Montana Smith
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Rocket Surgeon said:That's bullsh!t. Indy came out and said it: "...that's what scares me." He was weary, hesitant and fearful.
You may just as well substitute "meat eater" because it has as much relevance.
Meat eater and leather wearer.
You're actively avoiding the obvious.
Rocket Surgeon said:No Indy is just the next in line. A zero sum sacrifice for the village.
That's a leap of faith. This is Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, not The Next Person Who Falls From The Sky and the Temple of Doom.
Rocket Surgeon said:You can't know that...unless you let the rest of us read his journal as well.
You don't need to read his journal. Just listen to his words, and the words of Shorty and Indy which substantiate their meaning.
Why else would Marhan be so insistent? Why not just wait for the next person to fall from the sky? They might be even more willing and more capable.
Rocket Surgeon said:The "process of the miracle", subverted.
Please expound on your class in creative parsing.
Marhan sees Indy as the key. But the outsider isn't a one man army. Without nuisance Willie Indy would have been impaled before he got a chance to be enslaved, and without Chinese Shorty he wouldn't have been freed.
And even if Marhan sees all three as the key, it's still outside assistance. It's the Seven Samurai, or the Magnificent Seven, supplanted to India in the form of the 'Unlikely Trio'.
Rocket Surgeon said:Which is?
Impoverished, helpless natives at the mercy of a stronger native (this really is The Magnificent Seven), in need of outside assistance, calling on a miracle and receiving two Caucasians and an Asian martial artist.
Think about it. Marhan calls on Krishna for help. Krishna doesn't find an Indian hero, because Lucas and Spielberg weren't making a Bollywood movie, and neither were the directors who made the films and serials that inspired them.
The Indiana Jones films follow a tradition which often promoted white heroes, while relegating non-whites to inferior positions.
The difference with Indy is that the passing of time and changing of attitudes lead to a modification of the standard storylines.