Massiha Temple of Doom

Indiana goes from a willing mercenary to a village hero. In the beginning of Temple of Doom, all he wants his fortune and glory. When he’s first told in the village about the stone, he dismisses it as an old ghost story. Shorty tries to warn him that he will get killed if he goes, but Indiana’s fortune and glory motto holds true and lures him into the adventure. He just doesn’t realize how much crap he got himself into. You’d think after he almost got impaled to death and was chased after a creepy shaman and a couple hundred Thuggees that he would quit with the fortune and glory BS. But, it takes Indy being under the Kali influence, witnessing a sacrifice, and seeing child slaves, to finally realize this stuffs no joke. Fast forward to Indiana being on the rope bridge surrounded by Thuggee lead by their creepy priest leader. It’s at that moment he you realize he has to make a decision. As he’s dangling from the rope bridge he just cut, the creepy shaman decides to a pull used car saleman line and say just give me the stone and I’ll spare you guys cliché bad guy line. Indiana pretty much rejects him and at the point we don’t know if it’s because he wants the stones for himself or for the village. The shaman then gets angry as most rejected people do and tries to steal the stones. Mind you they are dangling over a crocodile infested river. One thing leads to another and Indiana starts a chant. He tells the shaman that he betrayed Shiva and that this is revenge. He starts chanting faster and thus ignites the stone. The shaman refusing to let the stone drop to the crocodiles, reaches out for the stone and consequently burns his hands and plummets down to the crocodiles, but not before Indiana can catch the

stone. It’s not til everyone is waiting for Indiana to climb up that we notice the change. He hoists the stone up first and that’s when we realize it’s not about the fortune and glory. It’s about doing the right thing. He realizes that the village needs it and that it does hold power. I guess not all things belong in a museum.