Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Short description
Set in 1935, the film follows archaeologist Indiana Jones after a deal in a Shanghai nightclub goes wrong. He escapes by plane with singer Willie Scott and a young Chinese boy named Short Round, but the flight ends in the mountains near India. There they reach a village whose children and sacred stones have been taken, and Jones agrees to recover what was lost. The search leads to a jungle palace and a secret cult operating beneath it, with a plan that puts Jones and his companions in danger.
Steven Spielberg directed the film, the twelfth of the forty features he has directed in chronological order, following Twilight Zone: The Movie and preceding The Color Purple. Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz wrote the screenplay, Robert Watts produced, and Harrison Ford leads a cast that includes Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth and Philip Stone, with 81 credited cast members and 87 credited crew members. It was made for about 28 million dollars and returned roughly 333 million dollars worldwide, a strong commercial result.
On IMDb it holds 7.5 out of 10 from around 566,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 7.3 out of 10 from over 10,000 votes. A critics' rating of 7.5 out of 10 from 138 reviews places professional assessments close to the audience averages. The film runs 118 minutes.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the opening scenes of the film, Harrison Ford imitates Humphrey Bogart.
- The film features a restaurant called “Obi Wan.” In Star Wars, the film from which this Jedi character is taken, Harrison Ford played Han Solo.
- Instead of an airplane, they wanted to film a motorcycle race on the Great Wall. But the Chinese government considered this sacrilegious.
- The sound of mine cars rumbling along the rails was recorded at Disneyland.
- Raspberry sauce and custard were used to portray the frozen monkey brains.
- Producer Frank Marshall personally filmed the alligators. He found them in Florida.
- Harrison Ford injured his back during a fight with an assassin. He even had to fly to Los Angeles for surgery. Subsequently, most of the stunts for Ford were performed by stuntman Vic Armstrong.
- Ford injured his back a second time while fighting a bear. It was particularly frustrating that this scene was later cut.
- During the filming of the rope bridge, most of the shots were taken either from the beginning or the end of the bridge because both Spielberg and the cinematographer were terrified of climbing to the middle.
- The rope bridge at the end of the film was genuine. Spielberg never crossed it. To get to the other side, he took a detour of one and a half miles.
- Models and a specially modified 35mm camera were used to film the mine car chase.
- Before Kate Capshaw appeared at the audition, Sharon Stone was the main candidate for the role of Willie.
- The working title of the film was "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom".
- Since the screenwriter of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," Lawrence Kasdan, was busy directing "The Big Chill" (1983), Lucas hired screenwriters Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, with whom he had worked on "American Graffiti." Lucas wanted the sequel to "Indiana Jones" to be darker (similar to "The Empire Strikes Back" compared to "A New Hope").
- "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" was the first film in THX's new Theatre Alignment Program, devised by George Lucas to standardize sound in cinemas.
- The film was shot in America, England, Sri Lanka, and China. The Indian government did not allow filming in India, as the producers refused to provide them with a copy of the script for censorship review, and also did not wish to remove the word "maharaja."
- The film's producers, George Lucas and Frank Marshall, appear in cameos at the beginning of the film (the airport scene). The first is a priest, the second a tourist. Additionally, Spielberg thanked Dan Aykroyd for his cameo in "The Blues Brothers" – Aykroyd also appears in the airport.
- A village shaman told Indiana about the Shankara stone, calling it a “Shiva Linga.” In Hindu tradition, a linga is a tall, cylindrical stone resembling a phallus. It is often placed inside a circle, symbolizing the yoni. Together, these symbols represent the dualistic sexual energy of the god Shiva.
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