Darth Vile
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Montana Smith said:It's apparent throughout the four movies that the creators didn't intend to do much research on history and geography. They took some bare facts, and some half-remembered facts, and they put them on paper and never looked back.
Indy exists in one of those Back to the Future pasts. Someone like Marty McFly's been back there and tinkered with a few things, and it's changed the passage of history. In some cases technology advanced faster in Indy's timeline - the MP40, for example, was four years' ahead of schedule; at Pankot the Hindus started eating meat; for some reason Nepal decided not to ban foreigners; and the borders of Hatay extended further into Syria (well Jordan's Petra even appeared inside their border )
Willie gave the game away in TOD when she sang, "Anything Goes." (!)
Yeah - it all has to be taken with a huge pinch of salt. One of my biggest bugbears is the portrayal of Cairo in Raiders. Cairo was a large developed city in the 1930's and not some little market village as we see it on screen. I also don't really like the use of Petra in TLC as it assumes one doesn't know it's an actual genuine locale/structure. The arrival at the Grail temple always drew me out of the movie (more so when the movie was first released).