Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is the final chapter in the story if Indiana Jones. In this video we break down the main theme of the movie, the easter Eggs, and explain the wonky time travel mechanics at the end of the film.
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This is a movie with time travel, but it’s really a story about regret. When you ask someone what they woul'd do if they could go back in time, you’ll get one of two answers. There are people who say they want to go back, meet Jesus, see the fall of Rome, or dinosaurs, or you might answer with something personal–I want to go back in time and stop myself from murdering all those people.
Doug: Whoa that went dark.
The second kind of time travel is based on regret–and in this movie, everyone is living with regret. Voller wants to change the course of the war, Helena wants to get rich so her father's life means something–and no one is living with more regrets than Indiana Jones. After not knowing his son for decades, he loses him to the Vietnam war. His marriage has fallen apart. His adventures haven't made him rich, or famous–he’s just a cranky old professor who’s behind the times.
I know a lot of you probably didn't like the time travel plot–but I loved it. It was so fitting that a man who spent his life chasing history finally catches it, and then like a dog chasing cars [joker, wouldn't know what to do if I got one].
So this theme of regret is expressed through time and time travel. For Indiana in 1969, time is running out. He’s getting older, and he has to redeem the failures of his past. How he failed Tobey Jones, and how he failed Marion.
But let’s get into the breakdown and easter eggs, then we’ll talk about that ending. This is gonna be fun. The movie begins with the sound of a ticking clock, which acknowledges the theme of time, time running out, but also sets up that all of this is preordained to happen–that events are all part of the same ticking clock.
The opening sequence was thrilling, good old fashioned Indiana Jones, out of the frying pan and into the fryer action. This is our first time actually seeing Indiana in world war 2–the original movies took place in the 1930s, and in crystal skull we learned about indy’s ww2 exploits–we were in the OSS–basically the pre-CIA.
Just like every Indy film, they slowly reveal INdy’s face–this time showing a damn good CGI de-aging of Harrison ford. Come a long way since this [prof x cu scream]. Indy does a bad German accent–following up how bad he was with accents in last crusade [come to see tapestries].
So this opening sequence is about the Nazis stealing a religious artifact that is supposedly the spear that pierced Jesus while he was on the cross. This is the exact kind of macguffin that indy would hunt in a previous movie–a well-known, judeo-christian artifact. But in this movie the spear is a red herring, and the real prize is clock that represents time. As the movie progressive,we see that time is the most precious resource Indiana has. Time with his friends, time with his wife.
Indy’s ultimate lesson is that he has to let go of the past and focus on his future. Sure,he thinks he wants to stay with Archimedes, but INdy never gets what he wants. The ark, the stones, the grail–all of them are macguffins to teach indiana about the value of love, friendship, and family.
Doug: And what was the crystal skull there to teach him?
I’ll save that for another video. Point is INdy never gets to keep the treasure, because the treasure was always beside him, all along. So I thought the spear misdirect was very clever.
I’m not going to break down this whole opening sequence, But i want to note a few highlights, like this [indy knocking window, punching guy]. And the fact that indy is back to mureting lots and lots of nazis. Red letter media pointed out that one problem with crysta' skull is that indiana jones murdered very few people–so it's heartwarming to see him back ati, and killing again.
Doug: Should…should I be worried about you?
There’s a moment when tobey jones is going through indiana’s bag, we see a picture of Marion. Now remember, this would have been a few years after Raiders, when he was a single man. This is a very sweet way to show that Indy carried a torch for her all those years, and she was always the one.
