I feel like even colonialist academics of the 30s would not say "it belongs in a museum" abt an idol protected by operational traps including a giant rolling boulder, maintained by the indigenous people. I feel like they would let that one go, out of self preservation at least
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Or, in other words: Indiana Jones isn't a pulp academic with the racist attitudes "of his times," he's a terrible academic in any era and also a mercenary who uses an incoherent racist justification to seek glory or money
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I feel like reading Doctor Aphra comics makes this really apparent, she's exactly like him except that she suffers consequences and gets kicked from academia
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Similarly, his pederasty isn't actually excused by anyone in his time, which is why his victim sets her bar on fire rather than willingly interact with him, is a self destructive alcoholic, and doesn't actually forgive him even after he helps her survive a Nazi kidnapping
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I question why Lucas or Spielberg or whoever felt the need to include this. If Marion had been of legal age and Indy broke her heart then he's just kind of an asshole, but if she's underage then he's a monster. I get that he's not supposed to be a 100% good guy, but c'mon.
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Lucas *specifically said* that the *maximum age* he was willing to have Marion be was 15 16 or up was "not interesting" (because I guess that's the legal age of consent in many countries)
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And yeah it's really fucked up but I do see what he means, that what he wants is this to be a truly dark shameful secret - one that could destroy his reputation if it got out - even by the standards of the 1930s But the movie doesn't do justice to that at all
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Like it's an interesting idea *because* it's monstrous and deserves its own movie, you can't just drop that shit as spicy backstory for the cool charming morally compromised hero
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