 | Themes
 | Baptism
 | Indy and Elsa escape from a baptism of fire by
overturning a coffin (used!) in a gutter full of oily water and
breathing the trapped air, then swimming out through a sewer and
emerging from a manhole. Toward the end, when they find the Holy
Grail, its healing power and supposed immortality are conveyed by
water! (Bill Mosley, New Ulm TX)
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| Decision/Choice,
Wisdom
| Toward the end of the movie, Jones meets the ancient
Knight Templar who guards the "Holy Grail", but there are many choices,
gold cups, platinum, silver, terra cotta and wood. The knight says "you
must choose, but choose wisely, for as the real grail brings eternal life,
the false grail brings death". The bad guy comes in and chooses a
glittering golden cup. "Truly the cup of a king", he says and drinks from
it. Shortly later, with several horrific transformations, he deteriorates
and turns to dust. The knight looks at them and
simply says "He choose poorly". Jones selects a
wooden cup "The cup of a Gallilean carpenter" he says, and with much fear,
having seen the results before, drinks from it. "You choose wisely" says
the knight. We've used this video with a
disclaimer about the grail superstition as a bringer of eternal life, but
in combination with the passage in Joel suggesting "choose justice, love
mercy . . . ". It's been most effective with youth groups who are familiar
with the movie. (Steve Braxton, Interim Dir.
Cong. Life, First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, NC) |
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| Doers of the Word
| "...he shoots Indy's dad and then says
something like - Now we'll see what you really believe"
(Barry Wolfe) |
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| Faith
| Indy takes a blind leap of faith. Start cue: father gets shot
End cue: Indy steps out into nothing over cavern. (Luke Whiteside, Youth
Alpha Australia) |
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| Resurrection
| Dr. Jones, Marcus, and Salah all presume Indy to be dead. They
mourn him. When he turns up alive seconds later, it's back to
business as usual. (Bill Mosley, New Ulm TX) |
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