the "tomb" with Marion by Belloq and the Nazis, Indy faces certain death-by-million-fangs as his flamingdies out. Locating the resting place of the Ark turns from joy to fear for Indiana when he discovers the Well of the Souls is swarming with snakes. Of course, the Nazis are after the same object and it results in a mighty clash of fists and bullets which ends with the bar being burned to the ground. Indy, on the trail of an artifact that will help locate the Ark, tracks down his old flame and owner of the artifact in her bar. And the cinema laughed.įor pure, unadulterated action in an Indiana Jones movie you don't have to look much further than the bar fight in Nepal in the early moments of Raiders. Indy's face takes on an expression of "I really can't be bothered to fight this guy" so he pulls out his pistol and shoots him dead. Our hero, you'll recall, is chasing Marion who has been kidnapped in Cairo and a crowd he's fighting through after engaging in fisticuffs with enemies suddenly parts and he's confronted by the guy swishing his big sword around menacingly. Raiders of the Lost Ark is full of great moments, but Indy's battle with the big dude in the turban wielding his scimitar like a ninja is a classic. (Nerd alert! Incidentally, we wonder if LucasArts will include the little Raiders Easter Egg of R2-D2 and C-3PO appearing as hieroglyphics in the Well of the Souls.)īattle with the man with the big scimitar Whether this would get past censors is another matter. Imagine how good a melting plastic LEGO head could look with today's technology. What starts off all very nice with beautiful ghostly angels flying around turns nasty, and skin melts off the faces of the chief Nazis and Belloq's head exploding. You know the score: after overcoming various horrible traps during the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indy finally manages to get his hands on an artifact, only to end up being chased out a tunnel by a massive stone ball.Īs the quest for the Ark of the Covenant reaches its climax, Indy's archaeologist opponent Belloq and his Nazi pals hold a Jewish ritual and open the Ark. ![]() Okay, we're cheating a bit with this one as we've already seen it in the first trailer, but it's the iconic moment from the films.
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