Who are the "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?

[Gregoire Defence]

Who do you think <i>are</i> the "raiders of the lost ark"?
Is it Indy and his team?
or is it Belloq and his team?
or is it everybody? Indy and the Nazis included.
I think it is everybody that was going after the ark.

-G

[Marion&Indy]

Originally posted by Gregoire Defence
Who do you think <i>are</i> the "raiders of the lost ark"?
Is it Indy and his team?
or is it Belloq and his team?
or is it everybody? Indy and the Nazis included.
I think it is everybody that was going after the ark.

-G

yeah i think it was everybody, but i'm not really sure, maybe it was indy and his team :)

[Edited by Marion&Indy on 06-02-2002 at 09:01 PM]

[Indy 007]

i'd have to say it's belloq and the nazis. they opened the ark, raiding the inside. just the same, everybody could be considered the raiders.

[westford]

All of them.

[Tequileros]

Originally posted by westford
All of them.

[Kierien Azleen]

Originally posted by westford
All of them.

[QueZTone]

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[Finn]

All of them.

[Edited by FinnJones on 06-03-2002 at 12:56 PM]

[DutchIndy]

All of them.

[bob]

The US government
Marcus's Museam
Nazis
Belloq

[Gregoire Defence]

Originally posted by bob
The US government
Marcus's Museam
Nazis
Belloq



All of them?


:D

[monkey]

The Oakland Raiders won the Superbowl the same year that Raiders was released.

I think it's just a cool sounding name, much cooler than say "Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark", or "Indiana Jones and the Ark of the Covenant".

[QueZTone]

monkey, you're saying its Raiders because the Oaklands won that year? That'd be one big reference easter egg heh

[Gregoire Defence]

Originally posted by monkey
The Oakland Raiders won the Superbowl the same year that Raiders was released.


Haha!:DThat is cool.:D

[monkey]

QZT,
I just threw that one out there to ponder.

The word "Raiders" is a cool word.

Was it just a coincidence that the Oakland Raiders won the superbowl that year? I don't know.

Is George Lucas a football fan? I know he's from the Bay Area right?

[Gregoire Defence]

Right.

[thefumegator]

I think the whole point of the title is that everyone in the film, good guys and bad guys alike, are all "raiding" the lost ark.
One of the most ingenius titles in film history, I might add.
Cheers!
Wes

[westford]

Another reason why the title is Raiders of... rather than Indiana Jones and the Raiders of... I suppose.

[QueZTone]

good point wes & west :D

[monkey]

Before "Raiders of the Lost Ark" no one knew who Indiana Jones was anyway, so it wouldn't have made any sense to call it "Indiana Jones and the......."

[westford]

Hehe, I was waiting to see who'd pick up on that first! :D ;)

[Fanboy]

The Raiders were....
The Nazis.

They wanted it to use it for evil, while Indy wanted it in the safe hands.

[Chattar Lal]

Nice avatar Gregoire Defence

[Canyon]

Hey Greg. Great to see you here! :D

You ask a very interesting question.

Well, according to the second Raiders trailer:

"They are all Raiders of the Lost Ark". ;)

[Attila the Professor]

Not really here, I'm afraid...his topic has just been dredged up, that's all.

[Finn]

Indeed... people, <i>look at the dates</i>, so you won't get confused. All the topics popping up on the top of this page hasn't made since your last visit. Digging up old threads is not prohibited around here, though. But we might appreciate that you'd somehow mention in your post that the thread in question has been bumped, just to clear it out for those who don't bother to watch the dates.

Just a humble remainder. Continue.

[Canyon]

Finn, with all due respect, I rarely look at the dates on the threads, and secondly, I would never post just to bump up my post count.

[Finn]

Also, please read the posts of your fellow members <i>very</i> closely to avoid misunderstandings.


http://raven.theraider.net/images/icons/icon4.gif <small><b>Non-Moderator note for Canyon truly</b></small>

Nobody said nothing bumping the <i>post count</i>. We were talking about <i>bumping old threads</i> back to the top of the forum page. Also, you really better check the dates, which can be found from the side of every post. Not that hard at all.

[Canyon]

How exciting. ;)

BTW, I do know where the date of the post can be located. I just don't always look at them, thats all.

Sheesh. Moderators... :rolleyes:

[Indydan13]

I say the evil aliens who beamed Hilter down from CrazyPlanet are the raiders of the lost ark because they needed a coffee table but didn't get it so they went after the grail so they could have a new cup as a souveiner of eartha and...

;)

[greyfalcon]

The founders of the Third Reich were esoterically involved with matters which unavoidably skirt the mysteries associated with the valley of Rennes-le-Chateau. Their interests were not however, confined to the ephemeral, there is evidence of the tenacity with which they pursued the material associations of the valley. Many assorted books on Rennes-le-Chateau mention that a battalion of German mining engineers made excavations in the area during World War Two.

*****

Arrangements were made for engineers to be brought to the treasure cache and for it to be taken back to the small town of Merkers, 40 miles from Berlin. And here, after it was catalogued by hand-picked members of the Ahnenerbe, most of it disappeared to various parts of the crumbling Reich. The catalogue of treasures included:-

1. Thousands of gold coins...

2. Items which were believed to have come from the Temple of Solomon,which included the gold plates and fragments of wood which had once made up the Ark of Moses... a gold plated table, a candelabra with seven branches, a golden urn, a staff, a harp, a sword, innumerable golden plates and vessels, many small bells of gold and a number of precious jewels and onyx stones, some of which bore inscriptions...

3. Twelve stone tablets bearing pre-runic inscriptions which none of the experts were able to read. These items comprised the stone Grail of the Germans and of Otto Rahn.

4. A beautiful silvery Cup with an emerald-like base made of what appeared to be jasper. Three gold plaques on the Cup were inscribed with cuneiform script in an ancient language.

5. A large number of religious objects of various types... crosses from different periods which were of gold or silver and adorned with pearls and precious stones.

6. Precious stones in abundance in all shapes and sizes.

http://greyfalcon.us/Otto%20Rahn.htm

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