Bring on the tough stuff. There’s not just one right answer.
- Indy seems to fail as often as he succeeds. How is that important to the narrative?
- At the end of the movie, the Ark is just as lost as it was at the beginning. What has Indy accomplished with his adventure?
- How does foreshadowing work in the movie? In what ways does it hint at what's going to come next?
- How much of the Ark is totally fictional here, and how much is based at least in part on religious scripture?
- If the movie took place today instead of the 1930s, what would be different about it? What would stay the same?
- How does the term "deus ex machina" apply to this movie? Why does it work so well here and so poorly in most other movies and books?
- In what ways is Indiana Jones less of a good guy than he should be? Does that change at all over the course of the film?
- In what ways are Indy and Belloq the same? In what ways are they different?
- What other objects might be found in that warehouse at the end of the film? (The stuff you saw in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull doesn't count.)
- What kinds of historical licenses does the movie take to tell its story?