In my eagerness to teach "good cinema" to my children, I have given them Indiana Jones, who had seen it for a long time and they had liked it but did not remember it. And it's not that they didn't like the movie, but they like the LEGO video game more. I would say that I do not win to annoyance, but the truth is that the LEGO video game is really cool xD
Total, that I have told you some little curiosity about the movie. Most of them, things as they are, have not cared. Although the older one was amused. I will take it as a personal triumph.
Now I'm going to try to tell you about them and see if I also get that expected victory with a $ 100 vote. Well better under the clouds and I tell you my favorite curiosities about Indiana Jones
This fact is, in fact, very well known, but we cannot talk about curiosities of this movie without talking about this scene, which is one of the best in the entire film: when Indy confronts a man who threatens him with a saber, and he responds by shooting her.
This did not appear in the original script, but rather that Jones was supposed to use the whip to snatch the saber from him and get into a fight. But, magical coincidences, it seems that the entire team had suffered food poisoning in the catering of the set, and they were not well to film it. In the end, Harrison Ford proposed to shoot the saber man. Spielberg liked the idea, they shot it, and so he stayed for posterity :)
Another curiosity is that George Lucas used to go on a trip every time one of his films was released, and when 'Star Wars' was released he went on vacation to Hawaii, where he met Steven Spielberg. They were both making a sand castle (or so they later reported) when Spielberg told Lucas that he had always wanted to direct a James Bond movie. Lucas then told him that he had an "even better" idea that might fit him: 'Riders of the Lost Ark'. Spielberg was enthusiastic about it, and when they got back from vacation they got to work on it.
In a movie featuring the man who came up with the idea that a lightsaber would sound like a coin rolling at the bottom of a cube (and then turning the sound upside down) it is clear that the sounds are perfect. And in this movie, in which Indy walks every two by three involved in a hand-to-hand fight, it took a good sound for the blows: they were made by piling up leather jackets and hitting them with a baseball bat.
Another curiosity is When Marcus goes to look for Henry (Indiana Jones) at his house, Indy is dressed in underwear and a robe. That he seems the most normal thing in the world, that is: he is in his house and he is in pajamas. But actually, at first he was dressed like that because when Marcus came to his house Henry was hanging out with a woman, who was actually in the original footage.
Later, Spielberg decided to remove those cuts, because he thought that the role of "James Bond-style playboy" did not fit the character. Thanks, Steven.
Another is that Lucas has filled his cinematic universe with Easter eggs from Star Wars is no secret, and this one in particular is one of the best known to fans: when Indy reaches the ark, R2D2 and C3PO are present in the ancient engraving. on the left.
The next curiosity is that there is a famous millinery in London, in Saville Row, Herbert Johnson 'Swaine Adeney Brigg', where the hats of the modern series and the mythical film come from. Indy's hat, specifically, was (and is) the "poet" model. To make it look old and well-worn, the wardrobe manager twisted it, and then she and Ford himself sat on it several times, until it looked like he had several years of adventures on him.
Currently, apart from replicas of each movie with its perfect nomenclature, you can find the original hat, the Picadilly Poet, on their website for 480 pounds.
During the filming of 'Indiana Jones', Harrison Ford was married to Melissa Mathison, a famous screenwriter and producer responsible for, recently and for example,' My friend the giant '(the film adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel'The great good-natured giant').
Melissa went to visit her husband on the set, and during breaks Spielberg began to assault her to comment on an idea that was spinning in his head and that he wanted her to write as, in fact, he did after her . That idea was' E.T. The Alien, 'and it earned Melissa an Oscar nomination for best screenplay.
The next is that writing a script (or a novel, etc.) is the closest thing there is to painting a painting: you start with the structure, you shape a base and you can spend weeks, months or years finishing off with brushstrokes here and there . 'Indiana Jones: The Lost Ark' is no less, and the last sentence to be added to the script is striking: "I am uncomfortable with this Jewish ritual" ("I am uncomfortable with this Jewish ritual"). And it was added because, with the finished script, they realized that in the entire film there was not a single mention of the Jews. Which is striking when the bad guys are the Nazis.
Alfred Molina, one of the most prolific actors in Hollywood, you will surely recognize for roles such as the male lead in 'Not without my daughter', Dr. Octopus in 'Spider-Man 2', Cardinal Aringarosa in ' The Da Vinci Code 'or, recently, Robert Aldrich's in' Feud '. But even the best have a beginning, and this was Alfred's.
Another curiosity about his role is that at first, when they entered the cave, they covered him with huge, live tarantulas, which remained completely still until the moment they wanted them to move. Do you know how they did it? They were all male: they began to move when they introduced a female.
I've saved the best for last xD
In the series 'Big Bang Theory', Sheldon shows his girlfriend Amy the movie, which she had never seen. When he finishes and asks for his opinion, she says that he is fine except for the "tremendous narrative error" that he does not finish seeing, and when he asks her to explain it and leaves him "with his mouth open", she argues that he would have the same thing would have happened if Indiana Jones did not exist: the Germans would have found the ark, they would have taken it to the island, they would have opened it, and they would all have died. As, in fact, it happens in the movie, with Indiana Jones jumping down the middle xD
Could it be that we idealize everything we remember from the '80s too much?
I hope you have liked all these curiosities like my children and I hope to have that desired triumph :-) so I will continue another day with more curiosities from another great movie