I’m curious for sure.
This one?
Possibly that one. Can’t say for sure without checking it. Was there more than one novelization?
Not that I see. I have it on hold at the library right now.
More a general genre thing but “Most bad guys in American films since the 1980s have been Muslims due to Israeli or other general Anti-Muslim influences”
This was in the context of somebody claiming that in Avatar the Navi were “coded” as being Arabic Muslims.
Nevermind the Navi are supposed to be the GOOD guys in that movie.
Huh? In fact it seems most bad guys are the CIA or big Business.
That reminds me of people saying that Temuera Morrison in Attck of the Clones symbolized Mexican immigrants invading the US.
Latino critics in particular charge his latest Star Wars epic, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, toys with American paranoia about Mexican immigration with its cloned army of swarthy lookalikes who march in lockstep by the tens of thousands, and ultimately end up serving as Darth Vader’s white-suited warriors.
A crazy right wing one I saw
“Predator is Anti-Gun because the heavily armed soldiers are no match for the alien and instead it’s beaten with sticks and stones”
Also they are made on a planet called Kamino… while camino in spanish means road…it’s the “road to invasion”… Yeah, I was in the Star Wars fandom in the easrly 2000s. I remember the “controversy” first hand.
Back in the day I recall reading an article by a Star Trek fan pushing the theory that every single episode in the series (this was before ST: TNG) was set in an alternate universe, which is why Spock kept giving low odds of survival/success that Kirk always beat. We only see the timelines where Spock was wrong, most of the time Kirk just gets himself or the Enterprise obliterated by ignoring the Vulcan.
I think it is just easier to assume Spock doesn’t know shit about computing odds on one-time events. But, no one ever calls him on it. People think “all Vulcans are geniuses.”
High-five.
Would explain the refrigerator scene.
After all, everyone knows that million-to-one chances succeed nine times out of ten.
Don’t they literally say in the movie itself three knights showed up, drank from the holy Grail, and the other two left and died but they were supremely old when they died?
Here is what the movie says.
I’ve heard this one as well.
Two of these brothers walked out
of the desert one hundred and
fifty years after having found
the Grail and began the long
journey back to France. But
only one of them made it. And
before dying of extreme old
age, he supposedly imparted
his tale to a Franciscan
friar, I think.
I think the idea is:
They age a bit while they are in there with the Grail. I mean, you’d have go guzzle it constantly to stay young. Either that, or they rapidly aged when they left.
The knight is supposed to be really old when they get there. I think he’s been sipping from it daily to keep himself alive until another arrived to guard it.
I never got the impression that you had to continually drink from the Grail, just that once you did drink, immortality only lasted until you left and passed the great seal.
Did the knight say that and I just completely missed it the dozens of times I’ve seen the film?
What I wonder about that movie (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) is what happens after? They’ve brought the grail cup to the outer area of the cavern, a fissure has opened in the ground and the cup fallen into that. Does the ancient knight retrieve it and continue his endless vigil? Or is it irretrievable and the knight will die eventually?
I think it’s over. It falls, the knight sees the collapse, and waves goodbye. It’s gone and over.
Hmmmm…I guess it is not totally clear. I mean, he definitely aged while in there. And it wasn’t drinking, but pouring the water onto Henry’s wounds that healed them.
Quoting him:
You have chosen wisely. But the
Grail cannot pass beyond the Great
Seal. That is the boundary and the
price of immortality.
I mean, I think it’s not that immorality can not go past the seal, just the cup. Which means you can only be immortal when you are with the cup to drink…and redrink.
I’m more curious what happens if Indiana Jones never intervened and the Nazis find the Holy Grail but realize it only works inside the temple? Would Hitler simply pull up stakes and go live inside the Temple forever and command from there? Then the end of the war comes (since the holy Grail doesn’t really give the Nazis that big of a tactical advantage) and the United States just atomic bombs that temple just to be sure?
In-universe conspiracy theory: That’s exactly what actually happened, the whole “shot himself in a bunker” thing is a cover story manufactured to avoid having to mention “we nuked the Holy Grail”.