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Indiana
Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Belloq: How odd that it
should end this way for us after so many stimulating encounters. I almost regret
it. Where shall I find a new adversary so close to my own level?
Indiana:
Try the local sewer.
Toht:
You Americans, you're all the same. Always overdressing for the wrong occassions.
[Marion
is being kidnapped]
Marion: You can't do this to me, I'm an AMERICAN!
[Indiana
needs his bullwhip to swing across a chasm]
Indiana: Give me the whip!
Satipo:
Throw me the idol. No time to argue. Throw me idol, I'll throw you the whip.
Indiana:
[throws the idol] Give me the whip!
Satipo: Adiós, señor!
Brody:
Marion's the least of your worries right now, believe me, Indy.
Indiana: What
do you mean?
Brody: Well, I mean that for nearly three thousand years man
has been searching for the lost ark. It's not something to be taken lightly. No
one knows its secrets. It's like nothing you've ever gone after before.
Indiana:
[laughing] Oh, Marcus. What are you trying to do, scare me? You sound like my
mother. We've known each other for a long time. I don't believe in magic, a lot
of superstitious hocus pocus. I'm going after a find of incredible historical
significance, you're talking about the boogie man. Besides, you know what a cautious
fellow I am.
[throws his gun into his suitcase]
Satipo:
Let us hurry. There is nothing to fear here.
Indiana: That's what scares me.
Indiana:
There's a big snake in the plane, Jock!
Jock: Oh, that's just my pet snake
Reggie.
Indiana: I hate snakes, Jock! I hate 'em!
Jock: C'mon, show a
little backbone, will ya?
Marion:
Well, Jones, at least you haven't forgotten how to show a lady a good time!
Indiana:
Boy, you're something!
Marion: Yeah? I'll tell you what. Until I get back
my five thousand dollars, you're gonna get more than you bargained for. I'm your
goddamn partner!
Marion:
You're not the man I knew ten years ago.
Indiana: It's not the years, honey,
it's the mileage.
[Army
Intelligence officer describing Indiana Jones]
Officer: Professor of archeology,
expert on the occult, and how does one say it? Obtainer of rare antiquities.
Sallah:
Indy, there is something that troubles me.
Indiana: What is it?
Sallah:
The Ark. If it is there, at Tanis, then it is something that man was not meant
to disturb. Death has always surrounded it. It is not of this earth.
Indiana:
You want to talk to God? Let's go see him together, I've got nothing better to
do!
Belloq:
You and I are very much alike. Archeology is our religion, yet we have both fallen
from the pure faith. Our methods have not differed as much as you pretend. I am
but a shadowy reflection of you. It would take only a nudge to make you like me.
To push you out of the light.
Indiana: Now you're getting nasty.
[Upon
opening the Well of the Souls and peering down into it.]
Sallah: Indy, why
does the floor move?
Indiana: Give me your torch.
[Sallah does, and Indy
drops it in.]
Indiana: Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
Sallah: Asps.
Very dangerous. You go first.
Indiana:
This site also demonstrates one of the great dangers of archeology, not to life
and limb, although that does sometimes take place, I'm talking about folklore.
Sallah:
Indy, you have no time. If you still want the ark, it is being loaded onto a truck
for Cairo.
Indiana: Truck? What truck?
Indiana:
Meet me at Omar's. Be ready for me. I'm going after that truck.
Sallah: How?
Indiana: I don't know, I'm making this up as I go.
Belloq:
Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away.
Belloq:
So once again, Jones, what was briefly yours is now mine.
Belloq:
What a fitting end to your life's pursuits. You're about to become a permanent
addition to this archaeological find. Who knows? In a thousand years, even you
may be worth something.
Belloq:
All your life has been spent in pursuit of archeological relics. Inside the Ark
are treasures beyond your wildest aspirations. You want to see it opened as well
as I. Indiana, we are simply passing through history. This, this *is* history.
Belloq:
Next time, Indiana Jones, it will take more than children to save you.
Indiana:
I can only say I'm sorry so many times.
Marion: Well, say it again anyway!
Indiana: Sorry.
Indiana:
Hello, Marion.
Marion: Indiana Jones! I always knew some day you'd come walking
back through my door. I never doubted that. Something made it inevitable. So,
what are you doing here in Nepal?
Indiana: I need one of the pieces your father
collected.
[Marion surprises him with a right cross to the jaw.]
Marion:
I've learned to hate you in the last ten years.
Indiana: I never meant to
hurt you.
Marion: I was a child. I was in love. It was wrong and you knew
it!
Indiana: You knew what you were doing!
Marion: Now I do! This is my
place. Get out!
[Indy
meets Belloq in a crowded bar]
Indiana: Belloq!
Belloq: Good afternoon,
Doctor Jones.
Indiana: I oughta kill you right now.
Belloq: Not a very
private place for a murder.
Sallah:
[catches date and points to dead monkey] Bad dates.
Belloq:
Please, sit down before you fall down.
Sallah:
Oh, my friends! I'm so pleased you're not dead!
Indiana:
I'm gonna blow up the Ark, Rene!
Belloq: Your persistence surprises even me.
You're going to give mercenaries a bad name.
Marion:
Bar's closed.
Toht: We are - hehe - not thirsty.
Belloq:
It's a transmitter, a radio for speaking to God.
Belloq:
Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I
take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless. Like
the Ark.
Indiana:
The Ark of the Covenant, the chest that the Hebrews used to carry around the Ten
Commandments.
Major Eaton: What, you mean THE Ten Commandments?
Indiana:
Yes, the actual Ten Commandments, the original stone tablets that Moses brought
down from Mt. Arat and smashed, if you believe in that sort of thing...
[the
officers stare at him blankly]
Indiana: Didn't any of you guys ever go to
Sunday school?
[looking
at an old picture of the Ark]
Colonel Musgrove: Now, what's that supposed
to be coming out of there?
Indiana: Lightning. Fire. The power of God or something.
Major Eaton: I'm beginning to understand Hitler's interest in this.
Brody:
The Bible speaks of the Ark leveling mountains and laying waste in entire regions.
An Army that carries the Ark before it... is invincible.
Marion:
What do you want?
Toht: Ah, the same thing your friend Dr. Jones wanted? Surely
he mentioned there would be other interested parties.
Marion: Must have slipped
his mind.
Toht: The man is nefarious. I hope for your sake that he has not
yet acquired it.
Marion: Why, are you willing to offer more?
Toht: Oh,
almost certainly. Do you still have it?
Marion: [blows smoke in his face]
No.
[talking
about Marion's late father]
Marion: He said you were a bum.
Indiana: Aw,
he's being generous.
Marion: The most gifted bum he ever trained. You know,
he loved you like a son. Took a hell of a lot for you to alienate him.
Indiana:
Not much, just you.