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Major Arnold Toht.

I confess: I had to look it up.

(12-04-2016, 05:10 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Major Arnold Toht.

I confess: I had to look it up.

I've seen that movie SO many times. But that video had all the little quotes I like.

I could not understand how the screenwriter, who ought to know better, wrote that comment about the snake, and having some backbone. (Comes later in the video).

We learned in like 2nd grade that snakes have backbones, it's worms that don't. Worms are easier to eat, though.

My favorite story about that film concerns the scene in the market where Indiana lines up against the huge scimitar-wielding Egyptian chap. The audience spies an epic fight: sword v. whip, but Jones hauls out his .45 and shoots him.

I read an interview with Harrison Ford when he said the script called for the epic fight. They were filming very early—around 0430, I think—and Ford said to the director, 'Why don't I just shoot this chap?' (Actually, he didn't say 'chap'. What he said started with the same letter and had the same number of letters, but I digress). The director thought for the mandatory nanosecond and said 'Good idea'.

(12-04-2016, 06:50 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: [ -> ]My favorite story about that film concerns the scene in the market where Indiana lines up against the huge scimitar-wielding Egyptian chap. The audience spies an epic fight: sword v. whip, but Jones hauls out his .45 and shoots him.

I read an interview with Harrison Ford when he said the script called for the epic fight. They were filming very early—around 0430, I think—and Ford said to the director, 'Why don't I just shoot this chap?' (Actually, he didn't say 'chap'. What he said started with the same letter and had the same number of letters, but I digress). The director thought for the mandatory nanosecond and said 'Good idea'.

And the reprise in "Temple of Doom" where he reaches for the gun and it's not there.

I'd forgotten that.

There was another actor named "Harrison Ford" from the silent era. Just learned that.

Didn't know that.

(12-06-2016, 09:54 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Didn't know that.

Me neither. Now I wonder if "Harrison Ford" has been a stage name all along.

I guess not, found this on the web:

"He shares his name with a silent film actor also named Harrison Ford, who died in 1957. To avoid any confusion, Ford called himself "Harrison J. Ford" in his first movie credit, the 1967 film A Time for Killing. The "J" doesn't actually stand for anything, as Harrison has no middle name."