Episode 92: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses Temple of Doom's dramatically different approach to an Indiana Jones story, the character design of Willie Scott, and which action sequences in the film really work (and which ones don't).

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.8	Today we are talking about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the 1984 film directed by Steven Spielberg, screenplay by Willard Huck, and Gloria Katz.
0:23.0	I'm joined by the beyond screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:25.7	Hello, everyone.
0:26.8	Brian Bittner.
0:27.7	I'm Shivai.
0:28.9	And Alex Kios.
0:30.4	Hello.
0:31.8	Welcome to part two of our trek through the Indiana drone series.
0:37.3	I'm excited to talk about this because it's
0:39.9	very different from Raiders of the Lost Ark and just kind of like, dive right in. I don't think
0:46.4	I had seen Temple of Doom in maybe like 15 years. Like maybe like as we talked about in the
0:53.7	previous episode, it wasn't the one I watched
0:56.1	a lot as a kid. I remembered vaguely like a hand going into somebody's chest and pulling out a
1:03.2	heart. I remembered a rope bridge scene that for some reason I feel like I always see on TV
1:08.7	when I'm visiting my mom.
1:11.3	Okay.
1:17.2	That's like the association I have for that scene and the musical number opening it.
1:20.9	And basically, besides that, I remembered nothing about this movie.
1:25.3	So it was really fascinating to go on the ride again.
1:30.0	And watching all these movies back to back to back,
1:34.3	also there's like even greater whiplash because so much of what Raiders is is not a Temple of Doom,
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