Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Difference between revisions

'''Indiana Jones:''' Part time. }}

 

 

 

However, the FBI accuse Indy of being a collaborator with the Russians, and he is even forced from his long-term teaching career due to the allegations. However, Indy quickly meets a leather-jacket wearing young man named "Mutt" Williams (Shia LeBeouf), who convinces Jones to go with him to South America and help him find an old friend.

* [[Actor Allusion]]:

** [[Harrison Ford]] apparently became [[Genre Savvy]] about [[A New Hope|whether somebody escaped or was merely let go]]. He also says, "[[Star Wars|I've got a bad feeling about this]]."

* [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis]]: Akator.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Irina Spalko.

* [[Bowdlerise]]: In the Russian dub, all mentions of "Russians" and "Russia" were replaced with "Communists" and "USSR". However, Russian names and backgrounds of the villains were kept intact, thereby (inadvertently) making the film more accurate - Soviet intelligence personnel (whom are the only ones portrayed in the film) came from [[Soviet Russia Ukraine and So On|multiple republics]], not just Russia, even in this time period, like L. Beria, who as interior minister ''before'' the film's setting. They would certainly be party members or Soviet citizens.

* [[The Brute]]: Dovchenko.

* [[Call Back]]:

** The music heard during the warehouse escape sequence is the exact same piece used during the escape from the Hovitos in ''Raiders''.

** During the graveyard sequence, a guard shoots a poisoned dart at Mutt that sticks in a shovel, much like the scene in ''Raiders'' where Indy's torch is hit by a dart as he's attempting to reach the golden idol.

** Indy gets angry at Mutt when he realizes he brought him Oxley's note with him, just like how in ''Last Crusade'', his father was angry when he realized Indy brought the grail diary with him.

** The Joneses performing a motorcycle with sidecar escape again.

* [[The Cameo]]: Along with the one in [[Continuity Nod]] below, Moses' staff from ''[[The Ten Commandments]]'' is seen at the hangar.

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Partial example. The Russians first interfered with Indy in one of the games before they were used for ''Crystal Skull''.

* [[Casual Danger Dialog]]: Chasen Indiana pauses to give scholarly advice to a student after his sidecar crashed through the college library. Bonus points for the obscure [[Stealth Pun]]; the advice given while being hotly persued by a couple of communist mooks is to read Vere Gordon Childe, a passionate and well-known Marxist.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Mutt's knife.

{{quote| "Don't get too clever Boris. You don't know him...YOU DON'T KNOW HIM!"}}

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Irina Spalko.

* [[Decontamination Chamber]]: Radiation scrub-down right after nuking the fridge.

* [[Diner Brawl]]: Indy and Mutt start a brawl in a diner in order to get away from the KGB.

* [[The Dragon]]: Antonin Dovchenko.

* [[Dramatic Alien VTOL]]: The pyramid doubles as an alien ship.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: If the book is to be believed, the Aliens.

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Lest anyone thought Indy lost his edge since ''Last Crusade'', we're immediately proven wrong:

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: The massacre of the American soldiers at the beginning of the film by the Russians is only seen in a distant shot after most of them have been downed.

* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: {{spoiler|Mac}}, who switches sides and motives constantly throughout the film. {{spoiler|He's apparently helping the Russians because he's "a capitalist", yet he's also a double mole for the CIA}}. Lampshaded as a [[Double Reverse Quadruple Agent]].

{{quote| '''Mutt:''' (regarding elongated skulls on skeletons) Why are they like that?<br />

'''Indy:''' Incans would bind the heads of their infants with rope.<br />

'''Indy:''' That depends on who your god is. }}

* [[How Unscientific]]: Inverted, as the first three films feature magical artifacts, and then ''Crystal Skull'' features {{spoiler|interdimensional beings}}, suddenly becoming "How [[Science Fiction|Scientific]]!"

* [[I Know Karate]]: Subverted. After Mutt grabs the titular cranium, Spalko busts out previous unseen and unmentioned martial arts moves -- and ''sucks'' at it. At most, it seems like it's annoying Mutt.

* [[Inevitable Waterfall]]: Three of them. One after another.

* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]] / [[Grave Robbing]]: Subverted, Indiana is about to keep an ancient knife but a severe [[Facial Diaolgue|look]] by Mutt makes him put it back.

* [[Last Words]] / [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: Parodied hard.

'''Indy''': I like Ike.<br />

'''Dovchenko''': Put down gun. }}

* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: In the film, Marion's [[The Reveal|reveal]] a third of the way through is meant to take Jones (and the audience) by surprise. Of course, that didn't stop Paramount from including the character on the official poster for the film and heavily publicizing Karen Allen's involvement with the project.

* [[Like Father, Like Son]]: A central motif of the movie.

* [[Logo Joke]]: Cutting from the Paramount mountain to a prairie dog mound.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: [[The Baroness|Irina]] [[Evil Is Sexy|Spalko]]

* [[My Skull Runneth Over]]: The climax.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: What Indiana did as an OSS intelligence officer [[During the War]] implies the existence of a full noodle warehouse. Many medal-worthy actions are alluded to and a Berlin cover mission is invoked by Mac. Plus his involvement in the [[Roswell Incident]].

* [[Oh Crap]]: The whole group of heroes when the truck they're driving goes over a waterfall. Then it happens ''again'' as they realize it's not just one, but '''three''' sequential waterfalls.

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** [[Word of God]] says Professor Harold Oxley was modeled after Ben Gunn from ''[[Treasure Island]]''.

* [[Slow Electricity]]: In the warehouse scene, the lights turn on one at a time.

* [[Smoldering Shoes]]

** She was pretty badass in "Raiders", though. She shot that guy in her bar, and she took out a whole truck full of soliders with an aircraft mounted machine gun.

* [[Trilogy Creep]]: ''The Last Crusade'' ends with Indy & co. [[Riding Into the Sunset]] because Spielberg thought it would the end. He later admits in the DVD interviews for ''Crystal Skull'' that he initially had no interest in reviving the franchise until he was convinced by George Lucas to add an additional installment.

* [[Under the Truck]]: The motorcycle goes under a few library desks.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Indy gets involved in a motorcycle chase that crashes into the library of the school he works at. One student only notices this in the context of "hey, there's the professor, let's ask him about that question on the homework".