TMR 040 – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Episode description
This week on Total Movie Recall, Ryan takes us on a journey through time and memory to show us his origins as a film-lover, a man, and, lo, a human. Sure, he could have said his favorite movie was some snooty, intellectual piece of New Hollywood cinema, but that would be a lie. It’s a VHS that his father got him as part of a $5.99 Big Mac giveaway at McDonald’s, and he was never the same. He makes himself vulnerable before you, and of course, Steve makes him regret it.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
d. Steven Spielberg
w. Jeffrey Boam (screenplay), George Lucas & Menno Meyjes (story)
Starring
Harrison Ford
Sean Connery
Alison Doody
Denholm Elliott
John Rhys-Davies
River Phoenix
The intrepid explorer Indiana Jones sets out to rescue his father, a medievalist who has vanished while searching for the Holy Grail. Following clues in the old man's notebook, Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, but they are not the only ones who are on the trail, and some sinister old enemies soon come out of the woodwork.
Things discussed in the show:
What it means to be a man.
Avatar The Last Airbender, season 3 (Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Zach Tyler, Jack De Sena, Dee Bradley Baker, Dave Filoni, Lauren MacMullan, Mae Whitman, Dante Basco, Michaela Jill Murphy)
The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyamalan, Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone)
Alien RPG / Dungeons & Dragons
Call of Cthulhu video game
H.P. Lovecraft
Alien (Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt)
Aliens (James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein)
Alien 3 (David Fincher, Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance)
Terminator 2 Judgement Day (James Cameron, William Wisher, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong)
Avatar (James Cameron, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver)
The Abyss (James Cameron, Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn)
Titanic (James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane)
FernGully The Last Rainforest (Bill Kroyer, Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Robin Williams)
Tombstone (George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre, Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott)
City of Lost Children (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet)
Dark City (Alex Proyas, Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly)
Steampunk
Star Wars The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, George Lucas, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill)
Alien Isolation - 2014 survival horror video game
Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman)
Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Boam, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody)
The Holy Grail
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
James Bond
Tomb Raider (Roar Uthaug, Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins)
Gunga Din (George Stevens, Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt)
"It belongs in a museum."
John Williams Oscars
Don "Magic" Juan
Museum controversy / Repatriation of cultural heritage / stolen artifacts
Iraq war / ancient sites ISIS has damaged and destroyed
River and Joaquin Phoenix and the Children of God Cult, flirty fishing
Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, Stephen King, Raynold Gideon, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland)
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, Flea, Udo Kier)
River Phoenix's band Aleka's Attic
Cross of the Coronado
Indiana Jones body count is 2,706
Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword
A View to a Kill (John Glen, Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts)
Goonies
E.T. The Extra Terestrial (Steven Spielberg, Melissa Mathison, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote)
Yale's secret nazi alumni
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, David Koepp, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf)
The Monkey King
The Forbidden Kingdom (Rob Minkoff, John Fusco, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano)
Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi obsession with the occult, his obsession with Arthurian Legend, the SS as a cult, and his plan to find a more Norse religion to replace Christianity.
Munich (Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner, Eric Roth, Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze)
Stunts in Mission Impossible, Fast and the Furious, Marvel films, Mad Max Fury Road and John Wick
Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, Robert Rodat, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Ted Danson, Paul Giamatti)
Scarface
Shriners Chick Tract - dying fez with the blood of Christians and the worship of Baphomet
"A bad penny always shows up." superstition
Big Black - Bad Penny (Steve Albini)
Fight Club (David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Helena Bonham Carter)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall)
Next Week: The Sandlot