Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Has it really been 26 years?

Marion is Back!!!

We just found out from The Raider that Marion Ravenwood (aka Karen Allen) is back for Indiana Jones 4!! Yay!

We have not forgotten our blog....

We have been having a busy summer and are brainstorming new posts. In addition, two of us are in a college class this summer and have lots of studying.

We are monitoring all of the updates for Indiana Jones 4, that comes out next May, and daily check The Raider.

~ET

Dead Man's Chest Part Three

In the last two posts I have covered the Dead Man's Chest similarities to Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom. Now it is time to explore the similar scenes of Dead Man's Chest to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

#1-Hiding in a coffin to escape something- Jack to escape prison, Indy to escape fire in tomb of knight.

#2-Lord Cutler Beckett summoning Will and talking to him. Indy is also taken against his will to speak to Walter Donovan. Both Indy and Will are told to find something based on their previous knowledge (where Jack and compass might be for Will / holy grail, father, and journal for Indy) Plus- both are served alcohol in the scene.

#3-When Jack is hanging over the fire during sacrifice, he blows at the fire. In the castle, Indy and his dad are tied up, his dad causes a fire... and blows at it. Both are trying to get free from their ropes.

#4- Both Elizabeth and Elsa are traitors. Elizabeth kisses Jack to distract him as she handcuffs him to the Black Pearl. Elsa, who is secretely working for the Nazis, takes the journal from Indy in one scene and shortly thereafter kisses him when he is tied up. Oh... and each of their names begins with "E." ;)

Both kisses give us the willies....yuck!

We will not have a new post for a week or so, but it will probably be about World's End.

~ET

I will be posting my last Dead Man's Chest post sometime this weekend. Stay tuned!

~ET

Dead Man's Chest Part Two

Here is part two of my post about Dead Man's Chest. These similarities are pertaining to Temple of Doom.

#1-Dragging the guy between two men to prison in DMC. Dragging the guy back the same way during the human sacrifice.

#2-Human sacrifice in both movies (Natives & Thuggees).

#3-Pit opens up at prison like the fire area opens up for sacrificing.

#4-This one is gross- where Jack is sitting, before sacrifice, and he is wearing a necklace of fingers/thumbs…. This is similar to Indy, Willie, and Shortround coming to a Thuggee sacrifice area and there are fingers. At least Indy has the sense to not bite their fingernails. Yuck!

#5-There is a Rope Bridge in both movies.

#6-Candles at Tia Dalmas house, and candles when Indy is under the sickness.

#7-Whipping Scenes in both movies to main characters (Will and Indy).

#8-Before Jack's escape from prison and the Thuggee sacrifices, birds foreshadow what is to come.

(You cannot see the birds as well in this picture, but they are there!)

Early next week I will have a post about Dead Man's Chest & The Last Crusade.

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~ET

Dead Man's Chest Part One

While watching "Dead Man’s Chest" last night, my siblings and I noticed the following similarities. These are compared to all of the Indiana Jones movies. I will do this long post in three parts over the next week or so, part one will be similarities with "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

#1- Jack using his gun to blast the coffin open/Indy uses his gun to open the hatch when Marion is trapped in cockpit during the airplane fight. Indy also uses his gun to open doors, etc....

#2- Jack looking at the "heart" chest is similar to Indy looking at the idol in the beginning of Raiders.

Photo comparison:

#3-Poison darts are shot at Will (one hits him) and poison darts are on a tree and also kill Indy's guide in the opening scene.

#4-When the cage with Will and crew falls into the water, the natives shoot things at them as they swim away. In Raiders, when Indy is swimming to the plane, he is shot at in the same way.

Photo comparison:

#5-In both the Raiders opening and Dead Man’s Chest, there is a scene where a good person (Governor Swann/Indy) comes out in the open and their accomplice is standing looking "alive", but is actually dead. As Governor Swann drives the carriage with Elizabeth, the man helping him has been killed with a knife/sword and is standing. As Governor Swann approches, the sword is pulled out and the man falls down dead. Indy’s guide is standing, looks alive, but has poison darts in his back, and is dead.

Photo comparisons:

Dead Man's Chest

Raiders of the Lost Ark

#6-They dig for the chest containing Davy Jones’ heart = They dig for the Ark of the Covenant.

#7- Both Indy and Will have to leave behind their girl when she is captured.

Photo comparison:

Up next: Dead Man's Chest & Temple of Doom

~ET

I am working on a new post for Dead Man's Chest. Look for it sometime this weekend!

~ET

New Post Soon

No, we have not forgotten about our blog. Schoolwork keeps us busy, but we are gathering our thoughts for our next post- about Dead Man's Chest!

~ET

Crusaders and Pirates

These are a number of the similarities concerning Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2.

1: The Last Crusade opens with a flashback of Indy’s childhood, and “Curse of the Black Pearl” opens with a flashback of Elizabeth’s childhood.

2: Elsa is a traitor to Indiana, and Elizabeth is a traitor to Jack in Dead Man’s Chest. (Though some fans will debate Elizabeth’s traitor status. :-))

3: Elsa kisses Indy while he is tied up, and Elizabeth kisses Jack while she is in the process of tying him up and betraying him on the ship in Dead Man’s Chest.

4: On the tank in Last Crusade, Indy blocks the sights and the Nazis inside cannot see. In Curse of the Black Pearl, Jack steps in front of Barbossa’s telescope and say’s “I’m having a thought here”.

5: While on the train, young Indy grabs the tube attached to the water tower and swings around in a circle to escape being caught. While running from the soldiers, in Curse of the Black Pearl, Jack grabs a rope from a wooden crane and swings around in a circle to escape being caught.

JD

Photo comparison here:

To Continue with Temple of Doom...

It's been awhile but we still have a lot of Indiana Jones and Pirates of the Caribbean to cover. :-)

In Temple of Doom, after "the basket game" reference, in which, Indy reaches for his pistol and finds it's not there; he runs toward the camera. Then he stops, looks crestfallen, and runs back the other way. This being done a stream of Thuggees run after him. = The exact same thing happens to Jack Sparrow in Dead Man's Chest. (I've never seen Star Wars but I have heard that this is something related to Han Solo; that makes it easy to see why it's in Temple of Doom!)

I'm wrapping up Temple of Doom, in preparation of moving on to The Last Crusade, but as with Raiders, we will likely come back to it.

MK

Here are a few miscellaneous Temple of Doom pictures that we like:


"Give me your hat..."










Best Friends






The plot thickens...






Anything Goes!