Misplaced Pages

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 69.230.129.100 (talk) at 01:40, 16 July 2005. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

For the 1985 arcade game based on the film, please see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (arcade game).

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, first released in the United States on May 23, 1984, was a prequel to the hugely successful action movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. A village in India enlists Indiana Jones's help in retrieving a sacred stone, the Sankara stone or the Siva linga, and the community's children from the forces of an evil palace nearby.

Like the first, it starred Harrison Ford as the heroic archeologist Indiana Jones, was written by George Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg. Also, its music was composed by John Williams.

It is much darker in tone than its predecessor (a fact which Lucas attributes to the messy divorce he was going through during the film's production), and has been criticised for being overly violent and scary, as well as for its gross misrepresentations of Indian culture. When making the sequel, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Spielberg was reported to have apologized for the lesser quality of Temple of Doom.

Other actors included Kate Capshaw (Spielberg's second wife, whom he first met while casting this film), Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, and a cameo by Dan Aykroyd. Indiana Jones artist Drew Struzan created the film's distinctive artwork. Most of the filming was done on location in Sri Lanka.

Some fairly gruesome scenes in Temple of Doom, as well as other PG-rated films of the time such as Gremlins caused a significant public outcry. Spielberg spoke to the MPAA about creating a new rating covering the middle ground between a clear PG and a clear R that his films often found themselves on. This led to the creation of a new rating category: PG-13.

Trivia

• Though her full name is never mentioned in the film (she's always called simply "Willie"), Capshaw's character is named "Wilhelmina," an apparent Lucasfilm in-joke referring to the infamous Wilhelm scream.

• Stunt actor Pat Roach—who appeared in two roles as large, muscular henchmen who fight Indy in Radiers—also makes two appearances in this film: first as the assassin who attempts to kill Jones in his room, and again as the slavemaster in the mines. Besides Ford, he is the only cast member to return for the second film.

• The opening musical sequence was designed by Spielberg to fulfill a desire of his to direct a Busby Berkely-style musical number. The song being sung is Cole Porter's Anything Goes, translated into Cantonese.

External links

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at the Internet Movie Database
• Indy-Net.co.uk

Template:Indiana Jones films Template:Steven Spielberg's films

• Indiana Jones
• 1984 films
• Spielberg films