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Let's continue to talk about Solo.
Bonus Start Wars thing, and another instance of the Lucasfilm snake eating its own tail.
Did someone say snakes?
(Sound)! What would an Indiana Jones movie be without a hefty dose of real live creepy crawlies?
Well, probably a much easier movie to make since they inevitably decided to use CGI.
In lieu of dealing with thousands of gross living creatures.
For Raiders, they constructed the set for the Well of the Souls at the legendary sound stage at Elstree Studios in London.
Where The Shining was filmed, and filled it with approximately 9,000 snakes from three different breeders.
It was originally 2,000, but Spielberg requested more when that didn't cover enough for a wide shot.
Also, most of them weren't even snakes.
The bulk of them were glass snakes, which are actually lizards with no legs.
You can spot them if you see any blinking since snakes don't blink.
They also shot the bug scene for Temple of Doom in Elstree and used something in the neighborhood of 50,000 bugs.
Though there was only a quarter of that number left at the end of the shoot since they kept escaping onto the streets of London.
And while Harrison Ford is actually totally cool with snakes in real life.
Kate Capshaw needed to be medically sedated to cope with this scene. The rats in The Last Crusade were apparently pretty easy to deal with, since rats can be trained.
But the monkey in Raiders was not so easy to direct.
George Lucas actually did some second unit directing on this monkey sig heil scene and it apparently took 50 takes to finally get it.
No! Also the monkey sounds were done by voice actor Frank Welker, who did the voice of Megatron in Transformers and Abu in Aladdin.
Which is pretty fitting, since that evil monkey is basically like a mix of Abu and Megatron. (Sound) The first three movies, and to a larger extent than you might think, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Rely heavily on real vehicles, sets, and practical effects.
Like this scene with actual dudes getting blasted by actual debris, or this miniature town that was built for the nuclear bomb test scene.
Also, this shot in the warehouse at the end of Raiders is a matte painting that took months to complete.
And who could call themselves a child of the 80s if they weren't traumatized by this scene.
This face melting was achieved by using multiple layers of wax and filming a time lapse of it melting under heat lamps.
And if you think of this shot of Belloc's head exploding is a bit too much for a PG rating, the MPAA ratings board has a segue for you.
(Sound) The Indiana Jones movies were instrumental in creating the PG-13 rating.
(Bleep). Raiders of the Lost Ark was originally going to get an R rating based on this head exploding shot.
But they compromised down to a PG by obscuring the shot with flames.
Temple of Doom," which has a grisly scene of mutilation and human sacrifice somehow squeezed by with a PG.
But raised serious questions about movies that fall somewhere in the middle of a PG and R rating.
Spielberg eventually proposed the PG-13 rating to NPAA President Jack Valenti, and the rest is history.
Then the subsequent two movies received a PG-13 rating, even though they are arguably the tamest in the series.
Actually now that you mention it, Crystal Skull was pretty gruesome to watch in its own way.
(Sound) Hey, I kid, I kid.
(Sound) Okay, time to make good on those Star Wars things because there's still a bunch.
These hieroglyphs of R2-D2 and C-3PO are one of the earliest examples of a movie easter egg.
They also made an homage to it in Crystal Skull, where some of the tiles have images of the droids as well as ET.
Since, you know, there's aliens in this one. Aah!
Also this plane has its registration number replaced with CPO for C-3PO. And the engine starting sounds strikingly similar to the Millennium Falcon's engines failing.
It's not my fault.
Also, when Willie is getting sacrificed into a pit of lava, the doors opening sounds just like a lightsaber.
(Sound) And the club at the beginning of Temple of Doom is called Club Obi Wan.
Also, aside from the obvious, plenty of Star Wars actors have been recycled.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Porkins from A New Hope was clearly re-cast because they needed top men. Top men.
And General Veers and Admiral Ozzel from Empire Strikes Back show up as Walter Donovan and Adolph Hitler.
Which really lends a lot of weight to the fan theory.
That the Indiana Jones movies are just Hans Solo's dreams while he's frozen in carbonite. I don't know where you get your delusions, laser brain. But that's a whole different show altogether.
(Sound) Laugh it up, fuzzball.
Well, that's going to do it for us, hit the thumbs-up if you're seeing Solo this weekend.
And let us know in the comments if you'd like a part two.
Because after all these years, there's still plenty of Indy things.
It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage. Thanks for reading.