Stoo
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chr0n0naut said:And what age do you become ready to drink the blood? Shorty and the Maharaja look the same age but the Maharaja was under the black sleep and shorty wasn't (maybe shorty was just under the age?)
Joosse said:I guess age does come in to it. After all, only when they reached a certain age did the slave children get pulled out of the mine to drink the BoK.
Some details in the shooting script (20 July, 1983) ought to settle the conundrum about the kids and the drinking age. It appears that a blood-swigger had to be at least 12 or 13 years old. The Maharajah Zalim Singh is described as being 13 years old and he says this:Henry W Jones said:As far as Shorty, I always got the impression the children were used as slaves until old enough to become useful followers. The maharajah needed to be controlled so was turned at a early age.
Maharajah: You will not suffer. I recently became of age and tasted the blood of Kali.
In response to myself, only the 12-13-or-older kids needed to be burned! That includes Nainsukh because he drank the stuff before Indy did.Me said:1) In the holding cell, the kid, Nainsukh, says, "We become like them." Who is "them"? The slave children? The guards? If the children were all under the spell, then each one of them would've had to be burned before they gleefully escaped to freedom, which was CLEARLY not the case.