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Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984)

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, Steven Spielberg)

15/03/2024

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the second installment of the Indiana Jones franchise, a prequel to the film Raiders of the Lost Ark, with Harrison Ford reprising the title role. After arriving in India, desperate villagers ask Indiana Jones to find a mystical stone and save their children from a Thuggee cult that practices child slavery, black magic, and human sacrifice rituals honoring the goddess Kali.

Not wanting to present the Nazis as villains again, George Lucas, executive producer and co-writer, decided to treat this film as a prequel.

The film was released on May 23, 1984, to financial success, but initial reviews were mixed, criticizing its darker elements, strong violence and gore, as well as Capshaw's performance as Willie Scott; however, critical opinion improved over time, citing the film's intensity and imagination. In response to the film's more violent sequences, and with similar complaints about Gremlins, Spielberg suggested that the MPAA change its rating system, which it did within two months of the film's release, creating a new PG-13 rating. It won the Academy Award for best special effects.

A sequel, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade followed in 1989.

In 1935 Indiana Jones survives an assassination attempt by poisoning by Lao Che, a Shanghai crime boss and businessman who hired him to recover the remains of Emperor Nurhaci. With his young orphaned Chinese sidekick, Short "Shorty" Round, and a nightclub singer, Willie Scott, Indy escapes Shanghai on a cargo plane, unaware that the plane is owned by Lao Che. While the three sleep, the pilots dump the fuel and escape with parachutes, leaving the plane to crash into the Himalayas.

They are welcomed by the inhabitants of a impoverished Indian village, who ask for their help to recover the sacred stone (shivalinga) stolen from their shrine, together with their missing children, by evil forces in the nearby Pankot Palace. The inhabitants had prayed to the god Shiva for help, and when they saw Jones they believed him to be their savior.

Deviating on the road to Delhi, Indy, Willy and Shorty receive a warm welcome at Pankot Palace and are allowed to stay overnight as guests, partaking in a sumptuous, but revolting, banquet hosted by the young maharajah. His officials reject Indy's theory that the Thuggee cult is responsible for the poor village's fate. Indy discovers a secret tunnel in Willie's bedroom and sets out to explore it, overcoming a series of pitfalls. Eventually Indy, Willie and Shorty find the Temple of Evil, where they witness a human sacrifice made in the name of the goddess Kali.

Thuggee high priest Mola Ram forces Indy to drink Kali's blood, which puts him into a trance state where he mindlessly serves the cult. After recovering the stones, saving Willie and freeing the children, Indy fights a huge overseer, who is dragged into a crusher, crushed to death.

Then they come to a precarious suspension bridge over a crocodile-infested river, where they are surrounded by Thugs. Thanks to the intervention of Captain Blumburt and the army sent by the maharajah, Jones, Willie and Shorty are saved and the surviving Thugs are cornered and arrested by other soldiers.

From the first discussions regarding Indiana Jones, George Lucas expressed his intention to produce a trilogy and requested Steven Spielberg's commitment to direct three films. The first episode of the saga, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), had only been released in cinemas for a couple of weeks when plans began for the sequel, which actually turned out to be a prequel, being set a year before the previous film.

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Datura veszélyes növény, a tudatlan felhasználók számára. Kincseket rejt, az értőknek, átvisz a nehéz időszakokon, horror álomképeivel megfűszerezi az alvásod. Tinktúrája védelmet ad, ha tudod hogyan kell használni. Baljós boszorkányság egyik fontos növénye.

[principiumindividuationis777]

[tenth-sentence]

The sword lifted and came down on the head of the thuggee farthest to the left, splitting his face open from forehead to nose.

"Incarnations of Immortality: Wielding a Red Sword" - Piers Anthony

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Friday, June 30.

Indiana Jones.

For Dr. Jones, every day is a good day for thumpin' Nazis. But some days it just hits particularly sweet. And would you look at that—it's only Friday, June 30, 2023, which can only mean one thing: it's the release of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny! Yay!

*cracks knuckles, whip*

Well, it's not just thumping Nazis that's on the cards, but nostalgia. Coming 15 years after the, well, best-forgotten fourth installment, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the latest film in the #indiana jones canon will in fact be the last. Or the curtain call for Harrison Ford as the iconic character, at very least. His daytime lecturer and night-time archaeologist Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. is reluctantly thrust back into the action after seeking refuge in the quiet life of academia. After, *takes deep breath* Nazis and the Ark of the Covenant, The Thuggee Cult and the holy Sankara Stones, the Holy Grail and the Nazis (again), the Soviet Union and the Crystal Skull (*shudders*), Indiana is set to take up the fedora against the Nazis once more in search of the mysterious dial of destiny. This fifth film is in 1969 and finds an elderly Indy contending with the knowledge that the US space program has former Nazis in its ranks. Well, better get thumpin', friend!

That's it, folks. Happy weekend. Enjoy #indiana jones, the occasional thumpin', and enjoy the good things while they're there x

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[unwelcome-ozian]

Thuggees, from the Sanskrit word meaning “concealment”, were an organized gang of professional assassins – sometimes described as the world's first mafia – who operated from the 13th to the 19th centuries in India. Members of the fanatical religious group, who were infamous for their ritualistic assassinations carried out in the name of the Hindu Goddess Kali, were known as Thugs, a word that passed into the English language during the British occupation of India.

There is evidence, however, that all Thuggee assassins were united by common superstitions and rituals, which led to the gang being branded a cult or sect. The fraternity possessed a jargon of their own, known as ramasi, as well as certain signs by which its members recognized each other in the most remote parts of India. Source

[balladedutempsjadis]

Ok. So first of all Kamal Hassan and Mani Ratnam and A R Rahman is going to be special. And then … finding out that Trisha, Jayam Ravi and Dulquer Salmaan are IN THE SAME MOVIE! (Ponniyin Selvan and Kundavai reunited!) (Not loving the name though - “Thug Life” - unless it’s a story about Thuggees - would be a “no, please reconsider”). But the trailer is pretty impressive!

And also I’m cracking up because last time we podcasted, I told @thirst4light that it was rumored DQ, Ravi and Trisha would be in this film but then I sort of forgot about it until she texted me this morning and told me. Haha! My internet stalking skills are better than I thought ;))

Also me idly wondering how long it would take me to watch all of Kamal Hassan’s movies since this one is #234 (!!!!) Maybe I’ll just watch Nayagan. The last one he did with Mani Ratnam THIRTY-SIX years ago.

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Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984)

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Yeah, this whole sequence in the Indian village is very white savor-y. When I watched this movie for the first time I didn't think about it all that much (but I sitll didn't like the dinner scene in Pankrot Palace; I never found "horrible looking foreign cuisine" trope all that funny... or smart), but over time I've learned about how offensive it is.

The Kali not actually being evil deity is what I've realized on my own, once I've learned more about Hinduism, but it was the Nostalgia Critic review of this move that brought my attention to Thuggees culture being bastardized here.

Needless to say, I completely understand the backlash.

Still, I've read that in the novelization at least some of those things were retconned or put in different perspective. Like, the Mola Ram is supposed to be a heretic that twists the Thuggees beliefs and that palace dinner scene is supposed to be an indicator that something bad is happening there. So I take those explenations.

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Phansigar (Urdu: To Hang Someone. Persian: Doer)

Phansigars were once affiliated with the Thuggees. However, Phansigars have their own specific rituals for human sacrifice. Every three years they sacrifice one man and one woman, usually a couple, to the goddess Kali by choking them with their tongues to knock them out, and then, after a ritual involving prayers in Hindi, the victims are buried alive.

These sacrifices take place in front of a giant idol built in the Phansigar's image. Phansigars consider the ground on which they commit these sacrifices sacred and will kill anyone who trespasses upon it. They also leave similar, smaller idols behind at the sites where they kidnap their victims.

Notables: JP, Adesh, Sharat, Det. Kate Masters

[templeofgloom]

Originally in the script stages of Temple of Doom there was a scene where we saw Indy who was brainwashed but still able to pretend he was normal. The way the reveals originally were intended was for us to see Indy getting captured, and Willie running off to get help, only for seemingly normal Indy to show up to tell her everything was okay and stop her from convincing the British officer there was a Kali cult.

But then it is revealed that Indy is actually brainwashed and evil now. It's very spooky.

But this was all cut and all we ever see of brainwashed Indy is him being clearly evil (and also shirtless).

And I was thinking of a story idea where the Thuggee cult decide to send Indy back to the US, undercover. Maybe they find out about some Kali religious thing or even a Sankara stone that is in an US museum and send Indy (with maybe Chattar Lal to keep an eye on him) to get it.

And it's up to Willie and Short Round to figure out something is off and stop and save Indy.

[docgold13]

Is there a difference between a goon and a thug?

colloquially speaking, no... both terms mean basically the same thing. As an idiom, however, thug is more loaded.

The term 'thug' is derived from 'thuggee' or the Sanskrit phrase for concealment. Bands of Thugs were reported to bedevil English colonizers in Central India, although I'm imagine these accounts were sensationalized.

I decided to retire the term 'thug' from my own usage because I don't like the way it has been appropriated in conservative politics and media. Herein 'thug' is always used to describe some non-white group or individual who are viewed as doing something bad. It's kind of a modernized version of the n-word that pundits and politicos can use without fear of getting into trouble.

Thug is also frequently used in the lexicon of hip-hop. As much as I appreciate and enjoy rap and hip-hop, using its language as my own doesn't feel genuine.

of course all of this is needlessly pedantic, but perhaps other word-nerds might find it interesting

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

They don’t make movies like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom anymore - for multiple reasons. Certain aspects of this film will take modern movie-goers aback. You can focus on the dubious cultural depictions, violence and gross-out humor or you can divert your attention to what works: the never-ending tension, action scenes & set pieces, cinematography and the ever-charismatic lead.

In this prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) narrowly escapes from crime boss Lao Che (Roy Chiao) with his eleven-year-old sidekick Short Round (Ke Huy Quan) and nightclub singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw). Unfortunately, they soon find themselves stranded in northern India, where many children have gone missing and a sacred stone - one of the five fabled Shankara stones - has been stolen. Their quest to unravel the mystery brings our heroes to an ancient Thuggee cult who practice dark magic and ritualistic human sacrifices.

In a way, this picture is much lighter than Raiders. We’re not dealing with Nazis. Indy and his little buddy are going up against India’s equivalent of devil-worshippers but the villains are firmly planted in the realm of fantasy. There are many jokes as the boys playfully bicker and roll their eyes at Willie, who has no business being on this adventure but wound up alongside them. Over and over, she’s screaming at the bugs, skeletons, traps and dangers they encounter. The duo would be much better off without the dumb blonde… but abandoning her would be irresponsible. She’s nothing like Karen Allen's Marion and the film makes that clear. If Willie's going to complain about being away from the city, let's give her a real reason to - which means lots and lots of ewwww moments. This is where people might raise an eyebrow. There’s a famous banquet scene where the most stomach-churning foods are served. You may interpret it as a) an implication that all Indians are barbarians that eat eyeballs and snakes (although the good villagers we meet early-on definitely do not) b) an elaborate gag that may or may not resonate with you (humor is subjective, after all) or c) hints that something at this palace is amiss…

Despite the initial tone, this is an intense movie. There are torture and grisly human sacrifices, children are kidnapped/enslaved, people are explicitly killed - often in gruesome manners. The tone is far too intense to be rated PG but it was. The PG-13 rating was only introduced after the MPAA got similar complaints from Gremlins just one month later.

This film isn't as mature as its "successor" and it doesn't feel as polished either, though the filmmaking is still excellent. Once Indy and the gang realize the danger they've stumbled upon, the tension never lets up. Every escape is merely a brief reprieve. A new peril rolls around the next corner, ready to flatten them. It's fast-paced and exciting. Along the way, you also get excellent cinematography and camerawork. The shots which contrast Short Round to his big buddy are terrific. Through quick cuts and parallel actions, the camera says more than words ever could. It's a roller-coaster ride - sometimes literally. You'll be left breathless and maybe even overwhelmed. Is the movie for kids? maybe, maybe not. It's somewhere in between.

Often violent & gruesome and lacking some of the sophistication of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a disappointment... but only for this franchise. As a film on its own, or as a "first entry" in a series, it would make you go "wow!" Dated elements aside, it's exciting, memorable and fun. (On Blu-ray, May 22, 2020)

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This week, a New Zealand pizza chain offers free pizza if you repay them in your will, and the guys get to know…the mysterious Thuggee Cult!

Hosts: Kevin Harrison, Mike Wiebe, Brian Camp

Producer & Music: Mark Ryan

Announcer: Nancy Walker

Graphic Designer: Mike Tidwell