Lol. Stranger’s post is GOLD. Yeah, I never cared for Raiders. It’s lame. The other two are much better.
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.
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.
The seaplane which took him there.
Or a just hours. 350 miles, @17 knots= 20 hours.
Only if attacked.
Right.
So you think pre-War, the Germans could have had a digging site in British controlled Egypt, protected by at least a company of soldiers equipped with weapons, trucks and motor-bikes, and even an airbase?
Why not? They were at peace. But do note that Egypt was legally an independent kingdom since 1922, and an equal sovereign power .
Well, ask “desert fox” Rommel how hard it was to bring troops to Egypt…
[golf clap]
The United Kingdom ostensibly recognized the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Egypt but controlled trade, communications, foreign relations, and trained and oversaw their military, as well as maintaining a large military presence in Egypt as well as complete control over Sudan, Transjordan, and Mandatory Palestine. It is unclear how the German Army could move significant men and materiel into Egypt without the British and Egyptian authorities taking notice, and it isn’t as if Tanis is in some distant western area of Egypt; it is right up in Lower Egypt smack in the east middle of the Nile Delta.
Stranger
That’s not what happened to the Philistines. But I like to imagine the Wehrmacht being afflicted with plagues of mice and hemorrhoids.
Who said they didnt know about the “body guards”? In fact, it was common to have armed guards on many digs.
The point being- after Egypt was bribed to let the Nazis in- would the Brits step in at that point in time to overrule the "sovereign " Egyptian government? It would cause diplomatic issues. Remember, GB and Germany were at peace then. They werent enemies.
All the nitpicking is true about Raiders, but it’s still a great movie. And it was based on the serial adventures Spielberg loved as a kid, and they were also short on facts and details in favor of moving the action along. I think he nailed it. The other movies in the franchise were nowhere near as good, in part because they were derivative of the first, and in part because they tried to do too much.
Definitely. You could break up the movie into segments, splitting it up where Indy is in a seemingly impossible situation, and, tune in next week!
He triggers the Idol, starts running, end the episode.
He’s stuck in the Well of Souls as the torches are dying and the snakes are moving in, end the episode.
He hanging from the front of the truck, end the episode.
They kind of were anyway. Between all of the predictable labor and resource shortages, political infighting, the Wehrmacht getting bogged down in the Eastern Front and in the Caucasus, the general incompetence of much of the High Command, and Hitler getting more and more paranoid about people plotting against him (not entirely without justification), the wheels were coming off the Third Reich almost faster than the Allies could advance.
Stranger
I think that’s accounted for, isn’t it? When Indy goes to the map room, there’s a grid of holes in the floor, marked with symbols. He checks his notebook, and then counts down a certain number of holes, blows the sand out, and then puts the staff in that hole. He was looking for the correct hole for the particular date that he was there.
There’s another hole nearby that has also been cleared. I always assumed that was from a few days prior, when the Nazis used the map room with their too-long staff.
It’s a good thing those Twenty-second Dynasty Egyptian priests were using the Gregorian calendar!
I took the other hole to be an error from not having the text from both sides of the headpiece but your inference makes sense.
Stranger
Not hard to convert to a solar egyptian calendar.
Yes, the Nazis only had one side of the headpiece, so they didn’t have the full inscription. When they took it to the map room, their staff was too long, but they did place it in the correct hole in the grid for that date.
When Indy arrived he cleared a different hole a few spaces away from the one the Nazis had used a few days earlier.
While we’re pointing out plot holes, I’m always surprised the Nazis were able to repicate the headpiece so well from the burn scar on Toht’s hand. Maybe they could read the inscription around the edge, but was the scar so precise that they could reproduce the facets in the crystal such that it would still emit a beam of light in the map room?
I’ve always kinda wondered where the hell that big round rolling boulder went.
Back to the prop room…
The idea that Indy didnt really do much was popularized in the Big Bang Theory and has been shown to be wrong in several blogs.
It’s like, why didnt the Eagle just drop the One Ring into Mt Doom?
Because they were busy carrying the Ark back to Roswell?