Ever surprise how George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan got here up with the screenplay of the masterpiece Raiders of the Misplaced Ark? Under you’ll discover a transcript of their enter story session the place all of them simply brainstormed. It’s an enchanting learn. You see how concepts come and go till the Indiana Jones we all know involves life earlier than our eyes. A should for any screenwriter, filmmaker or movie buff. Take pleasure in!
“RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK”
Story Convention Transcript
January 23, 1978 through January 27, 1978
George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Larry Kasdan
“RAIDERS” — TAPE ONE
G — We’ll simply discuss basic concepts, what the idea of it was. Then I’ll get right down to going particularly by way of the story. Then we’ll really get to the place we are able to begin speaking down scenes, in the long run I need to find yourself with a listing of scenes. And the best way I work usually is I determine a code, a basic measuring stick parameter. I can both give you thirty scenes or sixty scenes relying on which scale you need to work on. A thirty scene factor signifies that every scene goes to be round 4 pages lengthy. A sixty one signifies that each scene goes to run twenty pages lengthy. (?) It will depend on, a part of it’s the… (quick hole within the tape) knock a few of these out, and this doesn’t work out the best way we thought it will. You possibly can transfer issues round, however it usually offers you an thought, assuming that what we actually need on the finish of all it is a hundred and twenty web page script, or much less. However that’s the place we actually need to go. Then we work out vaguely what the tempo of, how briskly it’s going to maneuver and the way we’re going to do it. I tend to work slightly mathematically about all these things. I discovered it simpler and it does lay issues out. Particularly a factor like this. The fundamental premise is that it’s kind of a serialesque sort of film. That means that there are specific issues that must proceed to occur. It’s additionally principally an motion piece, for probably the most half. We need to hold issues interspaced and on the similar time construct it. As I construct this up, you’ll see it’s performed vaguely by the numbers. Typically, the idea is a serial thought. Executed just like the Republic serials. As a thirties serial. Which is the place a variety of stuff comes from anyway. One of many fundamental concepts was to have, relying on whether or not it will be each ten minutes or each twenty minutes, a kind of a cliffhanger scenario that we get our hero into. If it’s each ten minutes we do it twelve occasions. I feel that could be just a little a lot. Six occasions is lots.
S — And every cliffhanger is best than the one earlier than.
G — That’s the development now we have to do. It’s laborious to give you. The difficulty with cliff hangers is, you get any person into one thing, you type must get them out in a believable manner. A plausible manner, anyway. That’s one other essential idea of the film — that or not it’s completely plausible. It’s a spaghetti western, solely it takes place within the thirties. Or it’s James Bond and it takes place within the thirties. Besides James Bond tends to get just a little outrageous at occasions. We’re going to take the unrealistic facet of it off, and make it extra just like the Clint Eastwood westerns. The factor with that is, we need to make a really
plausible character. We wish him to be extraordinarily good at what he does, as is the Clint Eastwood character or the James Bond character. James Bond and the person with no identify had been excellent at what they did. They had been very, quick with a gun, they had been very slick, they had been very skilled. They had been Supermen.
S — Like Mifune.
G — Sure, like Mifune. He’s an actual skilled. He’s actually good. And that’s the key to the entire thing. That’s one thing you don’t see that a lot anymore.
S — And one of many issues that actually helped Mifune in all of the Kurosawa films is that he was all the time surrounded by actually inept characters, actual foolish buffoons, which made him a lot extra majestic. If there are events the place he comes up in opposition to, not the arch- villain, however the folks round him shouldn’t be the neatest…
G — Effectively, they shouldn’t be buffoons. The one factor we’re going to do is make an excellent interval piece, that’s sensible and plausible. A thirties film within the, even within the Sam Spade style. Even within the Maltese Falcon there have been some fairly goofy characters, however they had been all fairly actual in their very own weird manner.
S — Elijah Cook dinner.
G – Elijah Cook dinner may not have been the brightest particular person on the earth. In a manner he was the buffoon of the piece, however on the similar time he was very harmful and he was very… They had been robust characters. If we hold it that mode of believability…
S — It’s similar to you don’t put Lee Van Cleef as an confederate to… (garbled)
G — No, you set Eli Wallach. Did you see “The Good, The Unhealthy And the Ugly”? The Eli Wallach character is a goofy character, however on the similar time he’s very harmful and he’s very humorous and he’s … We are able to have that sort of factor. The principle factor is for him to be a brilliant hero in the very best sense of the phrase, which is John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery custom of a person who we are able to all look as much as and say, “Now there’s any person who actually is aware of his job. He’s actually good at what he does and he’s a really harmful particular person. However on the similar time we’re placing him within the sort of Bogart mould, like “Treasure of Sierra Madre” or…
S — And even the Clark Gable factor we talked about.
G — Yeah, the Clark Gable mould. The truth that he’s barely scruffy. You don’t comprehend it till it occurs. Now, a number of facets that we’ve mentioned earlier than: The picture of him which is the strongest picture is the “Treasure Of Sierra Madre” outfit, which is the khaki pants, he’s obtained the leather-based jacket, that kind of felt hat, and the pistol and holster with a World Conflict One kind of flap over it. He’s going into the jungle carrying his gun. The opposite factor we’ve added to him, which can be enjoyable, is a bull whip. That’s actually his commerce mark. That’s actually what he’s good at. He has a pistol, and he’s most likely excellent at that, however on the similar time he occurs to be excellent with a bull whip. It’s actually extra of a interest than anything. Perhaps he got here from Montana, someplace, and he… There are freaks who love bull whips. They simply do it on a regular basis. It’s a tool that hasn’t been utilized in a very long time.
S — You possibly can knock any person’ s belt off and the blokes pants fall down.
G — You possibly can swing over issues, you possibly can…there are such a lot of issues you are able to do with it. I assumed he carried it rolled up. It’s like a Samurai sword. He carries it again there and also you don’t even discover it. That manner it’s not in the best way or something. It’s simply there every time he needs it.
S — Sooner or later within the film he should use it to get a lady again who’s strolling out of the room. Wrap her up and she or he twirls as he pulls her again. She spins into his arms. You must use it for extra issues than simply saving himself.
G — We’ll must work that half out. In a manner it’s essential that or not it’s a harmful weapon. It seems to be kind of like a snake that’s coiled up behind him, and any time it strikes it’s an actual risk.
L — Besides there needs to be that second when he’s alone with a can of beer and he simply whips it to him.
G — That’s the kind of gung-ho facet of the character, which is, if we make him kind of Tremendous Samurai Warrior, that means that he’s Simply extremely good with a bull whip and extremely good with a gun. He’s a dead-eye shot. He’s obtained the improper sort of holster for a fast draw, however we are able to all the time have him be a semi… we’re not going to make use of the short draw facets of it, however he must be very quick and really fast. Perhaps even, this has to do with the opposite a part of this character, however I used to be pondering of Kung-Fu, Karate. However I don’t need to load him up an excessive amount of. The explanation I used to be doing this “is that his character is worldwide. He’s the man who’s been all world wide. He’s a soldier of fortune. He’s additionally… Effectively, this will get into that different facet of his character, which is completely alien to that facet we simply talked about. Basically, I feel he’s a, and this was the unique character and it’s an attention-grabbing juxtaposition. He’s an archeologist and an anthropologist. A Ph.D. He’s a health care provider, he’s a school professor. What occurred is, he’s additionally a kind of tough and tumble man. However he obtained concerned in moving into and getting antiquities. Form of looking for antiquities. And it turned a really profitable occupation so he, slightly than be an archeologist, he turned kind of an outlaw archeologist. He actually began being a grave robber, for rent, is what it actually got here right down to. And the museums would rent him to steal issues out of tombs and stuff. Or, find them. Within the archeology circles he is aware of all people, so he’s kind of like a non-public detective grave robber. A museum will give him an project… A bounty hunter.
S — If there have been these Arabs who simply found some nice king’s tomb, and also you see the tomb being taken out. And there are about twenty or thirty Arabs closely armed, and like 5 vehicles and also you understand…there’s this one man who’s all painted, and he’s one of many pall bearers who slips a factor into the again of the truck, will get behind the wheel and because the caravan goes to show proper, this one factor goes left. And the remaining chase him, however he will get away.
G — The factor is, if there may be an object of antiquity, {that a} museum is aware of about that could be lacking, or they comprehend it’s someplace. He can go like an archeologist, however it’s like slightly than doing analysis, he goes in to get the gold. He doesn’t actually go to seek out low-cost artifacts, he goes to assemble stuff. And the opposite factor is, if one thing was taken from a tomb, stolen and kind of within the underground, generally they might ship him out to get it. Basically he’s a bounty hunter. He’s a bounty hunter of antiquities is what it comes right down to. If a museum says that there’s this well-known vase that we all know exists, it was on this tomb presently. It could nonetheless be there, however we doubt it. We expect possibly it’s on the underground market, or in a non-public assortment. We’d prefer to have it. Truly it belongs to us. We’re the Nationwide Museum of Cairo or one thing. He says okay and he tracks it down. If it’s not within the factor, he finds it, finds out who’s obtained it. And he swipes it again.
A whole lot of occasions it’s kind of authorized. All he has to do is get it. It’s not like he steals issues from collectors, after which offers them to different collectors. What he does is steal issues from personal collectors who’ve them illegally, and offers them again to the nationwide museums and stuff. Or, being that his morality isn’t all that good, he’ll go into the precise grave and steal it in another country and provides it to the museum. It’s a kind of quasi-ethical facet of that complete factor. The museum does fee any person to enter the pyramids and you realize, no matter they discover, kind of get out with out the Egyptian authorities realizing, as a result of they had been within the technique of turmoil and no one’s going to know anyway and there’s not going to be any official protest, so simply do it. Something that’s
quasi-legal, or amorphous, he’ll do. He’s not a completely corrupt particular person, the place he’ll steal. But when it’s kind of truthful sport, then he is available in. Because of this he’s basically an anthropologist and an archeologist. He’s a professor. He is aware of antiquities. So no one can pawn off a pretend on him. He understands all that stuff. However he actually obtained the journey bug and and he simply stored doing it. And it was good cash. He will get an enormous fee on the stuff, an enormous bounty. So he simply obtained into this loopy enterprise. Now, on prime of that, I’ve added, I assumed it will be attention-grabbing to have him be a kind of professional within the occult, as an offshoot of the anthropological facet of this factor. He tends to get into conditions the place there are taboos, voodoos, issues, particularly once you begin coping with pyramids you get into all that. So he kind of research it as a result of he’s gotten blended up with it. A research of historic religions and voodoo and all that sort of stuff. He’s a man who kind of checks out ghosts and psychic phenomenon in reference to the sort of issues he does. He’s a kind of archeological exorcist. When any person has a haunted home, or a haunted temple, and no one will go close to it, he’s the one who will go in there and do it, and he has handled… Assuming that he believes within the supernatural as a result of he offers with it, he’s the one they ship into the haunted home. Like one in every of these haunted home professors who attempt to work out why a home is haunted. He does that. He will get concerned with sacred temples and curses and all that stuff. And truly some had been actual, he got here throughout some actual curses and stuff. He mentioned hey, that is actually attention-grabbing. A whole lot of the occasions they’re hoaxes. And he can determine it out. That is only a basic historical past of the place he comes from. Individuals will use the pharaohs or a curse, and one thing will occur. Individuals will stroll by way of this specific temple and they’re going to die twenty-four hours later. No one is aware of why. The curse of Mabutu is on that place. Effectively, he seems to be at it and sees that there’s a fissure within the factor and there’s a lethal gasoline that’s popping out of the bottom. As a result of he’s an clever professor, he is aware of his science and he can kind of deduce a hoax. There was a comic book e-book a very long time in the past a couple of man who did nothing however present up hoaxes. It was like Ripley’s Consider It Or Not. They might ship issues to this man. They might ship him eight-legged canines and stuff. It was like a TV present. In case you couldn’t work out how the hoax was performed then it will be on the present. It was all him attempting to point out these difficult ways in which folks give you hoaxes. That was only a facet mild. When he confronts his antiquities and stuff, half the time he’s coping with hoaxes. Not solely hoaxes by way of taboos and issues, but additionally hoaxes by way of the antiquities. They ship him out to get them, however additionally they ship him out to take care of the supernatural.
L — Among the hoaxes might have been arrange by the natives.
G — Yeah. They could be an unique native factor, or it is likely to be some shyster on the town who thinks he’s going to tug a quick one on any person, for varied causes. It’s a millieu I’ve created for this man that I feel is attention-grabbing as a result of it additionally makes him considerably of a ghost chaser in his personal manner. I don’t know really how a lot of that side of it can match into the script. It’s one thing I’ve added to the character.
L — He’s certain to run into these sort of issues.
G — Sure. The factor is, if he’s an clever kind of professor who has expertise with the occult and that sort of factor, then he not solely just isn’t afraid to face up in opposition to any man, however he’s additionally not afraid to face up in opposition to the unknown.
L — If he walks right into a cave and he provides a yellow slash to a logo, you don’t must say an excessive amount of about how he discovered that out, you realize.
G — We’ve established that he’s a school professor. It doesn’t must be performed in a powerful manner. It begins out in a museum. They simply name him physician this and physician that. We are able to very simply make that transition, and really shortly set up that complete facet of his character. Within the story the ramifications of him as a ghost hunter haven’t been handled but. However I put it in his character to be used in another manner.
L — (I can’t perceive what he’s saying right here, one thing a couple of sword and a basket.) It looks as if it will be good if, as soon as stripped of his bullwhip, left him weak, if we needed to fear. Just a bit fearful about him being too…
G — That was what I assumed. That’s why I used to be kind of iffy about throwing it in. If we don’t make him susceptible…
S — What’s he afraid of? He’s obtained to be afraid of one thing.
G — If we don’t make him susceptible, he’s obtained no issues. We’ll shut that concept for now. The opposite factor, which is just like the Kung-Fu and the ghost factor, which given the plot and the best way it’s working, there’s not likely time to deal with it in an attention-grabbing manner. It’s a pleasant side of this factor, would possibly be capable of take care of it, may not. It’s not likely that essential. It’s the identical factor with the Kung-Fu. We is likely to be stacking an excessive amount of into his character that isn’t crucial. Simply the truth that he’s good with a bullwhip goes to be enjoyable sufficient. You would fill a script. In a method it’s higher to maintain it clear.
S — So long as he has brains. He ought to be capable of discuss his manner out of issues. L — I feel that will be his first selection.
G — Proper.
S — The man must be a fantastic gambler, too.
G — The factor of it’s, I feel it’s good if we delineate a reasonably clear character in order that it doesn’t develop into too confused.
L — Assume there’s an archeologist who’s spent years learning this, he might need some sort of awe and respect for virgin tombs. This man has clearly gone previous that into, “I could make an excellent dwelling out of this.” what’s his stance on this? Does it hassle him to go in and…
G — I feel principally he’s very cynical about the entire thing. Perhaps he thinks that almost all archeologists are simply filled with shit, and that any person’s going to tear these things off anyway. Higher that he rips it off and will get it to a museum the place folks, can research it, and rip it off proper. That’s the important thing additionally. He is aware of enter a tomb with out destroying it. He is aware of what’s essential. He is aware of to not go in there like a bull in a china store, and destroy half the stuff that’s beneficial.
S — He ought to have a mentor on this. Someone you by no means see, however he refers to occasionally, any person you need to see. The person who taught him the whole lot. The person who gave him no matter energy he has now. Perhaps some supreme archeologist who’s possibly ninety years outdated like Max Von Sydow, and is dying now. So you realize it didn’t begin with this man. There are different better predecessors round of this type.
L — Is it crucial that he actually be educated?
G — It’s not completely crucial. I simply thought it will be amusing if folks might name him a health care provider.
S — I like that. The physician with the bullwhip.
G — It’s such an odd juxtaposition, particularly going round. The primary sequence is within the jungle and also you see him in motion. You see him going by way of the entire thing. And the following sequence after that you simply see him again in Washington or New York, again within the museum. The place he’s in a completely tutorial factor, turning over this factor that he’s obtained. Then in the remainder of the film you see him again in his bullwhip mode. You perceive
that there’s extra to him. Plus, it justifies later issues that he… the truth that he’s kind of an clever man. Peter Falk is a method of taking a look at him, a Humphrey Bogart character. The truth that he’s kind of scruffy and, not the fitting picture, however…
S — Peter’s too scruffy.
G — Sure. We’ll determine a manner of laying that out in his character so it’s simply identifiable.
S — Keep in mind the film “Soldier Of Fortune” with Clark Gable? There was a great deal of Rhett Butler in that character. The devil-may-care sort of man who can deal with conditions. He’s so rattling glib he bluffs all people round. Individuals suppose that he’s a push- over. He’s challenged, and he all the time seems like a push-over. However in reality he’s not. He likes to set himself up in these subordinate roles occasionally to get his manner.
G — What I’m saying is, that character simply wouldn’t slot in a school classroom and even as an archeologist. He’s an excessive amount of of a scruffy character to quiet down. A playboy, or nonetheless you need to do it. He’s an excessive amount of of a wise-guy, possibly that’s a greater technique to say it, to really be a school professor. He actually loves the stuff, however he turned too cynical, he’s an excessive amount of of a clever man to suit into an instructional scenario, and even an archeological scenario. He’s actually an excessive amount of of an adventurer at coronary heart. He simply loves it. So he clearly took this complete bent that was completely different as a result of it’s simply extra enjoyable. He simply can’t quiet down. It’s a pleasant distinction. It’s just like the James Bond factor. As a substitute of being a martini ingesting cultured sort of sophisticate, he’s the kind of mental faculty professor James Bond. He’s a superagent.
S — Clark Kent.
G — Yeah. It’s that factor, which is enjoyable. It’s the identical thought, solely twisted round just a little bit. A soldier of fortune within the thirties. And in addition, once you consider the thirties, you consider schools as actual establishments. That complete style was a lot completely different than it’s now. And in addition, soldier of fortune was an actual style.
S — His fundamental adversaries would be the Germans?
G — Yeah, I feel they need to be. I’ve been attempting to maneuver him world wide just a little bit to see if we are able to’t get just a little Oriental affect into it only for the enjoyable of it. I’ll have match it in. The enjoyable factor is, he’s a soldier of fortune, so we are able to transfer him into any kind of unique thirties atmosphere we need to.
S — Hold him out of the States. We don’t need to do one shot on this nation.
G — I’ve the second scene happening in Washington. It’s simply inside museum. However on the similar time we additionally need to hold it, budget-wise, and the whole lot else. We don’t need to have eight thousand screaming Chinese language coming over the hill being strafed by Japanese zeroes, except we are able to discover some inventory footage someplace. We need to hold it on a reasonably… I feel usually, over all, I’ve tried to maintain it on a really modest scale. A la the primary James Bond. A la the primary “Hold ’em Excessive” factor. The place it’s basically a battle between folks and issues. Clearly there may be a variety of stuff occurring, however there are specific huge set items which are enjoyable to play with. And if we are able to divide these set items so we are able to shot them kind of second unit, then we are able to have all that enjoyable stuff within the interval, and basically it’s a set piece. We’ll simply ship a inventory footage crew out to get sure issues that we would be capable of give you with out an excessive amount of cash simply by sending a digital camera and crew and getting a shot right here and there of assorted issues that we would like. The idea is that someway now we have to determine a manner of constructing this low-cost, that means six or seven million {dollars}.
S — One factor, there aren’t any opticals, so instantly that saves some huge cash.
G — And we need to spend our cash on stunts. We need to have “Wind and the Lion” motion. Spend all of it on stunt guys falling off horses, slightly than one crowd scene scene with sixteen thousand extras for one shot.
S — You too can steal that anyplace within the mideast.
G — Perhaps we’ll work one thing like that out. Even then, for manufacturing worth and leisure worth, it’s significantly better to have a terrific stunt than to have a scene with eight thousand extras. I don’t suppose we want plenty of crowds.
S — (garbled) You possibly can all the time get that in another international locations. It’s no drawback. G — It’s all interval. That’s the issue.
S —In locations like Bombay it doesn’t make any distinction.
G — Once more, that’s a kind of inventory footage issues. You need to ship an “A” digital camera man and a manufacturing supervisor over there, inform them to make a take care of some New Delhi movie firm to provide fifteen outdated automobiles and eight thousand extras and we’ll pay them seven thousand {dollars}. You {photograph} the stuff and convey it again right here. Or like Hong Kong, go to Run Run Shaw, say we would like three pictures like this. You gaff the entire thing and we’ll pay you X variety of {dollars} ship. Ship your cameraman, or an excellent second unit digital camera man whom you belief, and a manufacturing supervisor to deal with it financially, and so they do it, and also you come again with dailies of an establishing shot with ten thousand extras.
S — You’ve gotten a small smoke-filled room in Rome together with your two actors.
G — I feel we are able to hopefully type that out. A part of it’s the vitality of constructing it moderately low price range. It’s additionally a check of the concept. If it’s good, then we’ll be okay. I feel I’ll go down and describe, roughly, the plot. After we do this, we are able to undergo scene by scene. Then we are able to begin the lengthy arduous course of of claiming, nicely that is what the primary scene must be and we actually need this scene, however how can we match it in. and actually get right down to specifics. The movie begins within the jungle. South America, someplace. We get one in every of these nice scenes with the pack animals going up the mist-covered hills. Very unique mist-filled jungles and mountains. There’s a… We really talked about it just a little completely different from this, however you possibly can appropriate me if I’ve gone off what we had talked in regards to the final time. I’m going again, I feel, to the unique.
S — The place he goes into the cave?
G — That is the place he goes into the cave. We had it the place there’s a pair native bearers, no matter, and kind of a few Mexican, nicely not Mexican… Let’s put it…
S — They’re like Mayan.
G — They’re the third world native sleazos. Whether or not, they’re Mexicans or Arabs or no matter.
S — They carry the containers over their heads. They fall off cliffs.
G — The sleazos with the skinny moustaches. These are the peon laborers. And you’ve got the 2 guys who’re the native gaffers. Foremen, or no matter. The blokes he employed. They converse English. The interpreters, or no matter. We’re assuming at this level that once we come into it, the discuss is like they’re all kind of companions. He’s a accomplice with these different two guys. He mentioned, “Look, I’ll minimize you in on the stake. I’ll pay you X variety of {dollars} after I do that, should you do it.” We’ll they’re not very reliable, Eli Wallach sorts. They’re going up this hill and so they come right into a clearing and also you see the temple throughout
the best way. All of the natives get stressed and begin to break up. One of many guys goes to him and says, “The natives are leaving. They’re not going to go any additional.” It’s the curse of that Buddha, or no matter. He says they will most likely get there from right here with out them. So the three of us can do it. See if you will get a few them to hold on, to come back alongside. They get about two or three guys to go together with them. Our man, the opposite two guys, and about three different guys, three different natives who’re just a little braver, they get. In order that they proceed on into the jungle with the snakes and the spiders and the bugs and all that stuff, and so they stroll ahead and all of the natives are wanting round. It’s all kind of misty and primeval. King Kongish. The strain builds and one of many natives cracks, throws down his factor and scurries off. He splits, and the opposite guys understand he’s gone and so they break up. Fairly quickly, after they get proper to the clearing, proper in entrance of the temple, it’s simply three guys. Alongside the best way they misplaced the three natives. Additionally within the technique of this, you perceive that the 2 guys are plotting in opposition to the opposite man. Not solely is there the spooky hazard of the curse, however you get a touch that these two guys are plotting in opposition to our hero. He will get as much as the temples. They’re nervous about the entire thing. And so they kind of sit exterior the clearing and so they discuss in regards to the curse and about how harmful it’s, and the way no one had ever survived. We arrange the entire thing, the parameters of going into that temple. They’ve a map, not a map however kind of a crude drawing. It has the interior-of the temple on it, that any person else made. He brings it out presently, they’re saying that no one has ever survived. He says that with this data we’ve obtained right here, I feel we’ll be capable of handle it. He says to not fear guys, it’s gonna be okay. I feel we are able to get in there. We have now sufficient data right here the place I feel I can deduce my manner by way of it. They give attention to the map as he’s surveying the factor. One of many guys tries to kill him and take the map, shoot him within the again or no matter it was. That’s once you first see him with the bullwhip. That’s the place the plot comes alive. When he says with this data, he thinks they will get in, they don’t understand that it’s a must to know interpret that data. He kills this one man and the opposite man kind of backs off and says he didn’t have something to do with it, he’s loopy, and I knew he was a criminal. And also you knew they had been in on it collectively, however the man says, “It wasn’t me. It wasn’t me.” So he and the opposite one man go into the temple. You already know the man’s going to shoot him within the again finally. As they get into the temple you get into all this stuff, like there’s this big spider in there.
S — The factor is, they’re strolling and our hero goes right into a shadow. When he comes out of the shadow there’s two tarantulas on him. He doesn’t discover them instantly. He goes into one other shadow, and he comes out with 4 tarantulas on him.
G — The opposite technique of the factor is that the man who’s with him is starting to freak out. He can’t take it, so he will get to a degree the place he can’t do it any extra. He runs out and that’s the final we ever see of him. We are able to use him as a foil to ascertain the strain. It’s getting loopy with the tarantulas and it’s all very spooky. We get to a degree within the tomb and we do that factor the place there’s like this mild shaft coming down from contained in the temple. It’s kind of a really slim shaft. The stone tunnel that he’s in is about this vast and proper within the center is a really skinny shaft of sunshine coming down by way of a gap, just a little beam. You see him take a look at it. We had him undergo the wall. Truly we had it occur first…
S — What occur?
G — We had it first the place he sees the sunshine and he tosses a factor in it, a stick, and these big spikes come out, and go…
S — When the spikes come out and go like that, there must be stays, skeletal stays skewered on a few of them, of victims which were there earlier than. It’s sort of like a kind of rides at Disneyland.
G — So he exams it first, and we all know…
L — Why are we letting the second sleazo get away? Why can’t we sacrifice him to the temple.
G — We are able to. I simply did it as constructing the strain, however we are able to hold him in. We’ll observe it by way of, after which we’ll see the place you need to get rid of him.
L — If the hero tells him to stay with him, and the man in his panic makes that deadly one step sideways, you possibly can construct the fear.
G — The thought of getting him in there within the first place was to make use of him as a foil for issues like the place he begins to stroll into that mild and the man tells him to attend, don’t undergo there. Then he throws the stick and all of it goes clang. Anyway, they must undergo this beam of sunshine, they must go up in opposition to the wall and kind of get round it. If something brushes up in opposition to that mild… It’s nice as a result of you should use it like this, throughout your… It’s all darkish and you may see the sunshine simply simply creeping proper alongside the sting of the factor there. You don’t how a lot it will take to really set it off. (demonstrates)
L — And also you’ve obtained to do the cliche the place they’re strolling alongside this ledge simply this vast and it simply goes into blackness. And he takes a rock and he drops it, and also you don’t hear something. In order that they hold going, and about twenty seconds later you hear it hit.
G — The thought was there could be round three issues, actual neat-o issues, like these big stones that bounce collectively, spikes that fly out, the precipice factor. One other one could be a kind of big stone entice door, I don’t know fairly describe it.
S — There could possibly be like wall mashers, stones might mash…
G — We had the one with the spikes, one other one was the entice door. It actually isn’t the higher of the issues. The most effective one is the shaft of sunshine.
S — I’d simply like to see the blokes strolling in and there’s an entire pile of skeletons, however they’re like cardboard, fully flattened, actually fully flat. They know that one thing round right here goes to squish them. They don’t know what’s inflicting it, however one thing in the event that they stroll the improper manner goes to come back out and make them pancakes. The piece must be like an actual, horror trip, like a Disneyland trip. When you’re dedicated to going into that cave, there’s seismic rumblings on a regular basis and there’s stalagmites and issues going drip, drip. It’s going to actually be a sound expertise going by way of that cave. There’s nothing extra terrifying than skeletons.
G — There’s additionally issues like spiders, snakes. It’s very darkish, and all it’s a must to do is minimize to a snake slithering throughout the bottom, and he’s strolling by way of. You by no means know when a snake’s going to be curled up on his leg. As he walks by way of the darkish there’s tarantulas throughout him. That sort of stuff. You don’t know what’s going to occur.
S — That is the primary scene within the film. This scene ought to get at the least 4 main screams. The viewers gained’t belief anybody after that. They gained’t belief the movie.
G — There’s additionally the factor you are able to do which is your well-known “Jaws”, or what I name the hand on the shoulder trick, which isn’t solely skeletons, however we are able to have skeletons that aren’t that outdated, they simply have drawn pores and skin throughout them, which are lurking within the shadows.
S — Falling into their arms. A skeleton comes out of the cobwebs, and simply embraces the man. The man eases him to the bottom.
G — On the extra tense moments in that complete factor. We’ll work on that extra particularly. Anyway, he goes by way of a sequence of actually spooky scary issues.
S — What we’re simply doing right here, actually, is designing a trip at Disneyland.
G — They get into the primary throne room and this man can both be with him or not. Or we’ve killed him off. There’s a temple determine, idol, no matter. I assumed at one time it will be just a bit teeny idol, slightly than this big factor. Voodoo, no matter. If the idol is de facto small, it’s spookier. Like a kind of voodoo dolls the place you’re saying this should have some kind of very unusual… So you possibly can virtually imagine the curse on the factor. We’d had a factor the place there was a watch and he tried to pry the attention out and it set off… He needed to get the attention out with out doing… It’s the identical factor with the little determine. There’s this little determine sitting on a pedestal, or in a distinct segment. To start with, when he will get within the room, it’s semi-lit from above. It’s obtained kind of a sky mild. The middle of the factor is that this kind of shaft that runs all the best way down so there’s daylight.
S — We’ll get (garbled) to {photograph} this film.
G — So you possibly can kind of see what’s occurring. At the moment we’re afraid of daylight and people sort of issues. It’s additionally the sort of factor the place he strikes in there very fastidiously. He strikes in and he research it. It’s virtually like a karate or a tai-chi train. It’s very… You see him in a really unusual, if the man remains to be with him, he says to him, “You wait right here. Solely I can get by way of this. He research the entire thing. You see him undergo this very elaborate factor, one in every of it could be the factor the place he holds out just a little feathery factor and it floats down and will get caught in an air shaft. So he is aware of there’s an air shaft and he goes underneath it.
S — He is aware of it’s a entice.
G — All these kind of silent issues which are in there. I do know what a kind of issues was, it was poison sticks that had been put into the partitions. In case you spring one thing, it shoots out. They’re all over. He sees one, he does one — twing. Then he seems to be round and the entire room is a kind of honeycomb.
S — That’s a fantastic thought.
G — There’s simply holes in every single place. Every one is hooked up to a… They don’t must be huge spears, they’re like arrows.
S — Extra like little projectiles.
G — Yeah, little darts. It needs to be sufficiently big to be one thing. The thought is that one goes out and he seems to be on the gap, then he seems to be up and realizes that the entire place is perforated with them. It goes off with air currents, like if an air present is damaged, or some sort of factor. We don’t have to completely perceive, all of the thriller of sunshine shafts, air shafts, little issues which are kind of there that he might journey…
S — Perhaps he brings his bandanna up over his nostril so his breath doesn’t get out.
G — The thought is he does an elaborate factor to elevate this factor off. Clearly there’s some kind of weighted entice factor there, too. Then he turns and journeys one thing. Whether or not he steps into a lightweight factor, or nonetheless we do it… Or whether or not it was the burden of the factor, a kind of delayed factor. Take one step and switch, then rapidly you hear the… Then we minimize to just a little insert of sand going… beginning to replenish one thing. He hears it and, I’ve one in every of two selections. One, he simply runs like hell to attempt to get out of the room earlier than the no matter it’s… Or, however then I’ve obtained all this stuff. I would like it to be motion. He hears the stuff and runs and as he runs out of the factor, that’s when the large stone goes… However we are able to work that out, make it just a little extra particular about what precisely the entice is. However no matter it’s, he suggestions the factor off. You suppose he’s obtained it, and proper once you suppose he’s obtained it and he’s beginning his manner again, he’s tripped one thing. Some sort of a delayed factor. And also you hear some big mechanism at work contained in the factor that’s going
to have this superior factor that can crush the complete temple or one thing. Within the technique of this, a method or one other, we should kill the opposite man off or ship him fleeing, screaming into the evening. We are able to do something to him. It is going to be simple to eliminate him if you would like. In the long run he will get it and comes out of the temple into daylight and appears and he’s obtained the factor, and we minimize to Washington, D.C.
S — You already know what it could possibly be. I’ve a fantastic thought. He hears the sand… When he goes into the cave, it’s not straight. The entire thing is on an incline on the best way in. He hears this, grabs the factor, involves a hall. There’s a sixty-five foot boulder that’s form- fitted to solely roll down the hall coming proper at him. And it’s a race. He will get to outrun the boulder. It then involves relaxation and blocks the doorway of the cave. No one will ever are available once more. This boulder is the scale of a home.
G — It mashes the accomplice.
S — Proper. The man can’t run quick sufficient.
G — It’s all that sort of factor, stone. Historic gyrations of issues which are so enjoyable. It’s actually kind of “Land of the Pharaohs” stuff. Big loopy traps that had been set so way back to maintain folks from getting in there. The thought is to maintain it as a quick… ‘Trigger in the long run all it’s is a teaser. The subsequent scene is in Washington. He’s delivering the idol to the museum. It’s your primary exposition scene, the place the man says thanks and we kind of perceive what this man does for a dwelling. He will get his cash from the museum. You perceive just a little extra about him as a professor and all that different bullshit. It additionally actually units up the truth that he’s a bounty hunter and he works for museums. In that scene they arrange, “Someone right here needs to see you.” “Who’s it?” The curator of the museum can be an excellent buddy of his, possibly not the mentor, however he’s like an outdated museum curator. He says, “That is essential. I’ve obtained an enormous job for you now. Effectively, I don’t have an enormous job for you, however this man needs to speak to you about one thing. It’s best to take it.” In order that they go down into this workplace within the museum, and there’s this intelligence man. Military Intelligence. A few them are ready for him. That is the place we get the large project scene, with the blackboard. That is the place they clarify in regards to the ark. I’m unsure what’s it’s referred to as, the Ark of the Covenant or one thing. It’s the Ark that carried the…
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TAPE ONE, SIDE B
This Ark, in entrance of the Armies of Israel, made them invincible. Every little thing in entrance of them was destroyed. It was probably the most highly effective factor.
S — You already know what could be attention-grabbing to do, George? (can’t perceive, one thing about nice murals of the Ark)
G — We have now one in every of these. “In Search of the Misplaced Ark” issues. I feel additionally, you’ve been describing this to folks as a science fiction movie, which is sweet.
S — I’ve not.
G — It’s in Rolling Stone. Anyway, the concept is you clarify the Ark and the ability it held, and the truth that they’ve been looking. There’s a historical past of it. That is, once more, the place the analysis is available in. Phil knew extra about this than I did, and his notes are very sketchy. That is the half that he laid out. I didn’t fairly perceive all of it, however I do have data on it. It’s very simple to observe it. What it’s, there’s this Ark, a well-known Ark with a legend that the Israeli armies would carry it in entrance of them and so they had been invincible. The opposite factor is, which I’ve extra analysis on, is that Adolph Hitler, 1936 or no matter, was a fanatic for this sort of stuff, occult craziness. We have now one other e-book the place he was on the lookout for the spear that killed Jesus, which was in a museum in
Czechoslovakia. Effectively, he was a fanatic for locating this kind of occult stuff. He actually was, and he searched the museums everywhere in the world. He had his brokers go in to get this stuff to make him all highly effective. So we are able to tie that in. The thought is that he was on the lookout for this spear, which was a really well-known factor. He stole it from the Czechs and took it to a museum in Berlin and proper now it’s… It’s purported to have occult powers. We’ll Simply say that Hitler has been looking for this, which is historical past, and he’s additionally looking for this Ark. Clearly, what he needs to do is… He thinks that if he will get this Ark, his Armies might be invincible, and he’ll declare struggle on the world.
S — Which we all know he does anyway.
G — Proper. However that isn’t the factor. He thinks as soon as he will get this Ark he might be invincible, though he might do it anyway. However that’s why our hero is available in. He’s going to do it anyway, but when he will get this Ark there might be no stopping him. In order that they’re doing it semi to stop the struggle, which is kind of helpless. They’re not likely going after the Ark for its supernatural powers. The Military isn’t. The Military simply needs to maintain it away from Hitler. They’re afraid if Hitler will get it, he’ll simply declare struggle that a lot quicker, and that can give him kind of a… There will be some attention-grabbing dialogue right here in regards to the sort of stuff that Hitler does, and in regards to the historical past of the Ark. We arrange that our brokers have intercepted data that the Nazis have discovered the Ark, or that they know one thing in regards to the ark. It has been positioned, or one thing. What they need him to do is get it earlier than the Nazis do.
L — What does he learn about it thus far?
G — He doesn’t know something about it. He can know just a little bit. “Yeah, I’ve heard of it.” We make it so he’s not fully unaware of the scenario. He is aware of extra in regards to the Ark than he does in regards to the Hitler facets of it. We are able to play that scene slightly then one man simply explaining the scenario. We are able to play it the place he’s kind of explaining a few of it to the Military officer or one thing. Or possibly he is aware of extra about it than the Military man does. Perhaps the Military officer is misinformed about some issues. We are able to set it up so it really works as an excellent scene. As a result of basically the scene is “That is your mission.”
L — Perhaps the truth that he is aware of extra about it than they do is the turning level of the scene. He kind of talks himself into the job.
G — One of many issues of his character is that he’s very skeptical, very cynical. At first he’s reluctant. “The Germans haven’t discovered it, for Christ’s sake. These guys are working everywhere in the world being loopy. That’s an actual fable.” He kind of doesn’t imagine it. It’s like a wild goose chase. He isn’t even positive it exists. The factor of it’s that in the long run they persuade him to do it as a result of they are saying this Professor Erich Von Daniken, or no matter, this German model of himself is the one who discovered it. Or the opposite chance is that they despatched a message to get that man to come back. We need to get a German arch-rival concerned in it. We thought at one level he could be the Donald Pleasence character, or no matter. The opposite thought was possibly making him one thing like Chinese language, not German. Make him an ally of the Germans. So we are able to readily determine him. When you’ve all these Germans, you realize which one he’s instantly. So he could be completely different from all the opposite unhealthy guys. Additionally, it wouldn’t be a lot of a coincidence that his arch-rival is a German, and occurs to be a Nazi like all of the others. His arch-rival is mostly a prime smuggler, diamond seller, antiquity… He’s the corrupt model of our man. He’s the one who actually goes in and rapes the temples and steals all that stuff and sends it off to personal collectors, and takes antiquities and breaks them into small items and sells every bit for the worth of the unique. He’s an actual corrupt man. Perhaps he’s the pinnacle of his personal museum or one thing. He’s kind of legit, solely he’s an actual corrupt particular person, and our guys is aware of that. That man can be very clever, he’s like Moriarity. If he thinks the Ark is there, then there should be one thing to it. “I don’t care shit in regards to the Germans, purchase by God. I’ll cease him from getting it.” So it turns into a private grudge factor.
S — It needs to be, as a result of there’s nothing in it for our hero. They’re not going to present him any extra money, and so they’re actually not going to present him the home he’s all the time needed to construct. He is likely to be very cynical about it till they inform him who might need it. When that identify comes up, his ears perk, and an entire change comes over him. You understand that this factor goes manner again with this grudge.
G — They provide him cash within the first place, however he’s nonetheless skeptical. They provide him some huge cash. “That’s provided that I get it, and I’m not going to get it. It’s only a wild goose chase. There’s not sufficient in it for me.” Perhaps they add just a little bit extra money, or they offer him a assure, whether or not he finds it or not. Or one thing simply to seek out out what the Germans know. “Then I’m only a spy. I’m not a spy. I’m an archeologist. Why don’t you simply ship one in every of your guys over there to do this?” They are saying their guys don’t know an Ark from a tub. Then they inform him in regards to the different man. If he despatched the message, then it should be true. Or higher but, there was a German archeologist who he doesn’t know who despatched the message to herald the opposite man. Then he says, “Okay, I’ll do it. I’m not going to let him get entangled.”
L — It looks as if they’ve a really private grudge between them.
G — Proper. That’s the entire thing. It’s a really outdated grudge. That’s his fundamental competitors, when he goes right into a temple or one thing, both that man has been there first and ravaged it, or that man and his sleazy henchmen attempt to kill him. We are able to assume that these henchmen at first might have been working for the opposite man. If these guys had efficiently murdered our man within the first scene, and gotten what they had been on the lookout for, they most likely would have bought it to the opposite man as a result of he’s most likely the most important fence on the earth for that sort of junk.
L — Fairly than Only a skilled animosity—
G — Clearly he’s stolen stuff from this man, and the man has tried to have him killed a few occasions.
L — That will be a part of the sport. You already know that as quickly as you pay money for one thing, that’s solely half of it. Getting it again is the opposite half. I don’t know, a lady, a household, a toddler, one thing previously that will make it a step over the road from being knowledgeable rivalry. Some sorrow in our man, who may be very cool and also you by no means see it.
G — I don’t need to get it an excessive amount of on a vengeance factor, however on the similar time, I feel we are able to tighten it. I don’t need it to face out that the one motive he’s doing it is because he actually hates this man. The good about it being a extra skilled grudge is that then you possibly can have a fantastic confrontation later. If one man wins truthful and sq., they respect one another as archeologists and as opponents. So it doesn’t develop into that if he ever will get that man he’s going to kill him. If it’s an actual private factor like he killed his spouse and raped his sister, then as quickly as they meet up, he’d simply kill the man. And it will have been an all-consuming factor factor. This manner they hate one another, they’ve tried to kill one another and all that stuff, so it’s kind of a pleasant animosity. They respect one another and ultimately one in every of them goes to kill the opposite. It’s Moriarity and Sherlock Holmes. A kind of issues the place they’re always going forwards and backwards with one another.
S — I feel he must be German as a result of there’s one thing nonviolent in regards to the Oriental villain. Definitely he can use kindo (?) and be good with swords and the whole lot, however there’s one thing just a little extra ominous about an actual German. I imply an older German, not a younger Aryan. Like the best way Max Von Sydow was in “Three Days of the Condor.” That kind of hazard lurking about him. An excellent assassin.
G — He could possibly be French or Italian… No. Italians are too loopy. He could possibly be an Arab. One
of these weasel-faced, thin-moustached Arab professors.
S — Like Omar Shariff. I can’t factor of many Arabs who’re actors.
G — It’s the Sidney Greenstreet character. I simply suppose if he’s not German, then it makes it much less of a coincidence.
S — Sidney Greenstreet is the kind of villain who, should you pulled a gun on him says, “You disappoint me.”
G — Effectively, he could possibly be Chinese language, or no matter. He’s not an actual killer or something. He’s simply the one who’s behind the whole lot. He wouldn’t shoot anyone, however he wouldn’t hesitate for a second to say, “Shoot him.”
S — If that’s the case, then he has to have an actual rotten… G — He needs to be an actual slimy villain, a fantastic villain.
S — Charlie Chan, a villainous Charlie Chan.
G — A kind of actual nice characters.
S — A six foot three inch Oriental.
G — It needs to be very sensible, a kind of urbane, very unique man, who would run the Shang Hai Museum. He would even be a world dope smuggler and have connections everywhere in the world. He could possibly be promoting off Ming treasures. He’s an actual pirate. He’s not a Nazi, he’s a mercenary. He’s for rent.
S — He’s going to be surrounded by all kinds of brown shirts, Swastikas on the arm.
G — Proper. He’s working for the Nazis. They employed him as a result of they discovered proof of this factor, however they don’t know go about it. They’re not going to rent our man, so the opposite nice man on the earth who does this kind of factor is that this different man. There’s the nice American western man, after which there’s the unhealthy underworld man. They’ve this drawback of deciphering this kind of hieroglyphic they got here up with this to assist them discover the place the Ark is.
S — After this exposition scene, when he’s on an airplane going someplace, the engines begin lacking. Instantly there’s sabotage. It’s obtained to be the sort of film the place you anticipate the boring spots, however abruptly it will get very thrilling once you least anticipate it. It’s as if the second he will get the project, they already know manner throughout the ocean. They have already got forces out to get him.
G — They know that the one man who would ever come up in opposition to them could be this man.
S — It actually goes quick.
G — Simply to maneuver alongside, basically he results in Cairo or some unique middle-east space, which is the place most of it takes place. Within the desert, Jordan, Israel, that space. He’s given the identify of a person who is aware of in regards to the scenario, an agent. He goes into this very sleazy Casablanca sort membership and makes contact with this agent. The agent is a lady. This half was additionally kind of Phil’s. I wasn’t fully loopy about it, however I’ll proceed in the best way we had performed it. She’s kind of a Marlene Dietrich tavern singer spy. A German girl singer. She’s actually a double agent. She is aware of what the Nazis are doing, and the place they’re. He will get blended up-with her. She needs him to make her his accomplice. They kind of have an affair instantly. She is aware of the whole lot. She needs to get minimize in on his
share. She’s kind of a mercenary. She hates the Germans, however on the similar time, that is her probability to get out of right here, out of this gap. She kind of double crosses the Military. “Look, I’m not going to present you something except you chop me in on this. There’s some huge cash on this one. I can odor it.” He cuts her in on it. They’re kind of working collectively, however they don’t actually. He can’t belief her very a lot. They’re the love story side of it. She’s kind of a again streets lady. She’s having an affair or one thing with one of many officers, that’s how she will get her data. She tells him that there’s a digging. That they’re on the market within the desert and so they have discovered the opening to a temple, and so they suppose this ark is in there. This center half, a part of it’s to develop this relationship. That is the place a variety of the sabotage…
Individuals are attempting to kill him as quickly as he arrives, or possibly even earlier than he arrives, on the airplane. As quickly as he will get there, there are knives popping out of partitions, all these slimy characters are following him, all that stuff that occurs in these locations within the thirties. He’s poisoned and every kind of issues. He’s attempting to make contact with another Arab guys who’re going to assist him. He tried to search for an outdated buddy within the space and get some data, and he’s attempting to get data from this lady. Lastly she offers it to him, about the place the Germans are. We had considered giving him one other piece of knowledge, a MacGuffin, that he might take with him to attempt to analyze. This complete part is him sneaking round unique stuff the place he’s always being… He beats up German brokers occasionally, and we kind of set up the German agent. That’s only for a pair scenes the place we set the connection with the lady, the stress, some fights in rooms with plenty of containers. They’re trapped in retailer rooms and stuff the place he’s attempting to make contact along with his buddy. He goes out within the desert and… I’m not likely telling this half proper. He will get this piece of knowledge that he wants. He goes out and sees the Germans, disguised as Arabs. He realizes… He’s piecing this puzzle collectively, looking for the temple. They haven’t discovered the temple, they’re simply excavating round right here. He realizes the temple is sort of a quarter of a mile east of the place they’re. He goes and he finds it. It’s within the desert, and he digs down and finds just a little tiny little bit of smash. So he searches round till he finds one thing like a submit or column. He digs into the sand, a few Arabs are with him. There’s a stone factor that he opens up, there’s a gap into the bottom. He goes down in there and it’s the temple. He finds it and he finds the misplaced Ark. He’s recovering it. There’s a variety of stress as a result of now we have established that everyone is attempting to kill him. Individuals are following him all over. He is aware of that a couple of quarter mile east are about fifty Germans, with disguised tanks and weapons. They’ve every kind of junk over there. So he’s working proper underneath their noses. The thought within the center sequence was to create kind of a race, stress, who’s going to seek out the Ark first scenario. If he items the puzzle collectively first, he will get the Ark. He begins to get the Ark out of the factor, and he comes up out of the outlet, and all of the Germans are there. He’s caught. They take the Ark. Then they beat the shit out of him. He does some fancy stuff, however they throw him again down the outlet. We even have the lady going off with the Germans. We don’t know what her scenario is, however we don’t taint her. However when the Germans present up, she instantly goes off with the facet that’s successful. He will get throws again within the gap, and so they shut the tomb up and go away him there to die. Then they take the factor again to their camp. Then he kind of tries to get away when she comes again and lets him out. Them we understand that she was actually… She simply didn’t need to get thrown within the gap with him. Didn’t suppose that will do any good. It’s evening and so they sneak off to the camp. They go right into a tent and begin to steal the Ark, begin to take it to a truck. He’s pretending that he’s one of many Germans, though he’s sporting his common stuff. Many of the Germans don’t know who he’s. They get caught. They’re additionally with one other Arab facet kick, who additionally obtained thrown again within the factor. A little bit comedian aid. They fake like they’re purported to be carrying it, then they put it on a truck. One man says just a little German, like he’s one in every of them. There are German civilians and German troopers. The blokes who’ve pushed up are new guys. Their truck comes up and so they get out. They meet him coming towards them. “Oh, good. You’ve gotten come to fulfill us.” Simply as they’re placing the ark on the truck, the outdated guard comes up. They greatest up some guards as they’re found. It’s too late and so they kind of sneak off. The vehicles take off into the evening. He has to do one thing quick. Our man goes again into camp, jumps on a horse, and begins chasing after them. “Wait right here. I’ll get that rattling factor again.” The truck is racing
alongside within the desert, and he races together with the horse. He jumps on the truck. We had him shoot the tires on the again truck, and it kind of skids and goes off the street. Then he kind of turns and goes up a hill and comes down the opposite facet, and the opposite truck is there, and stopped. So we had him eliminate the again truck. Then he comes up alongside the opposite truck. It’s a kind of canvas Warner Bros, vehicles from the thirties. He races alongside the one with the Ark in it. He jumps onto the cab and has a struggle.
S — We’re going to have a fantastic struggle within the truck. They’re hitting one another because the truck goes over these mountainous roads. They beat on one another till the street will get tough, and so they assist one another make the turns. Then they go on hitting one another. The Germans who’re touring with the Ark within the again hear the scuffle. They give the impression of being by way of the window and so they must go alongside the facet to get into the cab. So our hero takes the truck and simply peels them off by scrapping the truck in opposition to the cliff wall. There are 5 Germans, and he scrapes them off and 5 extra climb on. A few them are climbing excessive. They’re all attempting “to get him.
G — We have now our first suspense factor within the temple. Then there was one other one in that craziness that occurs when he will get trapped, after which there’s this one. This is among the actual motion ones. He removes the Germans and will get management of the truck. He has advised his Arab buddy to get again to city, Cairo or no matter. Within the half the place he’s looking round for data, we understand he has a few buddies there. He’s kind of well-known. He’s clearly been there so much earlier than. He has kind of an underground there. He has advised the man to get again to city and inform Sabud that he’ll must get out instantly. He’ll want a ship or a aircraft. AS he’s moving into to city he’s handed by a few German bike guys. They abruptly level and yell at him. They flip round and begin going after him. There’s a automotive chase by way of the village.
S — Scattering chickens.
G — Little children working throughout the road, and the streets are solely this vast, and the truck is that vast. That sort of stuff.
S — Garments on garments traces are trailing after the truck. It’s “Bullet” by way of the streets of Cairo, its poorer part. After being chased by two bike guys with facet automobiles, who’re firing on him, they will’t do so much as a result of there’s no struggle occurring on the town. They’re all strangers on this nation. They crash into partitions and all these sorts of issues.
He lastly goes right into a storage — zip, clang, shut the doorways. His buddies are there. They pull it out and that is the primary time we see the Ark, besides we don’t actually see It. It’s in an enormous packing crate, kind of a coffin or one thing. Can we see it?” “No. No. I’ve to get this out of right here now. What preparations have you ever made?” “I couldn’t get you a aircraft, however I obtained you on a ship.” The boat is a tramp steamer, a pirate ship, a Chinese language tramp steamer with weapons.
S — The sheet steel folds down, the canvas comes up, and there are three inch deck weapons.
G — Our man will get on the ship after which he realizes they’re a bunch of Chinese language Pirates. He sees the weapons. “We don’t ask any questions. We’re dependable.” His buddy tells him that this man is de facto reliable. He’s a pirate and the whole lot, however he’s actually good. He’ll get them out of there and he hates Nazis as a lot as they do. So our man says okay. Because the ship begins to steam out of the bay, the Nazis are coming down the docks in vehicles and automobiles. The ship simply will get away from the dock. The Germans are standing there because the ship pulls out to sea. The captain tells our hero that he should have actually performed one thing to make the Nazis hate him. They discuss and develop into buddies, kind of. “we must always have you ever in London in 5 hours, or no matter.” “Fantastic. That’s nice. I’m going to get just a little slumber. It’s been a tough day. Wake me once we cross Gibraltar.” He goes to mattress. Fade out. Fade in. He wakes up, and the ship has stopped. He rushes upstairs. “What’s occurring?”
“We’ve stopped.” “I do know we’ve stopped. What’s occurring?” “Look.” He seems to be out and there’s a hoop of Wolf Pack German U-Boats across the ship. “Shit.” They’re beginning to come aboard. The Chinese language refuse to fireplace on them. The Germans would sink the ship. The Germans come aboard and begin wanting round and so they ask the Chinese language (garbled) They take the Ark and row it out to one of many submarines, and the Germans begin to depart. We see our hero swimming, catching onto one of many submarines, the one with the Ark in it. The submarine begins taking off, our man yanks himself up, runs throughout and will get up into the tower. The submarine begins to sink. It by no means goes beneath periscope depth. We see him kind of dangle onto the periscope. There’s a scene with the. Germans inside. “Achtung!” They go to the Greek Islands. Doorways open into one island, and the ship goes, on this typical German submarine base underneath the island. He will get off earlier than it goes in. They take the ark down right into a factor… He has had a run in with this professor within the working round sequence in Cairo with the lady.
L — Didn’t he see him on the tomb?
G — Sure. Each occasions. So he’s at this base and so they take the Ark and take it into this… There’s a factor in regards to the Ark, I don’t know what it’s, one thing about the place they arrange sheets and stuff in a sure manner. That is once more Phil’s data. They needed to arrange varied interlocking tents, in line with the legend. On this big cavern they arrange these tents, a maze of nylon stuff. So he sneaks in there previous the guards, previous all these things, and goes into the factor. The unhealthy Nazi and the professor, our nemesis… There’s this vicious Nazi Common who’s the kind of sidekick killer, Mr. Cranium and Cross Bones. They’re each in there, and he’s anxious to have the Ark opened. The professor is just a little leery about the entire thing. “We have now to watch out. We must always ship it to Hitler earlier than we mess around with it.” “No. No. I’ve to know.” They uncrate it. That is the half that’s left to interpretation. My feeling was that possibly it was just a little unbelievable. Our hero will get into the room. They catch him. There’s a struggle. He’s being led away. He will get away with just a little hassle, and hides. The blokes now open the crate up. They open it and simply as they open it, this lightening bolt or electrical cost… The entire thing turns into like kinetic vitality, with lightening arcs. It’s very fast. Like a lightening rod, it attracts static electrical energy. The 2 guys get fried. At this level our man is kind of helpless. The tent bursts on fireplace. All of the guards flip round and look. On this confusion is when he takes the chance and splits.
L — Who will get fried?
G – The professor and the Captain. All of the Nazis are yelling about placing the hearth out. They put it out. Our man is hidden throughout all this, however he can see it. Now we minimize to smoldering ruins. Our man sneaks in there and will get the Ark and hustles out with it. This is kind of the tip of the film.
S — There’s no confrontation now with the arch-rival.
G — The confrontation takes place simply earlier than that. They’re beginning to unpack the entire thing when he exhibits up. Then they’ve their confrontation. They get into their struggle. Our hero is crushed up, subdued. “I’ve the final snigger on you. Ship him to the sharks.” They’re main him away and also you suppose that in the long run the unhealthy guys have gained. Our hero is being led out to be killed, and so they’re going to open up the Ark. After they open it up this electrical stuff occurs and fries them. Our man will get away. Now we minimize to the smoldering ruins. The Ark has been pulled off to at least one facet. We see our man seize the ark and sneak off. Reduce to Washington. Our man is getting congratulated. The tip, kind of, is that he takes the Ark… It’s crated up, nobody even seems to be at it. They crate it up put it in an Military warehouse someplace. That’s the way it ends, very bureaucratic. The sensation is that the Ark is the actual factor, that it truly is a really highly effective factor.
S — Supernatural.
G — It’s sitting down within the authorities warehouse. The forms is the large winner within the movie. Within the particular scenes, it really works out that he will get beat and shit occurs to him within the course of. Clearly there needs to be some sort of scene with him in Washington.
S — Headlines — “Hitler Invades Poland”… With out the Ark.
G — The issue with the lady is that we had the ending and the whole lot, and I didn’t know get the lady on the submarine, and she or he simply kind of drops out. You possibly can’t take a lady by way of that sort of story. We rationalized that she was German, and possibly might go together with the professor or one thing so she could possibly be there in the long run. The story would come again collectively once more. She wouldn’t be on the ship, however she could be within the… The opposite thought was that she meets the man when he will get again within the storage. They get on the Chinese language ship collectively and have a relationship there, then when the Germans come, abruptly our hero is gone and so they take the lady with them. She doesn’t know what’s occurred to him or something. Then he exhibits up once more within the factor. We had labored it out the place we might carry her alongside. It did make sense. If she’s a German, and kind of a double agent, you might take her on one facet, then take her on the opposite facet. The most important drawback was the way you get her to go alongside on the whole lot, other than the connection. Clearly you possibly can develop the connection between two characters. All it’s a must to do is get them in the identical room collectively someway. These are tangential issues. We needed to get a clipper, a kind of flying boat issues when he goes throughout the Atlantic. And in addition we needed to get a flying wing out on the desert. Ought to this be within the desert or within the jungle? They pull these bushes aside and there’s a touchdown strip there. This flying wing is available in and our hero has a struggle with one of many guys across the flying wing. There are just a few of these journey scenes that get caught underneath the primary plot.
L — In the best way you’ve it now, within the last confrontation with the arch-rival, the arch- rival is victorious, then he will get fried by the ark.
G — Proper. The Ark is in the end victorious. The opposite factor is, our man could be actually skeptical in regards to the powers of the Ark, however the arch-rival is satisfied that it’s all true, the it has energy, and with it they might rule the world. They kind of commerce myths and legends forwards and backwards. In the long run the unhealthy man was proper, and our man is there to see it. He doesn’t see the arcs and stuff, however he sees the tent go right into a ball of fireplace. When he will get’ again to Washington, he’s telling the blokes, “That Ark, it’s true. It’s the misplaced Ark.” The Military man tells him they’ll care for it. It’s all prime secret stuff. He will get shut out of it, and so they don’t imagine him. They simply put it away.
L — However you don’t need him within the tent.
G — Proper. I don’t understand how we get him out, and all people else out. The factor of it’s, you don’t know what’s contained in the Ark by way of the entire thing. The viewers is interested by what’s going to be in it in the long run. Within the Cairo sequence he has some Arab buddies, a household with children working round, however he additionally has a buddy who’s kind of one other archeologist, who doesn’t like him. They’re outdated buddies, they went to highschool collectively, solely he doesn’t like him, ’trigger he doesn’t like what our man is doing. He’s a severe archeologist and doesn’t actually approve. They’ve discussions in regards to the Ark. Within the technique of all this, they kind of clarify an increasing number of in regards to the Ark, so we don’t have one huge lengthy scene. All people has completely different theories about what’s inside and what the ability is and the way it works. All through the script we’re establishing the thriller of this Ark and what it could actually do. So on the finish, after they lastly open it, it’s an enormous shock. The thought is, after they open it up there must be one thing actually neat inside. This was stuff that Phil was going to analysis, and we left it at that. The thought was that it was the pinnacle of Jesus or a scroll or no matter. We by no means see. All we see are these electrical fees and stuff. The actual principle in regards to the Ark is that should you take this Ark and put it on this conformation with these tents, you might discuss to God in it. It’s like a radio transmitter. That’s the actual legend. That’s what they used to do. The Israelis used to arrange these
tents and they might discuss to God and God would inform them what to do. After which they’d march with it in entrance of their military. The opposite Armies could be destroyed. Our thought was that there should really be some sort of tremendous high-powered radio from one in every of Erick Von Daniken’s alien craft. The truth that it’s electrical fees makes it vaguely plausible. The thought was that if it was the proper of trunk… We have now to get descriptions of what it seems to be like, however supposedly it’s like an enormous trunk. It’s like a automotive generator that you simply crank and it goes… After they opened it up you had that sense of some sort of kinetic generator which creates an amazing quantity of static electrical energy. There are all these spiritual trappings and attention-grabbing mysteries and occult stuff, and on the similar time it’s one thing that folks can carry round. It’s an enormous factor. We have now nice scenes with these poor little Arabs attempting to hold this factor to the truck. It’s simple on primary plot to put out the nice scenes, good cliffhangers. In that kind of amorphous space in Cairo, that’s the place we are able to match some in. Within the essence it’s simply bullshit stuff the place he wanders round Cairo attempting to uncover the thriller of his puzzle. On the similar time you meet all these attention-grabbing characters and each occasionally any person throws a knife at him, or he beats any person up, or any person beats him up, typical middle- japanese stuff. What he’s doing goes round getting the items of the puzzle. He begins with one piece and he will get one other piece from his buddy. The lady has one piece. He will get a chunk from the Arabs who stole it from the Germans. He lastly will get all of the items.
L — The Germans have how a lot of it?
G — They solely have like two-thirds of it.
S — However they’ve already performed the groundwork.
G — Proper. They’re working with two-thirds, and so they suppose they will determine it out. He has his items, and he will get a drawing of the German’s piece, and he suits all of it collectively. The Germans have discovered some ruins, however they haven’t positioned it but. It’s a part of a misplaced metropolis.
L — The place is it after they throw him again into the tomb?
G — I had it about two-thirds of the best way in. As soon as he will get the Ark. the entire thing is sort of a chase proper to the tip. Both he’s chasing them or they’re chasing him. It goes very quick. There’s just a little respite on the boat, however throughout that it’s a chase scene. Then he follows them into the cave, and you’ve got the tip of the film.
END OF TAPE ONE, SIDE B
“RAIDERS” — TAPE TWO
S — …a double agent, possibly. And I do know you don’t like the concept of any person simply tagging alongside for dialog, however make her somebody who wouldn’t have been on this image, and if she weren’t on this image, a variety of these things wouldn’t have taken place. Because the place is crashing, she’s the pilot. They’re going to crash land collectively. She’s actually indignant at him. She will get concerned within the plot, and is helpful. She’s not simply any person to be round for comedian aid or romantic aid. Fairly than being a sort of quasi… Within the Dietrich mould like a double agent.
G — It’s extra of a plot factor. I had her a German double agent who was caught over there. Then we are able to use her within the plot. She kind of has entry to data. She is helpful and tied in. It needs to be one thing the place they’re kind of tied in collectively on this factor, the place it’s conceivable. Once more, she doesn’t must be German, she could possibly be American, she could possibly be French or no matter. However I don suppose that we must always give you some motive to maintain her from being only a tagalong. The one factor I can give you is that she’s kind of a mercenary, and she or he’ someway concerned. Like she has a chunk of the puzzle, slightly than being compelled into the scenario. As a result of if she’s compelled into it, you’re always preventing to attempt to hold her there. Each scene you’re going to must
clarify why she’s there and why she doesn’t go away. Half of her dialogue goes to finish up being “Smokey and the Bandit” dialogue. On this now we have to give you one thing so we’re not always justifying her existence. She needs to be there for a motive. I’d say greed.
S — If she’s a double agent, I feel it will be attention-grabbing. He goes from Washington to the place?
G — To Cairo. We are able to have him go anyplace. The idea is that he’s chasing a puzzle. He’s obtained one piece of it, and he thinks he is aware of who has the opposite items. So you possibly can ship him to Hong Kong. I used to be pondering you might do a tiny piece in Hong Kong the place individuals are always attempting to knife him within the again and shoot poison darts into his ears. You had talked about that you simply didn’t need to spend all that point within the desert, so you possibly can condense a few of that point by taking the stuff that would occur anyplace, which is the discovering items of the puzzle, and put it the place ever you need.
S — One factor it is best to do — He’s on this airplane. There are about 4 or 5 passengers round him. He’s asleep and these passengers are taking a look at him. We don’t know why. They all of them rise up and placed on parachutes, and so they bounce out the door. He wakes up when he hears the door open, and realizes he’s on their lonesome. The door to the cockpit is locked. The airplane begins to enter a spin. He’s trapped on this airplane and it’s happening. The entire thing was a arrange. That’s a fantastic cliffhanger, to see how he will get out.
G — That’s nice. Then what occurs? One sentence additional and it’s a fantastic thought.
S — Effectively, he’s by no means flown an airplane earlier than, however he kicks within the pilot’s door. That will be attention-grabbing, he’s by no means flown earlier than, however he brings it down. The opposite factor could be if he is aware of fly, however he’s too late. It’s a kind of jungle scenes, you’ve seen the place the aircraft crashes into this dinosaur infested jungle, solely now with out dinosaurs. He has to convey it down over the tree tops. Both that or he crashes into the Mediterranean, into the water.
G — A part of it’s stylistic, however one of many issues that works in films is when the man will get out of that scenario in a singular very bravado kind of manner. He has to do one thing so audacious that it’s a must to say, “I’d by no means consider something like that.” And he will get away with it.
S — One of many issues he might strive, though it takes away from the suspense… If I had been him, I’d bounce on the final minute with a parachute.
G — The best way to do it’s to have him… You’ve gotten seat covers or one thing. He begins ripping off the seat covers and tying them collectively. Then he jumps out holding all these seat covers. That’s kind of unbelievable. In case you might make one thing like that plausible. He’s over the water. It’s James Bond. Not solely do it’s a must to get him out of it, it’s a must to do it in a really colourful manner. I’m not saying that you simply really must be intelligent, simply make it plausible. Typically he does it in a completely outrageous manner, however it works and it’s really nice.
S — One factor he can do is wait till it’s virtually crashed into the bottom after which bounce out and land in a tree, or on a roof prime.
G — If we take him from Washington, why don’t we take him to Hong Kong or Shang Hai. That’s a fantastic place. It’s extra unique than Hong Kong. So he’s crash within the water, with islands and Chinese language junks.
S — He does this. Beneath his seat is a life vest or a life raft. He takes the life vest out from all of the seats and he blows all of them up and he will get inside, and is totally
insulated. Then her jumps out of the airplane. He simply surrounds himself with these enormous cushioned gadgets.
G — Did they’ve these issues in ’36?
S — They’d them in all airplanes.
G — That’s some research merchandise. They could simply have had life preservers. If they’d life preservers, you might roughly do the identical factor. If he’s over water, the aircraft could possibly be happening at a steep angle.
S — The opposite factor he can do this’s extra consistent with the heroic facet is, slightly than abandon the aircraft, he might kick down the door and we see the ocean simply developing at him. He’d pull the aircraft up at simply the final second. That’s the outdated cliche shot. The aircraft is bellying on the water. The water bursts by way of the cockpit. The aircraft begins to sink, and that will be attention-grabbing. He will get out of this sinking airplane and finds a vacuum. He takes an enormous breath of air. He can’t climb out till the strain is equal. Meaning the entire aircraft needs to be underneath water earlier than he can climb out the window. Then he simply climbs out the window and swims to the floor.
G — I just like the half the place he jumps out. That’s a intelligent thought.
L — What if he makes himself right into a ball with the life preservers and simply goes skipping into the water.
G — If he like he ties himself right into a ball with these preservers and he jumps out on the final minute.
L — If there have been a life raft he might enclose himself in it.
G — That’s a good suggestion. I’m simply fearful they didn’t have life rafts then.
S — They’d life rafts all by way of the second world struggle that had been inflatable. I needed him to be on a clipper. It’s an enormous aircraft.
G — Is there one we might use for take off and touchdown, and use a miniature for the crash.
S — I heard that there’s one left in South America someplace.
G — I simply need to ship a second unit to shoot it taking off and possibly get some further stuff. If we ship him to Shang Hai we might have him going to see his enemy and we might join it slightly than having it unconnected. The one motive we’re speaking in regards to the Orient is that it’s unique. He’s going to go away Washington and go to a few unique locations. He’ll go to the Orient with the crowded streets and dragon girls. Then we ship him to the Himalayas, with the snow. After which we ship him to Cairo. Going from the Himalayas to Cairo he could be going over water.
L — He might land within the snow. One factor about touchdown within the water that bothers me is that we find yourself within the water on the sub.
G — Truly, he might land within the snow.
S — When he hits, the raft comes open and he has a toboggan trip.
G — It’s even higher, as a result of when he thinks of the raft over, nicely that’s why he considered it. But when he thinks of it over snow, that’s much more intelligent. And snow is gentle.
S — If the aircraft will get to crash within the mountains, there could be an enormous explosion that we wouldn’t have within the water. The aircraft goes right into a field canyon and the man has to leap. On prime of a mountain he jumps out. The aircraft hits the mountain and there’s an enormous fireplace ball. The items go in every single place. He’s on the raft holding onto the ropes, coming down the mountain. And for comedian aid he ought to go proper by way of some kind of village, with a fiesta or one thing occurring, with llamas. He knocks a llama over.
L — There could possibly be a ceremony with monks… (garbled) They’re all wanting up.
G — It may be amusing, however on the similar time it needs to be very sensible. It needs to be what would actually occur. You must imagine that somebody might reside by way of it like that. We have now to focus on holding it clear and never undergo pointless explanations. The enjoyable a part of that flight is that it comes out of nowhere. You simply don’t anticipate it. It’s nice if it’s the second flight within the film. We’ll minimize to him flying varied locations. We need to get all that nice interval stuff. We have now all these flights, after which abruptly you chop inside to all this craziness occurring. I feel he ought to go to Shang Hai to seek out this man, his enemy. We get just a little extra details about the enemy. Additionally, possibly he will get a chunk of the puzzle that sends him to the Himalayas.
L — (garbled, one thing a couple of museum)
G — Proper. Form of the Shang Hai Museum of Trendy Artwork.
L — He is aware of his enemy is in Paris, so he’s on his personal defending the museum, his henchmen are. Is there something our man can do to choose up no matter data his enemy already has? In some way see the data that has already handed by way of that room?
G — Proper. He’s looking for out what that man is aware of.
L — It takes him proper to the center of the opposite man’s power.
G — I like that. We are able to do this simple. Earlier than I had the lady offering that. We are able to resolve which manner. I had the lady get a duplicate of the drawing. If that man had it, it must be in a secure or one thing. (not clear, one thing about an indentation)
L — Precisely how do you see this puzzle?
G — I see it as a pill, a chunk of stone with a map. It’s not likely a map. It’s an outline of the positioning. It’s like a plan of town. It was drawn at the moment. And it has hieroglyphics on it telling the legend. It’s an architects drawing that was performed in stone, and it exhibits the position of assorted temples, and of the Ark. The pill was discovered within the desert the place the Germans are. it needs to be the misplaced metropolis of one thing.
L — Does it lead you to the Ark?
G — It shouldn’t be one thing that exhibits you the place the Ark is. It exhibits you the place a sure temple is. In case you discover this metropolis, and you’ve got the map that exhibits you the place this temple is, then you could find the Ark. In any other case it’s a must to dig up the entire metropolis. The Germans have discovered the misplaced metropolis. And so they have two-thirds of the map, which possibly they discovered after they had been digging. Different parts of this map have been discovered earlier than, antiquities in varied museums and different locations
L — Let’s say her father is there. Her father might have been his mentor. He has been engaged on some unrelated mission. Nevertheless it was her father who found the primary fragment of the map. She has it. Her father dies. That’s why he’s going to Nepal, to get it from her. That’s why they know one another. That’s why she’s reluctant to half with it. Does any of this sound attainable?
G — Sounds attainable.
L — In order that they have a earlier relationship by way of her father.
G — The opposite factor we are able to do, twisting what you’ve simply performed with what we’ve already obtained… My rapid response is to draw back from the professor’s daughter goes alongside. However what if we do it, and since her father dies, he left her broke. He was an archeologist and left her so broke she didn’t have any cash to get again. So she’s caught there. She runs the bar. She’s the native Rick. Form of the American Rick. She’s kind of goofy…
S — Incomes cash to get again to the states.
G — Yeah. She needs to get again. She’s kind of made it her hone. She began out possibly singing or being a name lady or no matter. Finally she purchased out the man who ran the place, or he died. Now she’s obtained this little tavern, and she or he’s doing kind of nicely. She might solely promote the place for as a lot cash as it will take to get her again to the states, after which she could be caught there with nothing, no job. What she’d love to do is de facto strike it wealthy. However she doesn’t see any manner of doing that. She’s kind of a goofy robust, keen to care for herself, mercenary sort girl who’s actually out for herself. She has this piece and he needs it, so what she does is minimize herself in on it. “Look, you’re going to must take me together with you.” “What do you imply?” “Companions. I’ve one piece. You’ve gotten the opposite.” That outdated story. It’s sort of the factor the place she needs to return to the states in model or one thing. She doesn’t need to get on a tramp steamer and make her manner again, which she might have performed some time in the past. She actually needs to return as a girl. That is her probability. She says she’ll promote it to him.
L — That is in Cairo.
G — No. That is in Nepal. She’s caught there.
L — Who’re her clients at this Rick’s Place in Nepal?
G — There’s really a Rick’s Place in Nepal. Invoice and Gloria learn about it. They stayed there. It’s some expatriot American who lives there on the foot of the Himalayas. It’s obtained this lodge/bar.
S — I like the concept that she’s a heavy drinker and our hero doesn’t drink in any respect. She will get drunk so much. She’s lovely and she or he will get actually attractive when she’s drunk, and foolish. And he doesn’t contact the stuff.
L — I don’t need to soften her. I like the truth that it’s greed. I like all of the laborious stuff, however you’re going to like right here.
G — That is good, however she clearly will get into one thing that’s manner over her head as the entire thing goes alongside.
L — I ponder if somebody hasn’t approached her already. The map has heated up significantly in three weeks. They’ve discovered the city. Does she have some tip off that that is value whereas? When he involves her, “That’s humorous. I’ve had this ten years since my father died. Now on this week two folks need it.”
G — If the Germans obtained there, first, they most likely would have provided her some huge cash. And he or she most likely would have bought it to them. Perhaps nobody knew the place she is and he finds her by way of Washington or one thing. A way the place he would know, however nobody else. Or authorities would know and he will get it from them. Perhaps the enemy doesn’t know but the place this professor died. And that will make it attention-grabbing, as a result of supposedly she’s safe, and he will get sabotaged on the best way there. You already know that they
know roughly the place he’s going. The rapid hazard is that they’re racing to get there. She tells him that if he needs this factor so unhealthy it’ll price him $20,000. “I don’t have that sort of cash. I don’t get something till I get the entire thing, once we get the Ark. Then I get the cash.” She says, “Okay, We’re companions.” It forces her to stick with him. If the Germans got here and provided her the cash instantly, she’d take it. And they’d give it to her. I feel it’s higher, at this level, to maintain the Germans one step behind them. They’re one step forward in sabotaging him, however they don’t know the place he’s going. They start to determine it out, and so they resolve to kill him and go get it. They’re on their manner too. There’s one other aircraft that’s flying alongside his that has the unhealthy guys in it. They’re attempting to get there first. They simply don’t have as particular data as he does. They simply know he’s in Nepal someplace. So we sluggish them down as soon as they get there.
S — She offers him this map instantly? G — It needs to be pretty fast.
S — He has to win her confidence.
G — Proper.
L — Let’s say the Germans are a half hour behind them, and so they’re haggling. She is in rapid jeopardy and he represents some safety to her.
G — Since he obtained there first, it’s too late for them to attempt to purchase it. All they will do is kill them each and take it.
S — How would they know the place it’s except they torture her first to seek out out? G — They gained’t know.
S — They wouldn’t need to kill them till they’ve their arms on the map. G — Perhaps they’d simply need to kill him.
S — She has a rooming home above the cafe. He hears this sound. In the midst of the evening he will get up and appears over the banister. There are Germans in every single place. They’ve her and so they’re interrogating her, in the course of this empty cafe in the course of the evening.
G — He is available in and saves her. You kind of introduce her as a damsel in misery. Within the different manner she’s kind of a troublesome lady. Or you might do each. You would have him come and haggle together with her, and have her say no manner. “No cash. No deal.” He will get kind of pissed off and goes out. He comes again later and the place is empty and so they’re in there torturing her.
L — The factor hasn’t been value something up till now. So she wears it round her neck, or it’s on the mantle. It’s like a joke.
G — Clearly it could possibly be one thing semi-precious to her as a result of her father gave it to her. We’ll assume that she did love the outdated coot.
L — He goes off to his room for the evening. He will get up; he’s going to steal it. Within the interim the Germans have arrived. When he goes right down to steal it, he winds up rescuing her. He stumbles into this heroic function. She might doubt his motivation from then on. “You didn’t come down there to save lots of me.”
G — We have now to get them cemented into a really robust relationship. A bond.
L — I prefer it in the event that they already had a relationship at one level. As a result of then you definately don’t must construct it.
G — I used to be pondering that this outdated man might have been his mentor. He might have identified this little lady when she was only a child. Had an affair together with her when she was eleven.
L — And he was forty-two.
G — He hasn’t seen her in twelve years. Now she’s twenty-two. It’s an actual unusual relationship.
S — She had higher be older than twenty-two.
G — He’s thirty-five, and he knew her ten years in the past when he was twenty-five and she or he was solely twelve.
G — It might be amusing to make her barely younger on the time. S — And promiscuous. She got here onto him.
G — Fifteen is true on the sting. I do know it’s an outrageous thought, however it’s attention-grabbing. As soon as she’s sixteen or seventeen it’s not attention-grabbing anymore. But when she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and so they really had an affair the final time they met. And he or she was head over heels in love with him and he…
S — She has footage of him.
G — There could be an image on the mantle of her, her father, and him. She was head over heels in love with him on the time and he left her as a result of clearly it wouldn’t work out. Now she’s twenty-five and she or he’s been dwelling in Nepal since she was eighteen. It’s not solely that they like one another, it’s a really weird factor, it places an entire new perspective on this complete factor. It offers you plenty of stuff to play off of between them. Perhaps she nonetheless likes him. It’s one thing he’d slightly overlook about and never have come up once more. This provides her a variety of ammunition to struggle with.
S — In a manner, she might say, “You’ve made me this tough.”
G — It is a useful resource that you could both mine or not. It’s not as blatant as we’re speaking about. You don’t give it some thought that a lot. You don’t instantly understand how outdated she was on the time. It might be delicate. She might speak about it. “I used to be jail bait the final time we had been collectively.” She will flaunt it at him, however on the similar time she by no means says, “I used to be fifteen years outdated.” Even when we don’t point out it, once we go to forged the half we’re going to finish up with a girl who’s about twenty-three and a hero who’s about thirty- 5.
S — She is the daughter of the professor who our hero was underneath the tutelage of. She has this little fragment of the map.
G — He doesn’t must have the fragment in hand. All he has to do is get a duplicate of it, make a rubbing of it.
L — (this part just isn’t clear, one thing in regards to the fragments and the way he will get them)
G — His first job is to go to Shang Hai, into the lion’s den to get this, which is often on the finish, so it is a twist. In Washington now we have the benefit of having the ability to arrange something we would like, by way of data, what’s going on. Say the Germans despatched him the pill to decipher.
L — They wouldn’t do this. They might ship him the rubbing.
G — Suppose the rubbing wasn’t articulate sufficient. They might ship {a photograph}, I assume.
L – Let’s say the arch-enemy is gone now, however it had been there in his lab. Perhaps the arch-villain has had a chunk or two all alongside. Nevertheless it was ineffective to him. Our man is aware of that it’s been stored there. The precise piece is now not there. Nevertheless it’s been sitting on felt or in glass, and there’s an impression of it.
G — Effectively, I like the concept of a solar spot, however then it will be the form of the damaged piece slightly than what’s on it. Once more, we are able to design this nonetheless we would like. It doesn’t must be a pill. It might have been a portray on a vase. It may be any antiquity that we give you. It could possibly be a scroll. Or some sort of a statue or some kind of tall factor with a really unusual design that’s really a design of town. Individuals have varied items of it, one thing that’s stacked. It could possibly be a factor with plenty of little gizmos in it, very intricately carved. It was the highest of a stack that the mayor of town carried round. This could be the solar, and this might be tie metropolis. Town reached the solar, a logo. It’s been damaged into a variety of items. There’s a chunk at this museum, which is among the causes they’d name this man in. Not solely is he a shyster and all that stuff, however he already has a serious piece of. Say the Nazis solely have half of it, or a 3rd of it. This man has a 3rd. So with their third and his third, they’ve two-thirds of it. This different professor has just a little piece. Make it quarters, so the Nazis now have half of it.
S — Can they decipher every bit?
L — The design has the solar on the prime of it. What if the best way to the Ark is when the sunshine hits a sure level on this sculpture it exhibits the doorway. So should you had the highest half it will do you no good as a result of the solar could be hitting nothing.
G — You probably have sufficient items you possibly can deduce the precise dimension. But when the Chinese language and the Nazis have two sections, why doesn’t he simply go proper there and get each of them without delay slightly than go to the place only one piece is?
L — Until he thinks it’s going to be very troublesome, because it seems to be, to stroll into the Nazi camp and get it.
G — Until he thinks the Chinese language man remains to be there with each of them. He goes there to see if he can get it, and finds out the man is gone. He is aware of precisely the place it’s as a result of he’s been there earlier than. However now it’s gone. Then he seems to be on the shadow. He doesn’t know he’s going to have the ability to get the Nazi piece. Proper now he’s going to get all of the items he can. So he copies the silhouette. Then he goes to get the half the lady has. From that he figures it out.
S — How does the viewers…
END OF TAPE TWO, SIDE A
TAPE TWO, SIDE B
G — He says okay, I’ll get you a ticket to Cairo, and you may go away tonight. He tells him he doesn’t need to go to Cairo, he needs to go to Shang Hai, trigger we’ll must have this piece that’s there. If the scriptures are true or no matter, then it’s a must to have this piece to make it work. I’ve to get it, or at the least a duplicate of it. He goes to Shang Hai and it’s been stolen. If he could make a top level view of it, then I assume any person has a nonetheless of it, and no matter data you will get off the actual factor, you might get off a nonetheless. I’m simply being the satan’s advocate right here.
S — If it’s an essential piece, actually there are pictures of it. There’s a coalition of museums the place it’s a must to register the whole lot.
G — Assume at this level that nobody ever thought twice about it. All it offers us is his intelligent manner of taking the shadow.
S — Bow a lot movie time is that this going to take?
G — I’m additionally attempting to get one thing that’s quite simple. We don’t have to enter countless explanations about how… This needs to be one thing that’s extraordinarily simplistic, by way of the items. That’s kind of foolproof in its personal manner. It needs to be one thing very apparent. We all know that no matter it’s, now we have to have items of a puzzle. It might be good if the puzzle had been some kind of nice key factor with the solar hitting… That’s all the time a variety of enjoyable. And the lady has to have an essential piece that makes her a significant hyperlink in the entire chain. We need to ship the man to Shang Hai first only for the atmosphere. Have just a little little bit of journey there earlier than he goes to Nepal, earlier than he results in Cairo. Between the purpose the place he leaves Washington, and he’s up there on the hill wanting down on the Nazis a part of it’s within the Orient, half is in Nepal, half within the mud streets of some Arabian metropolis. Then a variety of it takes place within the desert. What now we have to do is determine how we’re going to place the puzzle collectively, by way of what will be lacking that may be a key to this factor. The unique was a plan of town of this piece.
? — They do this to earn more money. They’ll take an object and break it up and promote the items.
? — We all know that every particular person has a chunk. That’s the simplest factor. However having a workers… ? — A workers. That solves the issue.
? — I just like the workers, and the daylight factor.
? — now we have to determine is the place she carries it.
G — Or what he’s going to Shang Hai for. That may both be the stronghold of our man, or not. He will be based mostly in Shang Hai, or in Paris.
S — I assumed he would meet his arch-rival in Shang Hai.
G — Solely due to the truth that the arch-rival is oriental. We don’t must make him Oriental. We are able to make him black. The one different factor that will get “complicated is that if the unhealthy man is Oriental and he goes on the Oriental pirate ship, it doesn’t must be an Oriental pirate ship. Assuming that we don’t make the arch-rival Chinese language, make him French. When he goes to Shang Hai to get the piece that it’s a shock that it’s lacking.
L – It could possibly be in a non-public assortment. You wouldn’t have to fret about stills of it. The personal assortment it’s in could possibly be…
G — Some very wealthy Chinese language struggle lord. In these days they’d struggle lords. They didn’t eliminate them till the Japanese got here in. A swordsman.
S — That’s what occurs in Shang Hai.
G — That will be nice. The struggle lords had been really like banditos. S — I’d prefer to see him taking over an entire bunch of Samurai.
G — It might be Chinese language swordsmen, which is completely different.
S — Perhaps we must always transfer it to Tokyo.
G — Shang Hai is sweet. We might nonetheless have swords and stuff. It’s only a completely different sort of sword and it really works in several methods.
L — This could possibly be a Japanese swordsman who was so unhealthy they kicked him out of Japan. Now he’s in China.
G — We have now to perform a little research, however really the struggle with Japan was occurring then in ’36. Once you ship him to Shang Hai, we’ll must verify this, however I feel the struggle was occurring there then.
S — It’s good. You’ve gotten explosions and Zeros.
G — The struggle lords had been kind of corrupt guys. If this man is in league with the Japanese, we simply contact on an entire different story. This man is a struggle lord by advantage of the truth that he’s bought out to the Japanese and the Japanese are utilizing his affect and his factor as a base for his or her operation. They wouldn’t be Samurai, however they’d be your Rising Solar guys. A few of these guys carry Samurai swords. His private physique guards might have Samurai swords. We convey the Japanese into it, and Chinese language struggle lords. This man helps the Japanese to kill and maim his nation, so he’s actually a despicable particular person.
S — We have now to have a beheading. We have now to begin this scene with a mass beheading. We don’t have to point out it. In case you had been actually unhealthy, it took three minutes to chop your head off. Then the Japanese Zeros strafe. They’re reducing off the heads of Flying Tigers, American mercenaries.
G — He will get on his clipper and he flies from Washington to Shang Hai. On the finish of the temple scene, most likely some transitional system there. We might have some sort of…
L — The factor we’ve been avoiding is that he might decide up his piece there.
G — We had been pondering that they’d already obtained to it. Perhaps he really will get the piece there earlier than the opposite guys get there. He’s one step forward of them at this level. An attention-grabbing there may be how shut the Germans are to getting it. You possibly can have the Germans get it whereas he’s there, and have him sabotage the Germans simply earlier than they get it on their airplane. I feel it will be good if he obtained in and obtained out. When he will get on the aircraft you suppose he’s escaping. So the entire thing, the place he’s going and the whole lot turns into an actual shock.
S — That is the place we are able to do our fist struggle with the flying wing. We are able to do this sequence within the Shang Hai space.
L — After which he hops on a DC-3, which is their aircraft. It’s the sabotaged aircraft.
G — One of many causes I had the flying wing within the desert, touchdown on a secret desert base, was the truth that I assume that once we get it we’re going to must get it out of a museum someplace round right here, and we would be capable of take it out to a desert round right here. The Mojave or one in every of these Air Power bases on the market. It’s clear, they will simply fly it in and fly it out. It’s kind of second unit. Fly the aircraft in, stage the struggle, and fly it out once more with out having to get into an enormous deal about getting it to a troublesome location. These flying wings are so harmful that you could’t fly them any extra. However they’re nonetheless round some the place.
L — What number of engines have they got? G — 4. It will depend on how huge it’s.
S — Is it the B-36 with eight engines backwards?
G — Sure. The wing has 4 engines backwards. If he will get into Shang Hai and he pulls off this factor, now we have to determine… Clearly it strikes quick sufficient that we don’t must rationalize a variety of what we’re doing. If the professional landed in Cairo, he would suppose the identical factor our hero would suppose, and he would have had the Nazis spouse to Shang Hai and have the Nazi agent there contact this man.
L — On the similar time the struggle is happening with the Samurai the Germans will be going by way of the formality with the Japanese and the Chinese language struggle lords about coming down and getting it. After they open the door, he’s going out over the roofs.
G — One other technique to do it will be to present our man a bounce just a little bit. In Washington they inform him he has to get on it instantly as a result of the Germans have discovered the misplaced metropolis or no matter two days in the past. A whole lot of exercise occurring out within the desert. They’ve contacted his outdated buddy. They’re speaking in regards to the Ark. In some way they are saying that he hasn’t left Paris but. They suppose he’s scheduled to go away tomorrow for Cairo. We all know that his rival hasn’t left Paris but. That’s when our man says it should be true. “I would like a ticket to Shang Hai.” Assume that the French man wouldn’t determine it out till he really obtained there.
L — That’s a query. How hip is the arch-rival? At this level our man apparently is aware of that he wants the workers. He doesn’t know in the event that they’ve discovered the map. The arch-rival should know in regards to the workers.
G — You assume he is aware of these things if his mentor discovered the highest of the workers.
L — Now why would the arch-rival, upon listening to the information that they discovered the misplaced metropolis, instantly say “I’ve obtained to get that workers put collectively.”? Why do now we have to have such an enormous lead
G — What occurs if we don’t?
L — It makes extra sense if the arch-rival hasn’t gotten all these things earlier than. So it turns into a race all the best way. What’s the benefit of the lead he’s obtained?
G — That’s what it comes right down to. It turns into barely coincidence, and now we have to keep away from that, that his mentor knew all about this and that’s how come he is aware of all about it. After all it’s not likely a coincidence as a result of he’s going for the factor. If he is aware of the professor, and if he is aware of about this specific Ark, he’s the one who is de facto the professional on it, however he’s very skeptical about it. He’s kind of researched it and his mentor has researched it, and he thinks it’s kind of horse-shit. In the event that they name him in and say, “It appears the Germans have discovered the misplaced metropolis. The misplaced metropolis is the half that was the parable. “They most likely simply stumbled into an enormous gap and suppose they found one thing.” “Effectively, we’re sending for this man.” So then our man thinks possibly it’s the misplaced metropolis. If it’s the misplaced metropolis, they’re going to wish the workers. They’re not going to determine that one out for some time. “If they’ve discovered the misplaced metropolis and so they’re on the lookout for the Ark, they’re going to wish the workers with the solar. I do know the place to get it, and I’ve obtained to get it instantly, earlier than they get it, and earlier than my arch-rival will get it.”
S — Then we’d higher minimize to the arch-rival away from our hero, make him a separate character and let him give the identical orders.
G — I feel it’s higher to not. I don’t need to set it up as a race. I feel it’s essential that we arrange the truth that our man is attending to the factor earlier than they do, or is attempting to. And he does get to it earlier than they do, after which he goes to the lady and will get the opposite half.
L — It looks as if he could possibly be only a step forward all alongside. It could possibly be a half hour or it could possibly be ten minutes, (garbled, one thing about weapons and Samurai) Do you’ve any drawback with the truth that they bail out over the Himalayas after they had all the best way from Shang Hai to…
S — No. That’s the sort of stuff I like. I wouldn’t query it.
G — It’s the loopy Oriental thoughts. How do we all know the way it works. They all the time wait till the final minute or one thing.
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G — compelled into the scenario. So he will get in there. The Nazis are closing in. He has a struggle with the Samurai body-guards and possibly a few of the Nazis. He steals the factor. The good factor now we have to arrange on this flight to Nepal is that our Chinese language guys are those who booked this nice aircraft and-all that stuff. So that you simply assume that it’s secure.
S — They might have performed this even when he obtained the factor safely.
G — Proper. We gained’t clarify how they’ve all this discovered. The perfect factor is to set it up as secure a flight as attainable. You suppose when he will get on the aircraft and sits down, the whole lot is okay. “Effectively, we obtained out of that one.” Immediately there’s nobody there. Simply as you suppose he’s secure and there’s going to be just a little quiet interval, he goes on to the following factor and crashes.
S — Are we going to do the fist struggle with the flying wing right here on the Shang Hai airport?
G — No. I don’t suppose we must always do this. The struggle must be on the struggle lord’s temple. Then they bounce within the automotive and race out to the airport. The Military Intelligence’ guys and the Chinese language underground guys say goodbye and good luck. They put him on the aircraft and so they ship him off, and he’s secure.
S — What in regards to the Nazis? Are there any shut brushes with them?
G — Within the temple he will get caught and has a struggle. They kind of arrive collectively. When he arrives on the entrance of the temple, the Germans are arriving on the again.
L — And the Chinese language struggle lord insists on a kind of ritual welcome.
G — Yeah. The Germans aren’t in any hurry as a result of they don’t know what’s occurring but, we assume at this level. “Effectively, shut, however not shut sufficient.” They virtually beat them, however they didn’t. As soon as he crashes into the snow we don’t must spend any time there. We simply minimize to him hobbling into the village. Or we are able to have some folks convey him down.
S — After the toboggan trip.
G — The opposite factor now we have to do, he has to cover this factor someplace or they’d take it. The one he picked up in Shang Hai We assume at this level they know that that is the man and so they need to kill him, what additionally they must do is get this factor again. He hides it on his particular person. We are able to make it as huge or as small as we would like. If it’s an enormous stone factor, then it’s going to be just a little troublesome. We disguise it, and he carries on the airplane just a little field about the fitting dimension that he’s very protecting of. He units it on the seat subsequent to him. When all of the individuals are getting out very quietly, any person comes over and picks up the field. “The place did all people go? Some bastard stole my lunch.”
S — The place does he meet the lady then, Nepal?
G — Sure. She is working this American hostel and bar. Rick’s Place, in the course of Nepal in some little village.
L — Do you’ve a reputation for this particular person?
G — I do for our chief.
S — I hate this, however go forward.
G — Indiana Smith. It needs to be distinctive. It’s a personality. Very Americana sq.. He was born in Indiana.
L — What does she name him, Indy?
G — That’s what I used to be pondering. Or Jones. Then folks can name him Jones. He crashes into the snow, then dissolve to him along with his crutch or one thing making his manner down right into a village. There’s a little scene the place he will get transportation. The place he lands just isn’t subsequent door to the village. We would have a variety of suspicious wanting Himalayans standing round that you simply would possibly suppose are spies. One man rushes to a telegraph workplace. Create just a little little bit of stress. It’s actually a scene the place now we have him hire a automotive or one thing and drive to the following village. I don’t suppose the trek is sweet getting out of the mountains, ’trigger they tend to be boring. It must be attending to the place the lady is. Once more we’re simply speaking about just a few pictures as a result of we don’t need to spend so much of time in between issues. We go to him attempting to get a automotive, then dissolve to him driving into the city, getting out, wanting round. We have now established the truth that he’s going to Nepal or someplace. It’s not like he was going to Cairo and ended up in Nepal.
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END OF TAPE TWO, SIDE B
“RAIDERS” — TAPE TWO-A
G — I’ve the reply. I had thought that on the scepter, on the half that he stole, is details about how tall the workers was. This factor sits on prime of the workers and it says precisely how tall it was, what number of arms excessive. Nobody has ever put it collectively earlier than as a result of no one knew the place the misplaced metropolis was. They’d fragments of details about how this was the workers that the mayor held, that the solar was the important thing to the place the solar temple was, or had a relation to the solar temple. Nevertheless it isn’t essential should you don’t know the place town is or something. I assumed it will be attainable to develop the concept that he’s discovering a variety of these things as he goes alongside. He’s decoding stuff and the puzzle kind of clicks collectively. Until they get all of the items, they will’t actually determine it out.
S — Additionally, the inside of the outlet needs to be beveled in such a manner that the solar solely pierces it at a sure time.
G — I used to be pondering that the Germans could be doing it mathematically and constructing fashions roughly reproducing what our man has. They don’t have a few of the key data, in order that they’re doing it in kind of tough. They determine it out and it factors to a constructing on the map. When he comes they’re within the technique of digging at that constructing. Within the technique of the movie we get the data that they’ve discovered it. However they haven’t.
S — They’re digging the improper constructing.
G — The reason being that the solar has modified so drastically within the three thousand years or no matter, that they didn’t take that calculation into… In the event that they had been all shiny folks they’d have considered it. However they’re dumb. The Nazis and his accomplice weren’t that well- versed in astronomy and he was. He knew that the azimuth was improper, and he strikes
the factor over. You see him digging in a single spot whereas they’re digging in one other. Form of one-upsmanship, the place our man is brighter than they’re.
L — Wouldn’t the Germans know that too?
G — Perhaps we are able to cowl that by saying that the Germans thought it was from one interval, say two thousand years in the past, and he finds out on the scepter data that… One benefit now we have is that the entire thing has by no means been put collectively earlier than, and that reveals a brand new factor. They’d learn the 2 issues individually earlier than, however after they put it collectively. I used to be pondering it both gave you a brand new studying on the peak of the stick, or it gave you a brand new studying on the date that it occurred, so they might be 5 hundred years off, which might add 4 levels to the computation.
S — Any manner you take a look at it, the entire inside the workers needs to be minimize in such a manner that solely at a sure time of day, and just for the gap of the outlet, would the solar present the precise spot the place the Ark is hidden. Sure, if they’d a highlight they might shine it, and that will probably the most expedient technique to do it. In any other case they must watch for the solar. It’s extra dramatic to see the solar rising, and he’s ready round taking a look at this little determine, and the solar hits it and he marks- the spot. We might rationalize it by saying that in that day they didn’t have highlight models, which they didn’t except you went to Hollywood.
G — The factor about dawn and sundown that I like is that it offers you such a exact factor. Once you say midday, it’s very laborious to inform when midday except you’ve a clock. However dawn and sundown is when the solar is midway over the horizon and it’ll all the time line up that manner, for eternity, aside from the earth shifting, and also you repair that with exact calculations. Additionally, the time of the yr has an enormous impact. That will be one other a part of the calculation they’d all have to enter. I assumed we might relate the date to the summer time solstice or the rites of spring or some specific date, the Ides of March or nonetheless you need to do it. What they’d do just isn’t be there on the actual date, however they know the place the solar could be, in order that they transfer it sixteen levels east and that’s the place it’s.
S — This may’t take a lot time or the viewers will go proper to sleep. It needs to be shortly defined and achieved.
G — We have now to resolve what we need to do by way of… We are able to have frequent data, if we would like the Nazis to have figured it out. Do it normally dialog, the peak of the workers was 4 arms, three hoves excessive. One level must be the bugaboo, the date, I feel that’s just a little complicated too, or the truth that the earth has shifted barely.
L — It needs to be data contained on the lacking sculpture.
G — The opposite technique to do it’s once you put the 2 elements collectively. The final data says that the workers is 4 arms excessive, that’s within the textbooks. So the Germans use that. When he places it collectively, proper within the crack it’s fourteen arms excessive and no one ever knew that earlier than. That half was on her factor, and when it’s match collectively you possibly can simply see the define of a one there. It’s not 4 it’s fourteen.
L — And that’s actual simple to know.
G — So when he goes in there the Germans are utilizing this quick workers. He places it on an actual tall workers and he will get the fitting data.
S — They could possibly be a mile away from the place he’s.
G — They’re all doing it proper, however they’ve misinformation as a result of no one ever put the 2 items collectively earlier than. That makes all of it completely different.
S — It’s particularly good if it’s an entire maze the place the digs are that you might very simply get misplaced in. When he begins digging on his facet, you possibly can all the time hear the Germans engaged on the opposite facet of town, the echos of their gear.
G — My complete thought, though it does complicate the best way the solar comes by way of, was that it was all underground. The principle dig the place they discovered town was a gap in regards to the dimension of a home. When he goes and digs for his factor, he simply measures off into the desert and begins digging down, and at last he hits one thing. He opens it up, a stone or one thing. So it’s just a bit gap about that huge. The it leads into an enormous underground temple. When he will get caught and so they shut him in down there, they simply roll this factor on the outlet and the desert’s like the best way it was, besides he’s trapped down there. Though he might hear a few of these folks, unusual sounds. He might additionally hear them within the desert, they’re yelling at one another.
L — When he’s trapped in that tomb, he ought to get out himself.
G — There are a number of issues of curiosity that may work there by way of the serial side of the film. It’s troublesome within the desert, however it’s conceivable. (garbled) …having the room fill with water. Not solely do they get trapped in there, the factor begins filling up with water.
L — Wouldn’t it make extra sense for it to be sand? That will be a extra logical sort of mechanism.
G — That is likely to be good. It’s not almost as dramatic.
S — The issue is, you possibly can’t shoot the man underneath the sand. The digital camera is all the time restricted to only one stage.
G — The factor about water that’s extra dramatic is that when it comes crashing in, it goes splashing all over. A technique of doing it, I assumed possibly town was constructed on a river. You assume it will be on a river or an oasis. It wouldn’t be constructed out in .the center of nowhere. It’s attainable that no matter it was dried up through the years. He would go down and there could be a river or a stream that he could be engaged on the sting of. Perhaps a flat factor, after which a cliff and a river mattress.
S — Now to get him out of it, which isn’t simple. We must always have a hidden granite rock or one thing. One thing, when compelled by the strain of the water, loosens a rock, that begins to come back out. It might be terrific if he had been compelled into one other chamber, the water like an enormous wave speeding behind him, tumbling him from one passageway to a different, actually getting harm. It knocks him in opposition to partitions. He might wash into the German’s camp. Does he have the ark proper now?
G — No. They’ve taken it away from him at that time. S — How huge is the ark?
G — Huge, I feel.
S — Does it float?
G — The ark could be passed by then. They took the ark out and threw him again. I feel the ark is about as huge as that fireside place, an enormous field. If he’s down in there, there could be… once more, it is a little humorous. There are little beams and stuff, little timber possibly. Which clearly wouldn’t be down there for 2 thousand years. The thought was, he might take one huge enormous beam, because the water is coming in, and he takes just a little rock. He ties the rock to the beam, to the tip of the beam. After which he takes a few different flotsam
and jetsam kind of no matter he can discover that floats, and ties it about midway up the beam. So he’s obtained a beam like this and it has a weight on one finish after which he’s obtained a bunch of junk right here. Because the water takes it up, it rights the beam up like that, and the beam is kind of floating there, abruptly the burden isn’t heavy sufficient for the issues, so it kind of lifts off and it’s floating like this and he pushes it round till it will get in the fitting place, because the water lifts it up, simply the hydraulic strain of the water lifting it up, as a result of the water can’t sink the…
S — The beam would cease sooner or later.
G — It might cease, however the water would hold rising, and it will push it down. There could be an amazing quantity of strain, relying on how a lot junk he had tied to it, to push by way of one thing.
S — It’s a good suggestion, however I feel that sooner or later the equalization contained in the… If it’s that huge of a limb that it’s going to push one thing out, it’s not going to remain upright, it’s going to be floating this manner or that manner.
G — If it’s floating, he’d put a weight on one finish and he might proper it. Then he would simply hold tying flotsam onto it. The extra flotsam he has right here, the extra strain would construct up. My unique thought was that he simply took a beam, and if he shoved it up, finally the strain would make it poke by way of. I assumed it will be some sort of huge log. However I don’t know why a log could be down there.
S — I want there was a manner for him to get out of it with no assets.
L — How’s the water coming in? Perhaps that’s the best way to go. Perhaps there’s a manner out on the prime of an unreachable ceiling.
G — However then you realize if he’s getting up towards the door, he can get out. L — Let’s discuss in regards to the Washington scene.
G — It’s clearly going to be an expository scene regardless of the way you do it. We need to do one thing to make it higher than only a common scene.
S — It’s higher if there are some mummies round.
G — Our man must be the one who’s kind of explaining it.
L — I like that. They’re telling him, however he is aware of extra about it than they do.
S — One other technique to do the scene is, “You suppose you’re so sensible.” As a result of he is aware of greater than they thought he knew. So they offer him check questions. And our man is aware of all of the solutions.
G — Or it’s attainable that they know he is aware of so much about this. He is aware of about it due to his mentor, who has a chunk of it. Which can be why they need him to do it. It is a distinctive manner — he is available in with the Colonel and the Colonel says, “What now we have right here is the legend of the misplaced Ark. You already know all about that, don’t you?” “Yeah, I do know each factor about it.” “Right here’s a ticket to Cairo.”
S — Do it as blatantly as attainable. They’ll admire it.
G — The opposite technique to do it’s let him know in regards to the ark, and never them. Have the Military man say that they discovered the misplaced metropolis. Hitler goes in any case these artifacts. He’s believes in all of the supernatural stuff and the whole lot. We don’t know what they discovered there, however it should be awfully essential as a result of they’re sending for this professor. Our man is
the one who places two and two collectively. Then he kind of explains it. They’ve all of the items of the puzzle, and so they need him to get regardless of the Germans are after. He says, “I’ll let you know what they’re after. They’re after the misplaced Ark.”
L — Is there a way to herald the mural? They’re fully unaware of it, and it’s proper there.
G — Sure, They might have the mural. Perhaps they’ve intercepted some pictures of the mural that had been discovered within the metropolis. They snuck off some copies of the German correspondence, drugged one of many couriers or one thing.
L — You’re speaking in regards to the map of town?
G — Yeah.
L — I’m speaking in regards to the frescoes that present the ark being carried earlier than the Military.
S —The Military crumbling within the path, and the Hebrews valiant and racing behind the Ark, and hundreds of Romans clutching their stomachs and light-weight popping out, and so they’re protecting their ears, they’re shouting, an actual mayhem scene. And our man turns and says. “And that’s what Hitler needs.”
G — You are able to do that one in every of two methods. You possibly can both transfer the situation or you possibly can have it within the room. You probably have it within the room it’s going to be, “There’s the misplaced Ark, proper there.” It’s just a little handy. The particular person we’re actually taking over a tour is that this Military clown. He’s the ignorant one. So they are saying they’re on the lookout for the misplaced ark, and that man asks them what the misplaced ark is. Then minimize to them within the antiquities a part of the museum. You go into that room and say, “That is the misplaced Ark.” It shouldn’t be proper within the workplace.
S — Don’t even minimize to the actors. We’ll do the entire story on the mural, with their voices over it.
G — It might be merely that the curator and our hero took this Military man, or the 2 Military guys, to point out them the misplaced Ark, and say “That is what the Germans are after.” As a substitute of being an exposition scene it’s additionally a puzzle scene. He walks in and solves the puzzle.
S — On the finish the Military man must be fully in awe of it. “My God, if Common Patton solely knew.” “I’m not going to inform George. He’d go down there with you.”
G — I like the concept of him placing all of the items collectively. The truth that the Nazis have discovered this misplaced metropolis is attention-grabbing to them. The Military guys can provide just a little little bit of exposition and details about Hitler, and the truth that he’s going everywhere in the world looking for Jesus sword and all these different issues.
S — They can provide little anecdotes about mystical issues he’s been into all this time.
L — The issue is, this Military man believed that if Hitler obtained this, he could be invincible. We are able to suggest that.
S — He didn’t even want the Ark to assault. Why watch for that?
G — One Military man says, “That’s nuts.” The opposite Military man says it’s solely nuts should you don’t imagine in it. However should you imagine in it, consider what you would possibly do.
L — And on the idea of that he has to beat the Germans.
G — In the long run, the idea could possibly be, “It’s not that essential to us. But when it’s essential to
them, then we would like it.”
S — The Military man must be the alternative of Patton. He ought to suppose it’s all a bunch of bullshit.
G — And why doesn’t the Military go get it themselves? It’s too overt an operation for us to get into with the world on the point of struggle. And if we tried to take this operation and get it by way of the conventional channels, they’d snigger us loopy. It’s extra of a private factor for this colonel or whoever is doing it. “If the Germans need that so unhealthy, I would like it. I need to hold them from having it.” It is a semiofficial factor. The scenario is just too delicate to waste the vitality on one thing that’s so nebulous. Nevertheless it’s essential, in order that they need to at the least ship this man off to do it. They simply can’t do it as an official Military factor. But when that’s what they discover, then the museum pays him a fee, as a result of they need it. After all that fouls up the tip. After all in the long run if he tells them it’s a secret weapon and it destroyed all of them, then they resolve to not give it to the museum. They stamp “Prime Secret” on it and shove it away right into a vault someplace.
S — It should be defined someplace on this scene that this is not going to resolve the result of the struggle or when the struggle will start. It has nothing to do with that. It would give Hitler a sure sort of consolation that we don’t need him to have.
G — If he will get it, then he’ll imagine that he’s invincible.
S — In any other case the viewers will say that this isn’t essential. That’s what worries me about this half.
G — They are saying, “Right here’s two tickets to Cairo.” He tells them he must go to Shang Hai to choose up one thing first. He’s going to purchase this factor from the Chinese language Conflict Lord and he wants X variety of {dollars} to purchase it. Instantly he begins spending cash. Or we had been going to have his guys go get it. We have now to arrange a factor the place he tells the final he’s going to Shang Hai. He doesn’t go to steal it. He could have wired that data to Shang Hai so his brokers are doing it.
L — That bothers me just a little bit as a result of it takes away the superior energy of this Chinese language Conflict Lord, should you can ship simply any operatives who occur to be there. He says, “You guys decide it up. I’ll decide it up on the airport.” What it must be is the Conflict Lord, who’s fairly horrifying himself, doesn’t faze our man. “I’ll get it from him.”
G — It could possibly be that he says, “I’m going to Shang Hai. Have two of your greatest brokers meet me there.” And I additionally need fifty thousand {dollars}. “What for?” “I’ve to purchase this little artifact. It’s a key to this.”
L — What occurs to that cash?
G — He spends it by way of the remainder of the film.
S — What a couple of vendetta with this Conflict Lord. The Conflict Lord gave him an enormous scar.
G — You don’t need to make the entire too ingrown.
S — So there’s some familiarity there. Would he consider this unusual Conflict Lord, somebody he’s by no means seen earlier than?
G — Clearly he can pay attention to the place it’s, simply as we’re conscious of a variety of issues within the movie enterprise. It’s attainable that he is aware of the man.
L — He may not know him, however he has to know that it’s there.
G — He has to know of him and he has to comprehend it’s there. Clearly this man is among the huge artwork collectors of the east.
S — “I labored for him one time. He didn’t pay me.”
G — Clearly the villain is aware of he’s there.
S — This Conflict Lord must be a very outrageous character, with all of the armor and costumes. He must be a barbarian. He solely turns into a gentleman round nice artistic endeavors.
G — He collects it for some weird motive. He collects it as a result of he heard that’s what gents do, and that can make him a gentleman. However lie hasn’t the vaguest thought what it’s.
S — That’s an excellent angle on his character. Right here’s a person who’s desperately attempting to develop into civilized, and he fails at each flip.
G — Now we minimize to the airplane flying throughout the ocean. Reduce to the airplane touchdown on the ocean, an extended shot of him strolling out of the airplane and down the dock. Reduce to him in airport or no matter met by one or two, possibly one American and one Chinese language, brokers. He might have despatched them a telegram so we might zip by a variety of the exposition. “I’ve made an appointment to fulfill with Common Fu Man Chu.” In some way they know the Germans are on their manner there. In order that they instantly inform him. What we need to do may be very shortly eliminate all that exposition the place he explains what he has to do
L — Someplace in right here now we have to say the workers.
G — The factor is, will we do it in Washington or will we do it in Shang Hai? Why would he hassle to clarify it to those guys?
S — One of many issues is to reveal, not speak about it.
G — The demonstration factor could be with the lady after they put it collectively.
S — One other sort of demonstration. Like an exquisite vase on a desk, that’s value a whole fortune, and so they’re all taking a look at this, and a person fastidiously places his glasses on, seems to be on the vase, takes a hammer and breaks the factor. He divides all of the items as much as be shipped everywhere in the world, and bought. “I hate doing this. I hate destroying nice artwork, however it’s a dwelling.” Bam. Crash. You understand that is what occurs to all nice artistic endeavors to earn more money for the grasping bastards. And the viewers realizes that’s the reason the workers is in a number of items.
L — There could possibly be an indication of what the workers does earlier than he will get to Nepal. Present why it’s so essential with out simply telling them, with out including to the exposition in Washington.
G — That was the proper place for it. In Nepal is when ha talks about, the peak of the pole and he places it collectively and realizes it’s fourteen, not 4.
L — We have now to know what he’s doing in Shang Hai. In case you don’t learn about that workers, you don’t perceive what he’s getting from that Conflict Lord. He can say, “We’re by no means going to seek out the misplaced Ark till I get the Workers of the Solar.” “The what?”
G — The opposite technique to do it, as I used to be saying earlier than, is that if they intercepted pictures, which they had been sending to his rival, which have footage of the ground of the map. And he is aware of immediately what it’s. It might be good for him to have that data. Immediately he is aware of they’ll go after the workers. It has been completely unimportant thus far.
After getting the map, then you definately want the workers. Rapidly it’s essential. It is a map of the misplaced metropolis. The mayor had a workers with the solar on prime, and once you stood there, the solar would shine by way of it and level to the temple the place the Ark is. You would really clarify it backwards, you begin with the misplaced metropolis and also you finish with the Ark. They’ve these footage, they discovered the misplaced metropolis, this man goes, what does it imply? Effectively, that is the map of town. The mayor used to face on this huge circle along with his workers, and the solar would hit the workers and the solar would then burn into the key temple of the Ark. Which nobody knew besides at the moment of yr, or no matter. The man says, “What’s the Ark?” “The Ark is what they’re after.” That will work. Then we all know the whole lot. They are saying they’ll ship him to Cairo. He says he’s going to Shang Hai as a result of that’s the place the highest of the statue is. You don’t must know any greater than that.
L — When he will get the half from Shang Hai, and he will get the lady’s half, how a lot would he have?
G — I feel he would have the entire workers then.
L — I used to be pondering again to the place they’d a part of it.
G — They’ve the map and so they have the analysis data.
L — So it’s in two elements, and she or he is sporting the solar, and on the backside of the solar is the primary.
G — Proper, on the level the place they had been damaged aside.
L — In Sanskrit.
G — No matter, it’s in Cairo, however it doesn’t must be. I solely use that as a result of it’s a kind of thirties cities. Within the analysis it can most likely be an Israeli metropolis. Within the center east someplace we will discover a believable metropolis. We are able to say we heard about it in Cairo. We are able to say no matter we would like.
L — I used to be seeing it that they’d misplaced it and their fortunes modified.
G — In the long run it should be modified to suit the legend. We must always attempt to stay as according to the actual legend as we are able to. No matter holes there are, we are able to fill. We shouldn’t deny what the legend of the Ark is. The entire idea was that you might discuss to God with it. The entire thing needs to be plausible. When folks go away the film they need to suppose that the Military has this factor in one in every of their thousand big warehouses, and that’s the place the misplaced Ark is.
S — Is it in Washington?
G — Wherever the Military retains that prime secret stuff. It might most likely keep there for eternity, as a result of it’s misplaced within the bureaucratic shuffle. Now, the factor within the Himalayas we haven’t actually hashed out.
L — How does he get from the place he ends the toboggan trip to her?
G — Oxen. Some native picturesque journey mode. That’s simply a few second unit pictures. He’s inside 300 miles. We’re stepping into a variety of journey and issues. All you actually must do is dissolve it. One wipe and he’s sitting together with her, speaking. “Boy, you look in unhealthy form. What occurred to you?” “Effectively, I’ve had a foul journey.”
L — Ought to now we have a confrontation between the Conflict Lord and Indiana?
G — We are able to have a direct confrontation by having Indy get caught within the act. He’s
standing there with the factor because the Conflict Lord leads the Nazis into the room. That’s actually the best way it ought to work.
END OF TAPE TWO-A, SIDE A
TAPE TWO-A, SIDE B
G — She’s a tough and tumble lady. She says, “It belonged to my father. It’s mine.” We have now to have an excellent scene there. How we get into that scene is an important a part of it. He jumps out of the aircraft, he lands, he’s all snowy, he seems to be round, wipe and he’s strolling into the factor or he’s sitting there with the lady. Reduce to her saying, “Very long time no see.” “Yeah, I assume it has been a very long time.” Or do you chop to him strolling into the bar, and he kind of walks up and sits down and she or he comes up and says…
L — I don’t need to throw away their first sight of one another.
S — I would really like very a lot if she didn’t see him at first, however he witnessed her coping with a bunch of rowdies. He’s on the opposite facet and he watches her in motion. He actually will get a variety of respect for her. She’s actually grown up. Then he offers together with her.
L — What if we lose him, see her coping with the rowdies. She clears the place out after which sees him sitting there.
S — She says, “I’m sick of all this.” And he or she virtually has a nervous break down in entrance of all people. She breaks up a struggle and tells them to get out. All people leaves aside from our man. She doesn’t know who he’s as a result of his again is turned. She tries to eliminate him.
G — You must watch out, it doesn’t matter what you do, when he turns round it’s gonna be “Indy.”
S — He turns round smiling. He deliberate it for the dramatic impact.
G — It needs to be cautious. I like the concept of reducing to her and seeing her in motion, robust. She must be Rick, in charge of the scenario. That is the conventional factor for her. She shouldn’t be hectic or frantic.
L — And I like him to witness this. And he or she doesn’t know he’s observing.
G — After they meet there must be some sort of an excellent scene between them. He ought to say, “The place’s your father?” “He died 5 years in the past. I despatched you a word. We needed to bury him up right here.” It’s like she’s actually rubbing it in. Perhaps she didn’t ship him a word. Her feeling when he walks in is here’s a man she liked. He left her. She’s caught up right here in the course of nowhere. Rapidly out of the blue. he exhibits up, in the course of Nepal. Her first response could be, “My God, what are you doing right here?” Or it could possibly be whole sullen… She might nonetheless be burning over the factor and the truth that he… Perhaps she did ship him a word when her father died and he by no means obtained it.
S — I like the concept that she greets him with disdain when he first walks in.
G — The truth that she despatched him a word when her father died 5 years in the past, and she or he hoped that he would come and luxury her… He didn’t even acknowledge the word.
S — She says, “You’re too late.”
G — He says he’s been touring round.
L — I ponder if her first response isn’t to hit him. One thing uncommon, not only a slap.
First sight, register who it’s, wham.
S — “Nonetheless with that proper cross I taught you.” G — “Hey, Junie, very long time no see.” Wham. S — And he or she says, “Get out.”
G — They need to confer with the dying of the daddy. The thought is that he’s there to seek out her father, his outdated mentor. He’s not there to seek out her in any respect. The daddy had the opposite half and he thinks he would possibly be capable of assist him.
S — She ought to have hair like Veronica Lake. You solely see one eye at a time.
G — When he asks her for it she could possibly be all pissed off about that stuff, as a result of that’s what obtained her there. She liked her father, however she places on this act. It might be attention-grabbing if she had been placing on an act, “I threw all that junk out when he died. It ruined his life and it ruined my life. I by no means stored any of that junk. He was a idiot.” He says he needed to purchase it. She begins pumping him for cash or one thing, telling him she bought it to an agent and I can let you know who the agent is should you minimize me in. Which may be later. She says no. Or possibly she says she bought all of the junk to an antiquity seller. She tells him the place the junk is. He says thanks. “Was that every one you needed?” “That’s all I needed.” She says, “Effectively, why don’t you come again and see me later.” Some sort of factor the place he has to come back again. Perhaps it must be on a private stage. Perhaps they develop into buddies. He leaves after which we minimize to… She reveals that she’s obtained it. Immediately you say she’s obtained it, however she’s not going to present it to him.
L — The primary tender second is that they kiss, embrace, then half. His hand attracts away no matter was protecting it, and he sees she’s sporting it.
G — Perhaps she could possibly be very tender about it. She’s holding it as a result of it does remind her of her father and she or he didn’t need to give it as much as him.
L — He doesn’t have to inform her precisely what he needs, simply that it’s one of many artifacts her father had. She tells him she threw all of it away. That is the one factor she stored. You possibly can play it both manner, she’s holding out on him or she doesn’t know what he’s speaking about. He virtually walks out. We all know she has it, however he doesn’t.
G — Basically, he tells her he needs it, and she or he tells him she needs to get out of right here, and the way a lot is he keen to pay for it. But when he went to purchase the opposite factor…
L — That’s why I used to be bothered by the cash.
G —Or he could possibly be a pleasant man. “Look, I’ll offer you fifty thousand {dollars} for it. I’m simply attempting to be good.” “Jesus, fifty thousand {dollars}. This should be some little trinket.” In the midst of their negotiations the Nazis are available. Perhaps by this time they’re out of the bar, gone to the bed room. Then the Nazis burst in and he protects her. He kills a pair Nazis. She says, “What was that every one about?” He tells her they’re after her pendant. “This should be some pendant. What’s it, anyway?” He tells her just a little about it. “This should be value greater than fifty thousand {dollars} if the Nazis are keen to kill for it. I would like in for half.” He makes the error of providing her the cash.
L — I like what you mentioned yesterday, which is that she needs to return a girl. The fifty grand would do it. That’s what bothers me about his having the cash to present her. She’s going to undergo a variety of hell now to extend that fifty grand.
G — However she doesn’t know what sort of hell she goes to undergo.
L — You imply she’s been caught on this hell gap and she or he’s going to show down fifty grand?
S — Perhaps he presents her 5 hundred {dollars} and she or he turns that down, them he presents her six thousand {dollars}. I do know what you’re saying, if she obtained that cash, she’d take it and run.
G — Let’s not give him the cash then. All now we have to do is…
L — We have now 1,000,000 locations for him to lose it. On that toboggan trip there could possibly be a bathe of cash, “To hell with that. I’m fortunate to be alive.”
G — Or he might lose it with the emperor. He doesn’t must have it. The one motive he has it’s so we all know he’s not going to steal it from him.
L — I like him having it and I like him dropping it. They’re racing to the airport and the cash belt comes off and flies right into a junk. Anyplace alongside the road.
G — When the Germans burst in, I like the concept that they will’t come to a deal and he leaves. As he walks exterior on the road, there’s all these nefarious shadows converging on this one place. On her place. It’s not only a workers automotive pulling up.
G — We have now to imagine that these guys are brokers and never simply SS officers. Trench- coated.
S — Like the blokes in “The Nice Escape.” He hides within the shadows and watches all this happen, and he has to get again to the cafe to save lots of her, slightly than simply being there and get caught along with his pants down. It’s higher if he involves the rescue.
L — I just like the picture you conjured yesterday of him being on the balcony and searching down from above. Perhaps he might do one thing neat from up there.
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G — That is the primary time he’s come right into a direct confrontation your normal… S — With Nazis it’s a must to use your fists, as a result of they’re despicable folks.
G — That gained’t be an excessive amount of of an issue. It’s only a matter of twisting the conditions. I feel the primary two are distinctive sufficient in their very own manner to not battle with this. After this we don’t actually have that rather more earlier than we actually get him into the actual mess. This could possibly be an enormous struggle.
L — And I like the truth that he’s elsewhere, both upstairs or coming again in from exterior.
G — It might be good in the event that they left in a huff, they fought or one thing. He left slightly pissed. I don’t suppose he would depart with out the pendant. That’s the one factor that bothers me about that.
S — So he goes upstairs and stays up, plotting how he’s going to take it off her.
G — That makes him into an actual rat.
L — That’s all proper. He by no means does it. What he does is simply the alternative, save her life. G — Irrespective of the way you do it, the truth that he considered it’s the rat half.
S — Rhett Butler was a rat. G — He wasn’t an actual rat.
S — He proved himself by elevating her household. Earlier than that he was a gambler, handled low-cost girls.
G — There’s a distinction between being a rat and any person who’s having enjoyable. He by no means harm anyone.
L — I’m just a little confused about Indiana at this level. I assumed he’d do something for this pendant.
G — However he nonetheless has to have some ethical scruples. He needs to be an individual we are able to look as much as. We’re doing a task mannequin for little children, so now we have to watch out. We want somebody who’s trustworthy, trusting and true. However on the similar time he’s confronted with this troublesome drawback. We have now a fantastic factor when she gained’t give it to him. She doesn’t like him.
L — What should you see them separate, and also you see them each eager about it, and it’s clear that she’s going to present it to him. Then he saves her and she or he doubts his motivation, was he coming to steal it? Or was he coming to rekindle the romance? It doesn’t must be crystal clear to her.
G — You would have it the place he finds the pendant, they’ve some sort of a factor and she or he hides it.
L — Though within the struggle it will be nice if she had been sporting it.
G — Perhaps she was writing a word to present it to him, after they assault. She takes it off. L —”I’m enclosing the pendant.”
G — If she took it off and it’s sitting proper there on the desk, it roughly has the identical impact. The Germans are available and begin punching her round and asking the place the pendant is. And it’s sitting proper there.
S — What’s it fabricated from?
G — It’s stone.
L — I assumed it was steel.
G — It could possibly be steel. It will possibly’t be wooden as a result of it’s too outdated. If it’s proper there on the desk, the pendant is in jeopardy.
S — In the course of the struggle present toes virtually stepping on it.
G — All it’s a must to do is have her have just a little picket field. She takes the pendant off and places it in. She begins writing the word and the Germans are available. One of many Germans places his hand on the field and asks the place the pendant is. He is available in and so they have a struggle. In the midst of the struggle they knock over the desk and the little field breaks open. The pendant goes rolling throughout the ground.
Instantly you suppose any person goes to see it. It’s sitting on the market. You’re afraid one of many Germans goes to note it. He lastly removes the Germans and he picks it up.
L — I really like the concept of fireplace. When it rolls throughout the ground might it roll into the hearth. You don’t suppose it’s going to deplete, however he has to retrieve it. Perhaps on the similar second he
makes use of the hearth as a weapon. I’d find it irresistible if he burns down her solely stake on the earth, which is the inn.
S — That’s a good suggestion.
L — The pendant would possibly lead him to the hearth. He makes use of the hearth.
G — The Nazis would do this. Let’s have the Nazis trigger the hearth. He’s the one who introduced the Nazis there, so it’s all his fault anyway. I like the concept of doing the outdated branding iron scene earlier than bursts in.
S — I really like branding iron stuff. It’s a pink sizzling poker.
G — That’s what begins the poker. It begins instantly on the struggle. When he is available in he knocks the poker out of their arms. The poker goes into the curtains and instantly begins the hearth. They struggle. The field will get knocked off the desk. One of many Nazis sees the pendant because it falls, and begins to go flooring it. He will get hit within the head by a falling beam or one thing. When it’s throughout they find yourself with the pendant and a pile of rubble. She says, “You’re going to be a very long time paying for this.” The he feels kind of obligated to convey her alongside, since he does really feel kind of responsible. She has to kind of insist. That’s why it’s essential within the first scene that we perceive she’s a troublesome broad. She doesn’t give a shit about going out and roughing it up a bit. However she has no thought what they’re in for. She needs to get out of there, and she or he nonetheless loves that man.
S — She will say. “Charlie, you’re my ticket house.” Wouldn’t the Germans pull weapons and begin capturing?
G — Sure, however he is available in and makes use of his whip. He additionally possibly has a gun. You must resolve what number of Nazis you need. You don’t must have twenty Nazis, simply a few brokers.
S — There must be one huge Nazi, the torture man, 6′ 6″ weighing 290 kilos, sporting this enormous overcoat. He’s the man if our man hits him within the jaw it doesn’t even, he solely hurts his hand.
G — And you’ve got the native yokels, the 2 guys with the tommy weapons and the furry over coats, yak coats, simply off the border struggle, or no matter. Form of native interpreters they picked up. Proper now we’ve obtained about 5 — two native yocals, one huge Nazi, and two different Nazis.
S — This Nazi is combating our hero, and so they’re sort of rolling on the bottom, and one in every of these henchmen is standing on the door attempting to get a transparent shot as a result of they hold shifting. Two of the opposite Germans who’re combating the lady say, “Shoot each of them.” The German who’s rolling round with our hero panics, pulls out his personal gun and shoots the man with the Tommy gun, kills them each to save lots of himself.
L — All of the unhealthy guys on this film are so vile, they activate themselves. Now they’re standing on the rubble.
G — Reduce to Cairo.
L — Let me ask you one factor about this struggle, how gory do you guys see this film? S — Not very.
G — Not very. It must be Saturday matinee violence.
L — How about dying by fireplace?
G — That’s okay. Now now we have two folks in Cairo. We have now his outdated buddy, who’s an archeologist who’s digging on the market. And now we have his outdated buddy, the Arab digger. He is sort of a workman/foreman. He’s like his outdated sidekick. He’s obtained the Arab child. That’s the place they keep. Clearly he was performing some digs there at one time, and so they return a good distance.
S — He’s a Walter Huston Arab sort.
G — And he has a younger son who’s our tag-along. S — By no means stops speaking.
G — The loopy little Arab child that’s actually a pickpocket. The outdated man is poor however very nicely linked. He’s the one who will get him the boat and the instruments and the data. Plus, he most likely is aware of so much about what the Germans are doing. He’s just like the chief digger within the space. Clearly the Germans have employed all these diggers, so he is aware of what’s occurring on the market, as a result of they hold telling him on daily basis. He will get updates on the scenario.
L — How do you guys really feel about subtitles?
S — I don’t like them.
G — I don’t both. I feel it’s higher if we don’t perceive what they’re saying. S — I like listening to English with a German accent.
G — It will depend on how you’re employed it, however I like listening to folks converse of their native tongue, aside from individuals who have a proper to talk in a distinct tongue. You don’t have to speak to the individuals who converse in a humorous tongue. Solely the lead characters converse damaged English, all people else speaks what they converse.
L — What about when Indiana assumes German, ought to we all know what he’s saying? S — When does he assume German?
G — When he’s carrying the Ark to the truck. I don’t know that it’s essential we all know what he’s saying. There’s extra stress should you don’t know what’s occurring.
L — Let’s say the arch-villain is French. When he’s talking to this German… G — Perhaps they might converse English.
S — Perhaps the arch-villain is sensible sufficient to talk German, however they’re not sensible sufficient to talk French.
L — What in regards to the Arab child. He’s simply speaking endlessly and also you by no means perceive what he’s saying.
G — But when he’s going to be the buffoon character, you’re going to need to perceive him.
S — Perhaps he slows down occasionally to say one thing silly. When he talks quick you simply don’t care.
G — We would be capable of play on that. It’s conceivable that he and his father might converse English as a result of they work with English archeologists on a regular basis.
L — I’ll write the complete film in English.
G — I feel he ought to go to his buddy first, as a result of then we are able to get a reevaluation of what’s occurring. We have now a scene across the dinner desk with eighteen children. We discover out that the Germans have made a make-shift workers. The French professor has made it and used it to pin-point the temple. They’re now digging for the temple. It’s nice, the Germans have already discovered the temple and so they’re attempting to dig it up. ‘The outdated man says, “Don’t fear. I’m making it sluggish. It would take them ceaselessly to seek out it. We had a cave-in yesterday.” Or possibly he says they are going to make a cave-in to sluggish them down. That’s the exposition that goes on in that scene. I ponder if his buddy must be the one who helps discover the quantity. We don’t have time to do this within the Himalayas. Then he goes to his buddy who’s digging on one other mission. He’s engaged on the factor he’s been engaged on for years. He’s kind of an east coast Yalie. He’s his outdated roommate. Identical age. However he’s gone the straight route. He goes to him at his digs, or possibly a restaurant scene. Perhaps he meets him on the digs and so they go to one in every of these cafes to speak. The man doesn’t like him an excessive amount of. You possibly can inform they’re shut buddies, however the man disapproves of what Indy is doing. He doesn’t hate him for it, however on the similar time he wonders why he didn’t go straight. I assumed that could possibly be a spot the place the buddy helps him put it collectively. You eliminate a chunk of exposition there in regards to the factor.
L — That must be within the privateness of somebody’s quarters, not in a restaurant. Let’s say she’s sporting the pendant, it’s steel, and the half beneath it is likely to be flat. It could possibly be of some dimension in order that he might strap it to his physique. However we don’t need it to be too small, as a result of then they’d have two small items.
G — If it was about that tall and that vast he might both tape it underneath his arm or on his ankle, however it will be flat kind of like a steel knife.
L — I like that his buddy and he are there when he first places it collectively.
G — And his buddy helps him. His buddy is de facto extra of a scholarly archeologist than he’s. It’s outdated faculty buddies. It’s “The Turning Level.” Initially it was a puzzle that everybody was puzzling over. And it was his buddy that discovered the important thing. I don’t know if the scene along with his buddy must be the following scene. It is likely to be good to have the Arab scene, then have an motion/hazard scene, after which have the scene with the buddy. Then the following place we’re going is when he’s on the dune overlooking the camp and he sees all these tanks and stuff.
L — An motion scene could possibly be a Cairo avenue scene, tents and large sword.
G — Additionally they have daggers. It’s the sort of scene the place he’s possibly getting adopted. A bunch of Arabs attempt to bounce him on the street and there’s a Nazi with them. They know that he’s there.
L — Now she…
G — Tags alongside. Earlier than, that is the place I had her go off with the Germans and are available again with all the data. However I feel we are able to get the data from the digger.
S — I don’t know what we do together with her.
G — How about if now we have her kidnapped?
S — Who would kidnap her, and for what motive?
G — The Arabs. Perhaps they’re going to rape her. White slavery.
S — I’d slightly have a plot kidnapping than only a carnal kidnapping.
G — If he will get jumped on the road and so they take her, it’s clearly the Nazis, possibly they’re taking her to seek out out what she is aware of. He fights them off, however they get her within the course of. They take her alive slightly than kill her to allow them to discover out what they know and what he’s after. Perhaps these are semi-agents of the Nazis, however extra brokers of the Frenchman. It’s one thing he’s extra keen on. Or they’re Nazi brokers. One Nazi and a bunch of Arabs. Perhaps there’s some writing on the factor that he can’t decipher. Within the scene on the house in Cairo he’s placing the factor collectively and he’s attempting to learn a few of the stuff and he can’t. He exhibits it to the Arab and he can’t learn it. It’s a lot older than something he is aware of. Then he says, “Is Phil nonetheless round?” Sure. Perhaps Phil can learn it. He takes the factor to him to attempt to discover out what it says. It’s on the best way there that they get Shang Haied. There’s the place you possibly can have a fantastic avenue struggle. Perhaps use his bullwhip. Within the course of she will get captured.
S — Whisked away to a ready workers automotive.
L — How does he react to that? Does he go on to see Phil? Or does he go proper after her?
G — Sure. It appears fairly mundane that he would go on to Phil after that.
L — Is there some technique to actually persuade him she has died?
G — That’s enjoyable.
L — However it’s a must to do it rather well, and I don’t understand how. After which he might really feel unhealthy about it till he sees her once more.
S — It could possibly be the “Obsession” trick. The automotive she’s in goes offhand disappears, then seems once more, goes off once more and seems once more, then it goes off a cliff and burns. In actual fact, on a kind of dog-legs to the left they jumped out together with her and the motive force went off alone and he really crashed. We and Indy really feel that she’s useless once we see the automotive burning on the backside of a cliff.
G — That will work. You possibly can kind of cheat. It’s all pictures of a lady within the again seat simply earlier than the factor goes over. You don’t actually see her, however you suppose you do. You’re satisfied that it really occurred. Or, you see the automobiles swap, one other is available in and takes over. However Indy is aware of and isn’t fooled by it. You kind of suppose that he’s going to go after the improper automotive, however he doesn’t, he goes after the fitting automotive. And that’s the automotive that crashes. What we don’t know can be within the technique of that, there’s one other swap that occurs that we don’t see. There are two switches. We see the primary one occur. The second is about up the identical manner.
S — That’s good.
G — What can he chase them with? What if he jumps on a camel?
S — I find it irresistible. It’s a fantastic thought. There’s by no means been a camel chase earlier than. L — Is that this camel going to chase a automotive?
S — You understand how quick a camel can run? Not solely that, he can bounce over vegetable carts and issues. It could possibly be a humorous chase that ends in tragedy. You’re laughing your head off and abruptly. “My God, she’s useless.”
G — We have now to have one other manner of getting them off the cliff. They begin getting on the outskirts of city, going alongside this mountain street. He doesn’t observe them down the street, he goes over the hill. You’ve gotten pictures of him racing alongside and pictures of them racing alongside. He kind of comes down proper in entrance of them, with a gun. They’re driving alongside and
he’s pointing a gun at them, and so they go off the factor. That’s a manner for him to get them to crash.
S — And he thinks he killed her.
G — “This isn’t understanding in any respect.” It’s a cheat, however we might have a chunk of her clothes or one thing. Or her purse.
S — When do now we have the large struggle with the flying wing?
G — That’s as soon as he will get into the camp. It’s a secret touchdown strip, too. It’s what they had been going to make use of to fly the ark again to Germany.
S — We nonetheless have the large struggle within the shifting truck to do. And now now we have a camel chase.
G — We’ve added one other million {dollars}.
S — Not likely. How a lot hassle can a camel be.
G — It is going to be humorous. It’s additionally nice as a result of the camel is so outmatched with the automotive. As soon as he will get out of city you understand the automotive goes to outrun him, so he veers off. It has an entire lot of twists in it.
S — And once you minimize to a detailed shot of the hero, it’s actually erratic and bumpy. He can undergo clotheslines. The automotive goes underneath the garments and half the garments on the road are wrapped across the camel for a couple of block.
G — Then now we have the scene with the outdated buddy. It is going to be higher as a result of he feels horrible. They’ll speak about outdated occasions, his spouse and his mom and the dorm, no matter. “This factor has price me greater than I…” And will probably be a fantastic second when he goes within the tent and she or he’s there all tied up, ropes throughout her and a gag. She’s over in a nook someplace.
L — You imply she’s not going to be in a rolled-up rug? And he rolls out the rug. So we eliminate her for some time.
G — It’s just for a pair scenes. He sees his outdated buddy and his outdated buddy places the factor collectively and offers him the clue in regards to the change within the exposition. He’s mourning the lady, and that’s the place we discover out it’s fourteen toes as an alternative of 4 toes.
L — Perhaps the buddy helps him construct the workers. He would have a variety of stuff, particularly at a dig. How are they going to hold it round?
G — It doesn’t must be fourteen toes. It could possibly be inches. It needs to be in arms anyway. It’s some historic Hebrew measuring system that’s translated into no matter you need.
END OF TAPE TWO-A, SIDE B
“RAIDERS” — TAPE THREE
G — He goes out with Sabu, the Arab clown, and the lady. No, the lady is gone. L — And the primary son of the digger.
G — Effectively, quantity twenty-three son. The lady has been kidnapped already…
S — And he’s unhappy and remorseful.
G — Kidnapped and killed. He killed her, then talked to his outdated buddy. Within the scene with the outdated buddy it is likely to be attention-grabbing to zap it with one thing. That means a shadow on the wall… We don’t need the unhealthy guys to seek out out in regards to the trick, the discrepancy. On the similar time, if one of many waiters began to tug out a knife… Some sort of factor to hype that scene by way of motion and suspense and terror. Perhaps any person vegetation a bomb whereas they’re speaking. An Arab walks by and leaves one thing, then walks off. On the final minute he figures it out or one thing and so they duck and the factor blows up.
S — An Arab despatched by the Germans?
G — Someone who was following him.
S — What if the man who’s bringing the tray of meals in is pouring powder within the drinks all by way of the meals and the soup. He’s laced the whole lot with poison, for each of them. He brings it in and units it down, and so they’re wrapped up in dialog, however the meals is all the time there with this implied risk. At one level our hero would take the rooster and simply begin gesturing with it. He’s too caught as much as eat it. He’s not paying consideration and this cat jumps up on the desk and nibbles on the meals. The cat freaks, simply goes loopy and jumps up, climbs up the partitions. He says. “I’m not going to eat this.” What if it’s an animal we hate, an animal the viewers can’t stand. It’s all the time after our hero and doesn’t like him very a lot, like a mongoose.
G — A monkey is an ideal factor.
S — What animal don’t folks like?
G — A rat.
S — A pet rat.
G — It doesn’t must be a pet.
L — He’s wanting the opposite manner, the rat comes up. S — That’s a reasonably courageous rat.
G — It wouldn’t come on the desk.
G — Let’s say we make two scenes with this outdated buddy, or possibly even three. After the lady dies possibly we are able to reduce to him and the Arab household, a really quick regret scene. We are saying the place he’s going. An expression of grief from the household. Then we go to the outdated buddy.
L — They had been on their manner there when the entire thing began.
G — Fairly than she dies and he simply continues on his manner, he goes again and now we have a brief scene with the household, consoling. Perhaps the outdated man offers him one other piece of details about what the Nazis are doing, so we transfer the plot alongside only a bit. It’s very quick. Half a web page or a web page. Primarily it’s just a bit respite. Now we all know he’s going again on his mission once more. That manner it makes her getting killed into just a little extra of a factor.
L — The minute they hit Cairo we are able to assume they’re being adopted. Perhaps this Arab operative is the one who has the monkey. It’s a villain monkey. The Arab could make him do issues, and he sends him in there to steal the piece.
G — They arrive on the airport or no matter.
L — We don’t see them on the airport.
G — So we minimize from the Himalayas to Cairo, busy streets. We see them strolling down the road. We understand they’re being adopted. The man is carrying a cage or just a little field. And this may be like two or three pictures. They cease for a second. She stops to take a look at one thing. He’s irritated and desires to maintain shifting. The man opens up the little cage and he pets the little monkey and sends him off. The little monkey goes to the lady or to the man and makes buddies, and tags alongside. They get to the home and the monkey is available in. They’ll’t eliminate this monkey. The lady says she loves the monkey. The man says to eliminate it. The monkey is making faces and doing cute issues. You identify the monkey. Oh the road they’re going to the buddies home and the monkey is driving on the blokes shoulder or one thing. It goes on the camel chase and the whole lot. Then you definitely return to the buddy’s home for this little respite scene and so they write one thing down. Or they do it within the first scene. The monkey seems to be round as they write one thing down. The monkey picks up the piece of paper and goes out and offers it to a man exterior after which comes again. He’s like just a little spy. It has to occur actual fast as a result of it’s very quick till the time we need to kill him. He kill the monkey spy.
S — Can it put on a turban? It must be dressed up.
G — Sure. In these three scenes, as a result of the fourth scene is the place he dies, now we have to ascertain that he’s spying on them.
S — What’s the monkey attempting to get?
G — Data, items of paper and issues.
L — Earlier than we kill this monkey, I need to actually make him a villain. What if he’s alongside after they’re headed out to the buddies. The ambush takes place and as Indy is preventing them off, the lady jumps right into a basket to cover and the monkey leads the Arabs to the lady. That’s how they get her.
G — That’s good.
S — Additionally, there’s this sleeping cat that the monkey knocks within the face. One thing you actually hate the monkey for.
G — That may be over the dinner desk. I just like the cat developing and beginning to eat the meals and the monkey whacks it and takes the meals away from it.
L — He charms his manner into their confidence.
S — The monkey must be dressed up as just a little Arab.
G — I like the concept of not solely having a turban, but additionally just a little backpack. When he’s within the factor, he’s kind of selecting up letters, any mail, scraps of paper, wads it up and places it in his pack. We give him an opportunity in one in every of these scenes… He follows them down the road.
L — He doesn’t must observe them, they take him with them. He climbs on and so they can’t get him off. When she’s taken away, he might simply return to his grasp. Then when Indy is with the buddy, he might seem once more. Indy just isn’t going to suspect the monkey.
G — After they get ambushed on the best way to the home, now we have to have that quick scene when the monkey takes all of the stuff out of his pack and offers it to the man. What
if we do this earlier than. I don’t need to have an enormous scene the place they are saying they’re going to go away. We must always do these in cuts. They’re strolling down the road, the monkey is on his shoulder. Immediately the monkey jumps off and runs away. She yells for him to come back again. He says good riddance. Then you definitely observe him and takes all his stuff out and offers it to some man.
L — The identical man who dropped him off.
G — And then you definately observe that man and he kind of alerts to any person after which they assault. In the midst of the struggle the monkey kind of seems once more. When she hides the monkey runs over to the factor and factors her out. He will get on the camel. You reduce to the house and he’s again there lamenting, and the monkey comes again in.
S — (garbled, one thing in regards to the monkey going “Heil Hitler.”)
G — That’s as much as you and the coach, and the monkey.
L — The monkey might come again within the quiet scene and put his arm round him.
G — You would possibly even need to play it the place he thinks the monkey ran when the unhealthy guys got here. Again on the home when the monkey comes within the window. “No less than you got here again.” On the subsequent scene with the outdated buddy the monkey is there. The monkey beats up the cat. We break this into three elements — the primary scene is with the household, the second is on the digs wherever this outdated buddy is working, or the home. You go into one in every of these good Arabian homes, with servants and the whole lot. I like the concept of them catching this servant. The servant brings within the meals, then goes out. There’s a scuffle exterior, a struggle, and our man goes out. They suppose he’s there to spy or one thing. You don’t know there’s poison. It ought to occur earlier than they put the factor collectively and uncover the error. It’s essential that or not it’s very clear that whoever the spy is, the poisoner, has no concept that they’re making that discovery. The opposite factor is, probably after they’re writing stuff down we might nonetheless have the monkey taking one thing, being a thief in that scene too. It might be attention-grabbing if Indy caught the man or the opposite servants caught the man. One thing the place he’s kind of discovered afterwards. I don’t understand how essential that’s. We have now to see him do the poison. We minimize from the digs when he says, “Come on over and have some dinner.” Reduce to the servant placing the powder on the stuff and bringing it into them.
L — I don’t know why it issues you that he get caught. Let’s say he places within the poison after which take off. He wouldn’t dangle round there. He’s not a listening spy, he’s a poisoning spy. He takes off, they proceed their dialog, the monkey eats the meals and drops useless.
G — It might be extra believable if the man… You chop to them going into the home, and so they’re being adopted. After they go in the home you observe the unhealthy man. He goes into the again, into the kitchen. He poisons the meals with out the servants realizing it. The common servant brings the meals in. If it’s a wierd servant, the man would know. No one would know there’s poison. Even the monkey wouldn’t know.
L — The monkey comes with Indy?
G — Proper. You’re going to have the monkey in 4 or 5 scenes. S — Monkeys chunk.
L — The monkey drops useless after which they get to the workers.
S — What does this scene accomplish between the 2 of them?
G — Plotwise, they’re discovering the key distinction between the brand new and the outdated. We get just a little little bit of outdated friendship, just a little little bit of character stuff about them. Plus now we have the stress of the poison occurring by way of the entire thing.
L — The place do you see the digs?
G — I see them kind of within the metropolis. There are metropolis digs and distant digs. One of many causes I used to be fearful about them catching the man was I used to be fearful in regards to the man listening to. What could be attention-grabbing, this is likely to be too complicated, they’re sitting there speaking with a plate of poison meals. There needs to be one factor that they’d eat across the dip or bread, one thing you may not eat, just like the olives or one thing. It might be off to the facet, not one thing that’s on their plates.
L — The actual servant introduced within the meals, and so they’re engrossed and so they simply don’t get to it but. Then after they get actually near the puzzle, behind their again the monkey is consuming. So they are saying, “This places us manner up on the Germans. Let’s have a chunk to eat.”
G — I used to be pondering they carry within the couscous and stuff, and so they put a plate of olives there.
L — Would the man put the poison simply on the olives?
G — That’s all he might get to. That’s the one factor he might discover within the kitchen. Perhaps it’s an oil he pours on the olives. The olives are sitting there, and so they’re consuming, and possibly a man reaches for an olive and drops it. He throws one up and he misses it, it bounces off his brow. That is is whereas they’re carrying on their exposition dialog, and simply starting to speak in regards to the factor. They haven’t actually talked about the truth that he has the factor. As he grabs for an additional olive, he sees a shadow on the wall, or one thing behind the window. He possibly grabs his bullwhip and will get the man. That’s the man who poisoned the meals and can be listening in on them. He has to put off him. The man needs to be run off or killed. The man asks what he was after. He was after this factor that I obtained. We all know the man is nowhere round after they speak about it. That offers them a break to get away from their meal. Whereas they’re doing that, the monkey is consuming the meals. I don’t know if he even wants the workers. The man simply takes a string and says that is eighty-nine inches. Then he takes it and places it in his picket, so when he will get down there he can simply take the string off and measure off a stick someplace, break it off and use it. After they say that’s the reply to the factor they understand the Germans should be digging within the improper place. They flip round and the monkey is dying.
S — I feel it will be humorous if, as they’re speaking about this and the olives are between them, you see a furry little paw is pulling olives off the plate, coming out and in of body. Lastly the paw comes as much as seize an olive and begins slipping, like palsy. You employ just a little mechanical paw. And then you definately hear a thump.
G — The monkey eats the olives throughout the exposition. It might be nice if the monkey keeled over with the olive in his hand. “I wouldn’t eat these olives.”
S — As our hero seems to be over and sees this useless monkey with pits throughout him, his buddy is tossing one up, and he lastly catches one in his mouth. “Hey, I obtained obtained one.” Our man hits him on the again and makes him spit it out, saves him on the final minute.
G — Both one can save the opposite. He flips it up, and because it’s going into his mouth, the opposite man grabs it. The man asks him why within the hell he did that. He factors to the monkey sprawled out with pits throughout him. “Unhealthy olives.”
L — One factor that bothers me, the monkey eats simply the olives? He can eat different stuff, too.
G — Fairly than olives, it could possibly be dates. They might persist with his head as an alternative of bounce off. It’s higher with olives, an olive would bounce across the room. The benefit of dates is that’s one thing monkeys could be loopy about.
L — How does he put the poison on them?
G — He might do it with an oil. You assume it will dry up. Perhaps it’s only a liquid that he pours on. They appear like they’ve simply been washed. You see a man washing the dates and placing them in a bowl, then the opposite man is available in and pours these things on them.
S — Is that this a daytime scene.
G — I all the time envisioned it as a nighttime scene.
S — When the Arab is exterior listening, can they be in sort of a tent factor? The one time you see the Arab is when some headlights go by and make the wall translucent.
G — They’d a variety of french doorways over there.
S — When it’s backlit you see the shadow of a person that’s not there with out the lighting.
G — Or you possibly can have an enormous shade that’s pulled down.
S — Does he go exterior and kill him?
G — That’s what now we have to resolve.
L — What might he do with a date that will begin a kind of Rube Goldberg sort of factor? Quite simple, however it will spook this man.
G — That’s laborious with a date. I need to eliminate him so we all know they didn’t study in regards to the factor.
S — What if he does hear. Simply as they’re speaking in regards to the fourteen inches, the headlights sweep by and our hero sees him. We all know the man is aware of. Now now we have to cease him from taking this data again. When the second pair of headlights sweep purchase there’s no one there anymore. So our man shortly will get up, runs exterior, and hears footsteps. Then we are able to justify his wiping this man out. Both that, or he’s run over by a automotive in his haste to flee.
L — I don’t perceive why you need to hold him round.
G — I simply need to set up surely…
L — He barely will get the poison on the dates, then he runs off.
G — The viewers will suppose he’s hanging round someplace. I’d suppose that, to ensure it labored. And he would hear them.
S — You understand how when any person is watching, you start to speak usually. The man says, “Hear, I really feel a draft. I’m going to shut the window.” He walks over, to the window, reaches out, and the pulls the man within the window. Proper by way of all of the stuff.
G — I don’t suppose he has to kill him. He can both knock him minimize, or he can catch him. However should you catch him, it’s a must to kind of give him to any person. That takes a variety of time.
L — You possibly can have his personal folks kill him…(garbled)
G — I feel the concept of him throwing the date… If it had been a peach or banana it will be simpler. If there was an enormous stone beam, and underneath it was the canvas, and above the beam it’s open, with a variety of pots on the beam. He might throw the factor and hit one of many pots and the pot might fall over and hit the man on the pinnacle, knock him out. “Who’s he?” “He was attempting to get to this.”
L — I don’t suppose it’s an issue if this man isn’t hanging round.
S — I don’t thoughts if he runs away after he poisons, simply minimize exterior and this man is working and he jumps on a truck.
G — Okay. We’ll assume his job was to poison, to not hear.
L — The monkey is useless, we set up the fourteen, he says goodbye to his buddy. Is that this the final time we see this man?
G — Sure. At one level I had him on the boat to see him off, however then I made a decision the household could be higher. However we are able to use him there if we would like. The lady goes to be despatched again with the child. The outdated digger would have all of the contacts.
L — Then he goes on the market for the primary time, with Sabu.
G — Proper. And he seems to be over the hill and there are all these Germans and tanks and tents. He has to determine a manner down there. What he has to do is attempt to get down into the diggings, arrange the workers, and work out the place the temple is.
L — On the proper time of day.
G — So he could be sitting up on the hill ready for that point. We had been speaking about dawn or sundown, as a result of then it’s a set time.
L — What does that do for the angle?
G — I do know. If it’s down in a gap it doesn’t work.
S — It needs to be up excessive sufficient to get into the outlet.
G — The issue is that if it’s an enormous factor on the facet of a mountain or one thing, then it’s an enormous deal. Plus the truth that why didn’t they discover this metropolis earlier than.
L — What if they’ve dug it out, and the map is on the wall as an alternative of the ground. Then you’ll get a spot of sunshine.
G — You too can make it an enormous gap, like 100 by 100 toes. It’s actually been dug out. The solar comes down and one wall of the outlet is a part of the temple, and possibly it’s on the wall. The thought is that it angled down. We have now to make it possible for the peak of the factor would make a distinction.
L — It looks as if it will be simpler to grasp if it’s on the ground. How essential is it that or not it’s at dawn?
G — It’s not essential. Nevertheless it’s very laborious to repair a time, three candles. I feel you would possibly be capable of make it work at dawn. I understand how to do it. In these stills that now we have, with footage of the map and the whole lot, we are able to additionally see footage of the structure of the temple. Perhaps it’s within the floor, however after they’ve excavated it out, there’s an enormous gap within the prime of this temple. There’s pictures of the outlet and images of the factor. All our buddy has to do is say, “When the solar hits that gap, and also you stand within the heart of this
image…” There’s an enormous image on the ground, there’s a map on the ground, and there’s an enormous gap within the ceiling. “Once you stand on the image with the workers, and the solar hits the rim of the outlet, it can shine by way of and fall on the map.” All we’ve performed is elevate the horizon. As a substitute of getting or not it’s down there, we’ve made the horizon this gap within the ceiling.
L — It’s the unique gap?
G — Proper. We see stills of it in Washington. And he says it he explains how the solar would come by way of the outlet within the ceiling and the solar would come by way of the workers and level to the temple. All he has to do is work out himself… He sees the pictures and says, “I determine the solar goes to come back by way of that gap at about 7:33.”
L — We don’t need this gap to be too small. G — No. It’s an enormous gap, like a skylight.
L — then you definately would see the solar… Are we creating two factors already earlier than they even get to the… As quickly as now we have two factors, now we have a line. Are we making a second level with the outlet? In order that they wouldn’t even must understand how excessive to make the workers. It might be decided. A line of sunshine would come into the room like this, and their workers could be down right here.
S — They wouldn’t understand how excessive to make it.
G — Have a look at it like this. (demonstrates)
L — You’re saying that when the solar hits the outlet, the complete space is flooded with mild.
G — Sure.
L — I used to be pondering that when it hits the outlet, and the sunshine is shifting throughout right here like this, you realize that’s the time, there’s like a line of sunshine…
G — It wouldn’t work.
L — Why? You’d have a line which is the solar and this constructing. You’ll see it. There could be darkness right here and light-weight right here.
G — Suppose that is what they discovered on the ground. Considered one of these three locations is the temple. We don’t know which one it’s. You probably have the workers within the factor in order that it’s standing up, it doesn’t matter the place the solar is.
L — The one factor that’s modified is that daylight comes later to this temple. As quickly as there’s daylight within the temple, you may make your calculation.
G — What it can do is the workers will forged a shadow, after which the circle on the factor with the outlet in it can… the shadow will go throughout this like that as a result of on the tip, on the finish of the shadow, there might be a lightweight within the heart of that shadow.
L — The shadow of the workers will get more and more shorter because the solar rises.
G — Proper. The size of the shadow is set by the point of the day. The time of the day is fastened by when it first comes over that factor.
S — The one drawback there may be that it’s modified by the point of the yr.
G — When the man talks to his buddy, they’re discussing it, and he’s explaining intimately.
Once more, now we have a tough thought in Washington. With the man we are saying the workers needs to be fourteen toes excessive. And so they’re each archeologists, they know all these things. The ceremony of the nice solar god was on the Ides of March. Your Ides of March then is equal to December right now. So will probably be off by about three toes.
S — In order that they compensate for it.
G — In case you went on the market tomorrow, it will be about three toes off from the place it’s.
L — One factor this takes away is that second he sticks the workers within the flooring. He can’t do this any extra.
S — Why?
L — As a result of he’s not compensating.
G — It will depend on how dramatic you need to do it. You possibly can ignore that complete side of it. The thought is, he places the workers down and also you pan throughout, and there may be that little sq. with the sunshine shining in it and also you say, “That’s it.” Otherwise you do it (garbled)… and he factors over three toes and that’s the place it’s.
L — It could possibly be on the proper time.
G — That’s fairly a coincidence. The man might simply acknowledge that the signal traces up on the third Ide of March or one thing, which is December 13 in our time. We don’t clarify something additional. We don’t even join it. So he goes out to the desert with Sabu and appears over the factor. Do now we have him do any snappiness to get down there, or do now we have him inform Sabu to remain there and wait, and have pictures of him sneaking down previous guards and slipping down into the outlet.
S — All of the Germans are drunk and so they have this lady dancing across the campfire.
L — It’s dawn, all people is sleeping.
G — He stands on the hill dressed like Lawrence of Arabia. He and the child stroll in. The child is clearly scared to dying. He goes down within the gap and the child stays up there, being scared to dying, and all of the Germans are strolling round.
S — He walks proper into the German camp, as an Arab.
G — Proper. There are Arabs within the camp, and so they’re his buddies.
S — He walks by way of the camp and one of many Germans says, “Hey you.” The man turns and the German places up his plate for seconds, and our hero sees all these huge kettles for breakfast. So he has to take these things and feed the Germans.
G — That will be an excellent factor to occur to the child. He’s kind of ready there by the outlet and the German yells to him, and the child panics. He’s kind of serving the Germans, and is scared to dying.
S — Each of them might begin to do this.
G — You’re slowing down your motion.
S — Additionally you’ve him, any minute now he could possibly be caught. G — The purpose of the scene is determining the place the temple is.
S — You need to put obstacles in his path between right here and the temple.
G — As soon as the viewers figures out the purpose of the scene, it’s simply irritating to place obstacles in the best way of attending to that time.
S — Let the child do this, it’s a pleasant technique to hold him busy.
G — When he’s overlooking the hill, now we have to imagine that a few of the laborers are additionally his buddies.
L — why can’t now we have them take him proper in?
G — We are able to. However I similar to that shot of him standing on the dune overlooking the factor. The digger comes and says get in. He will get within the truck and so they drive on down, and go into the camp. He breaks away and goes down into the outlet, and the child is standing round being nervous.
L — The child’s father works there, so he wouldn’t actually be so misplaced.
G — He’s standing by the outlet with a rope happening it, guarding. So he hopes nobody will see him.
END OF TAPE THREE, SIDE A
TAPE THREE, SIDE B
G — So he’s sitting there serving meals, and he retains wanting on the gap. Then you definitely minimize to Germans kind of strolling across the gap, speaking and gesturing down. The child is nervous that the man will get caught.
L — The man ought to see the child standing there with the rope and ask him to convey it to him.
G — Or possibly they want it to tug out a truck or one thing. In the midst of the child being nervous about how he’s going to get one other rope to get him out, the man asks him to convey some meals. Then we are able to have the child get one thing intelligent. When the man whistles, possibly he can have introduced the rope again and rolled it up, and is sitting on it. Or when our man whistles, “Sabu, I’m prepared.” A complete chain of knotted Nazi shirts comes down As a substitute of the rope. It’s like all people’s laundry has been tied collectively. You solely have like three cuts. You’ve gotten the rope, they use it for the truck. Then you definitely reduce to Indy, working. Then one other man asks for meals from the child. Then you definitely see him wanting round as he’s serving the meals, attempting to determine how he’s going to do. Then you definitely reduce to Indy, and also you see the dramatic second, after which he requires Sabu. So, it’s an actual shock. You assume at that time that the child is trapped. When Indy requires him, you realize that he’s not going to be there. So that you play it, “Sabu, Sabu…” Rigidity. Rapidly a bunch of laundry comes down.
S — The very first thing that comes down is a German flag.
G — Then he climbs up.
L — Now, he has noticed the temple. So go on, as a result of (garbled)
G — I’d suppose on the map, if the factor was shorter, and at the moment of day, it will forged a shadow down additional on the map. On that there could be an enormous pink circle painted that exhibits the place the factor is. When he does the factor and it lands on the factor, he additionally possibly takes out like a calibrator, so he is aware of the place they’re, the place that is, and the place that’s. Then he goes up. My thought then was that he comes up out of the outlet, some
Germans go “Why aren’t you on the digging?”, and he has to kind of sneak away at this level. He comes underneath suspicion, so he zips round a tent, and jumps into it to cover with the boy, and who must be tied up within the nook, however his girlfriend, “what occurred to you?” She tells him in regards to the automobiles being switched. “Let’s get out. I do know the place the temple is.” The go off collectively. She will get saved. If we do this, then we must always have one other scene again with the household.
S — Then he ought to ask how they’re going to dig it up with all of the Germans. He says he’ll determine it out.
S — That’s an issue. They return to the first step. As soon as he’s on the dig shouldn’t he simply remedy the whole lot and do it proper then.
G — I’m fearful that if he finds the lady…
S — She’s proper again within the motion once more.
L — That’s good, as a result of he has nothing else to do together with her however take her with.
G — I assumed he would depart her all tied up. “Look. I can’t take you with me, it will arouse suspicion. So I’ve to go away you right here for a short time. I’ll get you out later.” In the event that they discover out the lady is lacking, they’re going to begin looking in every single place.
S — She says, “Let me out of right here. Let me out of right here.” He tells her to maintain her voice down. She gained’t, so he has to gag her once more. “Look, I’m glad you’re okay. It’s an enormous aid to me. I’ve obtained a variety of issues to let you know. However you’re going to smash this complete factor except you simply sit right here and be quiet. You’ve been right here for forty-eight hours, one other three or 4 hours gained’t make any distinction in any respect.” He leaves her tied and gagged. That will be heroic. I like that.
G — My solely concern was that if he takes her, the Germans could be combing the countryside.
L — Are they simply holding her there? G — We assume they’re torturing her.
L — Another factor, execution at midday. As a result of they could possibly be removing her at any time.
G — They might have her up on a rack. All these torture issues occurring. He ought to go away her. It’s completely different, it’s humorous, and it’s additionally very logical.
L — So long as she’s in no hazard.
G — And it brings her again into the film. Then you realize she’s trapped again there. Immediately it’s damsel in misery. The issue we had earlier than was why didn’t he go after her. Now we all know why he doesn’t, as a result of it’s extra essential that he get the ark. It really works nice, we do it. She is de facto pissed. He’s left her there. He goes a couple of quarter of a mile away to dig up the actual temple. He must be there, the boy must be there, and possibly a few Arabs. The digger had Arabs ready off within the wings. We both minimize to him, minimize to the lady struggling, then you definately minimize to him working to this little group of Arabs saying that it must be proper about right here. He steps it off, and tells them to begin digging on this space proper right here. So he begins digging. At this level we both dissolve and he breaks by way of. Or we minimize to the villains. This is likely to be an attention-grabbing place to begin going to the villains. Now it’s even higher as a result of we all know what’s occurring to the lady. We are able to inform parallel tales. We reduce to the lady, and the villains come again. This would be the first time we really see the French man and the Nazis. That is the primary time we
see the actual villains. We have now a scene with the villains torturing the lady just a little bit, rape her, speak about the truth that they’re not discovering the Ark.
S — She must be screaming his identify, she’s so pissed off. He needed to tie her up, in any other case they’d know that he was round. On the similar time, there are folks raping and torturing her.
G — I used to be utilizing that facetiously.
S — In the event that they’re doing something in any respect, that actually makes our man a foul man. Perhaps they are often threatening her, placing the irons again within the fireplace.
G — He might ask her in the event that they’ve harm her. She tells him not but. “They need to know what you realize.” “In the event that they haven’t killed you, they gained’t. Simply don’t inform them something and also you’ll keep alive.” The villains don’t have to actually torture her. We are able to threaten it. I feel it’s good that she’s in peril.
S — There must be an actual slimy German character. He’s the one gestapo concerned there. Each time you see him, you realize it’s going to be the worst ache, dying by torture. This man seems to be like a ferret. He’s obtained that slick black hair. His identify is Himmler or one thing like that. He’s a stocky quick man, a grasp torturer.
G — We are able to do a threatening torture scene. If she says that they haven’t harm her but, he can assume she’s going to be secure. However then they arrive again and resolve they’re going to begin torturing her. “We’ve had sufficient of this, younger lady. Now you’re actually going to speak.” It’s humorous on her facet, too. She thought she was okay, however she’s not. It’s a good time to chop to the villains and set up them. Perhaps they’ve damaged into the factor and discovered the Ark isn’t there. Now they’re determining what they’re going to do. Saying that possibly the calculations had been off. They’re actually indignant with the Frenchman, about the truth that he didn’t decide the fitting temple. “It’s going to take us years to dig up this complete rattling metropolis.” He says “Perhaps it’s within the different chamber. We have now three chambers.” “On the price these Arabs are digging, it’s going to take them every week to get into these different chambers.” He says, “I do know it’s there. I do know it’s there.” So there’s a variety of doubt forged about whether or not they’re going to seek out it. The Arabs hold slowing the manufacturing down as a result of they’re buddies of the digger. We kind of get their standpoint. “The Fuhrer needs this instantly.”
L — How did they work out the place to dig?
G — They constructed a 4 inch pole as an alternative of a 4 foot pole. L — As a result of they knew what one piece was?
S — Proper. However they thought it mentioned 4 as an alternative of fourteen. L — Then how did they get a spot of sunshine.
G — They did the identical factor. On this scene, on the house of the digger, it’s the primary time they’ve met and so they’re speaking. The digger says. “The Germans have discovered the temple.” “What? How might they’ve discovered the temple? I’ve obtained the piece.” “Ah, your Chinese language buddy had a number of copies.” As a result of he’s additionally a forger. They learn the peak of the stake off the factor.
L — They don’t have the pendant, which is essential.
G — No. However he mentioned that they made a makeshift, a crude factor, and so they made it work. L — I assumed we had discovered a manner that he knew… We knew why they’d made a
mistake. I assumed we had discovered how they selected this spot.
G — We had figured however that they’d simply learn the textbook. I prefer it higher that the one manner you could find out is to have that piece.
S — The Gestapo comes into the place the lady is, she’s mendacity there all tied up. They untie her and put her in a chair. They’re going to torture her. The principle Gestapo man takes out this little case, he has little wires with felt on them. Clang… Zap. He takes his coat off and hangs it on this stuff.
G — So long as it’s performed realistically. So long as it’s not performed for laughs. One, he goes to the Conflict Lord to steal the factor. That is smart. It is smart that the Conflict Lord would have made copies. How did they get the highest part? What if it’s steel and flat, and within the struggle it rolls throughout the ground. One man sees it and he goes for it. What if it rolls throughout the ground and into the hearth and the hearth kind of burns previous it. It’s sitting there smoldering. One of many guys sees it and goes over and grabs it, after which screams. That man runs off. Again right here he says they’d a duplicate of 1 half, however how did they get they different. “A person had it burned into his hand.” It might simply be a tough copy, it wouldn’t give them any of the data, just like the false quantity.
S — They’d have to carry up a mirror to learn his hand.
G — I like the truth that after they get to the Cairo house the digger says, and also you suppose that he’s going to have the stuff, so it’s an enormous shock to Indy when he finds out they discovered the temple. “How might they’ve performed it?” “The Chinese language man had a duplicate of the factor, and one in every of their SS males had the highest half burned into his hand.”
L — However not the quantity.
G — Does it remedy that for you? L — I find it irresistible.
G — And on the time it’s similar to a joke, this man burning his hand. You don’t even suspect that it will be any sort of a plot level. Then now we have the scene with the villains.
L — And so they’re having their issues.
G — They will also be attempting to get the pendant. They know that their data could also be defective, and so they need the actual factor. There are a variety of issues they need out of her. Then we reduce to Indy.
L — How far down are they digging? Concerning the depth of this room?
G — Yeah. With 4 Arabs digging, and Indy, it will take them possibly a day. We are able to do a time transition there anyway. We are able to minimize to them digging towards sundown, then minimize to the lady within the tent at evening, then you definately minimize and it’s the following day.
L — Perhaps the motion, after they throw him again in there, can happen at evening.
G — It’s higher to have the distinction. It’s good for her at evening. The blokes come again from the digs, and it’s an ideal time for them to torture her. Then you definitely minimize and it’s the following morning, the Germans are popping out. Then you definitely minimize to Indy and so they’re nonetheless digging away, and so they say, “We’ve obtained it.” They open it up and he goes down. We have now just a little scene the place he’s wanting round and he sees the large field on the finish of the temple. There’s that second.
S — “There it’s.”
L — And this tomb goes to be fairly good.
S — I do know what it seems to be like. It’s not small tomb. The ceiling is about forty toes within the air. It has all kinds of hieroglyphics and issues.
L — He goes into the tomb, sees the factor.
G — And so they begin hauling it out, hoisting it up. He’s nonetheless down within the factor. “Nice. Ship the factor down.” Or no matter. And a German seems.
L — So he by no means comes out.
G — No. He kind of supervises the shifting of the Ark. So he’s down there when it goes up, after which he would go up.
L — Now the Frenchman seems.
G — Proper.
L — And he goes, “Ah, Indiana.”
S — Indiana says, “Throw me down that so and so.” Somebody throws it down, Indiana catches it and appears as much as say thanks, and the Frenchman has thrown it to him.
G — So it’s an actual shock to us. Then possibly now we have a brief scene between the Frenchman and Indy. “In spite of everything these years.” “You’ve made my life a lot simpler.” Two villains having a dialog.
S — Indiana ought to be capable of match him in wit and intelligence in the whole lot they are saying to one another.
G — That is the place we get into the difficulty with the water, if we’re going to do this.
S — We would as nicely determine it out.
G — That is the place he would say…
L — He would issues like, “I’ve seen you do the unattainable, however there’s one factor you possibly can’t do, and that’s breathe underneath water.” Slam.
L — Do we want any rationalization about how they’re getting the water in there?
G — I fear about this scene just a little bit. We’re going to get in such a repair attempting to clarify why and the way. It’s not indigenous to the scenario.
L — You would clarify it. They’ve that dialog, and the Frenchman says. “You already know a lot about this factor, I suppose you realize in regards to the protection system we…
S — found in our diggings down the road.”
L — An offshoot of the Nile.
G — One other factor… It could possibly be a protection of the temple, like we noticed at first of the film. This could actually telegraph it, when he goes into the temple, they open it up, on both facet it could possibly be a hatch factor. On both facet could be these big cisterns of water that had been being saved there from an oasis. They always stuffed up. Once you’re
within the temple, it’s all dripping moist.
L — That will be good, he goes in a sand temple and there’s moss on the partitions. That will be actually unusual.
G — There’s like an enormous water nicely in the course of the temple.
It’s just like the temple the place all of the water was, which might be the important thing temple. The supply of life. It’s the supply of life and the supply of water. It might be like an Artesian nicely.
L — So the water comes up.
G — From the underside. You prefer it to splash, the truth that is simply kind of seeps up…
L — A geyser of water. I’m not seeing what you’re speaking about. What wouldn’t it appear like.
G — The thought could be is that there’s kind of an Artesian nicely or kind of cistern in order that he goes previous it. If there have been like two ranges, and he goes into one stage, and there’s this big Artesian nicely, water pouring out of outdated damaged fountains. There’s a gap within the factor, so he continues to go down into the following stage. It’s good to have or not it’s a shock, however the shock could also be so nice that it’s unbelievable. You’re by no means going to persuade anyone that there’s water there within the desert. I feel it’s higher in a technique to telegraph it, to clarify the water earlier than you really use the trick.
S — A technique he might get out, it’s laborious to clarify, however as he’s going up with the water, he passes an entire bunch of hieroglyphics on the wall. Translated, they are saying, “Exit. Press right here.” He discovers one other room the hieroglyphics are telling him about. There’s a manner out of right here. It’s laborious getting him out of this one.
G — It’s laborious getting him out, and it’s additionally laborious getting him in. We must always ask ourselves if that is what we actually need to do right here. Can we need to shut him within the temple, lock the door, after which have one thing else occur to him.
S — Why can’t they shut him within the temple and lock the door, and he sits down eager about what he’s going to do, as a result of there’s no manner out, and rapidly you hear unusual animal sounds. The Germans had put some sort of maneating animal in there to get him, like a few lions or tigers. He hears this growling that will get louder and louder, he goes round this nook and also you understand a chute put these horrible animals in there, and so they’re ravenous. He realizes that nonetheless these animals obtained in. that’s the best way out. However the animals try to get him, and all he has is that this bullwhip, and possibly some intelligent gadgets hidden underneath his garments. We’ll do an animal struggle. He works his technique to this little chute the place the animals got here out. In some way he will get out that manner. I don’t understand how.
G — One of many first strategies that you simply made, changing the water with sand, is likely to be of curiosity. It’s like “Land of the Pharaohs” the place they’d these big sand chutes. There could be big sand chutes to guard the temple. Not solely does he shut the door, he says, “That is your final hurrah. In case you don’t die of hunger, the temple’s protection mechanism will get you.” Wham. He pushes a lever and rapidly these outdated stone issues fall away and abruptly sand begins pouring in on him from 4 instructions. He’s kind of preventing to maintain above the sand that’s filling up the room. It might be extra dynamic than quicksand, the place you simply sink slowly. He’d be virtually buried by all this sand, so he’s always attempting to climb out of it. Then the difficulty could be… the sand might fill as much as the purpose the place the factor collapsed. Assume that the ground of the temple is de facto the second story. There’s one other flooring beneath it. When the sand is available in, the ground falls by way of down into the following stage. As he’s climbing, you hear creaking. You get a shot of him falling by way of the sand. He lands within the sand on the backside of one other temple. However there are doorways. You possibly can have him stroll by way of the buried metropolis. Then he finds one other digging and will get himself out.
S — It’s so handy. The circumstances have permitted him to get out of this one. You would do the identical factor with water. Or he sees some water being channeled, just a little stream going out a crack. He realizes it’s a unfastened rock, and he can get out that manner. It simply appears handy for the sand to be too heavy, with the best way these temples are constructed.
G — Suppose he’s simply within the temple and so they lock the door. What if the temple had different doorways? He got here in from the roof anyway. He can’t get toe door open, so what he does is there’s like an enormous column or one thing. He begins chipping away on the column, reducing it down like a tree. He lastly will get the column so it falls over and crashes by way of the door, and opens it up. Then he climbs by way of. I like the concept of him climbing by way of the underground metropolis. Then he finds an exit. The thought of the Nazis placing tigers in there… You already know what it’s prefer to fly in a tiger from South Africa.
S — It must be a neighborhood tiger.
G — There aren’t any tigers on the market.
S — I’m not in love with the concept.
G — You would have bats and stuff, make it barely spooky.
S — I like the concept of, whereas the water’s rising, he climbs up onto the moss on the rocks, he sees a column which is weak, he finds a rock and pulls it out of the wall. He begins pounding away on the column because the water is rising. His arms are all bloody. He’s capable of loosen the column in order that it falls by way of a wall or by way of a door.
G — After which all of the water rushes by way of?
S — And he swims out with the water. It’s a waterfall.
G — The one drawback with the water is it’s going to be laborious to do, and it’s going to be laborious to rationalize it. We are able to’t. We are able to name it the temple of life and set up that it has a variety of water in it. However, on the similar time, it’s just like the sand. Plus it’s such a basic factor.
S — What about snakes? All these snakes come out.
G — Individuals hate snakes. Probably when he will get down there within the first place. L — Asps? They’re too small.
S — It’s like a whole bunch of hundreds of snakes.
G — When he first jumps down within the gap, it’s an enormous snake pit. It’s going to detract from the… That is attention-grabbing. It will detract from the invention of the Ark, however that’s all proper. We are able to’t make an enormous deal out of the Ark. He opens the factor, and he begins to leap down, and it’s filled with snakes, hundreds of them. He seems to be down there and sees them. What in the event that they scurry out of the sunshine. Then when he says they’re afraid of sunshine, they throw down torches. You’ve gotten an entire bunch of torches that hold the snakes again. Then he will get the factor, and so they take it out. And the man says, “Now you’ll die my buddy.” Clunk. On the clunk three of the remaining 4 torches exit. So he solely has another torch, and the snakes begin coming in. He sits there with one torch, realizing that when the torch goes out… It’s the concept of being in a room, in a black room with a variety of snakes. That may actually be scary.
S — The snakes are ready, taking a look at him. Hundreds. And the torches are burning down. He’s attempting to maintain it going. The torch goes out. The entire display screen goes black. The
sound of the snakes will get extra intense. You hear him backing up. The digital camera pans and abruptly you see, it’s black, however there’s mild coming from a number of cracks. It’s not fully black. That leads him to a gap. To a rock that isn’t so flush in opposition to the opposite rocks. He is aware of there’s entry. He retains pushing on it, he will get just a little extra room.
L — What are the snakes doing?
S — The snakes are coming at him, however the darkness offers him his manner out. The clue of the best way to go.
G — If he was there with one torch, he’d see that. It’s fairly darkish. I like the concept of, he’s obtained the final torch, or possibly the final two torches, relying on how lengthy we need to play this out. Say there’s thirty-five torches. This might be a pleasant scene once we go to get the Ark and there’s like a touchdown strip of torches. It’s getting very smokey in there. They shut the door and virtually all of them exit, aside from possibly 5 – 6. It’s the one factor that’s holding him from the snakes. He seems to be round and tries to determine a manner out. He kind of sees that there-is this door that’s locked. Perhaps he takes one of many torches and strikes over towards this door and bangs on it, can’t get it open. There’s a huge column. What if he takes… Throughout this complete factor torches hold going out each minute or so. Now he solely has two torches, so you realize he’s actually getting determined. He works his manner over to this column and he shimmies up. As he goes up, he drops one of many torches, and it bounces down. He solely has one left. The snakes are kind of winding their manner up the column. Immediately a bat comes flying out. He drops a torch, or he takes the torch and kind of pushes it behind the column, and snakes slither out. He begins pushing between the wall and the column. Lastly the torch goes out, it’s only a glow round his face. He’s sweating and straining. Pictures of snakes slithering towards him. He lastly pushes it and the column goes crashing down. We might have a few crashes from above. Clearly it’s very thick. The column knocks out a portion of the wall subsequent to the door. It might be nice if he had been left hanging there. It breaks open the door.
S — Now he has to recover from to the door.
G — I feel we’re going to have to go away him with one torch. I don’t need to get into an enormous lengthy factor. He’s up there, he has one torch left, he dropped the opposite one, he’s holding it in his tooth and it begins to exit. There are little shafts of sunshine coming by way of, so it’s not pitch black. He knocks the column over. It goes crashing down, knocks open a door within the far facet of the temple. He’s left hanging up there, about to fall onto the factor of snakes. Perhaps one snake slithers throughout his hand. He pulls himself up on the ridge, or he drops down to a different ledge. He will get right into a place away from the snakes. He stands there and lights his torch once more. He has matches. He didn’t do it earlier than as a result of he was in the course of pushing the column. He will get the torch going once more and he begins strolling by way of the temple with the torch. We have now to have a torch.
S — I feel it ought to finish shortly the minute the column falls and breaks down the door. I feel he ought to trip the column down and get out instantly. That’s the tip of the scene.
L — He has to trip it because it falls.
G — He goes down with the column, does a tumble and runs out. The difficulty is, you’re going to have him going by way of these temples with none mild.
S — The column falls down, breaks by way of a wall, and light-weight comes pouring in. It’s like salvation.
L — I don’t suppose there must be a door down there. He sees that it’s weaker there.
G — Let’s simply make it a wall. Since he’s an archeologist, he would know the way it… (garbled). If it’s that darkish, you don’t want that many snakes. You’re utilizing shafts of sunshine, so you possibly can simply see the snakes on the sting of the sunshine.
S — The best way to do it’s like “Squirm.” It has extra worms than you possibly can think about. Snakes are ugly after they’re all piled up with one another.
L — I ponder what their response to mild is.
G — You will get a snake charmer or one thing. I don’t understand how you’ll do this. All you want is a variety of snakes in a really small spot, so it seems to be like there are a variety of snakes in every single place. You too can do so much with sound, and shut pictures of snakes slithering throughout arms.
S — What’s actual scary to me is when that rock comes right down to seal the temple. The air strain blows half the torches out. That place is air tight. A visible impact and a sound impact.
G — We shouldn’t have any snakes within the opening sequence, simply tarantulas. Save the snakes for now.
S — It might be humorous if, someplace early within the film he someway implied that he was not afraid of snakes. Later you understand that that’s one in every of his huge fears.
G — Perhaps it’s higher should you see early, possibly at first that he’s afraid, “Oh God, I hate these snakes.” It must be barely amusing that he hates snakes, after which he opens this up, “I can’t go down in there. Why did there must be snakes. Something however snakes.” You possibly can play it for comedy. The one factor that would occur is that he will get trapped with all these snakes.
S — One other factor that will be attention-grabbing for full abject terror, as you see these hundreds of snakes, you chop to macro insert pictures, snakes laying eggs, little snakes hatching, two snakes consuming one another. All this propagation is happening inside this enormous tomb.
G — The opposite factor you’ve right here is, he’s attempting to push the factor away. He’s pushing the column and a snake comes down and crawls up his arm. Within the temple subsequent door there’s a little bit extra mild, however not flooding mild. And possibly within the subsequent temple it’s like a tomb. There’s all this embalmed stuff. A little bit spook home stuff, not so much, 5 – 6 pictures. Perhaps like a one minute sequence the place he goes by way of all these things.
S — Perhaps little tiny mice climbing round on the corpses.
G — Rats.
L — Can we use the bat within the first scene, since we’ve taken away the snakes?
G — Okay.
L — There can’t be an excessive amount of mild, as a result of they’ve been digging in the course of sand dunes.
S — All the sunshine would come from above. Is there something he might mild, rags or one thing?
G — He has torches there. It might be a matter of relighting them.
S — Strolling by way of these catacombs, you don’t see the useless folks till the sunshine hits
them.
L — If he reaches into his pocket and lights the torch once more, that hurts it for me. He all the time had that functionality.
G — Or we simply don’t let the final torch exit. He jumps down with the torch.
L — I feel it will be good if it had been virtually gone, and he brings it again to life. He’s blowing on it and he will get a burst of sunshine…
S — He’s within the catacombs and the our bodies are piled like wire wooden.
G — Our bodies and skulls and issues. He walks by way of the tombs then you definately minimize exterior. That is the purpose the place now we have a selection of doing issues.
S — Does he return and get the lady?
G — It will depend on how shortly you do that. He goes by way of the catacombs. He sees the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel. He pokes his head up and the Germans are on the market. Reduce to the Germans on the airstrip, flying wing is available in, taxis round.
L — Is the airstrip revealed?
G — That’s we’ll must resolve. After all, how would they’ve time to construct it? Why would they?
S — It’s most likely simply touchdown on the flat desert flooring.
G — Anyway, the wing lands and taxis round. The Germans are going to load the Ark onto the aircraft.
S — One of many issues he needs to do is take management of the airplane. He’ll hijack it.
G — A whole lot of the wings are solely like little fighter planes, a tiny cockpit with two guys in it. S — That’s even higher.
G — All you want is him poling his head out of the temple and seeing all of the Germans. Then you definitely minimize to the wing touchdown. I would like a fantastic shot of the wing flying. The wing might land, taxi to one of many buildings and say, “Fill this up with gasoline. We have now a valuable cargo to load.” They’re loading the wing up with gasoline, and he goes and will get in a struggle with the blokes. He can get in a struggle with the pilot and a few different guys. He beats all of them up. Within the technique of beating them up, the aircraft will get unfastened and crashes into one thing.
S — It crashes into the gasoline pumps and creates a fireplace, and the wing burns up.
G — A large explosion. That’s good, as a result of then the ark isn’t within the wing. They haven’t loaded it but. They are saying, “Get this factor gassed in a rush. Don’t even shut the engines off as a result of now we have a valuable cargo and it has to get out of right here instantly.” The man begins to go to the pump and also you pan over and there’s Indy. He jumps the man, the factor blows up. There’s an enormous struggle first, then the wing begins breaking unfastened. You see the wing hit the gasoline pump, then you definately minimize to the Germans. You see an enormous fireplace ball behind the tents.
S — That manner we don’t have to point out the aircraft blowing up.
G — Then all people runs over there, they’re working round and yelling and going
loopy. “Get that truck to Cairo. Get it to the primary airport. We’ll put it on one in every of our fighter planes.” Then you definitely see Indy scrambling alongside, black face, torn jacket.
L — Sabu is within the tent with the lady, tied up. We’ll simply put off his two helpers. G — We are able to play this alongside a bit extra if we would like. He seems to be out of the temple…
END OF TAPE THREE, SIDE B
“RAIDERS” — TAPE FOUR
S — She turns into the driving pressure. She’s so bored with being tied up and pushed round. She turns into an actual energetic a part of the story now.
L — What if she turned concerned with the Frenchman? For her personal functions. In spite of everything she’s not an American agent.
G — She’s a free spirit.
L — A troublesome lady of the world, which might enchantment to him. She has been abandoned by her man.
G — Down right here once we undergo the villains take care of the lady, Indy finds the factor, the Germans seem, the lady should be with them.
L — Because the factor slams shut you see her blended feelings, however she’s siding with the rival. G — The opposite factor they might do is throw the lady down there with him.
S — Within the snake pit?
G — Sure. That will be a pure factor. They don’t want her anymore.
S — I’ve seen that in so many films, they throw them in to endure their destiny collectively.
G — But when they throw her in, it will be a fantastic stunt. Say it’s like twenty toes down, or additional. They simply throw her in, and the man must catch her.
S — Love among the many snakes.
G — I feel it is crucial that we get the lady again into it. L — He pushes her up the column forward of him, or what?
G — This solves an issue. They’ve two torches left, he has one and she or he has one. He goes up and his goes out. The snakes are going to get him. He pushes the column over and she or he nonetheless has her torch. The snakes are closing in on her and she or he’s attempting to burn them and hold them again, on the opposite facet of the room.
S — All these snakes are coming to get her, and she or he’s holding them again with the torch. Rapidly the snakes start to half, like they’re afraid of one thing. They go away a sure space. Right here come two king cobras.
L — I like that. After which the column falls on them.
S — And kills the king cobras.
G — You’ll by no means get these snakes to half, and also you’ll by no means get two big snakes to stroll
in except you make all of them mechanical snakes, and we’re not going to have any mechanical snakes on this film. Do it so you possibly can shoot all of it in inserts. We’ll do the entire thing second unit. It’s good that she’s there, you possibly can intercut with him pushing the factor and her with the torch and snakes. It’s additionally funnier going by way of the catacombs with this lady. They undergo that, then you definately minimize to them wanting exterior the temple, seeing the Germans. “Now what?” “We have now to get that Ark.” Then you definitely minimize to the flying wing coming in. It lands on the gasoline tent. It’s a tent with a few gasoline vehicles on the market. It’s all makeshift. The factor pulls up. She’s there with him. “What are you going to do?” “I’m going to pilot that aircraft.” “How am I going to get again?” “I by no means considered that. You’ll discover a manner.”
L — What about Sabu?
S — He says, “Go together with Sabu.”
G — I don’t understand how we’re going to get Sabu again on this. I don’t need to throw him down there.
S — He’d be serving breakfast by now.
L — His father is Indy’s greatest buddy, and we’re simply going to sacrifice him to the krauts? S — Sabu might get out of it and present up later. We don’t must observe his story.
G — They don’t care in regards to the Arabs. They work for whoever they’re paid by. We are able to use him wherever we want him. They’ll simply stumble upon him, “Sabu, what are you doing right here?”
S — I prefer it when a personality simply reappears.
G — If something, we might discover him after the explosion, as a result of that will draw his consideration, too.
L — When he says he’s going to take over that aircraft, and she or he asks him how she’s going to get again, why doesn’t he simply say, “You’re going to be my co-pilot.” Let his intention be the very best, since they’re by no means going to must do it anyway. He’s going to fly her out of there.
G — Or he can simply say, “There’ll be room for you.” It is likely to be attention-grabbing to have her struggle, additionally.
S — You imply preventing the Germans?
G — One of many German guys. Or, when he’s preventing, the pilot has jumped out of the aircraft and the cockpit has shut. He tells her to get within the aircraft. She climbs up on the wing because it’s shifting round and tries to get the cockpit open. She’s combating it as he’s preventing.
S — She must be liable for the aircraft catching fireplace. He can say, “Okay, I burned your cafe. You burned our solely technique of transportation out of right here. We’re even.”
G — We simply must make it possible for proper earlier than we minimize, now we have to clarify how they obtained out of it. She possibly falls off the aircraft.
S — She will get contained in the cockpit and she or he doesn’t know what to do. She’s stepping on and pulling on issues. She makes a mistake, pulls one thing, and abruptly the propellers go actually quick. The aircraft begins heading for the gasoline tanks. He sees her and screams, “My God, bounce out of there.” She does. Then you definitely minimize to the Germans. She’s straight
liable for destroying the airplane. She doesn’t imply to.
G — You’re going to must be very cautious about getting her out of there. One thing like that occurs very fast. It’s not like she’s happening a runway and realizes she’s going to crash. The factor is true over there.
L — She might decide up one of many blocks that’s holding the tires.
G — We might have a chunk of phony wing that would hit it. She’s within the cockpit and the wing goes and crashes into one of many vehicles. It breaks into the facet of the truck, and the truck crashes into the following truck and all of the gasoline begins pouring out. Then he seems to be and yells for her to get out. It doesn’t explode instantly. She begins to get out. He begins to run. You chop to the Germans, “The place is that rattling factor?” Rapidly there’s an enormous explosion. Which is the best way it will occur anyway, it wouldn’t explode on influence. It might explode after the gasoline hits some sort of spark.
S — So long as she’s accountable, that can work out.
G — All of the Germans are working round like loopy. They’re crawling across the tents. That’s when he says now they’re even. The Germans are saying, “The ark is within the truck. get out of right here. Saboteurs.” That’s after they run into Sabu. You’ve gotten this little scene with them underneath one of many vehicles or one thing saying, “How are we going to get it now?” He says, “Look, you are taking Sabu, return to his father and get him to get a aircraft or some sort of transportation to England. Inform him I’ve to get to England, and I’m going to come back in fast. However I’ll get that truck.” “How?” “Don’t fear about that. Simply get there and inform him.” She and Sabu sneak off. The truck is taking off. There are a bunch of Arab’s horses round. He goes and jumps on one of many horses and rides off throughout the desert. Finally he will get on a mountain street.
S — Or a motorbike could be good, like in “The Nice Escape.” He might do some nice cross-country leaping.
L — There’s no finish to the fascination of a motorbike.
G — He has to face up on a motorbike and make the switch.
L — How do you see this man?
G — Somebody like Harrison Ford, Paul LeMatt. A younger Steve McQueen. It might be very best if we might discover some stunt man who might act.
S — Burt Reynolds. Baryshnikov.
G — We are able to do two issues right here to hype the motion. You possibly can have him go after the truck and overlook in regards to the lady and Sabu. Or you possibly can have the Germans going after the lady and Sabu, discovering them and chasing after them.
S — I feel that’s too complicated. I’d slightly, at this late level within the film, focus on an important motion. One man in opposition to the Ark.
G — Okay. They go off to Cairo. He takes off after the factor. There are two vehicles, or a truck and a automotive. The truck is a kind of canvas Warner Bros, vehicles. And a workers automotive. If he’s on a motorbike, he races throughout the desert…
L — you had him capturing out the tires. Is there one thing higher we might do?
G — what if he simply forgets in regards to the automotive. He cuts throughout nation, comes up alongside the truck, and the automotive remains to be behind or in entrance, it doesn’t make any distinction. What’s
the automotive going to do? If he jumps onto the truck and will get into the cab, and is preventing with the blokes within the cab, the blokes within the automotive will be capturing at him or no matter. However there’s nothing they will do. In the event that they’re behind them, all they will do is observe. When he will get management of the truck and he tears off, the automotive can chase him as an alternative of two bike guys. He has to lose the automotive. If the automotive is in entrance, there’s nonetheless nothing they will do. The don’t need to kill the motive force.
L — They don’t need the ark to go over the cliff.
G — It’s an attention-grabbing scenario, as a result of the blokes within the automotive are caught.
L — In the event that they’re in entrance then there’s a hazard of them working off the cliff themselves. They don’t need to get too far forward.
S — The wonderful thing about them being forward is you realize the hairpins as a result of the automotive has to take them first. The automotive virtually didn’t make it, and listed below are two guys preventing in a truck. How are they going to make it? You get a preview of all of the completely different twists and turns.
G — If the motive force of the automotive slows down sufficient, the truck will abruptly be proper up on them.
S — So the automotive has to go as quick, and finally it could actually go uncontrolled and go capturing off the cliff.
G — I like the concept of the automotive chasing them.
L — Particularly after it’s been chased.
G — Plus the truth that you’ve the Germans within the automotive going loopy. If the Ark goes over the cliff, all of the Germans are pretty much as good as useless anyway. You too can have the Frenchman within the automotive.
L — What number of guys are behind the truck?
S — There must be about twelve. Reinforcements. They hold getting out and strolling alongside the facet and getting knocked off on the mountain.
L — Are they coming from each side?
S — Sure, each side of the truck. The man can swerve back and forth. He has two rearview mirrors and he sees them.
G — There shouldn’t be a again window, it must be metal. He races throughout the dune, then we dissolve and it’s extra mountainous.
S — The Kyber Move.
G — He races throughout and jumps on the street, after which it begins getting extra mountainous. Like in “Wages Of Concern.”
S — The surroundings itself must be horrifying. You pull again and the truck is that this huge and the cliff is that this huge. It must be probably the most spectacular set within the image. The place we shoot this chase must be the climax by way of geography. “The place did they discover that location?”
G — It might be good if we had two automobiles, so one will get sacrificed. We must always have a automotive go over a cliff.
S — It must be an open workers automotive with a machine gun within the again seat. G — We are able to’t do it the place they might shoot out the tires.
S — Why would they? The factor would go off the cliff in the event that they did.
L — What about when he’s developing from behind on the bike.
G — He doesn’t. He comes alongside. He cuts them off. The truck goes like this, and he is available in at a proper angle. Perhaps the hills make it blind to the folks in entrance and in again, and abruptly this bike comes out of nowhere, and zippers alongside. And he instantly jumps into the cab. The blokes within the entrance and the blokes within the again can’t do something about it. The automotive that goes over the cliff could possibly be both one.
L — I’d prefer it to be the again automotive. G — Then the entrance automotive spins out.
S — And the person within the automotive that goes off the cliff is the SS officer who was torturing her. He’ll be the one close-up, he’ll be the man that screams.
G — He will get management of the truck and he scrunches off the previous few guys. The entrance workers automotive has spun out. He goes by it and so they tear off after him. They race by way of town and he loses the automotive. He races into the warehouse and the Arabs shut the door and put outdated baskets in entrance. As quickly because the truck goes in, all people comes and fills the road up once more. The Germans come by on the lookout for the factor, however they don’t see it. We have now just a little exposition scene the place the man tells him he couldn’t get a aircraft, however he obtained a ship. “A ship. Jesus Christ, that’s going to take ceaselessly.” “No, it’s an excellent ship.” The subsequent scene is down on the docks after they’re loading the Ark. You see all these slimy pirates. However, his outdated buddy tells him these guys are reliable, and he introduces him to the captain. We don’t must make them Chinese language, since we have already got our Chinese language sequence.
S — Make them Lithuanian. L — What in the event that they’re all black?
G — That will work. They’re black pirates. They’re on a freighter, a kind of outdated tramp steamers.
L — The place is the lady?
G —The lady is within the storage, and she or he goes on the boat with him. There’s a scene the place they’re loading the factor on the boat, and it’s evening and so they’re afraid somebody goes to see them. The Germans are coming and so they must get away instantly. We introduce the captain, who’s a pleasant man. Our household man says that this man is reliable. We’re in league with the pirates and now we have an excellent feeling about them. Besides a variety of them are kind of shifty. They’re cutthroats, however they belief them as a result of the man advised them they might.
L — Didn’t you’ve a scene in right here the place somebody needed to open the Ark? G — We don’t actually have time to open it.
L — No. Somebody needed to and he says no.
G — That was within the warehouse scene, after they’re unloading it. We might do this. The warehouse scene is all people unloading the Ark. “We have now to get out of right here.” “I obtained
you a ship, it’s the one factor I might give you.” It has to maneuver quick. They get on the ship, and simply because it’s taking off… Truly, it will be higher if the Germans weren’t on the deck. So it’s extra of a shock. It goes very quick, and the ship sails out into the harbor at sundown. Then you’ve this stress-free scene the place there is no such thing as a risk. They’re on the captains desk or one thing.
S — The viewers will really feel that it’s winding down.
G — He says, “We did it.” And that is the place we are able to have a scene between the man and the lady, tender, reconciliation. He loves her. It’s the place we are able to actually pull them collectively. A brief little scene. It may be within the cabin or wherever. They go to sleep and the whole lot is calm. He’s asleep, and the engines shut down, then he wakes up. “The engines have shut down.” “What does that imply?” “I don’t know. I’m going to seek out out.”
S — They’ve been making love. That is the primary love scene within the film.
G — Proper. He tells her to remain there. He goes as much as the cabin and asks the captain what’s occurring. “Look.” We glance, and there are like twelve wolf submarines surrounding them.
S — The Germans are manning the weapons.
G — “Shit.” “There was nothing we might do. They’d torpedo us out of the water if we tried to withstand. There’s too lots of them.”
S — They wouldn’t torpedo them, they’d shoot them with their deck weapons.
G — He says, “Shit.” You chop to the Germans swarming everywhere in the deck, treating all people very tough. The captain is outraged. They slap the captain round.
L — They suppose they’re Aryan supermen.
S — Heavy prejudice. They actually abuse the black guys.
G — Indy is working down the deck attempting to get again to the cabin and the lady. He will get minimize off by the Nazis. He hides underneath a lifeboat. Two of the Nazis are carrying the lady. You see her struggling and screaming at them.
S — Why are they speaking the lady?
L — The captain sacrifices himself ultimately for the lady. Then you definitely actually hate the Germans much more.
G — We have now to determine a motive for them to take the lady at this level. Earlier than I had it as a result of she was a double agent.
L — Perhaps right here is the place we are able to save the opposite factor. The Frenchman needs her, regardless that she’s not receptive to it. We are able to do this in a scene when he is available in to query her. Say he’s the Claude Rains character, it is smart that he’s interested in Barbara Stanwyck. The German says it’s time to eliminate her, the French man says no.
G — The large factor with these films is the damsel goes to get screwed by the unhealthy man. What we do is, within the interrogator scene the Frenchman is in love together with her, approaching to her. The German torture man might care much less. “Get out of my manner.” After they push her down into the snake pit, it’s the German man who does it, and the Frenchman may be very upset about it. “The lady was mine.” “She’s a waste of time, and we don’t want her.” We removed the German man when he went off the cliff. Now the French man is left to his personal gadgets. “The lady goes with me. She’s essential to this mission.” He takes her
alongside. We all know he’s been kind of lusting after her. Because the Frenchman takes her, they appear round and say, “The place is Indy?” “Search the ship.” They take the lady and the Ark, and row out to one of many submarines. Then we minimize to the submarines going away.
L — When the captain sacrifices himself could possibly be when he takes after the Germans.
G — They’re possibly going to explode the ship or one thing. We’re going to intercut them rowing out to the Ark with one thing occurring on the ship, with out Indy being concerned in it. So we are able to velocity that point development up. Simply as they’re closing the hatch on the submarine, you see this hand come up and seize the submarine. The final we are saying Indy, he was hidden underneath a life boat.
S — Because the final of the Germans go away the ship, they sink it proper there.
G — Costly.
S — Or they will rake it with machine gun fireplace.
G — You are able to do that. You intercut them going out to the submarine with different Germans looking the ship for Indy. They report that he’s completely not on board.
L — We’re not going to be very keen on their looking the ship.
G — The pirate tells the Germans that Indy just isn’t on board, “We removed him earlier than we left the dock. We killed him. We’re going to promote the lady into slavery.” He performs up the entire pirate factor. You already know that they’re simply defending Indy.
L — One factor you might do to sacrifice Gossett could be the Germans are nearly to find Indy and Gossett sacrifices his life to distract them.
G — The hatch closes and the submarine begins to maneuver away, a hand comes up and grabs onto one of many railings. He swings himself up on the deck, runs alongside and the ship begins sinking. He’s working knee deep within the water.
S — We have now analysis on this. There aren’t any World Conflict Two submarines on both coast that work. We haven’t checked Europe but.
G — There was one in Argentina that Peter Yates used. We do close-ups of him working within the water on the deck. You are able to do it in inserts.
S — We don’t must. We’re constructing a (garbled) which we are able to use.
G — He’s holding onto the periscope. We’ll begin tomorrow on the tunnel when he enters the underground submarine base. In Leviticus it describes it. How they constructed it and the place it got here from. He thinks Von Daniken’s first e-book, “Chariots of the Gods” has some stuff in it in regards to the Ark. The idea I’d heard is the one about having the ability to converse to God once you arrange all of the silk cubicles and that stuff. There was a principle that some docs had give you in Chicago about twenty-five years in the past. There was an article. He doesn’t know the place it’s or something about it. We’ll get that.
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G — to get to the floor, after which he hits his head. That manner it makes him shiny, however he will get outsmarted anyway.
S — He lastly will get by way of and he surfaces and sees… G — an underground submarine base.
L — How huge is that this base?
G — Small. One sub. When he first sees it it can simply be a miniature sub. All of the close- ups we are able to simply do on a set.
S — We’re additionally experimenting on utilizing miniatures with reside motion. So he comes up and he sees the bottom, which is kind of like Captain Nemo’s place. It will possibly’t be too trendy.
G — No, it needs to be… It’s all rocks with just a little little bit of concrete reinforcement. Basically it’s a pure cave. He climbs up and begins happening one of many hallways. There are guards in every single place.
L — He can watch them unload the Ark, see the place they’re going.
G — In some way now we have to get to the Ark already arrange with the silk containers to allow them to discuss to God.
L — However they simply obtained there.
G — They obtained there forward of him. In some way between the place we are actually and the ultimate climactic scene, they must arrange this. After all, they might have had this arrange earlier than. We might do this with a chunk of dialogue. As they’re unloading the Ark, a Nazi soldier comes over and says that “We have now organized the tents as you’ve described to us, Professor.” “Okay, take the Ark and put it in the course of the tents.” He despatched them a diagram of what it ought to appear like.
S — On the finish, when the entire thing goes, shouldn’t it additionally harm the German military someway. There must be some essential generals there or one thing when the place blows up.
G — Yeah, however you don’t need to make it too outrageous. Clearly it didn’t actually harm the German military in any respect.
S — For instance, a man down there may be minutes away from having the ability to break up the atom and he obtained killed. In order that they gained’t have the bomb in ’41.
G — The one factor is to make the entire thing believable, particularly the ending, so you possibly can assume the entire thing was lined up, is misplaced in Nazi information, however this actually occurred. It’s a semi-believable story. Perhaps we might work out a manner the place he’s going to sabotage it. Not solely does the factor blow up, however he has set some sort of a time bomb that can blow the entire place up. That offers him a time lock as quickly as he will get there. Not solely does he must get the Ark shortly… Clearly it’s not the brightest factor on the earth to do. Now, one other drawback, the lady, which now we have to deal with someway.
S — The “Weapons of Navarone” labored as a result of it was a mission film. They needed to destroy one thing slightly than seize one thing. On this film the viewers gained’t expect something to explode. However, if we set up at first of the film, that every one these Nazi operations are … There’s a secret base that no one can discover. We by no means point out in once more, however at first of the movie we uncover that there’s this secret base the place the provides are coming from, and planes simply appear to vanish at a spot within the ocean. In actual fact, it’s the key Nazi submarine base. Then there may be some promise, some hope, that by the tip of the film they’re going to find this place and blow it up. His project is to recuperate the Ark, however should you see a submarine base, blow it up.
G — I solely fear that now we have sufficient hassle as it’s attempting to clarify the whole lot and make it work. But when they’re going to lose greater than the Ark, an enormous ammo dump or
one thing, that’s going to price them. The issue I’ve is that we wind up the best way each Bond film has ended. He’s on the island, he has to get out of there with the lady, and so they do get out, they’re on the water, and the entire place blows up.
S — I really like that. Each Bond film has made cash, too.
G — In case you observe basic dramatic plotting, that’s what will occur. You set your greatest growth final, and also you create as a lot stress as you probably can. The best way we initially had it, the unhealthy guys obtained fried by the Ark, and he dragged it again to Washington. He didn’t actually destroy something. We had that point lock factor, however that will get complicated. We are able to hype it or we are able to go away it on the unique. These are the 2 extremes. Proper now the tip of the film is, all of the stuff for the Ark is about up, silk cubicles, and he goes in there, and the unhealthy professor and the Nazi basic and a pair different guys are there about to open the Ark. He will get in there and drops the gun on them. “Simply decide up the Ark and observe me.” Someone comes up behind him and hits him on the pinnacle. They struggle and he’s subdued and hauled off. As he’s being led out, the blokes open up the factor and it goes off. The man turns round and the tent turns into an enormous fireplace ball. Within the ensuing chaos he runs in to attempt to get the Ark. He drags it off and hides it, or wipe to Washington. D.C., the place he’s telling them that that is harmful, and it’s actual. They inform him they’ll care for it. He says he needs to work on it. They inform him to use for a grant or one thing. The final shot is them placing it in a warehouse. We have now sure issues — the lady, does he blow up the bottom? The tent goes up in smoke…
END OF TAPE FOUR, SIDE A
TAPE FOUR, SIDE B
G — Then he might bounce on the cart and race out with it. And he will get into the.. We had him get on a ship. The thought was that the little mine practice cane out onto the island, and there have been some fishing boats that he will get away on. Or have a few velocity boats down by the dock.
S — We wish that velocity boat chase.
G — Proper. That’s the place that got here from. S — We misplaced the velocity boat chase.
G — Hell, we had been speaking usually. If it went anyplace, it will go right here. The one factor I needed to do with that, and it’s going to be laborious to do, is that he will get chased and so they’re firing at one another. He will get right into a harbor the place all these huge boats are, and he races down in between two boats simply as they’re beginning to shut. And the opposite boat races down and goes… There’s no simple technique to get out of that one. I feel it will be higher if we simply let the villains get scrunched and that’s how he will get away from them. We might put that on the finish.
S — As soon as we’re right here, let’s keep on this place.
G — Additionally, will we need to have him destroy the bottom?
L — Indy doesn’t know that there’s going to be this electrical explosion from the ark. However there may be, and it threatens the ammo inventory. Now he does have a time drawback. He has to maneuver the Ark and the lady out of there with out getting blown up. How does he survive that? Everybody else dies, the island blows up, however he and she or he survive. That will be an enchancment on the Bond factor.
G — It’s the last word cliffhanger, all people will get killed in the long run..
S — Or they flip clear. I like the concept of the entire island blowing up and discovering a intelligent manner for them to outlive. No matter that’s.
L — When the man opens the ark, you visualize that it explodes after which the highest slams down once more. What in the event that they open it up, and it takes care of everybody, and we see a variety of this electrical stuff zapping folks and beginning fires in every single place. And he has to shut it.
G — That’s attainable. I noticed the opening of the Ark and the ensuing chaos because the climax of the film. The faster we get from that time to fade out the higher. I simply needed him put the factor on a cart, race out, and minimize to Washington.
S — It makes him very godlike if one of many bolts doesn’t zap him.
G — If we make the impact actual, it shouldn’t final lengthy, or that hurts it. If it occurs in a break up second, he opens it up and abruptly these big arcs go for 5 – 6 seconds, then you definately minimize exterior and see the complete tent go up, then it’s not that arduous to get away with the entire thing.
S — We finish it like “Moby Dick.” After the explosion there’s no life in any respect. Our man and our lady come up gasping for air, they’re okay. Immediately the Ark comes up. They seize onto the Ark and dangle onto it and kick ashore. The Ark presents itself.
L — I like that.
G — I like the concept on these circumstances. If we put him on just a little mine practice, he pulls the factor onto it and jumps on, they’re racing by way of these tunnels, and the Germans are capturing at them, the clock has began ticking and we minimize to flames getting nearer to destruction.
S — A mine practice chase with bullets ricocheting off rocks.
G — They get to the place the submarine is, in the primary factor, and… The come to the doorway of the mine shaft cease, see plenty of Nazis, and listen to the rumble, as a result of the factor has began already. Or, slightly than have the entire thing blow up, there’s a chase by way of the mine shaft, you chop to the time factor, they’re attending to the tip, and the factor blows up. You see the place the place the ark was blow up. It fries a few of the pursuing Germans, rocks are falling on the similar. They run proper by way of the submarine factor and go proper off the dock and into the bay with the cart. He runs it proper off the tip of the dock. Lastly, so many rocks fall they obscure the display screen. Then we minimize to exterior to the island, and it’s all quiet. You hear rumbling. Then you definitely minimize to them and so they pop up.
L — Indy comes up and he sees the bottom. I assumed the tent factor befell proper there. G — I assumed they moved it down into one other huge cave.
L — Within the outdated factor, they took a mine practice out to air. That will work for right here too. They might simply shoot out into the ocean. In any other case they must undergo the underground water passage to get out to the bay.
G — You would make {that a} minimize. Reduce exterior and finally they pop up. S — It might be an actual curler coaster trip.
G — They race off the tip of the ramp, crash into the water, the mountain caves in, the submarine is destroyed. Reduce out to the island, you hear a variety of rumbling, a facet of the mountain slips down, a collapse. Then you definitely sit there. After which the forged credit go up on that shot. After they end, the place the crew, credit would usually be, they pop up.
Then it’s a must to do the tag scene in Washington. You would possibly be capable of do the Washington scene with the tip credit, such as you do opening credit. They pop up, you chop to Washington, and then you definately proceed with the credit. That must be a brief little dialogue scene. No more than a web page. “Congratulations, Indy. You probably did a fantastic job. We’ll take it from right here.” Then you definitely minimize to the man carrying the crated up ark stamped “Prime Secret” or “Do Not Take away.” He places it in an enormous warehouse. So you’ve three little title sequences.
S — I feel we must always strive it.
G — If it’s performed with model, then you’ve very nice credit. It’s simply the reverse of opening credit.
S — This mine cart factor, we must always shoot it on the Disneyland Matterhorn. They go on it on the finish, so the ultimate run is an up and an enormous down, and the out is over the ocean.
G — I don’t know if you may make that plausible.
S — Simply the final a part of the run. It’s tracks and a really small closure. It’s like the place they’ve the cable to tug the factor up, besides this time it’s coming down. It’s weightless. It’s not being run by a machine. The wheels are locked on the observe, however there’s no machine grinding it ahead. It has no brakes. They’ve gotten onto the tail finish. It drops right down to the loading zone.
G — You’re speaking about an costly sequence there. To make it look nice you’d must construct an entire observe.
L — You’re saying that it comes out within the underground bay.
S — It lets out on a loading platform about thirty toes over the water, with scaffolding, the place they load issues from ships that anchor slightly below it.
G — We had talked about having them get out within the submarine. I feel that it’s higher in the event that they’re underneath the mountain when it explodes.
S — You don’t know if the entire thing caved in on them. I don’t know should you want that sort of factor. In case you had only a straight mine practice, motorized. You possibly can have curves on it, and you may have it go very quick.
L — I don’t suppose it’s a must to clarify why there’s a dip there.
G — I can see the opening of the mine being thirty toes up. Once you come into the submarine base, up on the wall you see the mine factor, and the tracks come down and goes straight. It comes down, goes onto the dock, ranges out, after which on the finish of the dock it goes again up once more as a result of usually it flips down after which up. It might usually flip down onto a ship. They run up, hit it, and go off that manner. It is going to be very laborious to construct that low-cost.
S — It would price what our rock set did on “Shut Encounters,” $75,000. You simply must construct the final run. I gained’t go into mines.
G — We’d most likely must do it on a sound stage.
S — It needs to be an exterior on some island the place the factor goes into the ocean.
G — I feel you might do this with out having that dip in it. It comes round and simply races off the tip of the dock. You’ll have the identical impact of it getting airborne, after which it lands down. Then you possibly can pretend it and do it on a set. Shut pans and shut pictures.
S — On “Nice Escape” they did it with a dolly observe and 100 foot cutaway. However However we want 100 yard cutaway.
G — You simply have a straight piece and a curved piece, and also you do completely different angles. You simply hold going by way of the identical piece. It might be attention-grabbing if the mine practice half was similar to a foot above the steel a part of the practice. You needed to hold down. As a substitute of getting or not it’s the entire mine, it will be beams, like concrete buttresses. There could be a couple of foot clearance. And the buttresses could be about forty or fifty toes aside, or much less. As they arrive down, “Hold your head down.” They’re popping up and down.
S — I’ll take that as an alternative of a dip.
G — It would most likely must be exterior.
S — Dolly observe and a digital camera proper subsequent to it, dashing together with it.
L — Let’s run by way of the geography of this place once more. He comes up out of the water and we’re within the sub base. Now we would like him to go to the internal sanctum, so we are able to have this trip on the finish, and nonetheless hold him inside.
G — Right here is the best way I envision it. They put the ark on the practice to take it out. (making a drawing) The principle base is like three tales tall on the within. They need to have concrete rooms. One thing that appears like that is the place their headquarters are. The tent space is kind of in a courtyard. He walks down there and when a cart comes he has to press himself up in opposition to one thing to get out of the best way when the blokes go zooming by. He might stroll proper down the middle of the observe and no one would see him. All he must do is hear the factor coming and he might bounce to the facet.
L — Only one lane.
G — Proper. And it must be very slim in locations. No more than six or seven toes vast. At sure factors it must be six or seven toes excessive, after which when the buttresses come, it’s solely 4 toes excessive.
S — How are we going to blow this place up? Is the ark going to do it?
G — We have now a number of issues to deal with now. One, what are we going to do with the lady? Two, how is he going to blow the place up?
S — There’s a straightforward technique to blow it up. He goes within the submarine and fires all of the bow and stern tubes. He does it with the torpedoes from the sub.
G — Both have the ark do it, or one thing the place the time bomb begins ticking. S — The place does he get a time bomb?
G — Figuratively. The fuse begins. We work out the place the fuse begins, from then on, you’re fearful about whether or not he’s going to get out in time. It ought to begin when the ark goes off, or proper after that. It could possibly be one thing he does, or one thing he does unintentionally.
L — Or he might not do it in any respect. Let the ark do it.
S — I just like the ark doing it, he doesn’t do a factor. There’s a door that claims journal on it, and also you see torpedoes and ammunition popping out to the sub on gurneys. They’re reloading the sub. When the ark blows the whole lot up, it units a fireplace that begins burning the journal door. He has to flee earlier than the journal door burns down and the hearth
will get to it.
G — You would have an entire string of issues — the journal door that’s open a bit, a stack of ammunition, and about twenty toes from that could be a stack of oil drums and gasoline. The ark blows the tent up, it’s like a gasoline explosion. These little burning items rain down. It rains down on the pile of stuff, rubbish, cotton stuff. That bursts into flames. When he’s getting the ark and placing it within the factor, that factor is burning like loopy. He jumps within the factor and goes racing down the factor. He’s firing on the guys. This stack of stuff that’s burning lastly falls over and falls on the oil drums. He’s nonetheless racing alongside, then the oil drums explode and oil and gasoline go onto the ammunition. You see all these containers of ammunition burning like loopy. Then lastly that blows up, proper after that there’s an enormous explosion. We have now a series response till it will get to the large explosion. Every time it’s worse.
S — That’s nice. Now what has occurred to our Frenchman? G — I needed him to get fried by the ark.
S — The person who lastly chases our hero by way of the mine shaft, can he be one of many persevering with characters? The second fundamental unhealthy man. He doesn’t go off the cliff within the automotive.
G — I feel that man ought to go off the cliff. We are able to introduce new fundamental unhealthy man on the ship.
L — How’s he going to die?
S — I’d like for him to get killed by a cave-in. The factor goes off the tracks, they scream, and one huge rock comes down smashing him.
G — So now we have him be the one who takes Indy away. The professor is the one who’s going to open it up.
L — Now, the lady.
G — We do have an issue with the lady. She could possibly be in the primary room. The opposite thought was that Indy saves her.
S — What if the Frenchman made her put on unusual garments? I’d love to find her within the strangest outfit you’ve ever seen, as a result of he needs her dressed up like some kind of a loopy princess. She’s apologizing. “I can’t assist it. He made me put this on.” One thing fully ridiculous for the ultimate escape. One thing very elegant, however bizarre. She has to choose it as much as run.
G — Indy climbs up on the submarine. He sneaks off. We have now a pair pictures of him strolling down the tunnel, trains going by. Now he makes his manner into the primary room, and sees this silk cubicle factor arrange. He seems to be round. He is aware of that they’re within the cubicle, as a result of he can hear them speaking. The place is she? Truly, we additionally noticed her get taken off. She will get pulled out as they’re unloading the ark.
S — Can the Frenchman die in Indy’s arms, terribly burned past recognition? “I’ve seen the face of God.”
G — All he has to say is, “I noticed him.” You must watch out about that line in that place. They put her and the ark on the mine practice. She might both be within the silk factor with them, or she could possibly be exterior, being held prisoner.
L — It might be neat if, after they open the ark and it fries them, she would have been there if she hadn’t performed one thing. They carry in Indy, “I’m sick of this man. Take him
out and shoot him.” She turns round and spits in his eye or one thing, “Shoot me too.” He says, “I’ve greater issues on my thoughts. Take her too.” She saves herself by making a sacrifice.
G — We have now to watch out about making it appear very handy. In the event that they each go away, then you realize one thing goes to occur. We’re additionally constructing suspense about what occurs after they open the ark.
S — I’d like to see her tied up and certain by the journal door, close to the explosives. When all the hearth and thunder occur rapidly a path of gasoline fireplace comes across the nook. It’s heading for her, slowly. She will get save, untied and pulled out of there. The viewers sees that the path goes to ignite the bombs. It could possibly be an extended hallway.
G — He’s standing there on the entrance to the factor and he sees the silk and stuff. That’s the level the place the lady ought to come again into the film. Say we put her behind the tent so Indy can’t see her. He goes within the tent, will get the drop on them, tells them to take the factor again on the cart. They catch him, ship him exterior. They open the ark. We have now a clumsy level right here when Indy rushes again in and will get the ark. If he has to hurry again to get the ark, and in addition sees the lady and has to hurry again and get her… It’s going to take too lengthy for that to really occur. The one that will work is that if he noticed the lady and the ark on the similar time. He saves the lady slightly than the ark. Then they save the ark collectively and put it on the factor. This is likely to be an attention-grabbing contact — he goes down the hall, he sees them speaking, he both sneaks by the guards or there’s no one round, so he takes his gun out, he goes into the factor, will get the drop on them. One thing intelligent ought to undo Indy at that time. He will get caught, he goes out. When he will get the drop on them, you anticipate the lady to be there. When he goes within the tent and sees she’s not there, he seems to be round. He can ask the place the lady is, and earlier than there’s reply he will get crushed up. You’re half going for the ark and half going for the lady at this level. We are able to’t simply lose sight of the truth that she’s there. He has to save lots of the lady and the ark. If we construct that relationship up, clearly she’s an essential issue.
S — If he has a selection of what to save lots of, her saves her first. After which fortunately will get the ark too.
L — As quickly as he frees her she says she’ll assist him to do it. G — She helps him carry the ark.
S — He says, “Don’t take a look at it. I’ll shut the lid.”
G — I feel it ought to have already shut.
S — By itself?
G — I do suppose it must be a brief little impact. We don’t linger on it too lengthy.
S — Apart from the consequences, the sunshine inside is so shiny you possibly can’t take a look at it.
G — A shiny mild with tensor coil, these issues arcing off it.
L — What occurs to this last Nazi who has him by the arm, gun in his ribs?
G — He might punch him out.
L — He could possibly be blinded.
G — He might karate chop him, get his gun, and run for the lady She could possibly be surrounded
by flame with extra flame pouring towards her. That’s not linked with the opposite fireplace going towards the stacked stuff. He runs by way of the hearth to get her, comes again, picks up the ark, will get again on the practice, and the hearth is slowly making its manner towards the journal.
L — Perhaps what’s menacing her is an enormous flaming sheet of the silk. It’s proper over her head, about to drop.
S — What wouldn’t it be?
G — It might be crude oil, thick and heavy. One of many cans broke and it’s dripping out. L — That is proper after the opening of the ark?
G — Proper. It’s a path of burning oil. Plus possibly a sheet of flame that’s round her.
S — After they get her out, that half goes underneath the door.
G — No. We have now to have extra time for that. You must have an actual sluggish development of the stuff getting towards the door. We’re intercutting between the nice guys and the unhealthy guys, happening the tunnel, and the hearth getting nearer to the journal. It doesn’t even must be a door, the stuff might simply be sitting there.
L — How about if the oil had been a part of the ritual?
G — We’re speaking about oil that’s in huge containers. The tent has burst into flame from the arcs. All people fights, and you may’t see something. The flames die down, as a result of if was only a tent. You don’t know the place it actually got here from, however there’s a river of oil and flame that goes round her.
S — It’s like a lava circulation.
G — It doesn’t simply explode.
S — A great impact could be when he opens the ark and sees no matter he sees, he screams, and no matter comes out x-rays him. When he screams he’s all inexperienced and blue along with his cranium exhibiting by way of. White hair.
G — We must always do one thing like static electrical energy. He hair is down and lengthy, and rapidly it simply goes…
L — And the highest slams shut?
G — Proper. You let the impact go for just a little bit, then you definately minimize exterior and the arcs are going round. The river of oil is approaching her. After it’s all died down, you’ve these flaming silk issues floating round: It’s clear and there’s not that a lot to burn. The ark isn’t burning, it’s sitting within the heart. He sees her.
S — She must be in tatters.
G — It might be a humorous second should you didn’t know the place she was, after which abruptly the factor blows apart. It’s like an enormous entrance. He grabs the lady, they run over and seize the ark, the cans and issues are blowing up. They battle and put the ark on the mine practice and shoot out.
L — The German man involves, will get up, there’s panic throughout.
G — The Germans are working round. Every little thing is on fireplace. Immediately they’re seen.
They bounce within the subsequent practice and you’ve got the racing factor.
S — He ought to kill just a few Germans within the hall. He shoots two of three Germans along with his service revolver, then that’s out of bullets. Then he picks up a machine gun, or perhaps a Thompson sub-machine gun. Some Germans come across the nook and he offers them a burst.
G — He might bounce on the mine practice with a Thompson. There could be nice sound in there.
S — Each time the bullets go off, rocks fall down.
G — The mine practice retains getting stuffed up.
L — Is only one automotive chasing him?
G — I feel it’s only one automotive, with like three or 4 folks in it. L — How do the automobiles transfer?
G — They’re electrical. They’ve a throttle. Indy simply jams it down and takes off. L — And at this level we need to get the ultimate German.
G — The ultimate factor, when the hearth hits the actual munitions and it’s burning there for some time and abruptly it goes bang, then the entire thing begins to shake, and possibly flames come by way of the tunnel and fry the Germans, on the similar time the whole lot comes crushing down. He will get fried, after which they crush him. He jams it ahead. Then you definitely minimize to the submarine half, and the little automotive comes capturing out of the shaft. The entire thing is shaking and rocks are falling down. She seems to be up and says, “Jesus Christ, cease.” He says, “It’s our solely hope.” And so they go capturing proper off the tip of the dock, and sail throughout the water. Wham.
L — We have now the sense that there’s a last huge explosion coming.
S — Every little thing might be rumbling like an earthquake.
L — So we don’t need to see the ultimate ammo pile go up but.
G — I feel the mountain is kind of collapsing. Rocks obliterate the display screen, it seems to be like the entire place collapses round them. Then you definitely minimize out to the island.
S — What would actually be nice could be to point out how deep and the way full the explosion is. You see an explosion the place fireplace and particles come capturing out of the mine holes. Then the submarine that was manner in there comes capturing up by way of the rock. It simply sits there like an enormous knife wedged out of the rock. That will present the entire inside the place is gone.
G — I feel it must be performed subtly. It needs to be plausible. I wouldn’t imagine {that a} submarine would get shoved by way of the rock.
S — I wouldn’t imagine the entire island getting blown up, both.
G — Explosions simply come out of the perimeters of the rock and possibly out of the highest after which it simply sits there and steams. I don’t suppose we must always do it as an enormous enormous explosion that blows the island aside. It must be like if this had been an actual island, there have been an actual tunnel, and if there was an enormous, like an atomic explosion in the course of it, there could be bits of explosion capturing out varied cracks and issues, after which it will kind of
settle, and possibly there could be one facet of the mountain that will break free and collapse like in an earthquake. Then it will settle. It wouldn’t be overdone. We’ll seek the advice of geologists about what would occur.
S — One factor that will occur could be an enormous tidal wave. A wall of water fifty toes excessive would simply boil up and fan out in all instructions.
G — A delicate and sensible explosion that claims issues occurred. It’s kind of an extended shot, or a medium lengthy shot. They’re sitting there, after which the titles come up.
S — (hole in tape) …then you definately rent some personal pilots to get in actual airplanes and fly within the background a couple of half mile away, which places the airplanes. You’ve gotten a miniature blowing up within the foreground when you have actual planes within the background, and also you’re satisfied that it’s an actual place blowing up.
L — There’s an extended wait by way of the forged credit the place you suppose they’re useless. It appears there must be some last remark between them.
G — “Decelerate.” “It’s out solely hope.” L — He says, “We tried.”
G — No matter. That complete idea… We’ll take a look at it. The opposite various is you simply maintain on the island for some time, then they pop up, then you definately minimize to the scene in Washington. It would work both manner. This manner it simply make an enormous… It’s a false ending, which is humorous.
L — They pop up, one, two. They’re circling round within the water after which plop, it’s the ark.
G — She says, “It’s the ark.” “Effectively, for God’s sake, don’t open it.”
L — If there is no such thing as a forged credit score, then it bothers me that there is no such thing as a time lapse for them to undergo the underground tunnel and the whole lot.
S — They get out flying by way of the air from the curler coaster. L — However they don’t. This takes place within the sub room.
S — They return to the sub room?
G — Sure. That’s the place they find yourself.
L — In the event that they don’t go within the sub room, then they’re not in jeopardy when the island blows up.
G — The best way to unravel that, if it comes right down to that, is that you’ve some pictures of the island blowing up. A little bit montage of issues blowing up. Then you definitely minimize to that lengthy shot. It does its factor, after which they pop up. You would very simply fill that point.
L — The mine practice dumps them within the sub base.
S — They’re again the place they started then.
L — That’s why they’re in such hassle when the place begins to break down. G — It collapses on them.
L — However that’s the route now we have arrange for the practice.
G — The practice goes between the sub base and the factor. We don’t need to have to clarify different methods out. They land in the course of this factor. That’s the final we see of them. Reduce to numerous explosions. Reduce to the lengthy shot of the island and see half of the mountain collapse. Maintain for a minute. Then they pop up.
S — If we had a extra pronounced entrance to the sub base, that could possibly be what collapses. It must be a well-recognized space that collapses.
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G — Or possibly caves or one thing. One thing that we’ll keep in mind. The thought is that it caves in on them.
S — And so they get out in time.
G— It’s simply making that little time development there believable. The hardest factor is to have the ability to get some respectable pictures of the island exploding.
S — You possibly can {photograph} shock waves.
G — One other technique to do it, they’re racing on the practice and she or he says, “Cease this factor.” “No, it’s our solely hope.” They go off the pier, splash into the water, rocks are falling and so they obscure the display screen, as the entire display screen kind of goes black, what would occur should you pale in on them in Washington? With the Ark. And also you mentioned. “Congratulations, Indy. You probably did a fantastic job.” And also you simply assume that…
S — It’s an excessive amount of of a leap. They suppose they’re useless.
G — You’re solely going to suppose they’re useless should you see the factor explode, and the factor collapses.
L — In case you’re going to do it that manner, we would as nicely have them take one other route on the mine practice and shoot them out into the ocean. Then at the least we get an enormous curler coaster trip into the ocean. Then they’ll get out and the viewers will see it.
S — Immediate freedom.
G — The choice ending is that the mine practice goes within the different route. It goes by way of the factor and out the opposite facet. Then we don’t know the place we’re going. They get chased
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S — to run in entrance of the boulder and get out of the cave earlier than it will get you. The explanation the boulder is coming down is to not kill him, it’s to seal off the cave.
L — I’m seeing his retreat from there as all out, however nonetheless holding in thoughts what he has to do. Like when he will get to this place, when he’s going again, he dodges by way of it. They’re just a little slower than he’s.
S — Quick doorways closing are enjoyable.
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TAPE RECORDING OF CONVERSATION BETWEEN DEBBIE FINE, LARRY KASDAN AND PHIL KAUFMAN
PK — I’ve some notes someplace which I’m nonetheless looking for — now we have moved since then and my notes are all packed away someplace and, I don’t know — I an lacking just a few concepts — I simply haven’t had the time to go in and discover a variety of the stuff. Generally, I don’t know the place you’re at in terns of what you’re writing.
LK — Simply gearing up, actually. I’ve been ready for a top level view from George.
PK — As a result of the — we had been speaking, I don’t know, I assume pre-World Conflict II, someplace across the Nineteen Thirties, beginning in South America, you realize.
LK — Someplace in 1936.
PK — Carmen Miranda, seaplanes – no matter that huge factor was and sort of a Center Jap journey based mostly round the same thought to one thing like that e-book “The Spear of Future” the place the Nazis had been into mystical cults and so forth, and so they had been on the lookout for, on this case, it was a factor that I, you realize, have been eager about for possibly twenty years since a health care provider — my mononucleosis physician — after I was in faculty, a well-known blood specialist – and he had written – with one other physician — an article on the Ark of the Covenant and the way he felt it offered a way of communication with another extra-terrestrial or God-like or no matter – it was in a way an elaborate radio setup — it contained silk curtains and veils and different issues – I’ve forgotten — it’s all within the Bible, Leviticus, Exodus, the second e-book of the Bible, or no matter – or the start of Leviticus or one thing. A great a part of that chapter within the Bible is the detailing of the particular Ark of the Covenant itself and all the, you realize, wooden and the way a lot – and gold cherubim and there have been different parts in there and he was saying that when the gold was rubbed in a sure manner, and silk, and so forth, you’ve the flexibility to remit radio waves or obtain, and in that case, the Levites had been the one ones who might go in there and so they must take their sneakers off — I’ve forgotten should you — should you stroll throughout the rug together with your sneakers off — however there’s a complete electrical cost — it was, in reality, the holy of holies, and it was, in reality, a way of speaking with another being, that it was a primitive or possibly extremely elaborate radio wave that was on the fitting sensitivity for this sort of communication, and actually after they use to enter battle there was a cloud that hovered over — they carried the Ark with them within the early days and there was all the time this cloud that hovered over the Ark and so they had been all the time victorious. They by no means misplaced every time they carried it into battle. Then there was some discuss that there have been two Arks someplace — I keep in mind studying that, one in every of which was purported to be on Mt. Horeb (?). I feel, the one which was misplaced or one thing like that and so they by no means discovered it after the, I forgot, what was it —
DF — Destruction of the primary temple — PK — 54 B.C. or one thing like that. DF — I used to be 586 B.C.
LK — That’s the final time.
DP — Sure, that’s the final time — and even then in these articles that I obtained there may be some discrepancy about even earlier to the destruction of the temple, whether or not the Ark was nonetheless in it on the time that the Babylonians destroyed the temple. There’s a number of completely different theories in these articles, a few of them for Biblical — most of them from later – Biblical sources or legends. However principally there is no such thing as a – no one actually is aware of the place it’s. It’s completely simply hypothesis. Most of it from Biblical sources.
PK — By no means has been discovered and by no means — what occurred to it has by no means been totally documented — it’s all nebulous, proper?
DP — That’s true — that’s true
PK — It was – however the thought as that whoever had it was invincible and the Germans being into the paranormal factor had been on the lookout for it and so they believed no matter that it’d in reality have — these, you realize, comprise these powers and possibly within the story they’d developed some, you realize, mad German one thing — you realize, not solely found, like within the sword, er “Spear of Future”, the precise factor — it’s like Lord of the Rings, when you have the ring you’ve all the ability and so they had been on the lookout for all the ability on earth and actually, they — the Germans, with all their cults of golden, no matter that was — the golden rule or one thing — they had been wanting throughout for methods of capturing all the paranormal energy on earth and our heroes had been racing with them to seek out this on this space and I advised George the opposite day that there was a factor on “In Search Of” the opposite evening — The Useless Sea Scrolls — and there was, sort of the panorama with just like what — to the place I’d think about this might occur — the tents within the desert and coming upon — abruptly within the Center East — all of those Nazis who had been on the market on the lookout for — monitoring down clues to seek out this factor if they might in reality discover it, all energy could be there’s — they’d be invincible, and immune. In gong again over the traditional tales of whoever carried this into battle couldn’t be crushed, or no matter.
DF — The one precise explanations that I discovered any reference to weren’t profitable in any respect however it was simply presumed that it was someplace within the Jerusalem space buried within the tombs of the Kings of Judah and, you realize, that it will be someplace close to the positioning of the primary temple in order that the excavations had been in Jerusalem itself.
PK — There’s one other factor, I feel it was within the Encyclopedia Britannica that simply speculated on a few of these issues — the Americana or Britannica, one thing about one of many mountains out within the desert that there was a thought — it was two issues – there was additionally the thought that there have been two of those round and there have been rumored findings someplace I learn of cherubim — you realize — like there have been this stuff that had been damaged off that may point out that someplace in that neighborhood — like with the Useless Sea Scrolls — there was shot the place they mentioned sooner or later, you realize, an Arab, Mohammed A Fuktu (?), or one thing, wandered up into the hills and he discovered this cave and he walked in it and little did we all know that that day and that second was about to alter the course of historical past and he discovered one thing that was an artifact and instantly introduced it to a man in Jerusalem who was a — this was 19 — proper after the struggle — 46 or one thing like that — and this man started decoding it and one factor result in one other and abruptly he realized — and the best way he checked it was — for authenticity it was a crumbling piece of parchment — was that there have been a few adjustments within the doc crossed out and corrections that would have solely — some logical manner — have solely been performed on the time — that sort of change and, so — discovering a fraction of the Ark was the best way — virtually one thing like — you realize, I imply, these films with — I don’t know — anyway — I’m attempting to think about a few of the films the place any person has just a little piece of one thing — Sidney Greenstreet would have one thing and he would say do you understand what this might imply and now we have motive — my sources have motive to imagine that that is the best way — and then you definately start monitoring down the thriller and at last arriving at a spot and seeing that the opposite guys are already monitoring it down — “I do know the place the black fowl is”.
LK — Proper.
DF — You would additionally — nicely, among the many completely different theories — one which it was carried off by the Babylonians within the destruction of Jerusalem — so it could possibly be someplace within the outdated Babylon space, or, additionally one other principle was that an Egyptian pharaoh named Shushak (?) or one thing raided Jerusalem and took it at the moment.
LK — That will get us to the best way we’re going. DF — I might probably be an Egyptian.
LK — That could possibly be good for it.
DF — However the almost definitely theories are that Solomon in foreseeing the destruction of the temple had any person take it and conceal it in a secret place in what was then the Kingdom of Judah which was the outdated Jerusalem and that it’s very near the outdated websites there. However you might conceivably do it in Egypt.
LK — We’ve been speaking (clean) Cairo 1936 — so we’re speaking about exterior of Cairo and if there may be at the least one rumor — you realize — an Egyptian raid — I’d follow that, I feel, you realize, if it’s not an enormous drawback. There’s one thing higher, I feel, about Cairo in 1936 than Jerusalem. I imply, Peter Lorre could be extra comfy in Cairo.
PK — Proper, there’s extra characters in there. Yeah, you’re into your Casablanca sort of setting.
LK — You don’t keep in mind the place the article is that this physician wrote.
PK — I wouldn’t know, I imply it will be —
DF — As a result of I obtained —
PK — 1950, someplace within the early — let’s see, someplace round 1955. DF — I obtained the whole lot I might discover on the topic.
LK — Nothing by a blood specialist?
DP — Nothing by a blood specialist — that doesn’t sound (laughs) that doesn’t imply it doesn’t exist, I simply —
PK — Effectively, you discovered that factor that Von Daniken talked about one thing. LK — Yeah, he covers about two pages briefly, actual briefly.
PK — Yeah, however that’s basically the identical sort of factor. I used to be stunned to see it. I’m positive these articles, every time any person writes something –
DF — I did discover reference to —
PK — Considerably occult all of the occultists run out and say “did you hear this newest factor”?
DF — Did discover reference to the entire electrical cost enterprise and all these theories in one other article, I didn’t discover the one that you simply talked about.
PK — I imply I forgot all the small print. Apart from that, I don’t know.
LK — So principally, it was your physician, and his article and Van Daniken, and the Bible, and nothing else that we all know something about.
PK — No, that’s all I can consider, that “Spear of Future”, studying a variety of that sort of stuff to seek out out what the Germans — I feel it was the “Spear of Future”, it could be one other e-book additionally, simply detailing the journey, the mysticism of Hitler. I feel there’s one other e-book out about that and simply how the Germans had been in reality — actually one other sort of mentality. We’ve all the time approached them on a political stage and actually they had been approaching issues on one other sort of Wagnerian, mystical stage and that we simply — we have a tendency to clarify Hitler away by way of only a madman — he was only a unhealthy man — and he was, in reality, the man who was obsessive about the entire historic I don’t know
what, manakaim (?) — there’s one thing, an entire darkish facet of —
DF — The attention-grabbing factor I discovered is the majority of the sources are in German and that simply is likely to be an unbelievable coincidence and since a variety of Biblical analysis — it’s not essentially a Nazi sort of a factor — it’s simply that a lot of the articles in books are in German.
PK — Effectively the paranormal factor wasn’t essentially a Nazi however it was that they picked up on it a lot, you realize, it was one of many unusual issues — you get so extremely concerned in mysticism or with the occult that someway typical morality now not has any that means and also you get into even Charles Manson sort of stuff the place they’re all babbling seemingly incoherently however they’ve just a little unified occult factor that they’re speaking, you realize, that transcends morality. They’re working in Egypt on the market, someplace, is likely to be a good suggestion — or out of Egypt.
LK — Outdoors of Cairo — you realize that place.
DF — Valley of the Kings. Effectively this electrical cost enterprise would actually work nicely dramatically as a result of it’s just like the curse of after they would open up tombs. It has the identical feeling. Effectively there may be a few issues right here — that had been —
PK — No one else wandered into the tombs —
DF — Which might be reported that within the Center Ages somebody thought they discovered the tomb of David and so they opened it up and there was a flash of lightening and had been knocked unconscious, supposedly, from {the electrical} discharge.
PK — And so they awakened singed —
DF — There’s a few like recorded incidents like that though they actually aren’t documented however they’re legend. I imply there may be sufficient of that kind of stuff that you could get away with it, I assume.
PK — Yeah, all these films are nice; all these mummy films of these occasions; all of the curses and all the prohibitions; should you do any sort of serial factor, I imply they all the time have, you’ve a forecast of doom after which you’ve one thing that appears just like the doom strikes and then you definately discover out that the doom itself wasn’t precisely — once you replay your final scene from one other angle issues had been – and so they handle to flee someway miraculously, (clean). That’s all I can consider proper now except I can discover uh —
DF — The factor that struck me about this tomb, what’s implausible about it’s if it had been ever discovered, once you consider the importance of it by way of making folks believers — I imply if the unique tablets had been ever discovered that kind of factor, I imply there’s a terrific symbolic factor to it.
LK — The understanding is that the tablets are nonetheless within the Ark. They’ve by no means been discovered anyplace.
DF — They don’t speak about it that a lot besides it’s presumed that, after all, the primary tablets had been — Moses smashed them. Then the second set remained.
PK — These had been smashed someplace in Egypt.
DF — So if tablets existed within the Ark it will be presumably the second set. Apparently God made them once more.
LK — He went again up –
DF — However they had been introduced down from the mountain by a prophet not by Moses — another person went up – one other man went up and introduced again the second set.
PK — No one is aware of who that man was. DF — I don’t know who that man was.
PK — He was the man who rewrote them (laughter). You possibly can verify with the Writers Guild (laughter).
DF — Presumably, it will be that set that will be in it. LK — And that’s the idea, that they’re nonetheless in there.
DF — However there was one other — on the constructing of the second temple one other Ark was constructed at the moment after which after that they had been all simply copies or —
LK — In constructing a second tmeple one other Ark was constructed.
DF — Yeah, after which —
LK — However the first one had not been destroyed.
DF — There are two Arks. The primary one, it simply vanished, it’s by no means been confirmed whether or not it was destroyed or if somebody hid it or if somebody vandalized it.
LK — And the second Ark —
DF — The second Ark, nicely there’s a variety of Biblical documentation about that, it’s referred to as the Solomon Ark or one thing, versus the Davidic Ark which is the primary one, so anyway, it’s actually attention-grabbing. It’s fascinating. It truly is.
PK — The one with the little cloud over its head — like that character in Al Capp. Keep in mind him? There’s a man who would stroll round with a cloud over his head in Lil Abner — Joel ? — wherever he walked there was just a little darkish cloud over his head.
DF — The one factor that struck me about this analysis is that there haven’t been a variety of — there is no such thing as a like severe folks writing about — like speculations about it on this century. I imply the stuff that’s speculated is pretty hokey —
PK — It’s all hokey hypothesis —
DF — There hasn’t been any severe excavations or makes an attempt by archaeologists to actually discover it.
PK — You need it to be enjoyable. And it is among the nice undiscovered issues, like they’re all the time on the lookout for the Ark, and in quest of Noah’s Ark and in quest of this and that. These are simply the artifacts however it is a factor that had efficiency. In its time it was identified to have efficiency — one thing — and that’s
PK — That’s —
DF — They carried it round in a cart —
PK — What you want, that’s the “Lord of the Rings”. I imply and it’s wonderful that there isn’t a single factor that I can consider within the Bible that has extra detailing than that. That’s the fundamental factor within the Bible that’s talked about. It’s half of that e-book — I imply it’s like actually a variety of discuss in regards to the building of this and that in very elaborate detailing of
issues.
LK — And you’ve got some drawings is that proper?
DF — Effectively there may be a few — they’re all simply hypotheses, I’ve a pair and what I didn’t convey is all of the completely different arks that had been made down by way of the ages.
PK — Have folks tried to make these?
DF — Effectively I imply the arks which were used within the synagogues ever since, I imply what holds the Torah now, is a facsimile, however it’s not a precise one. I imply they’ve modified, just like the model within the Center Ages was completely different from the model within the 18th century or one thing. However there are similar to two, listed below are two, us —
PK — That’s attention-grabbing too, the concept of any person attempting to construct one out of the, you realize that this sort of wooden in that point actually was one other wooden, you realize yon discover these obscure clues — that shittim wooden or sure cubics of measurement and also you see — it could possibly be actually dramatic to see this since you’re coping with plenty of gadgets anyway — Unusual seaplanes or no matter, I don’t know — and they’re attempting to construct one thing that has this magical factor with all — on the market in a wind-swept desert space with completely different curtains blowing, and silks and all the Arab silkmakers, I imply you might have a wonderful, ominous set on the market to work with.
DF — This was one factor that, it says on the Kalmit (?), which I don’t know what meaning — that is one other one — movable sanctuary (PK) — an ark exhibiting an Egyptian — and a few say it was the scale of a desk.
PK — The Philistines — however the Ark
DF — The Philistine factor is sooner than uh –
PK — However there was a factor within the factor that contained the Ark the place solely Aaron and his household, solely clergymen, the Levites, might stroll contained in the factor. There was an even bigger factor too the place it lastly contained. The place was that? There was a factor about — they had been the one ones.
PK — See solely Aaron — solely these guys might discuss to God. DF — Yeah. Within the Shilo —
LK — I feel what it’s is the tabernacle within the desert – was was a tent, you realize, it needed to be movable.
PK — The tabernacle.
DF — The Shiloh was one of many everlasting, semi-permanent resting locations and so they had a reasonably large factor there — factor that housed it.
PK — Shiloh was the place the civil struggle battle was. See all of the, there’s a variety of the smitten folks, folks had been captivated with fooling with the Ark. One man obtained emerauds (?), that’s hemorrhoids and a plague of mice was despatched over the land. The infliction of boils was visited upon. Uh, Philistines on the recommendation of their diviners returned it to the Israelites. Give it again.
LK — That’s proper and that’s one the place I discovered– and the Etonites carried it in entrance of their Military and soundly trounced by the Philistines. It didn’t all the time work.
PK — Proper, it didn’t all the time work however the thought was that it labored it was as shut as they
might come to the A-bomb – to the bomb, you realize, to the large one. I assume that’s DF — There, I’ll simply [keep this for you?]
LK — All proper.
PK — Okay, nicely that’s all I can do.
LK — And thanks.
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