About Temple of Doom's dinner scene.

[Rocket Surgeon]

Originally Posted by Montana Smith

Temple of Doom is marked by its gross-out moments - the food, the bugs, the blood-drinking, the heart-ripping, the flapping skins.

While there are things I like about Temple, (how can you go wrong with Indiana Jones?), Kasdan says it best:

Lawrence Kasdan, asked to write the script said

"I didn't want to be associated with Temple of Doom. I just thought it was horrible. It's so mean. There's nothing pleasant about it. I think Temple of Doom represents a chaotic period in both their [Lucas and Spielberg] lives, and the movie is very ugly and mean-spirited."

[Archaeologist]

I see no problem with the monkey brains. Cow brains and pig brains are easy enough to buy in the states, especially from mexican market stores. And I used to think eating cold raw meat was unhealthy and gross until I came to Germany were it is common, usually ground up. I am not sure how raw ground up brains would be, but it doesn't seem SO outlandish anymore.

Still, if I actually see it being done (doing a 4 month long archaeological trip about Indonesia for my MA), I'll be sure to take a picture and post it!

[Indysolo12]

And that's not the only thing!!!

Short Round:I Step on Fortune Cookie

[Indysolo12]

Originally Posted by Dewy9

My favorite part of the scene has nothing to do when the food- when Indy is asked about what body part he nearly lost.

Yeah! LMFAO

[indyfan85]

That conversation in tod brings allot of depth to the character, I think the way they handled the dinner scene in the novelization more but I never found the scene racist at all without it. It was just much better in the novel.

[Peru1936]

Originally Posted by Cropsy

Are Hindu people really into eating monkey brains, snakes and beetles?

Are Christian people really into eating bacon and cow tongues?

Originally Posted by Cropsy

or was the movie racist towards the people of India?

Not all Indians are Hindu.