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TRIVIA
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Producer
Frank Marshall has again a cameo role. He plays a coolie pulling
a rickshaw in the background in the airport scene at the beginning.
Even Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Anthony Powell and Sid
Ganis appeared as missionaries waiting for the airplane in
that same scene.
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Actor
Dan Aykroyd has a cameo role in the film. Indiana Jones meets
his character at the airport at the end of the Shanghai car
chase. You won't be able to get a good look at his face but
you'll certainly recognize his voice. |
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The
python that Willie Scott mistakes for an elephant's trunk was
brought to Sri Lanka for shooting by animal handler Mike Culling,
but since the snake and its companion weren't very welcome in
the country, he had to book them their hotel rooms under fake
names.
"The Sri Lankans aren't very partial to snakes, funnily
enough," explains Production Manager Patricia Carr. "So
we booked the pythons into their own hotel room under the names
Mr. and Mrs. Longfellow." |
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In
addition to Indiana Jones being named after the fictional family
dog, he's also named after George Lucas' beloved pet husky-malamute.
Short Round was named after screenwriter Willard Huyck's dog.
Ironically, Short Round's name was originally taken from an
orphan character's name, played by William Chun in film 1951
The Steel Helmet. And Willie was named after Spielberg's dog.
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The
village shaman refers to the Sankara stone as "Shiva linga".
In traditional Hinduism, the linga is a tall, cylindrical stone
representative of a phallus, often set inside a circle representing
the yoni, or female organ. Together, the two symbols stand for
the dualistic sexual energy of the god Shiva. |
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An
early draft of the script for Raiders
of the Lost Ark had Indy traveling to Shanghai to recover
a piece of the Staff of Ra. During his escape from the museum
where it was housed, he sheltered from machine gun fire behind
a giant rolling gong. The same script also featured Indy and
Marion fleeing destruction in a mine-cart chase. Both of these
scenes were cut from that script, but resurface in this movie. |
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Shots
of mining-car roller-coaster ride were done with models and
a 35mm camera modified to hold extra film. To find out more
read 'The Making Of...' Indiana
Jones and the Temple of Doom. |
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Rehash
of the scene from Star
Wars (1977) when Han Solo runs at the Storm Troopers, screaming.
Indiana does the same after he defeats the swordsmen... he runs
towards the advancing army screaming, but is then chased back. |
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The
suspension bridge only shown from one side, to avoid showing
the Grand Coulee Dam.
Because the rope bridge used during the final fight scene
was not an optical effect, Steven Spielberg would never cross
over it, and had to drive a mile and a half to reach the other
side.
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This
film inspired the PG-13 MPAA rating. |
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Sharon
Stone was one of the top choices for the role of Willie Scott
before Kate Capshaw auditioned. |
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filming the whipping scene, the crew played a practical joke
on Harrison Ford. Chained to a large stone, Barbra Streisand
appeared, dressed in a leather dominatrix outfit. She proceeded
to whip him, saying "That's for Hanover Street, the worst
movie I ever saw." She continued whipping him for Star
Wars, and making all of that money. Carrie Fisher then threw
herself in front of Ford to protect him, and Irvin Kershner
chided director Steven Spielberg. "Is this how you run
your movies?" This entire sequence was filmed. |
Don't
picture the comic book crossover possibilities of the Incredible
Hulk meets Indiana Jones just yet. In the credits for Temple
of Doom, you might spot "Physical Conditioning for Mr.
Ford by Body by Jake, Inc." Jake is actually Jake Steinfeld,
Harrison Ford's personal trainer before and during the movie.
Before he was a trainer, Steinfeld used to work as a stunt double
for actor Lou Ferrigno in the TV series The Incredible Hulk.
"Every once in a while in Sri Lanka, you'd hear this voice
bellowing, 'Okay! Drop and give me fifty,'" recalled Executive
Producer Frank Marshall. "Amazingly enough there was an
old YMCA in Kandy, so he and Harrison would go down there to
work out two or three times a week. It was the most primitive
weight room I've ever seen, with very old weights and ancient
benches. Incredible." |
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