What's your favorite film location used in the 4 Indy films ?
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Rocket Surgeon
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The Tanis Digs at Nefta.
The flies, the heat, and everything that discomfort brings to the performances.
The flies, the heat, and everything that discomfort brings to the performances.
Goodeknight
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Rocket Surgeon said:
It's the classic image of a massive archaeological dig. And contains the sunset silhouette, probably my favorite image from all the films.
Also love the Hawaiian jungle, the Tunisian Cairo market, the Indian village both before and after (crowd pressing in early on, and celebrating at the end), and the Canyon of the Crescent Moon and Petra treasury. I even like the market scene in CS.
Montana Smith
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Patan, Nepal.
It's even more evocative in Campbell Black's writing. The journey from the airport in a wild and lonely land to the snowy village, trailed by shadowy Gestapo agents.
Snowy isolation. It's why I like John Carpenter's The Thing.
It's even more evocative in Campbell Black's writing. The journey from the airport in a wild and lonely land to the snowy village, trailed by shadowy Gestapo agents.
Snowy isolation. It's why I like John Carpenter's The Thing.
Montana Smith said:
And the Shinning?
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Pale Horse said:
Yes, especially the Shining! (King's best). And even Whiteout.
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My favourite is the natural pool with the waterfall at the very beginning of "Raiders", when Harrison's face is finally shown.BDuncan said:
Why? Because the lush atmosphere is so wonderfully beautiful and it reminds me of my favourite place in the whole world - my secret, 'swimming hole' near my family's cottage in Quebec.
Paley said:
By pure accident last summer, I was at the hotel that inspired Stephen King (Estes Park in Colorado). It might get snowy there but it surely ain't remote!Smiffy said:
Agreed. I am skier so I like snow but it can be more of a burden than a pleasure in everyday life.Finn said:
Hey, is there anywhere to ski (downhill) in Finland?Montana Smith
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Stoo said:Hey, is there anywhere to ski (downhill) in Finland?
According to the natives everything is downhill in Finland.
Second favourite location would be Schloss Brunwald.
Rain. Lightning. Castle. Genuine Nazis!
Sure. Plenty of places, all over the country. While we don't have anything you'd exactly call a mountain, there's still more than enough fells, ridges and big hills around to set up a course.Stoo said:Hey, is there anywhere to ski (downhill) in Finland?
Watch it, Monty. Keep hogging up the puns I wanted to use, and I'll have to make up some excuse to send you away.Montana Smith said:
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Finn said:
<There's no longer a bounty on my head!>
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goodeknight said:...Tunisian Cairo market...I even like the market scene in CS.
The maket scene was so densly packed, it's too bad it was simply one single straight stretch to the asylum/nunery.
Cairo really has some nice colors/angles.
Henry Jones VII
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so iconic and misterious
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Henry Jones VII said:so iconic and misterious
My problem with The Temple of the Sun is that it's overtly somewhere more famous. So if Indy went to Petra would he experience déjà vu?
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Montana Smith said:
There are other similar sites, but I wonder how known it was in 1989...
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Rocket Surgeon said:
Discovered by the 'Western world' in 1812. Defended by T.E. Lawrence in 1917 against a Turkish and German force.
But, more significantly,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra#T._E._Lawrence_.28Lawrence_of_Arabia.29
It's a problem when you introduce a recognizable site as something else, its couterpart either disappears or remains as a mysterious carbon copy, right down to the terrain itself.
Mysterious? Hardly. The terrain issue apart, having buildings that look highly similar in wildly different locations isn't exactly rare in our reality either. For example, there are remains of Roman and Greek ruins all over the Mediterranean that looked highly similar in their heyday. In fact, didn't the Romans have a practice that when they expanded to new territory, they built at least one temple which was as close copy of a building back in the City of Rome as possible...Montana Smith said:
So Petra exists in Dr. Jones' reality as well, but whoever built the Grail Temple decided, for one reason or another, to make it an intentional copy of Al Khazneh. Maybe that was the place where the cup was stashed at first, then relocated? After all, the real one's original purpose is mystery to the historians so there's plenty of room to mix a little fact and fiction.
Hell, even the building's name fits for said theory. The Treasury.
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I still wonder how well known it was before it became part of Indy-lore, (wikia not withstanding).Montana Smith said:
Montana Smith said:
I'm not grasping your point...or the logic of it.
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Rocket Surgeon said:
Petra is a pretty unique location carved from rock. It's not just a building which can be copied and built in another location. It is part of the location.
In Indy's world there either exists two identical copies of Petra , including an identical canyon, which would be mysterious, or else Petra doesn't exist.
Ergo, Indy's friend Lawrence could not have defended it in 1917.
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Montana Smith said:Petra is a pretty unique location carved from rock. It's not just a building which can be copied and built in another location. It is part of the location.
In Indy's world there either exists two identical copies of Petra , including an identical canyon, which would be mysterious, or else Petra doesn't exist.
Ergo, Indy's friend Lawrence could not have defended it in 1917.
I won't say its identical, however:
In 'Canyon of the Crescent Moon,' 2,000-Year-Old Paintings Re-Emerge
This was an article from two years ago, which accounts for my doubt regarding how well known the treasury was before 89.