Raiders of the Lost Ark: Pause at 11 minutes and 14 seconds and take a good look at the plane Indiana Jones is on

Like Indiana Jones himself, who often explores ancient temples in search of lost things, viewers of the saga created by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas in the early 80s can also have fun searching the feature films that make it in the hope of discovering something small hidden. treasure.

Just like the episodes of the Star Wars saga, the adventure of the hero camped by Harrison Ford does contain Easter eggs for the attention of the most observant fans. While Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first installment in the franchise, airs tonight on the M6, let’s take a look at one of these little sneak peeks from the famous intro featurette.

Press “Pause” at 11 minutes and 14 seconds into the movie, when Indy, chased by the Ovitos tribe after stealing the Chachapoyan idol, is driving through the jungle to reach his seaplane. While Jock, his pilot, is calmly fishing on board his rig, take a good look at the plane’s cabin and the registration code written on it.

It’s pretty easy to read because it’s all in big letters, it’s “OB-CPO”. A series of letters that may seem completely harmless at first, but Star Wars fans will no doubt manage to decipher and discover two little winks in there.

Indeed, as most knowledgeable viewers will surely guess, the letters OB refer to Jedi Master Obi-Wan (camped in Alec Guinness’s original trilogy) and the letters CPO evoke the protocol droid. C-3PO played by Anthony. Daniels and always accompanied by his faithful R2-D2.

Considering that the screenwriter and producer of the Indiana Jones trilogy is none other than George Lucas, the father of the famous galaxy far, far away, such a reference to the Star Wars saga seems logical. He’s not the only one lurking between the franchise’s films.

Indeed, we can still see in Raiders of the Lost Ark, for example, the hieroglyphs that depict two droids, or even the nightclub that bears the name of Obi-Wan at the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, part two. Saga.

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