Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Anything goes this week as Lee and Dan journey to the deep dark historically and culturally inaccurate mysterious India as they this week they watch Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

In week of geek Dan and Lee discuss:

Just a note that there is some sailor language in the podcast (you know swearing… you know the F word) so you should use discretion when playing to your co-workers or innocent family members, I think there’s only one or two occurrences but still.

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Lots of interesting analysis regarding the middle child of the Indiana Jones trilogy lets keep the discussion going here in the comments or over on Facebook!

Next week rather predictably Lee and Dan are off to see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

 

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  • Ian

    First comment. Oh yeah!!!

    I better listen to the episode now and write something intelligent.

    • Lee

      That’s the contract you’ve now entered into, it’s lonely at the top.

      • Ian

        OK, I’ve finally listenned to the episode, sorry it took so long.

        Temple of Doom was my first Indianna Jones movie and, even though it’s not my favourite, it’s the one that stuck in my memory the most (which I concede sounds wierd). I mostly put that down to 2 reasons:

        Indianna Jones and the Temple of Doom is a really cool name to an 8yo boy
        Dad got me the children’s audio book from the library, which burned itself into my impressional child mind

        The scene I remember the most, and the one that scared the bejeezus out of me, is where henchmen were falling off the bridge and being eaten by crocodiles. SUre I see it’s stock footage now, but put in in context of the movie and add all the screaming in the soundtrack and you’ve just gotta hide behind the couch.

        Thanks again for another rippa cast :-D

  • http://manilovefilms.com Dylan

    Terrific show, as usual. Loads of interesting tidbits – many of which I knew, many others that I wasn’t aware of or had forgotten.

    Not entirely coincidentally, I caught about an hour of this as SyFy or some such channel was airing the trilogy here in the States over the last weekend. Like Dan (and probably many others), this is the one I’ve seen the least of the three, despite my being around 8 at the time of its release. Even as a wee lad, I recognized it to be the lesser of the three.

    Must agree with Lee that you ought to give the 4th a go. I’m a staunch hater of it, but I do recognize that it would make for a good show.

    • http://manilovefilms.com Dylan

      Ha – I made that comment with about 5 minutes left in the show. Just heard my own personal shout-out – Hello! And, of course, thanks for giving the LAMBcast a shout-out. Everyone needs to hear themselves some mustache greatness.

      “Sam Frodo.” Nice.

    • http://allthatcomeswithit.com Dan

      Number 4 is now locked in. I shall blame you and Lee for my impeding nervous breakdown.

    • Lee

      I think Last Crusade is actually the one I’ve seen the least outside of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I think when I was that age I just wasn’t as in to it. (Glad I grew out of that phase!!!)

  • http://bigthoughtsfromasmallmind.blogspot.com/ CS

    The stock footage of the crocodiles eating the clothes was hilariously bad. I kept hoping they would throw random stuff of the cliff for the crocodiles to eat (i.e. hotdogs, bunnies, Star Wars action figures, etc.).

    I completely agree with your assessment of Willie. She is shallow and is the catalyst for many of the offensive moments in the film. It is interesting how the women evolve, or devolve actually, in the trilogy. Marion was a decent start, even if she goes damsel by the end. Willie is one-note and extremely annoying, and Elsa Scheinder is practically non-existent in The Last Crusade. Besides the great scene where both Jones realize they slept with the same woman. Elsa really does not serve a purpose in the film. I guess Spielberg realized how bad he messed things up with Willie by the third one.

    I have to agree with Lee about the food scene in the Indian village. I loved how Indy calls Willie out for her snobbish ways. She is a night club singer yet she acts like she is part of royal lineage or something.

    As for iconic moments, you are right in the fact that there is nothing as memorable as the giant ball scene at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The things that I always remember from Temple of Doom are the bridge scene at the end, the walls closing in scene, and the monkey brains.

    • http://manilovefilms.com Dylan

      Elsa’s not as big of a factor in the film overall, but I think she’s still a stronger character (in terms of feminism, anyhow) than Marion or Willie.

    • http://allthatcomeswithit.com Dan

      Elsa Scheinder is stronger than the women in the other movies – but can also be seen as being the corrupter, using her sexuality to corrupt the Jones’. Hardly a feminist ideal, and reminiscent of Eve to a certain extent (oooo look at me!)

      She is the most sexy of all the women though (and back down to the gutter with a crash).

    • Lee

      Now that you mention it the bridge scene is pretty iconic as well as the mine carts when I think about it.

      There was an interview that I watched when Ford was making Air Force One and of course they had a massive set for that film and the reporter was gushing all over it and saying “wow this set is huge have you ever been on such a large set?” Of course Ford being who he is and how much he appears to dislike dealing with the media just looked this reporter straight in the eye and said “I was in Temple of Doom you know.”

      I always remember that interview with a little bit of pride at Ford reminding people how big the sets were on this film.

  • http://twitter.com/#!/PhilKingham phil

    Great podcast as usual guys…

    Norm Breyfogle was a legendary Batman artist loved his work.

    Apparently Lawrence Kasdan who wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark was asked to write the script but didn’t want anything to do with it. he thought it was a pretty horrible mean film.
    Pitty he didn’t write it it could of been a lot better a film for it.

    I am going to try to see Last Crusade this weekend before next weeks podcast, its my second fave and havent seen it for years.

    Looking forwad to hearing you spit venom on Indy 4 too ;)

    • Lee

      Breyfogle is my all time favourite Batman artist, I’m always so pleased when someone else recognises his name :)

      All these Indy films are worth revisiting if you haven’t seen them in a while… that is sorry most of them are worth it ;)

  • http://dukeandthemovies.com Sam Fragoso

    Great stuff.

    Not sure if I’ve asked this before and just can’t find the answer: but who does your opening haha?

  • http://www.caddicks.com/blog Jeff

    I’ve been catching up on the podcasts today (3 straight) and you guys are rocking the new (old) format. I really think that’s an improvement.

    I had to say that I’m disappointed you didn’t mention the music in this film. The theme for this one is possibly my favorite of all the Indy films. And I don’t mean the Indy March, I mean the Slave Children theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McnM2iP85DI

    All three films have a great musical piece in them, and the Slave Children theme is definitely the one for this film. (Yes, I purposely said 3. Even Williams failed with the 4th.)

    And perhaps I missed it, but no mention of the ‘no gun’ gag against the two sword-wielders? That was a stand-out gag for me.

    • Lee

      We didn’t mention either sadly though I think we both mention the soundtrack for Raiders and for Last Crusade. The fourth soundtrack has no distinct feel to it like the others do.

      That is a great gag and I’m surprised we didn’t mention it but then there was so much to talk about already!!

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