 Mac: Jonesy! I`m going to be all right. [Mutt`s knife and some gold coins adhere to the Skull]
Indiana Jones: Crystal`s not magnetic.
Mutt Williams: Neither is gold.
Indiana Jones: Oh, that can`t be good.
Speaker Voice: All personnel, it is now one minute to zero time. Put on goggles or turn away. Do not remove goggles or face burst until ten seconds after first light.
Indiana Jones: That can`t be good at all.
Indiana Jones: [jumping out of the car] Big damn ants! Go!
Indiana Jones: You`re not from around here, are you?
Agent Irina Spalko: [taking off her glasses] Where is it you would imagine I am from, Dr. Jones?
Indiana Jones: Well, the way you`re sinking your teeth into those wubble-u`s, I should think maybe Eastern Ukraine.
Mutt Williams: [as Indy sinks in a quicksand-esque substance, he is passed a long snake] Grab on. It`s a rat snake!
Indiana Jones: Rat snakes aren`t that big.
Mutt Williams: Well, this one is, all right? It`s not even poisonous. Now grab on!
Indiana Jones: Go get something else.
Mutt Williams: Like what?
Indiana Jones: Like a rope or something.
Mutt Williams: There`s no Sears and Roebuck here! Grab the snake!
Indiana Jones: Maybe I can touch the bottom.
Marion Ravenwood: There`s no bottom. Now grab it.
Indiana Jones: I think I can feel it with my feet
Mutt Williams: Grab the snake!
Indiana Jones: Stop calling it that!
Mutt Williams: It`s a snake! What do you want me to call it?
Indiana Jones: Say "rope."
Mutt Williams: What?
Indiana Jones: Say "Grab the rope"!
Mutt Williams, Marion Ravenwood: Grab the rope!
[last lines]
Professor `Ox` Oxley: Well done, Henry!
Indiana Jones, Mutt Williams: Thanks, Ox.
Marion Ravenwood: What the hell is that?
Professor `Ox` Oxley: A portal! A pathway to another dimension!
Indiana Jones: I don`t think we want to go that way.
Indiana Jones: I think I understand, Ox. Someone came?
[repeated line]
Col. Dr. Irina Spalko: I want to know!
Mutt Williams: Professor, this really is a dead end. Look.
Indiana Jones: [after climbing on the rock and noticing that it shifts with force, tilting it first away, and then back to Mutt, with a grin] Come on, genius
Indiana Jones: [watching Mutt jump around, trying to get scorpions off of himself] Dance on your own time, will you?
Mutt Williams: You`re a teacher?
Indiana Jones: Part-time.
Indiana Jones: Where`d they go? Space?
Professor `Ox` Oxley: Not into space. Into the space between spaces.
Indiana Jones: Why don`t you stick around, Junior?
Mutt Williams: [chuckles] I don`t know. Why didn`t you, Dad?
Professor `Ox` Oxley: Dad!
[gives Indy a questioning look]
Professor `Ox` Oxley: Dad?
Indiana Jones: Somewhere your grandpa is laughing.
Mutt Williams: What`s he gonna do now?
Marion Ravenwood: I don`t think he plans that far ahead.
Mutt Williams: Yeah.
Indiana Jones: [pops out from the inside of the truck with a bazooka] Scooch over, will you, Son?
Mutt Williams: Don`t call me "son." Don`t.
Indiana Jones: [ignoring Mutt`s complaint] I think I`d cover my ears if I were you.
[Indy fires a rocket at a giant tree cutter, but it sends the large circular blade bouncing straight for them, cutting through other trucks as it goes]
Indiana Jones: Duck! Duck!
Indiana Jones: What`s your mom`s name again?
Mutt Williams: Mary. Mary Williams. You remember her?
Indiana Jones: There`ve been a lot of Marys, kid.
Mutt Williams: [jolts up from chair] Shut up! That`s my mother you`re talking about! All right? That`s my mother.
Indiana Jones: You don`t have to get sore all the time just to prove how tough you are.
Indiana Jones: Brutal couple of years, huh, Charlie? First Dad, then Marcus.
Dean Charles Stanforth: We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.
Dean Charles Stanforth: I barely recognize this country anymore. The government`s got us seeing Communists in our soup.
Indiana Jones: How did Deidra take the news?
Dean Charles Stanforth: How does any wife take such things? The look on her face is a combination of pride and panic.
Indiana Jones: We were younger.
Mac: I still am young!
Indiana Jones: We had guns. Put your hands down, will you? You`re embarrassing us.
Mac: Bet you 500 bucks we get out of this.
[Dovchenko arrives and faces Indy]
Mac: Let`s call it 100.
Professor `Ox` Oxley: How much of human life is lost in waiting?
[repeated line]
Professor `Ox` Oxley: Henry Jones Junior...
Mac: Don`t get clever, Boris. You don`t know him.
[Russian speeds up car]
Mac: Know him. Know him. You don`t know him! You don`t know him!
Indiana Jones: Nazca Indians used to bind their infants` head with rope to elongate the skull like that.
Mutt Williams: Why?
Indiana Jones: Honor the gods.
Mutt Williams: No, no. God`s head is not like that, man.
Indiana Jones: Depends on who your god is.
Col. Dr. Irina Spalko: Do svidanya, Dr. Jones.
[Mutt pops open his switchblade, ready to fight two KGB agents]
Indiana Jones: Nice try kid, but it looks like you brought a knife...
[both agents pull out guns]
Indiana Jones: ...to a gun fight.
Mutt Williams: One of the scorpions just stung me! Am I gonna die?
Indiana Jones: How big?
Mutt Williams: Huge!
Indiana Jones: Good.
Mutt Williams: Good?
Indiana Jones: When it comes to scorpions, the bigger the better. Small one bites you, don`t keep it to yourself.
Mutt Williams: [to Indy] What are you looking at, Daddy-o?
[points to Irina]
Mutt Williams: She`s getting away!
Mutt Williams: Name`s Mutt, Mutt Williams.
Indiana Jones: Mutt?
Mutt Williams: Yeah.
Indiana Jones: What kind of name is that?
Mutt Williams: It`s the one I picked. You got a problem with it?
Indiana Jones: Take it easy.
Indiana Jones: [crashes into a truck windshield after a failed swing from his whip] Damn, I thought that was closer...
Indiana Jones: Leave it to Ox to write a riddle in a dead language.
Marion Ravenwood: Mutt can be a little impetuous.
Indiana Jones: Well, it`s not the worse quality in the world.
[Indy and Marion sink further into the ground]
Indiana Jones: Keep your arms above the surface. When the kid comes back, grab on.
Marion Ravenwood: Indy, he...
Indiana Jones: He`s a good kid, Marion. You should get off his back about school.
Marion Ravenwood: Mutt, I mean...
Indiana Jones: Not everybody is cut out for it.
Marion Ravenwood: His name is Henry!
Indiana Jones: Henry. Good name.
Marion Ravenwood: He`s your son.
Indiana Jones: My son?
Marion Ravenwood: Henry Jones the III.
Indiana Jones: [beat] Why the hell didn`t you make him finish school?
Indiana Jones: Be careful, you may get exactly what you wish for.
Col. Dr. Irina Spalko: I usually do.
Indiana Jones: [stuck in quicksand] Oxley, don`t just sit there. For God`s sake, man. Go get help!
Professor `Ox` Oxley: Help?
Indiana Jones: Help!
Professor `Ox` Oxley: Help?
[runs into the trees searching for help]
Indiana Jones: [later on, they`re surrounded by Russian soldiers after getting pulled out of the quicksand by Mutt] Good work, Ox. Thanks.
Professor `Ox` Oxley: [points at the Russians] Help.
Indiana Jones: You want to be a good archaeologist...
[Mutt drives them out of the building on his motorcycle]
Indiana Jones: ...you`ve got to get out of the library!
Indiana Jones: So what are you, a triple agent?
Mac: Nah, I just lied about being a double.
Indiana Jones: [on seeing the Crystal Skull] Unbelievable.
Indiana Jones: Marion, take the wheel.
Mutt Williams: That`s not fair. She drove the truck.
Indiana Jones: Don`t be a child. Find something to fight with.
Col. Dr. Irina Spalko: [Irina has Marion and Indiana hostage] So, Dr. Jones, you will help us?
[a soldier cocks a pistol and points it at Marion`s back]
Col. Dr. Irina Spalko: A simple "yes" will do.
Indiana Jones: Oh, Marion, you had to go and get yourself kidnapped.
Marion Ravenwood: Not like you did any better.
Indiana Jones: Same old, same old.
Col. Dr. Irina Spalko: Don`t toy with me, Dr. Jones. What is the point of all this?
Indiana Jones: If it`s still magnetic, the metal in this gun powder should point the way.
Col. Dr. Irina Spalko: This warehouse is where you and your government have hidden all of your secrets, yes?
Indiana Jones: This is a military warehouse. I`ve never been here before in my life.
Mac: Jonesy!
[Indiana punches Mac in the face]
Mac: You broke my nose!
Indiana Jones: I told you.
Col. Dr. Irina Spalko: Enough! You will speak to Oxley and lead us to Akator, yes?
Indiana Jones: Nyet.
Col. Dr. Irina Spalko: Take him outside.
Mutt Williams: I don`t understand. Why the legend about the city of gold?
Indiana Jones: The Ugha word for gold translates as "treasure." But their treasure wasn`t gold. It was knowledge. Knowledge was their treasure.
Mutt Williams: Oh, it`s just a thing.
Col. Dr. Irina Spalko: Belief, Dr. Jones, is a gift you have yet to receive. My sympathies.
Indiana Jones: Oh, I believe, sister. That`s why I`m down here.
Col. Dr. Irina Spalko: [to Mutt] You fight like a young man, eager to begin, quick to finish.
Mutt Williams: Get on, Gramps!
Steven Spielberg and Dan Bradley drew traditional storyboards to plan all the film`s action sequences. However, the motorcycle chase was improvised after the animators had completed their work.
Mutt Williams: You know, for an old man you ain`t bad in a fight. What are you, like 80?
Indiana Jones: Thanks a lot.
Mutt Williams: What are you, like, 80?
Before ‘The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ was chosen as the title, several other titles were considered and even registered with the MPAA in August 2007, including ‘The City of Gods’, ‘The Destroyer of Worlds’, ‘The Fourth Corner of the Earth’, ‘The Lost City of Gold’, and finally, ‘The Quest for the Covenant’.
Shia LaBeouf revealed the movie`s official title during his appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards 2007 (2007) (TV).
This is the first Indiana Jones film without actor Pat Roach, who had a role in all the first three films. Roach died in 2004
Shia LaBeouf signed on for the film in April 2007, so excited about doing an Indy film that he didn`t even read the script. To prepare for his role as the greaser Mutt Williams, LeBeouf repeatedly watched the previous three Indiana Jones films and gained fifteen pounds of muscle.
To reprise his role as the legendary explorer Indiana Jones, the 64-year-old Harrison Ford spent three hours a day at the gym, and subsisted on a high-protein diet of fish and vegetables, thus building his body into a condition where he could perform his own stunts (he always kept himself fit anyway, as he hoped to complete all the five Indiana Jones films that were originally planned in the 1980s). Steven Spielberg later stated he was so impressed with Ford`s form that he could not tell the difference between the shoots for the third and fourth films.
Originally, Indy was to be up against an uprising of ex-Nazis, but Steven Spielberg felt he could not treat the Nazis lightly after directing Schindler`s List (1993), and Harrison Ford felt they had "plumb wore the Nazis out." George Lucas also felt that the 1950s decade would have to take into account the Cold War, and when he heard that that Joseph Stalin had been interested in crystal skulls, he made the Soviets the script`s villains.
In 2000, Steven Spielberg`s personal interest for another Indy film was ignited when his son asked when the remaining two Indy films would be released.
When asked if Harrison Ford was too old to return as Indy, producer Frank Marshall quoted Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): "It`s not the years, it`s the mileage." He explained that it would be interesting to see Indy in a different decade, and deal with all kinds of new and interesting things. The age also adds to Indy as a fallible and therefore believable character.
Steven Spielberg did not shoot the film in digital format, which his friend and partner George Lucas had adopted. Lucas approved, seeing that it looked, in his words, "like it was shot 3 years after Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), you`d never know there was 20 years between shooting."
In 2006, Harrison Ford declared that if this film was not made by 2008, then the filmmakers should drop the idea altogether. This got Steven Spielberg looking for a good script immediately.
Steven Spielberg cast Russian actors in the roles of Russian soldiers so their accents would be authentic.
Steven Spielberg describes this film as "the sweet dessert I give those who had to chow down on the bitter herbs I used in Munich (2005)."
Screenwriter David Koepp looked at all the film`s previous drafts, and kept what he felt were good ideas. He tried not to make his work a "fan script," avoiding any trivial references to the previous films. He noted that the story would have to acknowledge Ford/Jones`s age, and also aimed for the mix of comedy and adventure from the first film, trying to make it less dark than the second film and yet less comic than the third film.
John Hurt wanted to read the script before he signed on. He had previously heard about actors who signed on to a Steven Spielberg film before reading the script, since "Spielberg - you know, GOD - was doing it!" Hurt replied, "`Well, I need to have a little bit of previous knowledge even if God is doing it." The filmmakers sent a courier with the script from Los Angeles over to London, who gave the script to Hurt at three in the afternoon, reclaimed it at eight that evening and flew back the following day. Ray Winstone mentioned a similar experience on a British chat show: he was asked if he wanted to be in the film, and he requested to read the script. He described a young man in a suit coming to his house, drinking tea while he read it, then getting on the next plane back to America. He also noted that once the film was over, they had to give the scripts back.
At a pre-production press conference at Yale, producer Frank Marshall said that Indy`s fictional Marshall College is indeed named after him. He quipped, "If my last name was Yale, it would be Yale College."
The poster art for the movie was drawn by Drew Struzan, the same artist who also created the poster art for the previous two Indiana Jones films. He took over from original Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) poster artist Richard Amsel who died in 1985.
The film marked Spielberg`s first return to Cannes since E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) in 1982.
The film was delivered to theaters with a combination lock - the combination wasn`t provided until the day of the first showing.
WILHELM SCREAM: Boy with stack of books in library about to get crashed into by bike.
Shipped to some theaters under the code name `Band Wagon`
Shipped to some theaters under the name, "Turbo".
In the coffee shop, Indy mocks at Mutt Williams` name: Mutt (a mixed breed dog). But as stated by Henry Jones Sr. in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Indy`s name is also canine-related: "Indiana" was the name of the Jones family dog.
The pictures of Marcus (Denholm Elliott) and Henry Jones Sr. (Sean Connery) shown prominently on Indy`s desk are both from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) More difficult to spot is a photograph of Indy and Sallah (John Rhys-Davies) from Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) on the fireplace mantel in Indy`s home. A picture of Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) can be seen in the background on a cupboard when Indy is talking to Mutt. She is wearing her red stage dress from Club Obi Wan. A doctored photograph of a young Sean Connery and River Phoenix briefly seen in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) is also visible on a small table as Dean Stanforth (Jim Broadbent) enters the room.
The film has some tributes to Marcus Brody (the late Denholm Elliott): A portrait of him is shown on the wall in the hallway when the Dean Charles is having the conversation with Indiana Jones, a picture of him is set on Indiana`s desk next to a picture of Henry Jones Sr. (Sean Connery), and there`s a statue of Marcus in the College`s court yard when the KGB agent accidentally drive the car into it. Also, according to info on the statue, Marcus Brody was College Dean from 1939-1944.
The following George Lucas-created characters have "a bad feeling about this": Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)), Anakin (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)), Obi Wan (Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)), Luke (Star Wars (1977)), Han (Star Wars (1977)), Leia (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)), C3-PO (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)), and Indiana Jones (like Han Solo, played by Harrison Ford) in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).
The girl who punches Mutt in the diner scene is Sasha Spielberg, daughter of director Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw (Willie Scott).
In the scene at Marshall College, pictures of the Sankara Stones from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) can be seen on a blackboard, along with some of the names of characters associated with the stones.
Indiana Jones does not say his signature phrase "Trust Me" in the film; Marion Ravenwood does. However he does say "I`ve got a bad feeling about this." a line often used by Harrison Ford as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy.
Harrison Ford apparently has kept himself in such good shape over the years that his costuming measurements for this film had not changed from those in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), nearly 20 years earlier.
The "swimming jeep" used by Jones is a 1942 Ford GPA. Approximately 12,778 were made during WWII by Sparkman & Stephens Inc. utilizing a Ford GPW frame & driveline. Many went to Russia as part of the Lend Lease program.
When Indy comes out of the house at the atomic testing area, the address is clearly seen as 138. This is a reference to the George Lucas film THX 1138 (1971), a film referenced in his body of work.
The "Kung Fu Aztecs" who attacked Indy and Mutt in the graveyard are not as historically inaccurate as one may think. Pre-Spanish Peru Incans did in fact practice a Martial Art known as "Rumi Maki", which literally translates as "Hard Hands."
While the previous Indy films were a tribute to the 1930s Republic Pictures serials, the filmmakers decided to change the approach/setting of this film; according to George Lucas, the film was "more of a 1950s B-movie."
Harrison Ford convinced David Koepp to include more jokes about Indy`s age in the script, believing they would help reduce the "American paranoia about aging." He also refused to dye his hair for the role, arguing Indy`s appeal wasn`t in his youth but in his imagination and resourcefulness: "My ambition in action is to have the audience look straight in my face and not the back of a stuntman`s head. I hope to continue that no matter how old I get."
As of June 2008, this film holds the record for the largest Paramount Pictures prints distributed (about 12,000
To prepare for her role of Irina Spalko, Cate Blanchett learned to fence and (during filming) practiced karate. She based her performance on Rosa Klebb from From Russia with Love (1963), who also has a stern manner and a bob-cut hairdo.
As in the previous films, Harrison Ford performed many of his own stunts, because stunt technology had become safer since 1989; he also felt it improved his performance.
The character of Harold Oxley was inspired by Ben Gunn, the hermit from "Treasure Island."
During filming, Ray Winstone tore his hamstring. He later remarked, "I keep getting these action parts as I`m getting older!"
Dimitri Diatchenko was originally to shoot his role in ten days, since his role was a minor one. When shooting the Marshall College fight, Harrison Ford accidentally hit his chin, and Steven Spielberg liked Diatchenko`s humorous reaction to the punch so much he expanded his role, and Diatchenko spent three months filming.
For his role as Spalko`s henchman, Dimitri Diatchenko bulked up his physique to look more menacing, arriving at 250 pounds through weight-lifting.
When filming the scene where Indiana drives a truck through a wall, things did not go as planned: timed explosives were used, but one explosive did not go off and landed in the seat next to Harrison Ford.
In the tent in the jungle, Mac makes a remark about being richer than Howard Hughes. At this point, Cate Blanchett enters the tent. Blanchett won an Academy Award for her role in The Aviator (2004), the Howard Hughes biopic.
The Akator throne room designed by Guy Dyas keeps up an Indiana Jones tradition by having C-3PO and R2-D2 etched into one of the yellow titles, and E.T. into another. According to the book "The Complete Making of Indiana Jones", the characters can be found somewhere in all four Indiana Jones pictures, not just Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
The movie introduced the line "Nuke the Fridge" to the colloquial English language as a replacement for "Jump the Shark" (see trivia for "Happy Days" (1974)) referring to the scene where Indiana Jones survives a nuclear explosion by climbing into a fridge. Both terms refer to a TV show or a franchise having surpassed its peak and getting close to absurdity.
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and Virginia Madsen were all rumored to play a part in the movie.
Harrison Ford was adamant that he got to wield Indiana`s famous whip. Paramount executives wanted the weapon to be computer generated because of new film safety rules, but the actor branded the rule "ridiculous".
Denholm Elliott, who played Indy`s friend and colleague Marcus Brody in the previous films, died in 1992. He was replaced with Jim Broadbent. As a tribute to Elliott, a portrait of Brody can be seen in Marshall College.
John Rhys-Davies was not approached to reprise his character Sallah, despite his apparent enthusiasm for doing so.
The character Mutt Williams is named after music composer John Williams.
The film pays homage to actor Denholm Elliott, who died in 1992. He had appeared as Indiana Jones` sympathetic colleague Marcus Brody in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) respectively, and is present here on an oil painting in the university halls, on a photo on Indiana Jones` personal desk and as a statue on the campus.
At the end of the movie we see a worker putting Indiana Jones` name on a window in stencils; the man doing it was the same actor who lost a drinking contest to Marion Ravenwood in her Nepalese tavern in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
The film could have been released back in 1995 with the script written by Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) writer Jeffrey Boam. However, the release and the box-office success of Independence Day (1996), which also deals with matters extra-terrestrial, prompted George Lucas to shelve the project and work on his Star Wars prequels, which was resumed after he finished Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).
Costume designer Mary Zophres based much of the designs of the main characters on certain real-life figures. For instance, Mutt is obviously based on Marlon Brando in The Wild One (1953), Spalko is based on Marlene Dietrich and Marion is based on famed pilot Amelia Earhart.
The Staff of Moses from Cecil B. DeMille`s The Ten Commandments (1956) also makes a cameo appearance in the Area 51 Hangar. The props department made a replica out of the original one. However it is much harder to spot than the Ark`s cameo appearance.
Karen Allen was not aware her character was in the script until Spielberg called her in January 2007, saying, "It`s been announced! We`re gonna make Indiana Jones 4! And guess what? You`re in it again!"
The plaque on Marcus Brody`s statue reads "In proud memory of Marcus Brody, Dean of students 1939 - 1944 with honour and loyalty".
This film and its franchise has similarities to that of the "Mad Max" trilogy. One of them being the Atomic Cafe, passed by the U.S. Army convoy in the beginning. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)" featured an establishment of the same name. And the late artist Richard Amsel drew posters for both.
For nostalgic purposes, the Paramount Pictures screen is the same style from before the opening credits of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981). Except `Gulf + Western` are replaced by `Viacom`.
In the chase seen through the campus Indy and Mutt crash land in the library where Indy is asked a question by one of his students regarding research. Indy responds by saying something to the effect of research being best obtained by getting out of the library and into the field. However, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Indy tells his students that "70% of all archeology is done in the library. Research, reading. We cannot afford to take mythology at face value."
According to the George Lucas interview from the Special Effects documentary included on the DVD, the concept for the giant, flesh-eating ants was lifted directly from an abandoned script for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
All three previous Indiana Jones movies featured a Bond-like, mini-adventure sequence that bore little or no significance to the main plot. In this film, the main story begins immediately after the opening credits, which includes the introduction of all the main villains, along with the very secret to the crystal skull itself.
In the coffee shop, when the KGB agent come over and Mutt pulls out his switchblade Indy say, "I think you just brought a knife to a gun fight." This is a reference to Sean Connery`s line in The Untouchables (1987). Connery, of course, played Indy`s father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
Harrison Ford and Neil Flynn previously appeared together in The Fugitive (1993). Their scene together, in which Ford is recognized by a passenger reading the newspaper, was reference by director Steven Spielberg in Minority Report (2002).
The handgun that Mac uses is a Browning HP, which was used by Indy in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
The cast of this film features three actors who have appeared in Martin Scorsese`s last three films: Ray Winstone appeared in The Departed (2006), Cate Blanchett appeared in The Aviator (2004), and Jim Broadbent appeared in Gangs of New York (2002).
Indy tells Mutt Williams that he once rode with Pancho Villa. This is a reference to the pilot episode of "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (1992) in which young Indy (played by Sean Patrick Flanery) rides with Villa in 1916, in revolutionary Mexico.
Indy`s entry in the beginning, when before we see him, we first see his shadow putting on his hat as a few bars of the theme music play, is likely a reference to the Fleischer Brothers "Superman" cartoons, when Superman was always seen in shadow or silhouette as he changed from Clark Kent to Superman, as the themes played.
This was not the first time Harrison Ford played the famous role since Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Ford donned the fedora and jacket for a brief appearance in 1993`s "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues (#2.5)" (1993), a story set 7 years before this film.
First Indiana Jones film to show the Lucasfilm logo.
Begins with a shot of a mountain-shaped dirt which is reminiscent of the Paramount Pictures logo. See also Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
In the motorcycle chase, just as Indy and Mutt enter the library from an exterior shot, a student can be seen wearing the Indy costume, complete with fedora, leather jacket and tan pants.
The only Indiana Jones film to not receive any Oscar nominations. The first three movies in the series had won at least one Oscar each.
There is a scene where Indy and Mutt go to a diner to talk. The diner is named "Arnies" after Steven Spielberg`s father.
When Indy first sees the bomb above the fake town the words "I like Ike" are visible on the bomb itself.
As Indy and Mutt enter the library on the motorcycle, the theme from Brahms`s Academic Festival Overture can be heard in the score.
The US version of the teaser trailer was modified so you don`t see any guns. In the international version the sight of the US flag was removed.
SPOILER: The aliens closely resemble the ones in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), also directed by Steven Spielberg.
SPOILER: During the Hanger 51 scene, the Ark of the Covenant (which was the MacGuffin in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)) can be seen briefly inside a broken crate. In the meanwhile, the musical theme of the Ark of the Covenant can be heard.
SPOILER: Mutt Williams was originally a nerdy kind of character, but George Lucas decided to make him Indiana`s son and give him a rebellious character, reasoning that "he needs to be what Henry Jones Sr. thought of his son, and the curse returns to Indy in the form of his own son - he`s everything a father can`t stand!"
SPOILER: There are two literary references included in Harold Oxley`s cryptic instructions and gibberish. "Comus" by John Milton and "Eyes that last I saw in tears" by T.S. Eliot.
SPOILER: Originally Henry Jones, Sr., Short Round, Sallah and Willie Scott were to make an appearance at Indiana`s wedding.
SPOILER: DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [Fatherhood]: Indiana Jones wasn`t around during his son`s childhood.
SPOILER: Shortly after the spaceship departs, Indy says to Mutt, "Why don`t ya stick around junior?" Henry Jones, Sr. also addressed Indiana Jones as "Junior", much to his dissatisfaction.
SPOILER: In the "making of" on the Back to the Future (1985) DVD, one of the original ideas of the time machine was as a refrigerator that Marty would climb into. Furthermore, the way Marty was to come back from 1955 was via the power of a nuclear bomb at a test site in the desert. Back to the Future was produced by Steven Spielberg. The idea was scrapped because filmmakers were afraid children would shut themselves inside of their home refrigerators to imitate the movie.
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