Run-ins with creepy crawlies are an obligatory element of every Indiana Jones movie.
“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” is loaded with centipedes, millipedes, and cockroaches; “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” plunges our hero into the rat-infested catacombs of Venice; “Indiana and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” has those not-very-terrifying CGI Siafu ants; and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” brings back the centipedes and other disgusting insects for the penultimate set piece at Archimedes’ tomb.But when you think of Indiana Jones and slithery, scurrying things, you automatically think of snakes — although Indy wishes you didn’t.As we learn at the outset of “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” our favorite globetrotting archaeologist hates snakes.
Personally, I think they’re beautiful creatures, but that doesn’t mean I’d like to fall into a pit loaded with the sometimes lethal reptiles.
This, of course, occurs during the Well of Souls sequence,…
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