Indiana Jones is introduced to movie audiences and quickly becomes a pop culture icon thanks to Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford.
Inspired by the old-school movie serials, this film is an adventure drama which also treats audiences to suspense, comedy, and, yes, horror.
Packaged in a pseudo-historical take which feels authentic thanks to its references to Judaism and a 1936 setting. Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones, professor of Archeology, is called on by the United States government to investigate Nazi activities involving a potential archeological find; the Ark of the Covenant.
While bureaucrats fail to appreciate the importance of such a find or its potential supernatural implications, Dr. Jones and his colleagues do. Even more importantly, so do the Nazis as Hitler see the Ark as a way of taking over the world.
Reviving a rival between Jones and the villainous French archeologist Rene Belloq, Raiders also reunite Jones with an old flame, Marion Ravenwood, and old friend, Sallah, while meeting multiple characters along the way in multiple close calls.
Below are photos for intense FX scenes of its epic finale with accompanying text for your entertainment:
Behind The Scenes Pics From The Indiana Jones Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Ark Opening/Melting Scene!!!
Fun Facts: In a 2001 "Making of" special, it was revealed that the effects used in the three antagonists' rather gruesome deaths (Dietrich, Toht, and Belloq) were a vacuum machine, a time-lapsed heat gun and a shotgun, respectively. When the movie was submitted for an MPAA rating, it was given a rating of "R" because of the exploding head. In order to lower the rating, flames were superimposed over this image. The result was the appearance of a head exploding behind a dense curtain of flames. The rating was lowered to "PG" (at the time, the PG-13 rating did not exist).
The melting of Toht's head was done by exposing a gelatine and plaster model of Ronald Lacey's head to a heat lamp with an under-cranked camera. Dietrich's crushed head was a hollow model from which air was withdrawn
The words that Belloq slowly recites before opening the ark are (badly pronounced) Aramaic, and are part of a paragraph recited in many Synagogues today when the Ark that holds the Sefer Torahs (the Old Testament handwritten on Parchment) is opened as part of the Sabbath service.
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Inspired by the old-school movie serials, this film is an adventure drama which also treats audiences to suspense, comedy, and, yes, horror.
Packaged in a pseudo-historical take which feels authentic thanks to its references to Judaism and a 1936 setting. Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones, professor of Archeology, is called on by the United States government to investigate Nazi activities involving a potential archeological find; the Ark of the Covenant.
While bureaucrats fail to appreciate the importance of such a find or its potential supernatural implications, Dr. Jones and his colleagues do. Even more importantly, so do the Nazis as Hitler see the Ark as a way of taking over the world.
Reviving a rival between Jones and the villainous French archeologist Rene Belloq, Raiders also reunite Jones with an old flame, Marion Ravenwood, and old friend, Sallah, while meeting multiple characters along the way in multiple close calls.
Below are photos for intense FX scenes of its epic finale with accompanying text for your entertainment:
Behind The Scenes Pics From The Indiana Jones Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Ark Opening/Melting Scene!!!
Fun Facts: In a 2001 "Making of" special, it was revealed that the effects used in the three antagonists' rather gruesome deaths (Dietrich, Toht, and Belloq) were a vacuum machine, a time-lapsed heat gun and a shotgun, respectively. When the movie was submitted for an MPAA rating, it was given a rating of "R" because of the exploding head. In order to lower the rating, flames were superimposed over this image. The result was the appearance of a head exploding behind a dense curtain of flames. The rating was lowered to "PG" (at the time, the PG-13 rating did not exist).
The melting of Toht's head was done by exposing a gelatine and plaster model of Ronald Lacey's head to a heat lamp with an under-cranked camera. Dietrich's crushed head was a hollow model from which air was withdrawn
The words that Belloq slowly recites before opening the ark are (badly pronounced) Aramaic, and are part of a paragraph recited in many Synagogues today when the Ark that holds the Sefer Torahs (the Old Testament handwritten on Parchment) is opened as part of the Sabbath service.
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