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| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | ||
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This is the third Indiana Jones movie. We learned in the first one that Jones is afraid of snakes. This movie begins with an extended section that shows us the origins of some of Indy's trademarks - Where he got his hat, his whip, the scar on his chin, and his fear of snakes. It begins with a scene of the young Indiana Jones and a group of boyscouts on horseback stopping to explore some caves in the southwest desert. Indy and another boy climb together into one cave where they find a group of men looting it. They watch the men discover an ancient gold cross. Indy tells the other boy to go report the looters to their troop leader, but the boy feels something crawling on his lap. Indiana pulls a harmless garter snake off of him and taunts him for being afraid of it, telling him that it's only a snake. We see here that Indiana Jones was not always afraid of snakes. |
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As the other boy runs off, Jones steals the cross and runs out of the cave with it as the men chase him. He jumps aboard a slow-moving circus train and pushes his way through the winow of the reptile box car. He is startled by a large dangerous-looking fanged snake in a container of water, which makes him fall into a large tub full of garter snakes. the same kind of snakes he just taunted his friend for being afraid of. He finds himself covered with garter snakes and we hear him screaming loudly. This is obviously the trauma that gave him his fear of snakes. |
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