![]() I also remember it being the worst of the three movies - the original three, I don’t count the fourth one. Read Next: Three Oil Rig Workers Fact-Check the Movie ‘Armageddon’Ĭoben: I spent a little time trying to remember Temple of Doom because I didn’t remember there being any archaeology in it, and after taking a look at it, I’m sure I was right.I would go to a police station and say, “Such and such things are happening, please have a look at it.” If I get involved, it would only get more complicated. I wouldn’t get involved with saving children from caves. As an archaeologist, I wouldn’t get involved in things like this - we are normal people! I’m not an adventurer, I’m not a savior. Over time, I found out that it wasn’t quite as much punching as I’d imagined, but I do like learning about the past as well.Ībhijit Dandekar, professor of archaeology at the Deccan College in Maharashtra, India: I don’t see any archaeology from Indiana Jones. Paul Duncan McGarrity, archaeologist at the Museum of London Archaeology and host of Ask an Archaeologist podcast: I watched all of the Indiana Jones films when I was frankly too young to watch them and that’s what had the impact in making me want to be an archaeologist. Saying that might get me in trouble with some of my colleagues, but I think it’s true. But I suspect there would be far less public interest in archaeology and far less funding for archaeology if not for the interest that he attracted. Archaeologists always say that it’s awful and it’s terrible and it is all those things. It’s inspired people to get interested in archaeology - I would say that Indiana Jones has inspired a whole generation of people to be archaeologists. That said, it’s a great adventure story and Indiana Jones is fun. The only thing I think I can say is that a lot of archaeologists would like to punch Nazis too, but that’s really the only similarity. He doesn’t excavate in any of the movies, he doesn’t do surveys - he’s a treasure hunter, and archaeologists aren’t treasure hunters. Larry Coben, archaeologist and founder/executive director of the Sustainable Preservation Initiative : Indiana Jones isn’t really an archeologist except in name. So, when they found a little time off from treasure-digging, booby-trap-dodging and outrunning giant boulders, here’s what the archaeologists had to say. ![]() In fact, the movie is so jumbled and confused that I needed an international team of archaeological experts just to make sense of how wrong it is. Unsurprisingly, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom gets a lot wrong about India. ![]() Temple of Doom, however, uses a hodge-podge of Indian culture, theology and folklore to have Indy face off against the Thuggee, a cult that worships the supposedly evil goddess Kali. Well, while every Indiana Jones movie is chock-full of historical inaccuracies, the other films are mostly about punching Nazis in the face (or Soviet Russians, in the case of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ). Perhaps you’re wondering, of all the Indiana Jones movies, why the hell should I examine Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ? If anything, the second film in the series is now the least notable: The first and third movies are generally considered to be far better, and the fourth movie is so atrocious that it warrants discussion purely because of its pronounced shittiness. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |