Vicious attacking eels, creepy centipedes. Noose put around character's neck he barely escapes being hung, and swings from the rope for a bit. Several action-packed car/train/vehicle chases, crashes. Blood on hand leaves bloody prints on a phone receiver. Two characters handcuffed together fall into the water one escapes and leaves the other trapped, sure to drown. Characters are thrown from moving trains and in-flight airplanes and jump/fall from heights. Several characters are shot and killed, sometimes very abruptly/execution style by bloodthirsty villains (more deaths feel like murders here than in previous Indy films). The villains are Nazis and all White.įrequent peril/danger, lots of guns and shooting, sometimes in crowded places (including an anti-war protest). Indy makes brief references to having drunk the Blood of Kali and been the target of "voodoo." An African American bellhop has a run-in with the Nazi villain, who says racist things to him (asking him where he's "really" from and making reference to "your people"). Egyptian character Sallah (Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies) says that he wants his children and grandchildren to understand what it's like to be both American and Egyptian. Agent Mason (Shaunette Renée Wilson) is Black and is important to the plot, but her story arc plays into some stereotypes. Helena has a young, fearless Moroccan sidekick (Ethann Bergua-Isidore, who's of Franco-Mauritian-Brazilian descent). Antonio Banderas plays a Spanish diver who helps the heroes. Movie is set in several places, including Manhattan, Sicily, and Morocco many characters of color in background, but some locations still feel exoticized. And Indy is now 80 but still active and tenacious. Helena is smart and resourceful and has agency she needs no rescuing. The two primary characters - Indy (Harrison Ford) and Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) - are White.
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