hang on lady, we go for a ride!

[candid]

I don't really like the Indiana Jones movies all that much. Part of this is that they really struggle to maintain my attention. (I can state this pretty authoritatively, as they have been coming on cable TV over the last several weeks, and I have tried to watch each of them, with varying degrees of success.) But part of it is also that I don't

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[kirinqueen]

The cup was lost at the end of The Last Crusade?

[candid]

That's what I get for not being able to sit through the movie.

In that case, I hope we explore how Indy's dad is dealing with eternal life.

[colinmarshall]

Indy himself drank from the cup, so he's also immortal.

[pbrane]

That should provide some ease with which to extend the IJ franchise!

(as if they needed an excuse! now if only they could find a way to mummify/extend Harrison Ford's longevity, they'll be set!)

[cluebyfour]

They can't answer that exact question, since the Grail was left behind in the temple at the end of the third movie. But supposedly Indy should be immortal now, so they will have to at least explain why he looks so damn old.

[phanatic]

It only works while you remain in the temple. Leave, you're not immortal anymore.

[cluebyfour]

Did the old knight explain this at some point? It's been a long time since I've watched it, but I thought all he said was that the Grail couldn't be carried past the seal.

[semiotic_pirate]

He did explain it as being such that if he left the area he would indeed die. As for Indy and Pop... Indy took a drink, yes. But he left the location (and hell, the knight did age). Pop got healed using the grail, and either way he also left the location.

This is why the mother of their son, Marian Ravenwood, looks to be of a similarly aged appearance to Dr. Jones.

As for the grail being carried past the seal... It probably could have, the point was that if you carried it past the seal the place they were in would self-destruct. Which it did. They could've gotten out with it if they hadn't been in a stand off with each other and trying to get out.

just leave it somewhere they'll find it

[perich]

Cynic that I am, I have a hard time believing the Department of War Defense got its hands on a magical gold chest of instant army slaying and decided that they'd rather nuke Japan, murder Koreans en masse, set Vietnamese on fire and bomb Cambodians, with varying degrees of success, then use it.

Re: just leave it somewhere they'll find it

[semiotic_pirate]

The whole point is that when they put it in the huge, gigantic, enormous warehouse and tell Dr. Jones that they have "top men working on it" it actually means that the ARC is lost in the bureaucratic shuffle and totally forgotten about.

[boffo]

The existence and powers of the Ark were covered up by the government

[browascension]

Yep.

[ernunnos]

Yeah, I think the economics of Indiana Jones makes a lot more sense than Harry Potter. Jones is ostensibly an explorer out to uncover these magical relics, but his true role in all of them is to keep them hidden so that other people don't actually get to change the world with them. He's the defender of the status quo, which is why his world doesn't look any different than ours. It's basically MIB with magic instead of aliens, or one of those action/horror movies like Blade or the Cthulhu mythos movies where a lone hero tries to keep the "normal" humans from figuring out that they live in a much scarier world than they know. I guess The Matrix and Soylent Green would be part of the counter-genre.

[other]

This is not related to your post, but I watched this video of a Christian version of Punk'd faking the rapture and I immediately thought of you.

Hilarious, terrifying, depressing...

[ginko72]

Just what I look for in a good day on the internet!

Thanks!