The holy grail

[ajmorga]

I have a question. Wouldn't indy not be any older then in the last crusade, after drinking from the cup of life? or would he age regularly until acertain age and then stop?

[bob]

Sigh there really should be a FAQ

Well apparently the Grail could not be taken and therefore its power may not be effective beyond the seal, however i do question this as the grail is obviously far older than the temple and the raw spiritual power of it i doubt could be controlled.

Also the Grail Knight needs to drink from the grail regularly (see LC Novelisation) and he is hardly a spring chicken, i think the grail gives eternal life rather than eternal youth

[Pale Horse]

good answer. simple, to the point. In many ways just like yourself, bob.

[monkey]

OK, I think the time has come to once and for all settle this darned question of Indiana Jones drinking from the Holy Grail.

He DID drink from the Grail. OK. did it impart into him: immortality? a degree of immortality? a little bit of immortality? Some kind of compromised bit of immortality,.... or no immortality?

For those who want to see Indiana Jones running around in bell bottomed polyester pants in the seventies, or wearing a Mullet in the eighties, or playing in a GRUNGE band in the nineties, or designing a web page in 2003...well, then I guess he "attained immortality".

For those of us who like him as a 1930's Action Adventure Hero, well........ I don't care about whether the Grail gave him any immortality or not.

JASON VS INDY 2010!!! Not a movie I want to see.

[Pale Horse]

he has NO IMMORTALITY

[Bad Dates]

True, no immortality, but didn't the grail knight's brothers alledgedly walked out of the desert 150 years after having found the grail? That would kinda indicate some kind of life prolonging ability for the grail, but I doubt it would be taken into consideration for Indy 4.

[Tequileros]

The knights always stayed together in the temple, but after 150 years, two knights left the other and went back.

Anyways, the grail is just to bring life and let you feel like you are younger. The only thing is that you have to drink it each day, week or month for it's powers.

If a 15 year old would drink from the holy grail, he actually would feel nothing, if he's completely healthy.

So Indiana would just age normally.

[bob]

Originally posted by Bad Dates
True, no immortality, but didn't the grail knight's brothers alledgedly walked out of the desert 150 years after having found the grail? That would kinda indicate some kind of life prolonging ability for the grail, but I doubt it would be taken into consideration for Indy 4.

I agree with you in a sense but we must remember that while Indy may have the secret of eternal life Ford does not, therefore as far as i am concerned the whole grail episode is pretty irrelevant WHILE Ford plays Indy.

However the grail seems to me to be a comic book mechanicism of giving a character eternal youth and it could be used to set adventures in the present day however horrible that would be and it would take him out of the 1930's.

But as i say that is i hope never going to come to fruition

I think that Lucas did not really care much about the consequences of the grail as LC was supposed to be the final Indy film and he only threw in some dialouge that didnt make sense ('the price of immortality etc') and left it ambigious, so there can be no final answer.

It must come down to Not proven in the deeper sense and a simple No in the simple sense.

[00Kevin]

you guys stink....how you ganna beleive th novelization.....If I did the novelization of Indy 4, and said that indy was gay, you'ld beleive me!

[Attila the Professor]

Hmm...never mind.

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[Edited by Attila the Professor on 08-29-2003 at 07:20 pm]

[thegreatimposter]

Wasn't there a little something about the gigantic Seal on the floor of the Grail Temple-- Something about not crossing it... About it being the price of Immortality? Pop Last Crusade into the - er - vcrs and give it another look...