I noticed something I hadn't before, it looks like in the very last shot of him, for about a second, it seems the ground below him gives way and he sinks a bit. So does he fall to his death? I had always more or less figured he would stay there a little while, maybe a few weeks and die of old age. The chances of a frail old man like him getting the grail off the ledge to keep it are slim to none.
Grail Knight's Death
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Quickening
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Deckard said:
Hehe, couldn't help but laugh at the thought of that last sentence.
Ahem.
Hmm I never thought he died. Like you I thought he would just remain there for a while before finally dying of old age.
Agent Spalko
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I had always figured that the entrance collapses and is sealed closed but the Knight is left to his fate inside. With the Grail lost his services were no longer required. Perhaps he lept to his death or fell on his sword or perhaps... perhaps...he's still there, forever immortally entombed.
oliverjones18
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unless he crosses the seal he can't die
oliverjones18 said:
But the seal was destroyed, and the inner temple was still collapsing, the grail could still have fell off the ledge and shattered as well. And I really think the Grail Knight may have dropped, watch the film he sinks down, not like he bended his knees, or lost his footing, it looks more like the ground under him is lowering bcuz the foreground referances stay in place.
mutt willams
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LostArk said:
thats what i thought
graz
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Thinking about it, the old boy did pretty well to get to the mouth of the cave to wave them off. Can you imagine him wobbling about on the invisible bridge across the chasm, or picking his way across the Jehova (Iehova!) blocks?
When you think about it there is something very pythonesque about it. I like to think as soon as they turned to leave a 1 tonne weight dropped on his head in true Monty Python stylee!
When you think about it there is something very pythonesque about it. I like to think as soon as they turned to leave a 1 tonne weight dropped on his head in true Monty Python stylee!
Lonsome Indy
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i think he just drifted away, or maybe he's still alive. who knows?
No Ticket
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I always assumed that after the entrance was sealed and all the dust had settled (since it really was only the entrance area collapsing)... he just had tons of time on his hands and used it to recover the grail and bring it back to the chamber.
Of course he appeared that he was more than ready to end his "protection service" over the grail when Indy appeared and "vanquished" him. Maybe he figured that the cup, now being lost to the pit below was safe and he didn't need to watch over it. However I doubt that one. Because his dedication was so great he knew that as long as the grail existed there was still a chance for it to fall into the wrong hands.
Still, if he figured it was safe I can see him waiting out his end peacefully with-in the temple.
Of course he appeared that he was more than ready to end his "protection service" over the grail when Indy appeared and "vanquished" him. Maybe he figured that the cup, now being lost to the pit below was safe and he didn't need to watch over it. However I doubt that one. Because his dedication was so great he knew that as long as the grail existed there was still a chance for it to fall into the wrong hands.
Still, if he figured it was safe I can see him waiting out his end peacefully with-in the temple.
mutt willams
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No Ticket said:
that makes sense!
