Who would survive being Indiana Jones?
 

I was wondering how many of you would survive being Indiana Jones? Anyway, I think every Indyfan (at least young indyfans) has considered becoming a history teacher or an archaeologist, or something like that.
By the way, this is my first post! Hello! :)

Welcome to the raven! ;)

I'd love to be Indiana Jones!

...and does this answer your question? :dead:


I'd welcome you to the board, but I am apparently unable to at the moment. :p

Well, I know we would all love to BE Indy, but how many of us would survive being Indy? I mean how many of us could fight with villains and travel all over the world and jump off tanks and make his way trough the South American Jungle? That`s my question.

Hi Dumi. Welcome to The Raven. :D

In answer to your question, If I were Indiana Jones, I think would survive............for about five minutes. :eek:

If I was Indy, Raiders would have been about 5 mins long...

I would have entered the chamber to the Idol of Fertility, saw the large tarantulas, and went home. Roll credits...

As for survival, I don't thing anyone has the luck that Indy has. Jumping out of a plane w/ a raft? No one can survive that!

Absolutely! I would have been exactly the same. :rolleyes:

Ah the tarantulas aint nothing. Give me a gun and enough ammo to last a lifetime and I could probably survive........probably :)

For me, the tarantulas aren't a matter of survival...more like the worse fear of my life...spiders...*shivers* eck!

It could be a room full of any kind of spider...little or big...and I'm turning my fedora around and looking for Jock.

You`re so funny lool.
I would have passed the spiders but I don`t know if I would have past the darts(and if I would have passed them,would have been crushed by a boulder:)). Well, I guess being Indiana Jones means, like he sayd, making it up as you go :)

As long as there are no bees or wasps I can take it :D

And we should also know some serious history and mithology(altough troughout the films Indy doesn`t prove that he is a very very good teacher or knower of history, if I can say so).
How old are you? Did you ever consider(at least when you were younger:))becoming a history teacher or an archeologist just like Indy?I`m not ashamed to say that I have:).

I'd be ok with the tarantulas and the snakes, but the bugs in Temple of Doom would have me screaming like Willie Scott! I'd be rubbish with a whip. And I think it would be a case of "Fly no, land no..." :p

To get a decent paid job in archaeology involves too much studying, so I gave up... ;) (If a museum wanted to pay for me to fly around the world and find nice artefacts, I'd do it though...)

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that nobody on this board (or anywhere else) could survive what Indy went through. That's why he's an element of Hollywood. Of course, many of us would fall to some of the lesser things Indy had to face. The spiders would put me over the edge. (That being said, I'm pretty sure I would overcome my fear if it meant getting into an Indy movie!!)

While on the temple in Raiders...

I'd probably take a little sun-bath in the middle of the temple. Ow. ;)

I would survive as I was born lucky and I’m not afraid of anything. :rolleyes:

my Indy Skills

Whip-yes

Fly-yes

marksmanship-yes

getting chased by boulder-maybe

Darts-yes (I have good balance)

Thought(puzzles)-yes

fear of snakes-no(in fact fear of any of the creepy crawlies in the trilogy)

Land...? :D

Outstanding response!!

Well, to be honest,

I majored in History in college, was a hisotry teacher, took way too many archaeology classes. Before that I went into the Marines, which trust me, put me in any Indy situation, except that bridge thing in ToD, and no problem, but can any really be Indy, I mean really?

By the way, I was born a smart ass, so the quick one liners, no problems!

I'm with you guys who don't like the spiders. I can smoosh the little brown ones I find on the wall in my apartment once in a while, but tarantulas? There isn't a tissue big enough to smoosh one of those suckers in. And then flushing them down the toilet wouldn't work either. I can imagine telling my landlord/s my toilet's backed up 'cause I tried to flush a tarantula... :sick:

actually yes ( I'm planning on becoming a Navy Aviator

My Indy skills:

Fly-> No
Land->No
Whipcracking->Training on that

So i dont have any Indy skills besides the most important one:













































Speak English: Yes :D :p

I thought the most important one was impressing the ladies... ;)

well that i can do better in spanish ;)

Indy doesn't impress the ladies, he puts up with them,

This is what a guy who get's punched in the face as often as Indy does really looks like...

Are you the same guy from the lost pages?

Tarantulas on me??? NO! I would faint :eek:
Training with the whip, yes I think so!
I wouldn't know about the little arrows thrown as you pass the light, so I would be catched by one...anyways, I hate to say, but maybe I would not survive to the first five minutes of Raiders.. :o Only if I was an expert, well, then I don't like to think I can't do that...
Temple, well here it complicates! me to survive from a plane fall in a raft??? haha! right! :rolleyes:
Last Crusade, well....the boat racing without get shot? pure lucky! and then the fall from the cliff, well, I DOUBT I could have Indy same lucky there!!!

Spiders don't scare me. :cool:

AAAAHHHH!!! GIANT SPIDER ON SCREEN!!! :eek:

...great, you made me destroy a perfectly good computer monitor. :p

Aaaarrrhhhggg!!!

Are you trying to give me nightmares?!? :eek:

"Come on, show a little backbone, will ya?"

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No offence, I cannot sit there and look at that because it makes me feel ill. :sick:

I was in a pet shop once with a friend and this guy was showing him the tarantualas that they sold and he got a Chilean Rose out for my friend to look at, and hold. Meanwhile, I'm cowering behind the chinchilla cage. :eek: One of the staff asked me if I was okay, and I said I was fine because I must have looked ill, but I explained that I had a huge phobia of spiders.

If I had to relive one of the three Indy movies it would be ToD because he doesnt ride a horse in that movie. The way some of you fell about spiders is the way I fell about horses. I'm scared of them and I hate them.
It makes me fell all warm and fuzzy inside to know that some horses get made into glue and dog food.
Oh ya and if I got to be Indy in ToD Id get to meet my hero Mr Round

Spiders can be good eating...

So can horses...

To quote Pulp Fiction,

Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy mother******. horses sleep and root in ****. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense enough to disregard its own faeces

Horse is a mainstay inNorthern Italy, and dog and cat ummmm
A good S. African Cab always works with Warthog

"horses sleep and root in ****"

Everything that grows, grows in sh!te and the dead bodys of everything that ever went before it... Including you and me...

I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuating itself ...

-- The Big Lebowski

Back on topic! :(

Because of that spider picture, I nominate Vogel for a public flogging!!

"I was wondering how many of you would survive being Indiana Jones?"

A generous estimate... zero...

Speak for your self Clinton, I have to aask myself, woudl Indy survie as a Marine?

Never having been in the military, I can't say for sure, but I think Indy could handle the physical aspects of being a Marine. I imagine he would have trouble dealing with authority.

(In World War I, he did what he was told, but chafed under the authority. As a grown man, I don't think he would stand for being yelled at and bossed around.)

It's the little discomforts, not the major confrontations that make you last. I think Indy's sense of humor is very typical for a Marine, everyone I knew (that a sense of humor, some didn't usually german, had a very Indy type lip.

I just have to start by saying this is probably the most brilliant thread idea I've ever seen. This is awesome. I'm a little late (fourth page, i think), but that's not the point. Brilliant, Dumi.

To answer the question:

I don't like snakes or spiders much myself- no phobias, just the natural dislike a lot of us have. But indy does get lost a few times (like the beginning of ToD). I do have a phobia of being lost- when I'm lost or even think I could get lost, no matter if I'm in Antarctica with no food or in the local Wal*Mart, and i start to think about it too much, I start to wig out. Granted, the first scenario would have me crying and making frozen lemonade down the old legs, but still, a phobia is a phobia. So I guess the only thing I wouldn't be able to hack is the lost thing.

But the cutting of the bridge, under the truck, whip action and meeting Hitler-while I'd be petrified with some of it, I could take it. Granted i'd need to start slow and gain experince, but I think I could do it.

ok, i think i could survive being indy...for a couple of reasons,

i think snakes are cute,

i love exploring creepy ancient secret passage places and looking for things long forgotten,

nazis, even though they can be intelligent, I could probably get away from because, being 14, i am quick,

i have that insane luck that gets me out of tight spots, and the intelligence to outsmart traps, such as the dart thing in raiders.

and i have the cool little lopsided smile thing down too... :)

_____on the flipside_____

i too am afraid of spiders, maybe not tarantulas, cause i dont think they bite........right?......and they arent poisonous......right?... :confused:

(but oh my god, if youve ever heard how nasty ship rats are? well, we have this school brand of wolf spiders, wiry, evil little things, and they actually chase kids down the hall charging at top speed...and there as big a quarters... :eek: )

im good with aim on guns, but have never actually fired one to expirience the recoil...

my whip is from the party store,... need i say more?...

the first time i cracked it, i somehow managed to draw blood...(but hey, not even indy figured that one out the first time)...

my whip skills are in need of tutoring,...(if anyone can point me in the right direction, please do)...

wow, you know what?...i think id settle for going on an adventure with him instead... :D ...*shrug*...

If I was Indiana Jones I would of died in Last Crusade when it came to choosing the grail. Otherwise I would of lived through the first two movies. Maybe? I might do well because I love to search for ancient artifacts and treasures. Including exploring temples .My mom's cousin is an archieologist and he finds ancient artifacts to . That is one job I would love to have! Anywhere I would be at my fedora would be right there on my head! I think we all have the Indiana Jones spirit in us because we all want adventure and action in our lives