Indiana Jones Movies

The scene which highlighted the dangers of all Indy’s adventures comes in the opening and his having to descend into he Well of Souls which just happened to be filled with snakes of all shapes and sizes which he just so..so hates! In the sewers of Venice when they stumble upon the tomb of one of the Knights of the Holy Grail, they are trapped by the sewer which was first filled with rats from the sea of fire when the cultists who swore to protect his tomb and his secrets set fire to oil which was floating on the surface. They end up in the overturned tomb only to face danger after danger. Watch out for more in the following months as we collate some of the most memorable moments in the legend if Indiana Jones.

Tunisia’s weather proved to be too much for Spielberg and the rest of the cast that he managed to compress an estimated six-week shoot into four and a half much to the relief of the overheated crew and cast. When filming in Tunisia, all the cast including Ford got sick of the food with the exception of Spielberg who relied totally on his box after box of Spaghetti-O’. The giant boulder’s sound was from a Honda Civic rolling downhill. The sound of the heavy Ark Lid opening was the sound of a cistern lid doing the same. The punching sounds were actually leather jackets which were hit by a baseball bat. Did you see the hieroglyphics in the Well of Souls, find the engravings of R2-D2 and C-3PO on the walls, the head of R2 is also on top of the pole Indy and Marion were tied to near the end of the film.

The scene where Indiana Jones was determined to blow up the Ark with a bazooka was the same place where R2-D2 was zapped by the marauding Jawas in Star Wars. In the scene where he went into the Well of Souls where there were snakes of all shapes and sizes, the crew had to go through all the pet shops in London just to make the shot more realistic but couldn’t find enough. Spielberg had hoses cut to length to play dummy snakes which was shot with the true eye for none seemed hose-like at all. The snake that Indiana Jones came face to face with as he fell into the well was a true cobra, which was separated from him by a sheet of glass which was nice for it did spray venom onto the glass! The shot was also so well done the glass doesn’t even show! Spielberg wrote the script to one of his best works in between takes, writing them down with Melissa Mathison, the film to be? ET!