I’ve heard that the Grail made Jones Sr. decades youinger. He dropped out of sight for a while then rerappeared in the 60’s as a movie actor.
Not that I recall.
I don’t know that the immortality was tied to the seal, but the grail certainly was.
The knigth COULD have left and still felt the benefits from the grail, but he wouldn’t leave because he had vowed to protect the cup.
In other words, only honor kept him prisoner, not the fear of death.
It’s a shame Indy didn’t drop by on a Tuesday night, as that’s when Frodo, Elrond, and Gandalf drop by for poker night.
What I always thought about that scene was “Man, God is one seriously mean dude, placing that agonizing-super-aging-curse on all the phony cups.”
Nope, he would have aged and died. He needed to drink from it every day.
The seal had nothing to do with immortality–it was just the limits of how far you could travel with the Grail in your pocket.
Even if his dad did become immortal, Indiana would’ve been right there with him. Remember, he took a healthy swig from the cup himself.
How do you explain Jones Sr.'s brother?
Off topic, and perhaps common knowledge, but the sandtone temple carved out of the canyon wall where the Grail resides? It’s a real place, and part of an ancient city called Petra (meaning “rock”.) The actual temple is the Khazneh.
We don’t disagree. I am saying that if he had crossed the seal, he wouldn’t have died right away. He simply would have become mortal and aged accordingly like his brother who left for England.
More trivia: it was a major thorn in the sides of the Herodian dynasty (who were maternally members of the royal family that controlled Petra). My mother describes it as the most impressive thing she saw on her Holy Land tour; you have to approach through that steep narrow passage from the movie (impossible to send a military down) and the man who gided her horse was so old that he had to ride on a donkey.
I always wondered how the knight got food, oil for the lamps, etc., and kept the place remarkable free of dust for an 800 year old place in a desert. Of course he’d figured out how to put an eversharp blade in rock and build a bridge that was invisible from certain angles so he was evidently resourcesful.
Jones Sr. actually went on to an impressive run on “Celebrity Jeopardy”.
Sean Connery: Well, the game is afoot. I’ll take anal bum cover for 7,000.
Alex Trebek: That’s An album cover, not anal bum cover.
From the Wondering Minstrels on the subject of Petra -
Obviously, he remained immortal until Christopher Lambert’s foe cut his head off.
After some deliberation, I have decided that he WAS a liar.
He wasn’t a crusader knight at all. He was just a geek that wondered off from the RenFest.
To paraphrase Henry Jones, “…but in English…‘wondered’ is spelled…with an A !”