Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) on Netflix
Indiana Jones escapes crime boss Lao Che in Shanghai with singer Willie Scott and Short Round. Stranded in an Indian village, he agrees to recover its stolen sacred stone and missing children.
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In 1935, Indiana Jones meets crime boss Lao Che at a Shanghai nightclub to trade the remains of Nurhachi, but the deal turns into a gunfight and a chase. Torch singer Willie Scott is swept along, and Indiana's young ward Short Round drives the getaway car. The three fly out on a cargo plane that belongs to Lao Che; the pilots dump the fuel, bail out, and the plane goes down in the Himalayas. A raft carries them down mountains and a river to a starving Indian village whose sacred stone and children were taken. Indiana believes the stone is one of the five Sankara stones, and the village elder says Shiva sent him. At Pankot Palace, the maharaja's prime minister, Chattar Lal, and a British officer, Captain Blumburtt, receive them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
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- An elephant started to eat the dress, tearing the whole back off it, so emergency repair work was done by Matera with what remained of the original beads; costume designer Anthony Powell, who had to fill in the insurance forms, put the reason for damage as “dress eaten by elephant”.
- Harrison Ford suffered a severe spinal disc herniation by performing a somersault while filming the scene with the assassin in Jones's bedroom. A hospital bed was brought on set for Ford to rest between takes, and Lucas said he could barely stand up, yet was there every day so shooting would not stop.
- In response to some of the more violent sequences, and with similar complaints about Gremlins, which was released two weeks later, Spielberg suggested the MPAA introduce a rating between PG and R; the MPAA concurred, and PG-13 arrived two months after the film's release.
- They could not find anybody among the resident Indian actors in the United States, so they got a permit for Amrish Puri, who was working on 18 films in India simultaneously; Puri had met with Spielberg and initially declined the role, but was convinced after speaking with Richard Attenborough.
- The depiction of India was criticized and the film received a temporary ban there, being released in the country only when it came out on home video; in Seattle a group of 30-50 people made the local newspapers protesting the film for depicting Indians as either helpless or evil.
- Roshan Seth, who played Chattar Lal, said the banquet scene was a joke that went wrong: the joke was that Indians were so smart they knew all Westerners think Indians eat cockroaches, so they served what was expected, but it was too subtle for that film.
- Around 6,000 actors auditioned worldwide for the part, among them Peter Shinkoda, and Quan was cast after his own brother auditioned for the role.
