Massiha Presumed Innocent

The scene when Rusty discovers the hammer sets up his wife’s confession. It begins to set the foundation for Rusty’s guilt. The whole movie we are lead to believe it really wasn’t Rusty who killed Carolyn Polhemus, but in a twist, it was his actions that prompted her murder. If, he had never had an affair with Carolyn, his wife wouldn’t have been feeling depressed and suicidal and well, basically crazy. She felt so down that had to “destroy the destroyer.” Step by step she executed her “perfectly” planned murder, knowing she wouldn’t get caught. She, however, didn’t think they would blame her husband for her actions by default. She claims she wouldn’t have let Rusty go to jail, that she would have come clean. Her thought process had her believing he would have just written the case as unsolved and it would have gotten dismissed. Guilt manifests in Rusty because he alone has to live with the truth: that his wife killed Carolyn. Not only will it haunt him everyday, but he doesn’t have the heart to punish his son by taking his mother away. Thus, leaving him to deal with the truth every single second of every day.

Massiha Last Crusade

Everyone basically knows that the Indiana Jones trilogy shows the stages of knighthood. Temple of Doom shows the stages of the mercenary knight, Raiders of the Lost Ark shows the indentured knight, and the Last Crusade finally showed the Grail knight. Alas, all three types of knights are present in the Last Crusade. Flash to the scene

where Indy steals Coronado’s cross from the goons. He keeps saying, “it belongs in a museum,” but he’s still stealing it. He may be doing it to be the one who discovers it, therefore, getting the fortune and glory. This is Indy as the mercenary knight. He even still is the mercenary knight when he steals the cross again on the Portuguese coast. Fast forward to being approached by Donovan to find the grail. This is Indy as the indentured knight. Granted some motivation is to find his father, but he is in service to finding the grail for Donovan and using his resources including money to find it. Finally, he graduates to becoming the Grail Knight when he has to accomplish the three tasks in order to save his dad. He does it selflessly for a man he feared never loved him as much as he lo

ved everything about the quest for the grail. Above all it restores his faith in a higher being, God. He could have never saved his dad unless he truly believed all that he needed to in order to get the grail. One had to be pure and believe. Another scene that could be his transformation is when he listens to his father and stops reaching for the grail. It shows he doesn’t really need the fortune and glory. He just needed a different kind, the love and recognition of his father.

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.