When Indy and Helena go through a narrow tunnel to the bridge, they end up covered in bugs and insects. Only a few minutes later when the Nazis go through the same tunnel, there don't seem to be any bugs.
When they go into the hotel for the auction it is night, when they come out after the fight it is day time.
During one chase, Indy's tuk-tuk makes a sharp turn at a T intersection between two very narrow walled-in roads. In the next cut, the pursuing full sized sedan has somehow made an impossible turn and is right behind them again.
In the Tuk-Tuk chase scene, the Tuk-Tuk tire width changes from narrow to wide then back to narrow several times.
When Jones, Helena, and Teddy land at the bottom of the stairs after being chased by Rahim; the orientation of Teddy's right hand on the vehicle's pole changes from one cut to the next. He starts holding the pole then the back seat.
Indy and Helena dive at a shipwreck supposed to be 2,000 years old with its wooden hull clearly visible and recognizable. In most waters, such as the ones of the Aegean Sea, wood does not last more than a couple of decades. In fact, Greek and Roman shipwrecks in the area are found by their non wooden materials, such as bronze, and their cargo, such as vases and ceramics, which is where the actual Antikythera mechanism was found.
There's no way Indy and Helena could find skeletons or any trace of human remains when they dive at a 2,000 years old wooden roman ship. All biological stuff will be obliterated by time and decomposition, especially in highly oxygenated water like Mediterranean ones.
The train transporting antiquities to Berlin is fully lit up internally, but the window blinds are not down. During an enemy air raid such would make it an easily spotted target.
There's no way to go from main landing gear nacelle to air-frame interior through wing, there's the main fuel tank between.
While this movie's title namesake object (the dial allegedly built by Archimedes) refers to a real antique device fragments of which were recovered from a 2000-year old ship discovered in 1900, that device is always called the "Antikythera *Mechanism*". Antikythera is not the name of the device itself (as it is in the movie), but of the Greek island nearest where the mechanism was found, and archaeologists like Indiana Jones and Basil Shaw should know that. Additionally, although the island's name is usually pronounced with emphasis on the "ther", the emphasis is usually placed on the "ky" syllable in the name of the mechanism, and this is not done by the characters either.
In Tangier, there's a shot showing Helena's feet pressing a pedal. However, this kind of Tuk-Tuk is moved by gripping the gas handle and the brakes are located on the handlebar, meaning there aren't supposed to be any pedal there.
"There's a clutch for your left foot which works exactly like a car."
"There's a clutch for your left foot which works exactly like a car."
When Indiana Jones and Helena go diving with the other two divers, they go straight down without equalizing the pressure in their ears at any point. This would result in certain eardrum rupture at the depth shown in the film - at least 20 meters.
They had to have been equalizing on the way down. And the depth of the ledge they went to was nowhere near 20 meters - closer to 10 meters, as can be seen by the bullets fired at them. Also, the descent actually happened. Actors were in the water, without ruptured eardrums. This wasn't CGI.
They had to have been equalizing on the way down. And the depth of the ledge they went to was nowhere near 20 meters - closer to 10 meters, as can be seen by the bullets fired at them. Also, the descent actually happened. Actors were in the water, without ruptured eardrums. This wasn't CGI.
Methane is odorless so it is undetectable by smell and does not cause coughing. But, it's highly explosive and entering a room saturated with methane gas carrying a non-explosion proof lamp will blow you in a myriad of shattered pieces.
Lab grade methane may be odorless, but naturally generated methane is not. And, as MythBusters (2003) showed, a precise stoichiometric ratio of 9% is needed before exploding.
Lab grade methane may be odorless, but naturally generated methane is not. And, as MythBusters (2003) showed, a precise stoichiometric ratio of 9% is needed before exploding.
When Indy punches out the Nazi car driver and pulls him out of the car, where does he go? The reverse shot shows Nazi outriders on the side of the car where the driver would have fallen, as well as passengers getting into the rear, on the same side. He should have been on the ground for everyone to see.
There was a war still happening, an aerial bombing raid just happened, looting was happening and the two officers getting in the car were not responsible for, didn't care about and didn't bother to notice random bodies lying around. They were happy just getting the ride and didn't want to waste their time dealing with it, perhaps assuming the underling would.
There was a war still happening, an aerial bombing raid just happened, looting was happening and the two officers getting in the car were not responsible for, didn't care about and didn't bother to notice random bodies lying around. They were happy just getting the ride and didn't want to waste their time dealing with it, perhaps assuming the underling would.
When Helena and others are sea diving and go to surface at high speed they would die due to air volume increased in their lungs.
They are perfectly safe as long as they don't hold their breath. Exhaling all the way allows expanding air out.
They are perfectly safe as long as they don't hold their breath. Exhaling all the way allows expanding air out.
The sidecar should have thrown the motorbike away or off course when hitting the tree.
On the train, the anti-aircraft gun fires continually until the ammunition belt runs out. These guns were fed by ten (10) round magazines.
During the Astronaut parade, the first trumpeter next Indy is not even touching the trumpet mouthpiece.
In the 1960s New York street exteriors, NYPD police cars are depicted in their modern day liveries of pale blue and white. New York police cars up until 1973 were painted in a livery of black, white & green.
The Roman soldiers all wear iron helmets and chain mail armor. During the time of Archimedes, most Roman soldiers would wear a small metal plate on their chest as body armor, since they couldn't afford a complete chain mail shirt. Iron helmets did not get into use in the Roman army until after the conquest of Gaul, over 1,5 century later. The Roman republican army did, however, use the oval shields seen in the film.
'The Cave of Dionysius' mentioned in the Grafikos tablet was not known by that name in ancient times. The cave's association with the tyrant of Syracuse 'Dionysius I' was coined by the painter Caravaggio in 1608.
Vicodin ES, seen on the table near the end of the movie, was not available in the US until 1978.
The Checker taxis in most New York shots are too new, being 1974 models at the oldest. Checkers remained virtually unchanged from 1959 to 1982 except for a 1974 update to include federally mandated 5 MPH bumpers. There is a correct-bumper car in one scene, but it's blue.
When Indy is on board the diving boat, there is a guy playing a melodeon but the sound is that of a concertina.
In at least a couple scenes (such as when Jones is talking about the Aegean Sea), the characters' mouths don't match their words, when they are filmed from behind.
In the Tangier club, the instrumentation of the live band doesn't match that of the Merengue music being heard.
When Indiana is on top of the train, the simulated wind doesn't match the speed the train is traveling.
46:53 Indi escaping on horseback, he is riding full speed but looking at his coat tails, they show no sign of the wind from the speed he is riding the horse.
Streets in Glasgow, Scotland doubled for New York in 1969. In the closing shot of the film, double yellow lines can be seen on the road at a junction. These are UK road markings which mean no waiting/parking.
In the hallway of Dr. Shaw's brightly-lit house, the light switches are all in the up position. In a British house (as opposed to those in an American house) this means that the lights are off.
Jones rides the horse through the tunnel from 59th St. towards 51st St. The track and platform he ends up at is the downtown side, but the announcement says the next stop is 59th St. which is uptown.
Indy identifies the half lion half eagle creature carved on Archimedes' tomb as a Phoenix. The creature is actually a griffin and bears little or no resemblance to a Phoenix.
Indiana says the Wright brothers were born during the Civil War (1861-1865), but neither were. Wilbur Wright was born in 1867, and Orville Wright was born in 1871.
In the Cave of Dionysus, Indiana seems very frightened by the insects. However, in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), he shows no concern over them.
In the World War II scenes, Harrison Ford has been de-aged to appear young. However, Indy speaks in his old age voice.
There is a reference to the V1 rocket. The V1 was a pilotless aircraft: what is now called a cruise missile. Only the V2 was a rocket.