t-rex 22 asks, what is your most favorite scene of raiders of the lost ark and why?
I love the love scene between Indy and Marian on the boat where he falls asleep.
Um, there are ...
That's where you get to understand them right and this is the difference between exposition
and action the difference between exposition and action is when you first meet marion
she gives you some exposition about indie i was a child you know what you're doing all that
complicated stuff they're talking about that's exposition she's just telling you about the past
but in that scene in the boat where she is trying to help him and everything hurts she says what
doesn't hurt and he says here and then he says here he lifts his head here and then he says
maybe here i mean so much great storytelling because what spielberg is showing you is
he's showing you their relationship rather than telling you about it he's showing you the sense
of humor between them the sense of play when he says here and she kisses it it he's doing this
because he's like he's exasperated he's trying to think of the one part of him that doesn't hurt
he's making a it's a joke but it's not a joke and then when she kisses his elbow
it changes the whole trajectory of the scene because now there's a game afoot and he joins the
game by saying maybe here so he's moving closer to here but they haven't kissed yet in the film
they haven't kissed yet and it's been part of the the electricity between them
and then they kiss and then which you've been waiting for the whole
film and you think oh the music swells here it happens and he falls asleep
um it's not happily ever after moment but it is a moment where you see these two great
people and you know adventure has a new name is a great tagline for the raiders films because as
raymond chandler said about his hero of his novels um
the story is the story of this person's adventure and it would be no adventure if it did not happen
to a person fit for adventure so at this point in the movie we've understood exactly the ways
in which indie and marion are both fit for adventure they are our avatars for adventure
they are ready to go they are fearless yet fearful right like they fear the right things like heights
and people with guns and swords they run from those things they're not fearless but they are
intrepid and so we've understood that they're in trump and now we understand why they belong
together right that's the scene in which we understand why they belong together and it's
it's a great scene and it's a scene about life and there's a um one of the great things about
spielberg that isn't talked about so much these days is how well he directed family scenes back in
i mean still but back in the early days the scenes of dee wallace and her kid in in close encounters
in the scenes with terry garr and richard dreyfuss and their kids and also in close encounters those
were messy weird ways to shoot families um that wasn't really common back then and i feel like
spielberg's borrowing from a much more kind of cassavetes sort of trajectory of filmmaking at
that point and taking it just a whole other level of realism and what feels like you're
visiting a real house and real people um and indy falling asleep is sort of part of that same whole
arc there's a way in which spielberg loves to play the trope but he also loves to subvert the
trope at the last minute and that keeps you on your toes and it means that you're always
kind of excited about what's going to happen because it's never going to be what you expect
can you tell my mad respect for this man i mean the whole team on team raiders is just amazing
um chad klump asks have you ever gone into your cave or the lofts with a stab of raw
and put it in the sunlight to recreate that scene um i have a photo on my phone because um
i get uh the sun goes into my bedroom in the mornings and we have curtains up but the sun gets
into my bedroom early in the morning and moves this little like strip of sunlight across my wall
between like you know 7 30 and 8 30 in the morning and i definitely uh my two favorite uh staff of
raw head pieces are sitting next to my desk at home in my house and just about two months ago i
grabbed one when i saw that little dot of sunlight and i held it up to the dot of
sunlight and here's the thing when you hold that that stafford with the correct excuse me with the
correct crystal in it up to a beam of sunlight what it does is it creates six dots of light
i have a picture i will post it after this live stream so you can see it um i actually sent that
picture to my friend sarah parking the space archaeologist of me like looking at it and this
pattern and i said still can't find tanis and she wrote back that's okay i found it for you
so yes i have totally done that i have not made the staff which is crazy because i have two whole
sets of the top and bottom pieces of the staff which is by the way how did anybody get those
they didn't come with the i know where did those show up from i don't know that's a plot hole who
cares but i have two whole sets of those and i've never made my own staff the trick is to
figure out what i want it to be made out of what kind of wood and you would have access to and
then spoke shave it and make the staff the correct height but it also turns out that when you want to
do research on exactly how many y z the staff is high it's still a moving target even today
uh so it would require some decision making about my opinion about the kind of research
people have done into the language on the front and back of the headpiece of the staff of ra
what the language actually means and the height of the staff in the film because i find them correct
this the height of the staff in the film is not at all the height that the imam tells in the
uh uh uh and his friend uh how high the staff should be i think the height that
they get to is like maybe about this high and in the film the staff is like up here
another pothole again who cares i think i'd probably make it exactly the height of the one
harrison ford is holding in the film we are close to the same height we have exactly the same head
head diameter i happen to know so he could wear this i am so sure he does not want to in fact
the one time i met him the one i did meet harrison ford once and i met him and i was wearing this hat
i was at ted at the ted conference wearing it and we spoke for a minute and the moment he was done
talking i just took this off and i put it behind me like that
it's fine and i toss it behind me without breaking eye contact because i know that he doesn't
like you know doesn't love that stuff and i tossed it behind me and he went
thanks i felt like we had a moment um warship models underway that's a great name uh worship
models underway asks adam one of the things i enjoy about the raiders series is the great
vehicles airplanes tanks submarines which is your favorite another wonderful question uh
i love love the air the passenger airplane indy gets in and i think that scene of the passenger
airplane is shot down in oakland uh back in the 70s i love that airplane i loved it i love the
line that follows that airplane as it goes to to ravenwood's bar um vehicles i like that vehicle
airplanes tanks submarines the tank in the third raiders film i i know it's an amazing
achievement from a technical perspective it just doesn't again the stakes no the stakes
for the second two films just didn't grab me that's all that's that's that's the reason
i love the first one so much more apparently there's a fourth one i don't know about it um
airplanes tanks submarines so many years ago when mythbusters went to alaska the first time
we flew in a absolutely pristine 19 late 1950s to haveland otter which is a sort of mind-blowingly
lovely plane and the pilot of that told us that this was like his grocery cart because he lived
in a part of alaska where he used it every day to like go to the corner store like that's how
far away the corner store was you had to fly a plane to it um consequently this guy flew so much
that the landing we had in his plane was without a doubt full stop the smoothest landing i have
ever had and it was on a freaking glacier um and i don't think that the passenger plane indy is in
in raiders this is de havilland and i don't think that's the case someone will know and will tell me
but they speak to each other right my time as a passenger with my whole mythbusters
crew and that to haveline otter which i think was like an eight or ten seater
and the the passenger plane that indy's in um like when i sat in the devil and i was like oh my god
it's like a mindy i kind of wished i had brought the hat um yeah it's gonna be that plane um
am i wrong that the plane that's supposed to be
is something's tickling in my head that that's supposed to be the um the uh
the uh hurst's uh not hers is it hearst uh the flying wing i'm getting i'm getting my i'm getting
my historical airplanes mixed up and i'm not gonna waste your time trying to figure it out so
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