Mutt Williams: You know, for an old man you ain't bad in a fight. What are you, like 80?
Throughout the movie Indy keeps referring to Orellana's quest for the City of Gold taking place in the 15th Century, which can't be, the Spanish didn't venture into the southern continent of America until the 1500's which would make it the 16th Century. An archaeologist would know that. See more...
When Indy and Mutt are riding the motorcycle through the study hall, they almost run over a nerdy, book-carrying student who gives the "Wilhelm Scream". This classic scream has been frequently heard in movies for at least the past three decades. See more...
Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Cate Blanchett, Harrison Ford, Jim Broadbent, John Hurt, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, Shia LaBeouf (add more)
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During the classroom scene, Indy assigns homework from a textbook by someone named "Michaelson". He mentions this same textbook in the classroom scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark. [Too obvious to be trivia. It's understandable that a teacher assigns homework from a specific author in different groups and years.]
Corrected by www.translingua.com.mx
When the refrigerator comes to a halt with Indy inside, the door suddenly pops open. This is not possible, because once latched shut, the door can only open if the handle is pulled outward. The latch is a secure physical connection no matter how much the refrigerator is banged about.
[A fridge that's just been within a short distance of a nuclear blast powerful enough to send it hurtling through the air is likely to acquire some considerable damage in the process. The latch broke.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
When Indy is questioning a local peasant in Cuzco moments after arriving, the music being heard is distinctively Mexican when it should have been Andean. [Amazingly, I heard some Andean music being played in the street earlier today, when, by your standards, only English music should be permitted. Musical styles travel.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
During the waterfall chase, they go down 3 successive waterfalls. These falls are the "Cataratas de Iguazu" on the border between Argentina and Brazil. However, they go down the falls in the wrong order. The last and biggest fall they go down is actually the first fall. [As the falls are not identified as being those specific falls in the film, they can be dealt with in the same way as any fictional location.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
In the beginning, Irina Spalko says the size of the metal container should be 2 meters by 1.5 meters by 66 centimeters. After finding the container, it's nowhere near that size. [A character making an assumption is not a movie mistake.]
After going over the last waterfall, everyone bails out of the boat in mid-air but when we see Marion again she is holding the steering wheel as if she held on the whole time. [The steering wheel broke off as she fell out of the vehicle.]
The characters refer to the local natives as Mayan. Incas are native to Peru, Mayans to Central America, and Aztecs to Mexico. [They don't refer to them as Mayans, Indy says he needs to run Ox's coded letter through Mayan in order to translate it. However once in Peru Indy speaks Quechua, which he qualifies as a local Incan dialect.]
When the characters are wading out of the river onto the shore (after the waterfall scene), a metal swimming pool ladder can be seen in the lower right corner of the screen. [Not on the DVD - and that's a gentle slope, so why would there be a ladder? I'm pretty sure you're thinking of the steering wheel Marion's clutching.]
Corrected by Andrew Perry
In the final scene, at the wedding, the officiant refers to Marion as "Marion Ravenwood," even though it's made clear earlier in the film that her last name is now Williams, same as Mutt's and her late husband's. [Some women choose to go back to their maiden name after a period of grieving, or a divorce. This name change could have been done legally before the wedding.]
In the warehouse, no one thinks to track down the magnetic artifact by using a simple compass. [First of all, character mistake. Second, as pointed out several times, the force emanating from the skull is NOT magnetic, but a different, alien psychokinetic power. There's no way to be sure a compass would be attracted to it. But if you listen, Indy actually asks for a compass first thing. It just so happens that nobody has one.]
Corrected by Twotall
When Indy escapes on the rocket powered cart, it is slowed down by a lot of sand on the tracks, but in the next shot, all the sand has disappeared. [The rocket powered cart is slowed down by a pool of water at the end of the track, not sand.]
Corrected by david barlow
On the scene where they are at the cemetery in Nazca, they show the Nazca lines right off the cemetery. These lines are so big that you need to be in a plane to actually see them. They are about 8 kms long each, and from the top of the hill in the movie they show at least three of them. [It is a myth that you need an airplane to see the Nazca lines, a hill or small mountain is enough.]
Indiana Jones fires an RPG-7 from the truck they are escaping with. RPG-7 was not produced until 1961. [This is incorrectly considered to be a film goof. The RPG launcher could be an RPG-2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG-2 which differs slightly from th RPG-7 in the design of the rear of the launcher (no shoulder stock). The launcher is not fully shown in the movie so we cannot say if it was an RPG-7 or the earlier and very similar RPG-2.]
In the chase scene around the campus Mutts' motorcycle has a belt drive. Harley Davidson did not make belt drive bikes until two decades later. [Actually, Harley Davidson made the belt drive during WWII, to combat the sand in the chain problem in North Africa.]
The scene at the graveyard takes place at Nazca, but after the scene, when the route they fly is marked on the map, they fly out of Cuzco. Cuzco is far up in the Andes, and it is very unlikely that they'd travel by land that far and then fly from Cuzco. [They would have to if that was the only place they could fly out of. This isn't a mistake.]
The Jeeps used during the Russians entry to Nevada was wrong. In 1957 the Army drove the Jeep Willys (early CJ) with wing fenders on front. The ones driven in the movie had round fenders. [The Jeeps they drove were Willys M38A1 which went into production around 1953, and had rounded fenders.]
In the opening scene, the soviet throws Indy's hat onto the ground, one can see that the hat is out of shape and smashed in, yet when Indy picks it up to put it on it has the perfect signature shape. [Any time he picks his hat up off the ground, he gives it a 'shake' kind of motion to get it back to it's shape. Even that time.]
In the scene Where Indy is being attacked, in the cemetery, the sidekick is about to be shot with a dart, Indy pops up and blows into the other end killing him. That would have only been possible had the dart been pointing towards the original attacker. [Just because the dart would have gone in the attacker's throat backwards doesn't mean the poisoned tip couldn't have penetrated the thin tissue inside his mouth or throat.]
Corrected by JC Fernandez
One of the characters says that the Conquistador took the skull in the "Fifteenth Century." The Fifteenth Century ended in 1501, while the first Conquistadors did not come to the Americas until several years later. [It's a fairly common error to call 1500s 15th century. It is wrong, but it is a character mistake.]
Indy blowing the poison dart back into the mouth of the attacker is almost identical to a scene in a previous Spielberg-produced (but Barry Levinson directed) film. In "Young Sherlock Holmes" (1985) Sherlock dispatches Mrs. Dribb by blowing a dart into her mouth in the exact same manner. [Just because something happens in another movie is not trivia. This same stunt has occured in other movies, such as Hudson Hawk.]
Corrected by Guy Brigman
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