Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Harrison Ford: Indy
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[Upon opening the Well of the Souls and peering down]
Sallah : Indy, why does the floor move?
Indiana : Give me your torch.
[Indy takes the torch and drops it in, revealing hundreds of snakes all over floor of the Well of Souls]
Indiana : Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
Sallah : Asps... very dangerous. You go first.
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[Discussing the fate of the Ark]
Maj. Eaton : We have top men working on it right now.
Indiana : Who?
Maj. Eaton : Top... men.
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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]
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[Indiana needs his bullwhip to swing across a chasm]
Indiana : Give me the whip.
Satipo : Throw me the idol.
[they both see a stone door closing]
Satipo : No time to argue! Throw me the idol, I'll throw you the whip!
Indiana : [throws the idol] Give me the whip!
Satipo : [drops the whip] Adiós, señor.
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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. Horeb 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?
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Indiana : [Indiana is being strangled against the bar. He calmly looks up at Marion] Whiskey
[Marion hands him the whiskey bottle and he smashes it over his assailant's head]
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[as the Nazis are opening the Ark]
Indiana : Marion, don't look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion. Don't look at it, no matter what happens!
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Indiana : [Indy meets Belloq in a crowded bar] Belloq.
Belloq : Good afternoon, Dr. Jones.
Indiana : I oughta kill you right now.
Belloq : Not a very private place for a murder.
Indiana : Well, these guys don't care if we kill each other. They're not going to interfere in our business.
Belloq : It was not I who brought the girl into this business. Please, sit down before you fall down. We can at least behave like civilized people.
[Indy sits down while the monkey crawls off his shoulder]
Belloq : I see your taste in friends remains consistent. 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.
Belloq : You and I are very much alike. Archaeology is our religion, yet we have both fallen from the purer faith. Out methods have not differed as much as you pretend. I am 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.
Belloq : You know it's true. How nice. Look at this.
[holds out a pocket watch]
Belloq : 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. Men will kill for it. Men like you and me.
Indiana : What about your boss, der Fuhrer? I thought he was waiting to take possession.
Belloq : All in good time. When I am finished with it. Jones, do you realize what the Ark is? It's a transmitter. It's a radio for speaking to God. And it's within my reach.
Indiana : You want to talk to God? Let's go see him together. I've got nothing better to do.
[prepares to fight Belloq, but Belloq's men train guns on him, and a crowd of children hurries in to escort him away]
Belloq : Next time, Dr. Jones, it'll take more than children to save you.
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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!
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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.
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Belloq : Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away. And you thought I'd given up.
[Indy reaches for his gun, but pauses and hands over his gun when the warriors draw back their weapons]
Belloq : You chose the wrong friends. This time it will cost you.
Indiana : Too bad the Hovitos don't know you the way I do, Belloq.
[hands over the prized idol to Belloq]
Belloq : Yes, too bad. You could warn them... if only you spoke Hovitos.
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Brody : However, an Egyptian pharaoh...
Indiana : Shishak.
Brody : ...yes, invaded the city of Jerusalem round about 980 B.C., and he may have take the Ark back to the city of Tanis and hidden it in a secret chamber called The Well of Souls.
Major Eaton : [skeptically] Secret chamber?
Brody : However, about a year after the pharaoh had returned to Egypt, the city of Tanis was consumed by the desert in a sand storm which lasted a whole year. Wiped clean by the wrath of God.
Major Eaton : [turns slowly toward Col. Musgrove] Uh... huh.
Colonel Musgrove : Obviously, we've come to the right men. Now you seem to know, uh, all about this Tanis, then.
Indiana : No, no, not really. Ravenwood is the real expert. Abner did the first serious work on Tanis. Collected some of its relics. It was his obsession, really. But he never found the city.
Major Eaton : Frankly, we're somewhat suspicious of Mr. Ravenwood, an American being mentioned so prominently in a secret Nazi cable.
Brody : Oh, rubbish. Ravenwood's no Nazi.
Colonel Musgrove : Well, what do the Nazis want him for then?
Indiana : Well, obviously, the Nazis are looking for the headpiece to Staff of Ra and they think Abner's got it.
Major Eaton : What exactly is a headpiece to the Staff of Ra?
Indiana : Well, the staff is just a stick. I don't know, about this big. Nobody really knows for sure how high. And it's...
[turns blackboard to blank side]
Indiana : it's, uh... it's capped with an elaborate headpiece in the shape of the sun with a crystal in the center. And what you did was, you take the staff to a special room in Tanis, a map room with a miniature of the city all laid out on the floor. And if you put the staff in a certain place at a certain time of day, the sun shone through here and made beam that came down on the floor here... and gave you the exact location of the Well of the Souls.
Colonel Musgrove : Where the Ark of the Covenant was kept, right?.
Indiana : That's exactly what the Nazis are looking for.
Major Eaton : Now what does this Ark look like?
Indiana : Uh... there's a picture of it right here.
[opens a book on the table]
Indiana : That's it.
[they all look at an illustration of the Hebrews devastating their enemy with the Ark]
Major Eaton : Good God!
Brody : Yes, that's just what the Hebrews thought.
Colonel Musgrove : [pointing to a beam of light] Uh, now what's that supposed to be coming out of there?
Indiana : Lightning. Fire. Power of God or something.
Major Eaton : I'm beginning to understand Hitler's interest in this.
Brody : Oh, yes. The Bible speaks of the Ark leveling mountains and laying waste to entire regions. An army which carries the Ark before it... is invincible.
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[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.
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Indiana : [to Satipo's dead body] Adios, Satipo...
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Indiana : [Marion tends to Indiana's wounds as she lifts his legs onto his bed] Please I don't need a nurse I just want to sleep.
Marion : Don't be such a baby
Indiana : Marion leave me alone, go away.
Marion : What's this here?
[touches one of his injuries]
Indiana : Yes it hurts.
[she puts some rubbing alcohol on his wound]
Indiana : Ow!
Marion : Well goddamnit Indy where doesn't it hurt?
Indiana : [points at his elbow] Here!
[she kisses it]
Indiana : [points at his head] Here!
[she removes his hat and kisses him on the head]
Indiana : [touches his eye] This isn't too bad
[she kisses it]
Indiana : [touches his lips] Here
[she gives him a long passionate kiss on the lips]
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Major Eaton : Doctor Jones, we've heard a lot about you.
Indiana : Have you?
Major Eaton : Professor of Archeology, expert on the occult, and how does one say it... obtainer of rare antiquities.
Indiana : That's one way of saying it. Why don't you sit down, you'll be more comfortable.
Colonel Musgrove : Yes, you're a man of many talents.
Major Eaton : Now, you studied under Professor Ravenwood at the University of Chicago.
Indiana : Yes, I did.
Major Eaton : You have no idea of his present whereabouts?
Indiana : Only rumors, really. Somewhere in Asia, I think. I haven't really spoken to him in ten years. We were friends once, but we had a bit of a falling out, I'm afraid.
Colonel Musgrove : Now, Doctor Jones, you must understand that this is all completely confidential.
Indiana : I understand.
Colonel Musgrove : Yesterday afternoon, our European section intercepted a German communique that was sent from Cairo to Berlin.
Major Eaton : You see, for the last two years, the Nazis have had teams of archaeologists running around the world looking for all sorts of religious artifacts. Hitler's a nut on the subject. He's crazy. He's obsessed with the occult. And right now, apparently, there is some kind of German archaeological dig going on in the desert outside Cairo.
Colonel Musgrove : Now, we have some information here, but we can't make anything out of it and maybe you can. "Tanis development proceeding. Acquire headpiece, Staff of Ra, Abner Ravenwood, US."
Indiana : The Nazis have discovered Tanis!
Major Eaton : Now just what does that mean to you... 'Tanis'?
Indiana : Tanis is one of the possible resting places of the Lost Ark.
Colonel Musgrove : The Lost Ark?
Indiana : Yeah, the Ark of the Covenant. The chest the Hebrews used to carry the Ten Commandments around in.
Major Eaton : Alright now, what do you mean the Ten Commandments, you're talking about THE Ten Commandments?
Indiana : Yes, the actual Ten Commandments. The original stone tablets that Moses brought down out of Mount Horeb and smashed, if you believe in that sort of thing. Didn't you guys ever go to Sunday School? Look, the Hebrews took the broken pieces and put them into the Ark. When they settled in Canaan, they put the Ark in a place called The Temple of Solomon, where it stayed for many years, till all of a sudden... whoosh, it was gone.
Major Eaton : Where?
Indiana : Nobody knows where or when.
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Indiana : I'm gonna blow up the Ark, Rene.
Belloq : Your persistence surprises even me. You're going to give mercenaries a bad name.
Dietrich : Dr. Jones. Surely you don't think you can escape from this island?
Indiana : That depends on how reasonable we're all willing to be! All I want is the girl!
Dietrich : If we refuse?
Indiana : Then your Führer has no prize!
Belloq : [Ordering the soldiers] Okay, stand back. All of you, stand back. Get back.
[to Jones]
Belloq : Okay, Jones. You win. Blow it up.
[some soldiers move in the way of the Ark, but Belloq holds a machine gun to them and they move back]
Belloq : Yes, blow it up! Blow it back to God. All your life has been spent in pursuit of archaeological relics. Inside the Ark are treasures beyond your wildest aspirations. You want to see it open as well as I. Indiana, we are simply passing through history. This...
[gestures to the Ark]
Belloq : This *is* history. Do as you will.
[Indy lowers the grenade launcher and four soldiers appear above him]
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Indiana : This site also demonstrates one of the great dangers of archaeology; not to life and limb, although that does sometimes take place. I'm talking about folklore.
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Belloq : [looking down at Indy in the Well of Souls] Hello! Hello! Why, Dr. Jones, whatever are you doing in such a nasty place?
Indiana : Why don't you come on down here, and I'll show ya?
Belloq : Thank you, my friend, but I think we are all very comfortable up here. Yes, indeed. We are all very quite comfortable up here. So once again, Jones, what was briefly yours is now mine. 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.
Indiana : [laughs]
[muttering]
Indiana : Son of a bitch!
Belloq : I'm afraid we must be going now, Dr. Jones.
Dietrich : Our prize is awaited in Berlin. Yes... we are finished here with everything. But we do not wish to leave you down in that awful place... all alone.
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Indiana : I knew the Germans had hired you, Sallah. You're the best digger in Egypt.
Sallah : My services are entirely inconsequential to them. They hired or shanghaied every digger in Cairo. The excavation is enormous. They hire only strong backs and they pay pennies for them. It's as if the pharaohs have returned.
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Indiana : Jock! Start the engines! Get it up! Jock, the engines! Start the engines, Jock!
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Indiana : What do I want to see them for? What am I, in trouble?
