Indiana Jones 3: Pause at 10 minutes and 10 seconds, real India in this frame!

Have you always dreamed of following in the footsteps of Indiana Jones and discovering cursed temples and ancient ruins with ancient artifacts? Why not play archaeologist right now in front of your TV and start your career as an excavator by carefully watching the feature films of the famous saga?

While Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the excellent third installment in the franchise, is being broadcast on the M6 ​​tonight, let’s look at, for example, a small detail at the beginning of the film that is actually much more important than one. can think

At the end of the opening scene, when a young Indiana Jones takes refuge in his house after stealing the Coronado cross from grave robbers, he walks right into the house in front of a lying dog, and “we see a very brief moment on the screen (exactly 10 minutes and 10 seconds into the film) .

At first glance, this animal is nothing out of the ordinary, and its presence simply tells us that the famous adventurer had a four-legged companion in his youth. But as we learn in the final seconds of the film, this dog was much more important to the young man. Really, he just gave it… his name.

After leaving the Grail Temple, Indy’s father, played by Sean Connery, reveals that his son’s real name is Henry Jones Jr. and that Indiana was originally the name of their dog. an animal that has gone “Very exciting memories” To the young man, to the point of forcing him to take his name and make it his own pseudonym.

But the winking doesn’t stop there, because the dog in question does not belong to any species. It really is an Alaskan Malamute: exactly like George Lucas’ 70s canine companion, which the father of the Star Wars saga named (I’ll give you a thousand)… Indiana!

As the screenwriter and producer of the Indiana Jones saga himself said, his malamute became a direct inspiration for the creation of the famous archaeologist… but not only!

Indeed, the filming dog, imposing and hairy, was also used to sitting in the passenger seat of the car when he was driving: enough to offer him a giant and hairy co-pilot of his Han Solo. The now famous Chewbacca.

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