![]() ![]() Professor Jones tells him (pointing to himself), "That's his name." Then pointing to Indiana, he says, "Henry Jones.Junior." Indiana retorts, "I like Indiana." Professor Jones answers, "We named the 'dog' Indiana!" Sallah laughs and says, "You're named after the dog?" Indiana replies, "I've got a lot of fond memories of that dog. Sallah asks why Professor Jones calls Indiana, "Junior". ![]() However, it is not the dog named, Indiana.In the movie, there is a conversation between Sallah, Marcus Brody, Professor Jones, and Indiana. Looking down into the temple full of snakes all Indy can say is Snakes, why did it have to be snakes His assistant Sallah says Asps. A dog of the same breed is seen in the scene where young Indiana brings the cross home. His dog was an Alaskan malamute, which is the same breed of the dog in the movie. Also, George Lucas, the author of the Indiana stories, had a dog named Indiana in the 1970's. The groundbreaking special effects and furious, never-ending pace make for a stylish whirlwind of a movie, topped off with a fabulous sense of humor. Having thrown down the gauntlet with the snake scene in Raiders, Spielberg and company showed few if any actual live. En route, Jones and his feisty ex-girlfriend, Marion (Karen Allen), must escape the clutches of evil Nazis, duplicitous 'natives,' and a nest of venomous snakes-not to mention the wrath of God. Unfortunately, the images are tiny, so I've had to upscale them. Snakes have figured into allIndiana Jonesmovies in some way, shape, or form. "Indiana" in the Indiana Jones movies is derived from the name of Indiana's pet dog as revealed in the third installment of the franchise, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Rumours of Indiana Jones' return to the LEGO aisle have been circulating for a while and now, thanks to an errant Dutch retailer who has added them to its website ahead of their official reveal, we have pictures of three sets that'll be released in June. That makes the final snake count a little blurrier, but we can't deny the eerie effects in the scene.How was the name of Indiana in the Indiana Jones movies derived? Interestingly, Allen points out in the the above video that many of the "snakes" in the film were not snakes at all, but legless (and importantly, harmless) lizards that resemble snakes. Spielberg (in archival footage): Get as many snakes here as you can in the shortest period of time. So we abandoned that and all of a sudden this call went out that we need four or five thousand snakes. And I think maybe the first time I said something to Steven about he said oh we're going to have mechanical snakes and once we started shooting the film it became clear that the mechanical snakes didn't work. Allen described some of the snake problems in a behind-the-scenes video you can view below.Īllen: "It didn't occur to me that we were going to have thousands of snakes around us. While the vast majority of snakes for this scene were non-venomous, there were a few shots that required Indiana Jones to come face-to-face with a cobra. Spielberg wasn’t pleased with the number of snakes they had on the set (about 2000) and ordered 4500 more from Denmark in order to achieve the horror the script so well described." "When Indy finds the Well he discovers that the whole place is inhabited by snakes. So, he made a few calls and got another 4,500 snakes delivered to the set. Spielberg initially brought in about 2,000 snakes for the scene, but he soon realized that he couldn't get any wide shots without showing how much ground wasn't covered in snakes. ![]() Allen, who was only wearing a light dress in the scene, wasn't too happy with being surrounded by snakes either. George Lucas, who came up with the story for the movie, said one reason he didn't want to direct the film is that he didn't want to deal with all of the snakes. Indiana Jones hates snakes, and apparently, so did some of the people working on the film. ![]()
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