Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Trivia: In the Mayan temple, Indy comments "I have a bad feeling about this." This line was a running gag in George Lucas' Star Wars saga, and was used by Harrison Ford at least once. (01:46:10)

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Trivia: When in the tent and forced to face the Crystal Skull, Indy dismisses the skulls as being from "Saucer Men From Mars". Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars was actually an early title for the film.

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Trivia: The young Henry nicknamed himself "Mutt, which is also a term for a dog. Indy named himself after a dog he had as a child that was called Indiana (as noted in the third movie). This is the first hint about their relationship.

Trivia: When Indy and Mutt are riding the motorcycle through the study hall, they almost run over a nerdy, book-carrying student who gives the "Wilhelm scream". This classic scream has been frequently heard in movies for at least the past three decades.

Trivia: In the scene in the chamber with the aliens there are mini R2D2 and C3P0s on the chairs.

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Trivia: In the chamber with the aliens, before the place collapses, one can see E.T. carved on the alien's chair.

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Trivia: "Crystal Skull" marks the first time in the Indiana Jones film series that Indy's complete outfit isn't itself an anachronism. As it is the first entry to take place post-World War II, the timeframe is now factually accurate that his satchel (Mark VII gas mask bag) would have existed. As the Mark VII was created for World War II, all 3 previous films make the addition of the satchel a factual error.

Trivia: Among the artifacts that fall out of the crates Spalko and gang push aside in the warehouse scene is Moses's staff. Property master Douglas Harlocker modelled it after the staff wielded by Charlton Heston as Moses in Ten Commandments. Incidentally, the Indiana Jones videogame, 'Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings', is about Indy's quest for Moses's staff.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: During the car chase scene at the start of the movie, the truck crashes into one of the boxes, ripping the side of the box off and revealing inside it the golden ark which was put in the same storage facility at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Trivia: Before production started and while the movie was still being planned, Harrison Ford was shown the original Indiana Jones costume from the first movie, and he has said he was pleasantly surprised that he could still fit into it perfectly despite being much older, so all doubts he might have had about "fitting into the role" went out the window.

Trivia: The scene where Indy escapes a nuclear blast by hiding in a lead-lined refrigerator spawned the phrase "nuking the fridge", which is analogous to jumping the shark, an idiom to describe when a TV series has passed its creative peak and its overall output has begun to decline.

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Trivia: The Crystal Skull that everyone carries around and the Crystal Skull that is attached to the head of the Crystal skeleton at the end are actually of different sizes. Director Steven Spielberg said that no one would notice.

Trivia: Harrison Ford was nearly killed on set during the scene where he's driving in the warehouse. One of the explosives didn't go off and was launched into the seat next to Ford by the other explosions. Luckily, it didn't go off and Ford wasn't injured.

Trivia: The girl who punches Mutt during the diner scene is Steven Spielberg's real-life daughter Sasha.

Trivia: The student in the Marshall College library, that Mutt and Indy almost run over at the end of the chase, is Chester "Chet" Hanks, son of Tom Hanks.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: In every odd-numbered Indiana Jones movie, Indy is fighting the Nazis. In every even-numbered movie, he's fighting different enemies. (In the second film, "The Temple Of Doom", the enemies are Chinese gangers and an evil Indian cult. In this film the enemies are Soviet soldiers.)

Trivia: In the warehouse, while everyone laughs at Indy after he says that he needs bullets, you can see Andrew Divoff behind him, who had played a Russian previously in another Ford film, Air Force One. He was the one who fought with him in the baggage deck while the phone was on.

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning when Indy is talking to Spalko, his hands keep alternating from being in his pockets to just resting at his sides between shots.

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Question: Perhaps I've forgotten some details from The Last Crusade in the years since I've seen it, but shouldn't Henry Sr. not be dead in this movie, because he drank from the Holy Grail which gives immortality?

Answer: Yep, you've forgotten some details. The Knight specifically states that the immortality bestowed by the Grail is limited to those who remain within the shrine. Jones Snr left the cave, ergo, no immortality.

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