MolaRam2 said:
In reality he would have had a lot better chance to survive if he tried to escape in a car, than to try to hide in a fridge. I can't believe Spielberg 'nuked the fridge.'
Spielberg's upcoming Lincoln film will feature Lincoln avoding John Wilkes Booth by hiding in a fridge.
I searched around the boards to see if anyone brought up Indy escaping the nuclear blast in a car and this was the closest topic I could find. I wanted to post this idea I had since I've seen the movie. Forgive me if there is a better thread for this or if somebody has already come up with this idea.
When I first saw the hot rod in the opening scene of this movie, I thought everybody had to be thinking what I was thinking...Indy needs to drive that thing.
After seeing the Doomtown scene several times I always thought it would have been perfect for Indy to escape driving that Hot rod. The kids could have sneaked onto the test sight just before Indy enters the area. As they are parked hanging out, the girls could worried that they are going to get caught as the guys carelessly lounge in the sun and tell them they are being square.
With that, one of the girls spots the Russian agents looking around for Indy and urges the boys to get out up and get them out of there. They try but the car won't start.
Then we cut to Indy doing his thing...entering the house, looking around, realizing what is happening...alarm sounds...he chases after the Russians "Fine don't wait for me!" and instead of going back into the house, he spots the teenagers trying to start the car. Runs over to them "Move over kid, things around about to get really hot around here." Ford jumps into the car as the kids are freaking out asking "what's happening!?"
He tells them to hang on as he speeds out of doomtown. Just as they are catching up to the Russians he notices the aftershock in his rear view mirror. With that, Indy throws the car into overdrive and leaves the Russians to be consumed by the aftershock.
Although they had managed to outrun the Russians, the blast still causes Indy to lose control of the car which spins out off the road and over some embankment...possibly some fallout shelter. The air clears, Indy shakes the dust from his hat, one of the kids is freaking out because his care is totaled. Indy makes some kind of remark like, "Trust me kid, you almost had bigger problems" as the group of them all notice he's looking up at a huge mushroom cloud.
Anyway...something different... It would have been great to see him drive that car. It would have been a great throwback to American Graffiti.