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* What is that... thing that shows up during the bug tunnel scene (it's at about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQXqhk-8h7o 0:39 in this clip]])? It almost looks like a [[Franchise/{{Aliens}} facehugger.]]
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** The Indian Jones universe seems to have AllMythsAreTrue in effect. As such, the Thugees may have obtained the doll from an actual Voodoo priest at some point, [[WildMassGuessing perhaps a previous sacrifice victim?]]
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** Probably whoever was his predecessor, who has likely since died.
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* In the novelization, Mola Ram was apparently BrainwashedAndCrazy like some of the other cultists, and snaps out of it when he gets burned by the stone (which was going to be in the movie originally). This raises the obvious question: who made him drink the Blood of Kali in the first place?
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** Somewhat parallels the scene from ''Raiders'' where Belloq dares Indy to blow up the ark, knowing he won't. The difference is that I don't think Indy cares about the stones like he cared about the ark. But Indy does care about his own life (and the life of Willie and Short Round), and he knows dropping the stones will be suicidal for them. So it's basically a game of chicken, with Mola Rom realizing Indy's not crazy enough to follow through on his threat (but not realizing he ''is'' crazy enough to cut the bridge--but I digress).
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* Why does Mola Ram say that the stones will be found when Indy threatens to drop them into the river? They aren't very big, and a river is constantly flowing, so it seems about as likely as someone finding some drugs someone flushed into a sewer.
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** Alternatively, Indy was force-fed a mind-altering substance, which is a ready-made excuse to dismiss a traumatic experience; it doesn't matter what he ''thought'' was happening at the time, because clearly he wasn't in his right mind.
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*** Considering that we never actually ''see'' this house, these rich friends, these invitations to cool parties and this manager, the possibility that either (a) she's simply lying about all this in an attempt to big herself up to Indy and / or (b) all of these things are predicated on her basically being Lao Che's mistress and are no longer meaningful options for her after she basically burns her bridges with him cannot be discounted.
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***Except that she explicitly says that she has a house, rich friends and invitations to parties in Shangai, and insists in phoning her manager. So yes, she has a place to go, possibly several. If she's lost her job at Lao Che's club, it's not that she becomes instantly homeless and has no other choice that stick to Indiana.
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* Why does Willie just follow Indy into the plane? She's been forcefully taken out the ballroom and into the car chase, but, once the car finally stops at the hangar, why doesn't she just get a taxi back home? She didn't have to escape from Lao Che (Lao Che had said he didn't care if Indiana killed her, knowing well that he wouldn't, but he wasn't trying to kill her).
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* Why does Willie just follow Indy into the plane? She's been forcefully taken out the ballroom and into the car chase, but, once the car finally stops at the hangar, why doesn't she just get a taxi back home? She didn't have to escape from Lao Che (Lao Che had said he didn't care if Indiana killed her, knowing well that he wouldn't, but he wasn't trying to kill her).
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** RuleOfCool, essentially. The musical number is a homage to the kind of Busby Berkeley / Ginger and Fred style musical numbers of the '30s and '40s that were incredibly large scale, incredibly impractical, and incredibly cool to watch on the big screen. The whole point is that it's ridiculously elaborate and over-the-top, because that was the style that was popular in the films the makers were inspired by. You're supposed to just go with it and enjoy the choreography, not nitpick about where the in-film audience is.
** I think it's more that the spell enables him to get to people's hearts with his bare hands, not that he's super-strong. The spell seems to work through giving his hands a kind of power that lets him burn / burrow his fingers into the victim's chest, not that he's naturally strong enough to punch his way in there.
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** It is, but either the people responsible for the research goofed up and overlooked the 'West' part, or the filmmakers just decided that it was cool enough to throw into the screenplay anyway. RuleOfCool, basically.
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*** That's not really "convenient"; strangulation was a typical method of assassination among the Thugee. And it often worked, and came pretty close to working in this case as well. So it's not really fair to sneer at them for going with what they know.
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** Because that would be murder? Indy's death would be a pain - he'd have to cover up the fact that a reasonably notable foreigner vanished when meeting with him. Lao-Che probably ''can'' do that, but it would cost money for bribes and introduce risks. Trading the antidote for the diamond lets him avoid that while also getting to gloat a bit.
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* How come the Maharajah is able to torture Indy with a voodoo doll? Isn't that a ''West Indian'' (specifically, Haitian) thing, as opposed to an Indian thing?
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** Her job is obviously gone. She has no place else to go. She goes with the flow until she can find another opportunity for something.
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** A lot of the magic in the film works on the voodoo principle of belief, and mind over matter. The belief that it works makes it work. Some say he never pulled out the guys heart and people only believed he did (the drugs helped with that). Others think the guy believing he could magically pull his heart out allowed it to magically happen. Then later Indy was able to resist that belief which is why it didn't work. Indy uses that against Mola Ram. By convincing him he betrayed Shiva made the punishment real. Reversing his own methods against him.
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* If Mola Ram is strong enough to rip a person's heart out, shouldn't he be able to kill Indy with one punch? Ok, maybe the chant he says before ripping the guy's heart out is a spell to give him SuperStrength. Still doesn't explain why he can't cast said spell before going into combat.
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**It's also convenient that the assassin used strangulation as his method. He caught Indy completely by surprise. A simple stab with a knife would've done the trick. There's a lot of potential for failure in trying to strangle a big muscular man.
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** About the first question; where same can be ask about The Last Crusade, he clearly change love interest from one movie to another and he probably can just go around with an orphan boy everywhere he goes (I'm pretty sure he at least had to sign some papers) and for the second question ScullySyndrome.
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** Willie and Indy just kissed at the end because they had that special experience together. It seems unlikely they're compatible in a longer term relationship. She's very squeamish about adventuring
** About the first question; where same can be ask about The Last Crusade, he clearlychange changes love interest from one movie to another and he probably can can't just go around with an orphan boy everywhere he goes (I'm pretty sure he at least had to sign some papers) and for the second question ScullySyndrome.
** About the first question; where same can be ask about The Last Crusade, he clearly
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** Well, the real reason is because if Mola Ram ripped her heart out, there'd be no last-minute rescuing her, unless Indy gets the heart back from Mola Ram then takes a crash course in PsychicSurgery to put it back ([[NippleAndDimed also probably because it would be a lot trickier to show a female getting her heart pulled out of her chest than a male]]). As for an in-universe reason. . . they hadn't done up the last shackle on their cute little sacrificial rig yet, and Willie did have her hand over her chest, though I find it hard to believe that would be an insurmountable obstacle. It was probably a sort of [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten ultimate test]] for Indy. . . if he not only goes along with the sacrifice, but actively participates, then they know they've got him. And making him most directly responsible for Willie's death by doing the last locks holding her in the rig accomplishes that.
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** Villains in a Steven Spielberg movie, apparently.
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* Wow, nice dance number there, but if it took place in a massive auditorium behind the club's stage, and there was no way to televise it back in 1935, who in the club was even able to ''watch'' the performance?
** It might be Willie's ImagineSpot. This is actually suggested in James Kahn's novelization.
** Or just a joke (at the fourth wall's expense) about how they used to shoot extra material (or use recycled material from earlier films) and splice it into movies to make them longer. The obvious break and different quality in video would play into that sort of meta-humor. Remember that these films are send-ups of old pulp serials.
** Or a more mundane explanation, there's a movie screen in there and they basically cut to a much bigger pre-filmed dance number that was being projected on the screen.
*** In colour in 1935?
*** Kinemacolor was invented in 1908 and Technicolor was invented in 1916. So yeah, maybe.
*** That Willie interacts with?
* Lao-Che, Lao-Che... after you brilliantly got Indy to drink poison, why tell him? If you'd just kept him talking for a few minutes you could have simply taken the diamond off his corpse.
** He would have, but he caught the VillainBall offscreen and decided that simply letting the poison do its thing wouldn't be diabolical enough.
** Also, Indy embarrassed the family by injuring and nearly killing Kao Kan the previous night, which probably left them furious. Lao doesn't just want keep the diamond, he wants to pay back Indy by beating him, making sure he knows he beat him, and gloating about it to his face. Doesn't end well for him, of course.
* As annoying as Willie's constant shrieking can get, remember that she's just an average woman who until recently was living a very pampered life caught up in what at many times is an utterly ''terrifying'' situation, and suddenly her reactions are a lot more understandable.
* Wow, nice dance number there, but if it took place in a massive auditorium behind the club's stage, and there was no way to televise it back in 1935, who in the club was even able to ''watch'' the performance?
** It might be Willie's ImagineSpot. This is actually suggested in James Kahn's novelization.
** Or just a joke (at the fourth wall's expense) about how they used to shoot extra material (or use recycled material from earlier films) and splice it into movies to make them longer. The obvious break and different quality in video would play into that sort of meta-humor. Remember that these films are send-ups of old pulp serials.
** Or a more mundane explanation, there's a movie screen in there and they basically cut to a much bigger pre-filmed dance number that was being projected on the screen.
*** In colour in 1935?
*** Kinemacolor was invented in 1908 and Technicolor was invented in 1916. So yeah, maybe.
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* Lao-Che, Lao-Che... after you brilliantly got Indy to drink poison, why tell him? If you'd just kept him talking for a few minutes you could have simply taken the diamond off his corpse.
** He would have, but he caught the VillainBall offscreen and decided that simply letting the poison do its thing wouldn't be diabolical enough.
** Also, Indy embarrassed the family by injuring and nearly killing Kao Kan the previous night, which probably left them furious. Lao doesn't just want keep the diamond, he wants to pay back Indy by beating him, making sure he knows he beat him, and gloating about it to his face. Doesn't end well for him, of course.
* As annoying as Willie's constant shrieking can get, remember that she's just an average woman who until recently was living a very pampered life caught up in what at many times is an utterly ''terrifying'' situation, and suddenly her reactions are a lot more understandable.
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* Speaking of the mine cart chase, who builds their mine cart tracks like a roller coaster ride?
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** It doesn't. It's some kind of magical brainwashing drug.
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* What puzzles me is this Black Blood stuff. How does drinking a substance convert someone to a religion?
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*** He's also recently experienced what it's like to be on the wrong end of a ''fucking voodoo doll''. At this point, he was taking no chances.
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** Considering she complains about everything else, why doesn't Willie accuse Dr. Jones of kidnapping her? She isn't exactly the most situationally aware woman, especially at the beginning of the movie, and she WAS just pulled out of a car and basically dumped onto a plane by two people she doesn't know for reasons ''they'' probably aren't even sure of. How is she not more upset about this?
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** I think the shot was intended to reference the knife that the Thuggee attacking him with was dropped: it's a quick shot, but you can see it under the lantern.
