Why not just send something trough to spring the traps. Then you can just walk in.
But then, this movie, Last Crusade, and Glass Aliens all had booby traps that effectively destroyed the room they were guarding. What use is a guarded entrance like the grail room in Crusade if it destroys the entire place? That poor knight is now trapped forever. Not to mention that big boulder in Raiders now sealed the room forever (one assumes it was to be set loose while the thief was still in there.)
And of course the whole secret lair of the glass alien skull makes NO SENSE. Using the “key” wrong brings the whole complex down? Wonder if they have high rise condos on their homeward? (too soon?) And how did they original person get the skull out in the first place. Man, that movie was stupider than the SW PT and ST combined.
Great movie. I was in my 20s and in West Texas when it came out. It caught my attention when I overheard a couple of guys talking, saying something like: “I’ve watched it three times so far,” “Yeah? Well, I’ve watched it four times.” I ended up doing multiple viewings myself.
Right. But, as I say, it’s easy to make a mechanism where removal would trigger things – but the platform would go UP i n that case. It’s much less likely that they’d build a plunger that triggered things if there was TOO MUCH weight – you want to detect when your idol is stolen, after all, and you don’t want false triggers when someone leans on it, or drops something on it. And it’s harder to build that way.
But I already said this. You just wanted a quick and thoughtless comment.
So they built the idol to descend into the rock platform so that it could be easily recovered after the room was destroyed? Yeah, that’s good enough for me.
I got the impression that in the Last Grail, it was God’s wrath (like the face melting) that caused the final destruction, not a human-built mechanism. But I can totally see a death cult constructing a final grand trap to destroy everything. Death is their goal, after all.
I was imagining a man shaped box on a stick, or the 30s equivalent of a bomb disposal robot. Not Nazi “volunteers”! Something a bit less “hard on parts”.
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the mechanism that chopped off heads if you weren’t kneeling seemed to reset itself after someone triggered it. (Remember that Indy used his bullwhip to disable it.)
Yes…another ancient mechanical trap that resets itself. If only modern tech worked as well.
(yes, you could totally say “God reset it”. I’m not sure that helps. After all, God gave us Nazis.)
Like the walking across Jehovah excuse me Iehovah path - no one else in the last 2000 years got that far? Eventually, it will be obvious what steps to take, even if you don’t speak latin or even know God’s name.
Apologies - when I posted it it was auto-labeled when I looked at it. At any rate, it was a link to Blazing Saddles and the ost of a handcart. This should be the same thing:
Something a bit less “hard on parts”.
