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[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
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[00:00:13] Speaker B: Hello. Welcome to another episode of five Minute Film Finder, a Pioneer Library System podcast.
We're going to talk about a great movie today.
It's available on Hoopla and Canopy. This month only, we're going to do a deep focus deep dive on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. My name is Darren.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: And I'm Ben.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: Let's talk about it.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: All right.
I mean, one of the greatest movies of all time.
[00:00:42] Speaker B: I think so, yeah. My childhood, I had two. Two trilogies.
Had Star wars and had Indiana Jones.
[00:00:50] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: Now, since my childhood, both of those things have become. Not trilogies, if you want to look at it that way. But my childhood was very formed by George Lucas's stories. Both of these George Lucas stories. This is directed by Steven Spielberg, the third movie of the original three Indiana Jones movies.
I love this movie.
[00:01:11] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:01:12] Speaker B: I'm so excited we're going to talk about it.
[00:01:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: So what's your history with Indiana Jones? You got good memories.
[00:01:17] Speaker A: And honestly, the exact same thing is like the. The two trilogies. And also, like Harrison Ford specifically was just like, ah, that is the prototypical cool guy.
Like, he's kind of a jerk, but he's also kind of sweet and he's cool and grumpy for some reason.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: I'm going to admit something that I've never said to anybody out loud before.
I think that Harrison Ford, especially at the age when he played Indiana Jones in these movies, the original trilogy, he looks kind of like my dad. And so. And they even have a scar.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: Oh, the same scar, the scar that
[00:01:54] Speaker B: they give River Phoenix in the opening of the movie. That is Indiana Jones's chin scar. My dad has that chin scar. And it's just always. It's always felt a little weird for me, like, oh, that's my dad up there, like when I was a real little kid. And so like, that's always just been in the back of my mind.
It's a funny thing.
Anyway, so, yeah, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade starts off with a really cool piece with. In. In Utah, you have the. The cool plateaus. Boy Scouts are going on a hike. They're gonna go into a cave. This is a young Indiana Jones.
[00:02:28] Speaker A: It's got to be, what, the 20s or something?
[00:02:30] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So pre Nazi. Yeah, something like that. Yeah. I don't know what the actual year is.
Young teenage Indiana Jones getting into one of his first adventures that kind of leads him on the path to being who he becomes. You get the setup with his Hat. And the setup with the bullwhip and the scar chin thing like that.
[00:02:53] Speaker A: This is kind of like proto fan service like before. Like, it became like very manufactured. It was like, here's satisfying things about this character and learning where they came from.
[00:03:04] Speaker B: This sequence was absolutely copied millions of times after it happened. Just the way that they set up, you know, the. The fact that he was a known actor, you know, up and coming rising actor at the time, playing that younger version of him, you know, really kind of doing a good job in the small role.
[00:03:23] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:03:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Really felt his impact at the start of the movie.
And yeah, like I said, there's. There's the cool cave scene and there's a. There's a guy in a hat that kind of looks like Indiana Jones from behind.
It's really kind of a fun twist. You know, you get those. The history, having seen those the first two movies, you get that history of Indiana Jones like immediately right there. Like you.
[00:03:43] Speaker A: There's the hat, there's the whip.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, my gosh.
[00:03:46] Speaker A: It belongs in a museum.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. The, the introduction of his father also really kind of shows the reason why Indiana Jones is the way he is. Like, his. His father is not like that. He's not a brash.
You know, he doesn't want to just do. Do these things that are right or whatever.
[00:04:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:10] Speaker B: Immediately, you know, he's a thinker.
[00:04:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: Indiana Jones is an actor.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: He is a man who acts upon the things that are in front of him.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: And we can go ahead and mention his dad, played by Sean Connery. Yep.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: Brilliant piece of casting.
[00:04:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:26] Speaker B: And really interesting for me because in the first two movies you have the primary person who Indiana Jones is interacting with is his love. Love interest.
[00:04:34] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: You get a little bit of that in this movie, but most of it is the relationship between the son and father, Indiana Jones and his father, Henry
[00:04:43] Speaker A: Sr. And very like, purposeful casting there because, like, I think Steven Spielberg's talked about, like, he always wanted to make a Bond movie. He, like. And like part of like the Indiana Jones thing was like, I want to make a globe trotting.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: Like we talked about. Tim.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Cool guy.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: And this is very much that.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:05:02] Speaker B: He likes cool guys who are doing stuff.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: And looking cool on screen. And this is very much like he's his American version.
[00:05:11] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:05:11] Speaker B: Of that.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: Yeah. And.
And just like being able to pay homage to the original James Bond and like have him in there, like, I think kind of like plays the arc really nicely.
And also what a great foil to the grumpy younger Indiana Jones to the grumpy older Dr. Jones.
[00:05:34] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:05:39] Speaker A: How do we parse this movie? It's got so much.
[00:05:43] Speaker B: So like I said, it starts fast, very much from the beginning. You get the bit with the young Indiana Jones and then it immediately jumps into an ocean set piece where there's a boat and some explosions happen.
[00:05:55] Speaker A: And what an incredible scene. The waves crashing on the boat and, like knocking guys over and it's like. But this was on a set.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, like, this was great set piece.
[00:06:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: Such a good set piece.
Indiana Jones does his thing, you know, that he. That's the first time you see Indiana Jones as you know him. Right. This, this part of the movie and it's kind of closing out the story from the first part with young Indiana Jones. Coronado's Cross.
[00:06:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: And that kind of just sums up his journey, like, kind of introduces his father and brings you into the present with. With what's going on with him. And he, you know, goes as he does. He goes back to his teaching job at the college. And that's where the, the actual plot of this movie starts.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: And that's a great setup for this because we haven't even really established what the plot is. I'll read the IMDb synopsis. In 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers. So classic, like, Indiana Jones is like, it's going back to the formula of the first one of like, we've got a holy relic, we've got the Nazis as a great enemy and perfect foil
[00:07:11] Speaker B: for, for this time period. You can't, you know, ask for anything better.
Obviously they're evil doing evil stuff. And this is, you know, in this time period, it's the rise of Hitler. This is the idea is. Is that they're looking for these relics so that they can help, you know, usher in the global, global Nazi regime.
[00:07:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
And in, in the.
The framing of the Holy Grail of this movie. It is the giver of eternal life. Is. Is the idea.
[00:07:44] Speaker B: Yeah, that. That is the idea is. And so, you know, eternal life for Nazi soldiers and for the Fuhrer.
[00:07:50] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
Is the goal for the villains in this piece.
So you get an interesting bit at the beginning where Indiana Jones is recruited and, you know, he doesn't really want to join.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: Yeah. You see him back at college and then he's kind of just like done with it.
[00:08:08] Speaker B: I love the scene with him escaping. Yep.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Crawling out. Crawling out. His office window. Just to be like.
[00:08:13] Speaker B: I don't perfect encapsulation of his characters. Like he could deal with guys shooting at him. You know, Boulder's gonna squash him. Whatever. He can deal with Nazis, but, you know, college students didn't want something from him. Nah, I gotta sneak out of window. No, thank you. Yeah, gotta go out this window.
[00:08:29] Speaker A: Yeah. So unbeknownst to him, he is recruited by Nazis.
[00:08:34] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It's an old enough movie. We can spoil it. He's recruited by the Nazis to figure out what happened with the first guy that they recruited. His father. Yep.
[00:08:44] Speaker A: So immediately shipped off to Italy.
[00:08:47] Speaker B: He goes to Venice.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: Yep.
And they go into a library in an old church and down into the catacombs. Another incredible set piece. Beautiful design.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: So he. He takes his old friend, played by Denholm Elliot. He takes his old friend to the. To. To Venice with him because he's friends with his father. And that's the idea. So he's gonna go to Venice and. And they meet the expert who is also working with the Nazis. His love interest for the film, who happens to be the love interest of his father too. She seduces both of them in the movie.
[00:09:23] Speaker A: The Austrian.
[00:09:24] Speaker B: Elsa. Yeah, yeah, Elsa. And yeah. They go down into these catacombs, which is.
I love the scene in the library where he's breaking in the stamp scene where the guy is stamping the books and Indiana Jones, he's crushing this floor and the guy's looking at the stamp. It's so good. Little pieces like that in this movie all throughout. It's what makes these. They're just fun.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: I mean. Yeah, it's one of Spielberg's strengths is like finding these really high action and high intensity movies, but then finding those moments to just be silly.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: I remember that guy's face. Right. Like I know that man's face.
And he's in that movie for seconds. Yeah. It's so good.
[00:10:05] Speaker A: Absolutely.
We're in the catacombs.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: In the catacombs.
[00:10:09] Speaker A: We're in the mud, it's dark.
[00:10:12] Speaker B: He figures, you know, he figures out these clues that his father didn't quite figure out.
So, you know, this kind of shows you that Indiana Jones knows his stuff. You know, he's. He's the expert. He gets in there. They're down in the catacombs, there's rats.
[00:10:28] Speaker A: His father would never go.
[00:10:29] Speaker B: His father would never have gone down. His father hates rats like Indiana Jones hates snakes.
Indian scared of rats. Yeah, rats don't bother him. Those, those brown Norway's all over that tunnel. It doesn't bother him a bit. The Elsa's freaking out. But this is where they finally get to, like, the. The first clue on the trail to the Holy Grail. You get this catacomb with the. The knight's tomb. And really interesting the way, you know, Indiana Jones is thinking about his father.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: Like, how his father wouldn't have made it past the rats and how much his father would have wanted to be there.
And I think that's an interesting, you know, thing for his character is, you know, it's not about him at all.
[00:11:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:11] Speaker B: In this moment or through most of this movie. Yeah. It's about his father. Yeah.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: And I mean, there's a lot of arguments made about Spielberg's career. It was a lot of dealing with parental stuff. I mean, especially if you've seen the Fabelmans, you can understand why.
But, like, it's very much about the relationship between the father and son. And then everything else is just a framing device and, like, fun spinning out from that and, like, good adventures for them to work out their issues and their relationship.
[00:11:44] Speaker B: And really, like I said, it's a focus. And it never. But. But it never feels like you're. It's detracting from the movie. Elegantly we've woven throughout this movie.
[00:11:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:56] Speaker B: You get the awesome next set piece with the exploding tunnel because they light up. Light the oil on fire. We don't know who these guys are yet. They're. They're wearing funny little hats and they're trying to kill Indiana Jones.
[00:12:09] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:12:10] Speaker B: And they escape out of the tunnels, and there's a boat chase. You get the boat chase in Venice, you know, people flying off of boats everywhere. Guys getting crushed between boats.
The first real, like, you know, violence. People dying. In this part of the movie, you don't really know who these guys are. They're obviously not Nazis because they're not white.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:29] Speaker B: But, you know, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones, does his thing, and eventually they. They escape.
And I think that one of the best parts about this movie is the way that the action is shot. Like, it never feels like it's too much.
[00:12:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:46] Speaker B: But it's huge, and it's fun.
[00:12:47] Speaker A: And. And it's very referential of, like, older adventure films. Like, definitely feels like a.
Like a James Bond from. From the 60s or. Or like, even like some of the older adventure films from the 50s.
Like, the whole map thing with the plane flying, that's very much referential of.
[00:13:08] Speaker B: I love that about these movies. The plane flying thing is one of my favorites.
[00:13:12] Speaker A: It's Such a simple, silly little device, but feels good and like puts you in the tone and the vibe of the movie.
[00:13:21] Speaker B: I love maps. We've talked about this, how much I love maps. You know, as a fantasy reader and stuff like that. Maps is one of my things. And the fact that there is maps in this movie in that way, really, like I said, it really brings you. Oh, we're in Venice now. Great. I know we're in Venice. Then you're traveling to Austria.
[00:13:35] Speaker A: And I think a lot of like more modern movies that are more globe hopping kind of miss that. Of like, oh, no, we're going to drastically different places.
[00:13:44] Speaker B: All you get is that quick pop up of the city name and then you're in a different street in that city or whatever.
[00:13:48] Speaker A: Here's some other city.
This is European city. This is Asian city.
[00:13:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Like I said, it really grounds you in the story.
[00:13:57] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. Um, so after this, they escape the tunnels.
[00:14:02] Speaker B: You have the boat chase. And they figure out that they.
Where his father went from one of the guys who was trying to kill him. They figure out his father is being held at Castle Broomwald or whatever. I don't remember Brunwald.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Actually got it right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: And they're gonna go and figure out how to break into this castle to rescue Henry Sr. Yeah.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: So they're off in Germany and this is like, it's wild, the tone, like, because every setting they like really take advantage of their setting. And I mean it's. I think one of the things that Spielberg's best at is like, he never wastes being in a place. You're always going to see the most beautiful and like iconic aspects of what are around and like really feel in the place and of the tone of the place.
[00:14:50] Speaker B: You get this castle and it's raining because it's a dark thing that they're going into to try to do.
I love this scene where they, they switch identities, clothes. Indy's wearing her, her, her little scarf and beret thing. And he's, she's got on his, his hat and they're coming to look at the tapestries. That's how he breaks into this place. He punches a butler. Come on. It's so good.
[00:15:13] Speaker A: Yeah,
[00:15:16] Speaker B: man.
[00:15:18] Speaker A: This movie so full of good action sequences. So they, they interact, they get found out, they get double crossed.
[00:15:27] Speaker B: You finally meet live for the first time. Sean Connery.
[00:15:30] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:15:31] Speaker B: And he hits his son on the head with a knockoff vase.
That he's more concerned about the vase than his son's head real immediately. Okay. There's their relationship with very little set.
[00:15:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:49] Speaker B: And then. Yes. You figure out that Elsa's actually working on the Nazis and they were both double crossed, etc, and you figure out everything that's going on. Right. Basically at the same time they do. This is all revealed and, and yeah, it's, it's.
It's a great scene with, with the, the Joneses.
[00:16:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:07] Speaker B: When they get together for the rest of the movie. Right. And this is them together for the rest of the movie. They get tied up, having to escape burning a castle. They set the castle on fire during their escape. And, you know, Indiana Jones beats up a bunch of Nazis as he does. And you get a great escape scene, like just great scene after great scene.
The motorcycle scene is so good.
[00:16:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it's what I think of when I think of like a great motorcycle escape or like chase. Yeah.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: He tricks him with the boat and then gets on the motorcycle. And you get the bit with his father bumbling back and forth and you know, here, take my bag, son, kind of thing.
Dad, Nazis are trying to kill us.
[00:16:46] Speaker A: Let's go. Yeah,
[00:16:49] Speaker B: yeah, Great motorcycle chase scene. Followed by the, you know, escape to where they're going to fly away on the blimp.
[00:16:59] Speaker A: Yep. Yeah. So they. Yeah, we. This is prime time for blimps before.
[00:17:04] Speaker B: Before the Hindenburg disaster.
[00:17:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:07] Speaker B: Nazis, Germans like their blimps.
[00:17:09] Speaker A: Absolutely. So they snake their way onto a blimp. Yes. Through subterfuge. Yeah. And get on a blimp and they're The. The blimp is on its way to Jordan, if that sounds right. In the Middle East.
[00:17:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. They're trying. They're trying to get towards the Grail.
[00:17:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Where. The grail.
[00:17:27] Speaker B: Because they know approximately where they need to go and.
[00:17:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:29] Speaker B: But Henry Senior is very concerned about his diary.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: Yes. Which the.
[00:17:34] Speaker B: It's gonna. That's gonna lead to the rest of the movie. Basically, they escape the blimp because the Nazis are after him and.
[00:17:41] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, we actually skipped a scene because in between the castle and the zeppelin, is Indy going to Berlin to try and get the diary back.
[00:17:51] Speaker B: Right, yeah. Going to. Yeah. And on the motorcycle. You have the motorcycle crossroads scene. My mistake. Yes. Yeah, Motorcycle crossroads scenes. He. His father says, yes, we have to go into the. Into the lion's den and get my diary back because that's going to lead us to the grail.
[00:18:06] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: And you meet Hitler. Yep. You got a portrayal of Hitler.
[00:18:10] Speaker A: A fun little moment where they kind of portray Hitler's vanity because Indy accidentally gets shoved up to Hitler holding The diary. And Hitler takes it and signs his autograph.
[00:18:22] Speaker B: Signs his autograph on the Grail diary.
[00:18:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Which is like a fun moment of just like. Yeah.
[00:18:28] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:18:29] Speaker A: Even the most evil people in the world have.
Are small and petty.
[00:18:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
Nazis burning books. That's basically that scene. Nazi book burning scene, you know, and you get a little bit of Elsa's character here and that she's not, like. She's not a Nazi. She's, you know, torn a little bit, etc. Etc.
So you. You hate her a little bit less. Yeah. Because he does leave successfully. Indiana Jones and his father leave successfully with the Grail diary. And then they head to the blimp.
[00:19:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:06] Speaker B: And you got that great scene on the blimp where he throws the guy off.
[00:19:08] Speaker A: Yep. And another toxic bit. Yeah.
[00:19:12] Speaker B: No ticket. And then people pop their hands up.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: Perfect.
[00:19:15] Speaker B: Spielberg. You know, it works so well.
[00:19:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:19] Speaker B: Blimp escape after that.
Yeah.
[00:19:21] Speaker A: And, like, I feel like for a lot of people my. Our age, this is where you, like, learned about, like, what a blimp was.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: Right.
[00:19:29] Speaker A: Or, like, what it was like. And you're like, cool.
[00:19:31] Speaker B: Why didn't we keep doing this? And it doesn't have wings. What's going on? And then you see the plane, which they don't fly very well. Yeah.
Because his father shoots their own plane. Good stuff.
And you get the feeling that Indiana Jones really is like, you know, okay, I rescued my dad, but, man, this is being tough. This is tough because dad keeps messing stuff up for me. He's used to having to, like, you know, take care of himself, but bumbling dad getting in the way.
[00:19:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
So they crash. Crash in the desert.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And crash their plane. And then they're gonna get shot by the plane. And his dad saves him with an umbrella. Great scene with the birds.
Yeah. Oh, man.
Such a good movie.
[00:20:17] Speaker A: It's so good. And, like,
[00:20:20] Speaker B: it never feels bad. Like, throughout, you're always like, okay, Indiana Jones, he's gonna save the day.
But, you know, beating up Nazis.
[00:20:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
So, I mean, we can probably kind of, like, scoot through this last little part because, like, it's mostly about the. The getting to the grail. Yeah.
[00:20:43] Speaker B: You have the. The different parties. Yeah. Traveling to the Grail.
The different friends of Indiana Jones eventually get back together in the. Traveling through the desert in the weird tank and cool car and all that stuff that's going on.
Such a great scene with the tank. I love the. The tanker. The. The scenes of those guys in the tank.
[00:21:11] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:21:11] Speaker B: When they're. When they. They end up Fighting Indiana Jones and stuff.
[00:21:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:14] Speaker B: And the action piece there where. Where he's fighting on top of the tank. So good. Yeah. I love, you know, all those scenes through the different Indiana Jones movies where he's fighting the big guy who's often played by the same actor. You know, he's. When he's fighting the big. Big scary guy, you know, this little twerp of a dude.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:33] Speaker B: That's just, you know, just scrappy. So good.
He almost bites it, though, man. Gets close.
[00:21:43] Speaker A: I was just looking at the quotes on IMDb and the top quote that they have on there is Nazis. I hate these guys.
[00:21:52] Speaker B: I hate these guys. Which. Great.
[00:21:55] Speaker A: Of course.
I'd really just like to talk about the grail scene because, like, it's. It's such, like. With the other ones, it's such an unexpected twist into, like. Oh, this is not just a adventure. This is fantasy. This is. Oh, we live in a magical.
[00:22:17] Speaker B: You meet a knight who has been alive for a long time.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: Hundreds of years. Millennium.
[00:22:22] Speaker B: Yeah, whatever. The time period, something like that. They are former knights that, you know, he's a former. The knight had been sitting in this cave for hundreds of years or whatever because he found the Holy Grail and. Because he can't leave.
[00:22:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:39] Speaker B: And that's the big twist is the Grail. The Grail can't leave. The. The cup of Christ can't leave. Yep. The little chamber that the guy's in.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: That doesn't go so well for the Nazis, as you might expect. But the.
Really. I think that especially in the scene where Indiana Jones is traveling through the. The labyrinth or whatever, he's trying to get to the. The chamber.
The. It's mostly quiet, but you really, really feel the John Williams score, especially there at the end. Like, it's throughout the whole movie. Obviously, you know, John Williams. Williams does his thing, but the.
I just. I feel those scenes so much that. That when he's.
That does the kneeling and he's walking on the letters and the. The leap of faith thing, it's ingrained. Like. Like, they're so good. I love that sequence so much, and I can't recommend it enough. If you haven't seen this movie, you gotta watch it.
[00:23:35] Speaker A: So good. Yeah. I mean, that broke my brain when they, like, did the.
The camera pan and you're like, there's. There's a bridge. It's not. It's not magic.
[00:23:48] Speaker B: It's.
[00:23:48] Speaker A: It's.
[00:23:49] Speaker B: It's just a illusion. Yeah. Cool.
[00:23:53] Speaker A: And I think it may have been practical.
[00:23:59] Speaker B: It kind of looks like it. Yeah.
[00:24:00] Speaker A: Which is also my inventing because, like,
[00:24:04] Speaker B: it looks so largely practical film.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: You know, for the most part, you know, the. The time period and stuff. And obviously not so much the. The guy de. Aging, or aging rapidly aging, rather, which
[00:24:20] Speaker A: I mean, also like a fun, like, mirror to the first one with everybody melting.
[00:24:27] Speaker B: Yeah. You get a similar kind of very quick. Oh, my gosh, this is horrific. Like, very quick horror spike. And that's kind of present in all of the movies. You get the stuff with the heart and stuff in the second one.
[00:24:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:38] Speaker B: And so, you know, it's not there a lot, but. Oh my gosh, this is terrible.
[00:24:42] Speaker A: Yeah. It's impressive, like, how he can like, walk those moments because, like, he never wants to really be like a full horror.
Like, even in his horror movies, like, it still feels like a pretty, like, gentle hand of like, I'm only going to really do it.
[00:25:03] Speaker B: Yeah. It's still mostly about their family. Yeah. Stuff like that. Right.
[00:25:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
Yeah.
Fun moments of the Riddle with the Cups and just like.
[00:25:19] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:25:20] Speaker A: This is just such a lovely movie.
[00:25:23] Speaker B: The way it ends with Sala laughing at Indiana Jones because he named himself after the dog.
Yeah.
And they ride off into the sunset, like.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: Yeah. It's. Yeah.
[00:25:38] Speaker B: Defeat the. Defeat the Nazis right off into the sunset.
[00:25:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
How do you feel about the other Indiana Jones?
[00:25:45] Speaker B: The ones before this or after it?
[00:25:48] Speaker A: All of them.
[00:25:48] Speaker B: All right. So I.
I love Temple of Doom.
I really like Raiders, but I love Temple of Doom. I am a Temple of Doom kid.
[00:26:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: Anybody who says otherwise, them's fighting words.
[00:26:05] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: I didn't like the. The. Like I said, I. For me, it is the trilogy. I probably, you know, won't ever watch the. The last two, the fourth and fifth movie again, you know.
[00:26:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:20] Speaker B: Just Magic was.
[00:26:21] Speaker A: Crystal Skull was rough. The next one was fun, but I think relied too heavily on cg.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:29] Speaker A: And like, kind of like felt it. It felt like Tintin.
[00:26:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:33] Speaker A: Weirdly like it felt a little uncanny.
[00:26:38] Speaker B: Said not my favorite but, you know, magic book. It wasn't quite there, but I can't remember recommend the first three movies enough. You know, obviously, if you haven't seen them, please watch those. At least you have a brief time to watch the Indiana Jones movies on Canopy and Hoopla.
[00:26:53] Speaker A: Yeah. All except for the first and the last one. They're available.
[00:26:56] Speaker B: Yeah. So you can watch the ones that are on there through the rest of this month. And like I said, if you haven't seen them, I recommend it for sure.
[00:27:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:03] Speaker B: Last Crusade's great.
Like I said, the interplay between the. The Jones Joneses, Sean Connery and Harrison Ford. So good.
[00:27:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Get yourself jazzed up for the next Spielberg film, Disclosure Day coming up.
[00:27:19] Speaker B: Yeah, we've been talking about Spielberg quite a bit lately, you know, and it's exciting. I love a good Spielberg, so.
[00:27:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Excited to have a new, new Spielberg back in the. In the docket.
I think that's all there is to say. I mean, great John Williams score, like I said. Yeah.
[00:27:38] Speaker B: Wonderful score.
[00:27:39] Speaker A: Kind of like just doing the theme, which is already incredible, and doing the fun variations on it. So. Yeah, that's. You don't need to talk about it because you're like, okay.
[00:27:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Right. Oh, yeah. I mean, okay. It's a Steven Spielberg movie. John Williams did his job. Yeah.
[00:27:54] Speaker A: Oh, Instantly recognizable and iconic.
[00:27:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:57] Speaker A: Great shoot.
Yeah. Well, I guess. I guess that's it for today.
[00:28:04] Speaker B: Thanks for listening to us talk about this awesome movie. Go watch it.
[00:28:07] Speaker A: How hard do we have to sell watching Indiana Jones?
[00:28:10] Speaker B: Right?
[00:28:12] Speaker A: But, yeah, absolutely. Enjoy the fact that it is free on your library streaming services for the this month.
All right, we'll see you next time.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: See you. Bye.
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