A Raiders of the Lost Ark question

[DrDeth]

@Stranger_On_A_Train

I think the largest plot hole is the German Army conducting a massive archeological dig in the Nile Delta despite the fact that Egypt was under British military occupation

The Ahnenerbe went all over the world, pre war seeking out mystic or archaeological stuff. Tibet, Antarctica, Hatra, Damascus, Iraq, Bagdad, etc. Remember, this was pre-war.

@Stranger_On_A_Train

There is, of course, the issue that if Dr. Henry ‘Indiana’ Jones had just stayed home drinking herbal tea and reading an H. Rider Haggard novel, Belloq would not have found the Ark at all, or if he did would have had his face fried off just the same.

The Nazi digging would have found it eventually. And sure, Belloq would have his face fried off- but the Ark would be in nazi hands, not American. Indy got the Ark back into safe hands.

@Stranger_On_A_Train

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a great movie that makes absolutely no sense, from the opening which has Jones hiking in through days of jungle only to escape in a conveniently close seaplane,

The seaplane which took him there.

@EinsteinsHund

And Indy survives on what for days, s

Or a just hours. 350 miles, @17 knots= 20 hours.

@terentii

The U-boat presumably doesn’t dive once, in contrast to what they often do.

Only if attacked.

@MaxTheVool

And if everything happens without Indy there, and the Nazis get their faces melted, but Indy and Marion aren’t there, well, that certainly proves that the Ark is a powerful weapon, but it’s one the Nazis still have, and they’ll keep doing experiments, and, who knows what might eventually happen?

Right.