Why was Indiana Jones upset at the end of Raiders?
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Thank you.
Eta: if anyone is intrigued I found an article about a possible resting place of the Ark and some of its history.
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Recall also that in 1936 nobody is at war with Nazi Germany, that happened later.
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But the war didn't just start one day--the clouds of war were already well established by 1936 and Nazi Germany was already a major threat--their racism was well known. It just wasn't known that actual genocide was planned. It was known that the country was aggressively trying to establish an empire in Europe and committing atrocities. Bottom line, the world already knew that Nazi Germany was evil, it just didn't know how evil. The general racism occurring within Germany at the time was also well known, both by those in the country and those across Europe and around the world. In the US, the Nazis were supported by a disturbingly large portion of the population, which is one of the reasons why that country did not enter the war until Pearl Harbor was attacked.
A lot of people today don't remember how the US was basically Isolationist at the time, they'd come to think of WW1 as a pointless waste of lives and the survivors of it were the ones pushing for the US to stay out of another European Conflict because of how pointless and traumatic it had been for them. Also, apparently the Nazis used the American South as their model for segregating the "undesirables" in their country.
That doesn't explain why an entire regiment of Nazi troops were operating in 1936 Egypt without any political blow back in "Raiders".
There probably wouldn't be since Britain had negotiated a treaty with Egypt and was trying to keep the status quo due to increasing Italian belligerence in the region.
I just thought of something: If the Ark destroys anyone who touches it, then how did the US government get it into the box before putting it in the warehouse?
Just like how we saw Indy and Sallah did it.
They had poles inserted in to the sides, which is in accordance with tradition. And I believe the soldiers with Balloq had it on poles as well, so the Americans who retrieved it would have used poles in the same fashion.
Yeah, the box itself was not touched until German soldiers removed the lid. I can't recall whether or not those minions wore gloves of any sort. It's been years since I've seen the film, yeah, blasphemous, I know.
In context it's in nobody's interests to make a big fuss. Nazi Germany wouldn't want to advertise that a crack unit had been wiped out while operating in a non-hostile country, while neither the US or UK leaders wanted to go to war just then.
That's not really a good excuse. The UK, who had troops stationed around northern Egypt to protect the Suez Canal and the surrounding area, would have made a major fuss.
Let's assume that the Nazi incursion in Egypt was just to get the Ark, and they left when they got it.
UK's troops are spread out, and this is in Africa, so it doesn't "feel" as close as Poland in Europe (which did start the war in real life). And they didn't stop travel through the SUez canal or anything. Just digging up some old relics
I think it's something we can let go of for the sake of it being an action movie.
Indy and realism don’t inhabit the same solar system. So yes.
Chamberlain didn't want war. The good excuse for him was he needed time to improve the UK Air force. In 1936 the Germans would have won.
Poland had a treaty that meant it had to be protected.
As in WW1 protection treaties meant an automatic declaration of war.
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