![]() Escape with the mine cart after you've freed all children. Use your whip to swing across chasms, climb ladders, ride along conveyor belts and defend yourself against attacks from Thuggee guards, bats, snakes and the fireball-throwing Mola ram. ![]() Mine level: Whip your way through a mine in order to free children that are held captive.As Indy, the player must complete several cycles of the following three types of levels: I personally don't see how that's racist to depict.The computer versions of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom are conversions of the Atari arcade game based on the second movie in the series. I guess I could see why you'd think it's racist to depict an evil form of Hinduism but evil does exist in Hinduism so it only makes sense to assume that at least some people, in some place, misguided or not, would worship evil through it. Though, I'm sure those families still perform their worship. You used to hear about that kind of stuff like 20 years ago but it's obviously not so common these days. They would get rid of them at the first sign that sickness or misfortune had fallen onto their intended "victim". They'd also do things like if you were "unlucky" or had been cursed, they would attempt to transfer that curse to an unwitting person usually a young man or woman who is romantically involved with someone in the family. ![]() Yes, they did try to kill people by praying for curses to befall them and would celebrate if they got, like, a heart attack or something. In my home country there are families known to practice incredibly wicked forms of Hinduism who hold the beliefs that their financial success and the downfall of their "enemies" come from their worship. I mean, evil Hinduism is not necessarily fake in the way you imply. I'm watching Last Crusade next week and I remember that film being a lot more similar to Raiders than Temple. Have their ever been any interviews about why they made choices like this? It's still an entertaining film but it's crazy how different it feels from Raiders. It is almost feels like the kind of thing you'd do if the first film had been a major flop and they wanted to re-target it at a younger market, except they forgot to take out the blood sacrifice. Liberties were taken with mythology in 1 and 3 sure (also the whole 'God is extremely real and the Bible and Torah are objectively correct' part of the Indiana Jones mythos) but the Ark and the Grail were treated with a lot of reverence compared to literally Evil Fake Hinduism (With Skulls). Then of course you have the crazy racism that starts pretty much the second they touch down in a caricature of India and never stops. The mine-cart ride sequence is still fun but if you told me they made the park attraction first and wanted to sell tickets via the film I'd believe you. The action set-pieces seem to come from a different franchise and the villains are comically weak to small children tripping them up. Short Round is just straight-up a Goonies character and exists to tell us what we just saw. Marion spent some of Raiders as a traditional damsel but nowhere near as one-dimensionally as Willie is and the narrative seems to go out of its way to make her do gross stuff for a reaction. I'm going through the Indiana Jones films with family week-by-week and I never realised when I was younger what an enormous shift the entire franchise takes between Raiders of the Lost Arc and Temple of Doom.
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