# A Raiders of the Lost Ark question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 11, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991 "2023-11-11T17:54:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/61 "2023-11-16T01:14:59Z")
Several blogs! Dayum. Now if it had been one blog, or two blogs, well, the question is open. But several? Case closed motherfucker! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/62 "2023-11-16T01:33:57Z")
Better than one epi of one TV show. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/63 "2023-11-16T01:40:19Z")
Cincinnati. All Giant Boulders pine for the Queen City. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/64 "2023-11-17T01:50:04Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I’ve always kinda wondered where the hell that big round rolling boulder _went._ Into the automatic reloader. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/65 "2023-11-17T02:36:14Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > The sequel to _Raiders_ was going to be called _The Shoshenq Redemption_, but that title was problematic. Now, this is why this forum needs a ‘like’ button. > [@Atamasama](#): > > My issue with any movie with booby traps, and this was a concern I even had as a kid watching these movies, is how do the traps reset? Let’s set aside how implausible it is that an ancient trap made from vines, wood, and stone stays functional for centuries. Let’s say it’s able to shoot darts or drop a boulder or whatever. Then what? Isn’t the trap done with? How do new darts get loaded? Who puts a new boulder in place? Yet you’ll see the trap function again, where Jim gets skewered, so Joe goes in after and carefully avoids it, then Jack slips and dies too. There is a whole tribe of natives that worship the idol. It’s their temple, and they are maintaining the traps. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/66 "2023-11-17T02:38:20Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > There is a whole tribe of natives that worship the idol. It’s their temple, and they are maintaining the traps. And yet they don’t have a single warrior defending it?! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/67 "2023-11-17T02:45:52Z")
They had a whole bunch of warriors defending it. They chased Indy. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/68 "2023-11-17T02:54:02Z")
That’s ridiculous. So when you defend something valuable do you prevent someone from entering, post guards at the entrance and inside? Or hang around waiting for them to leave, so you can chase them afterwards? I guarantee you that not a single one of those guys ever set foot in there. It’s overgrown with vegetation, they have to push their way through thick webs. I doubt anyone had been in there for many years. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/69 "2023-11-17T02:55:19Z")
Maybe they were crouching on the other side of the wall, manning the blowguns? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/70 "2023-11-17T02:55:49Z")
Haha, I love the visual of that. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/71 "2023-11-17T06:41:33Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > That’s ridiculous. So when you defend something valuable do you prevent someone from entering, post guards at the entrance and inside? They likely didnt guard it as they thought the jungle and the traps would do that. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/72 "2023-11-17T11:14:30Z")
What right did Jones have to steal tribal artifacts? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/73 "2023-11-17T12:28:24Z")
His reasoning seemed to be, “This belongs in a museum.” And that’s better than the other guy getting it and perhaps melting it down. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/74 "2023-11-17T13:03:24Z")
Maybe the booby traps allowed the tribe to leave the temple unguarded while they went about other business, or maybe they were bowling. But, if Belloq made nice with the tribe, as we see after the boulder scene when Indy exits and is surrounded, they could have just gave the idol to Belloq in the first place and be done with it. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/75 "2023-11-17T13:13:02Z")
BTW, it occurs to me that the ability to cut a large boulder into what seemed to be a perfect sphere is almost more interesting than the idol itself. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/76 "2023-11-17T16:20:38Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > His reasoning seemed to be, “This belongs in a museum.” And that’s better than the other guy getting it and perhaps melting it down. Cultural appropriation! Belloq wasn’t going to melt it down. He was going to sell it for BIG MONEY to someone else, for _their_ museum. Ignoring the auto reloading blow guns in Raiders, how about the magical stone bridge over the bottomless chasm in Crusade? Who rebuilds that? (don’t say God. What does God need with a bridge?) Besides, all you need to cross that is five or six “volunteers”. Eventually one will step on the solid blocks, or all the other blocks will be gone. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/77 "2023-11-17T16:22:15Z")
Or, you know - a _stick_. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/78 "2023-11-17T16:24:02Z")
A stick always works. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/79 "2023-11-17T16:25:33Z")
I thought that the magical bridge in Crusade was supposed to be an optical illusion. If it was, it would have to be immaculate or else dust and footprints. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991/80 "2023-11-17T16:35:35Z")
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