What does that mean? I mean really? From what I could gather that guy, Panama Hat hired an archeologist to track down a
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ghostly_host — 9 years ago(July 18, 2016 07:50 PM)
He isn't greedy, though. He needs the money to fund his adventures. I don't like his whole "fortune and glory" spiel in Temple. He did give the stone back to the villagers without asking for anything in return, though.
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Benjatron_Gear_Solid — 9 years ago(July 18, 2016 08:22 PM)
Now that is true. I'm just saying that in the last crusade, Panama Hat, paid good money to have that cross found and didn't deserve to be blown up along with his men because Indy decided he didn't deserve to have the cross. Maybe if we saw this guy was in fact in some shady business I would understand. But that cross could've belonged to his family for all we know.
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ghostly_host — 9 years ago(July 19, 2016 03:50 PM)
I just kind of took it as implied that Panama Hat was a shady, greedy bastard because why else would a hero like Jones be so adamant about getting it back and why else would Lucas/Spielberg have Panama Hat and his men killed in a huge explosion. If I'm not mistaken, the ship blew up accidentally and not because Indy directly wanted it to blow up, no? About the cross "belonging to his family," one could make a lot of different ideas like that like say he was hired by the Spanish government to retrieve the cross or by a Spanish historical society, but the easiest assumption to make is that because Indy is the hero, the antagonist must be evil or bad in some way.
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TheButlerDidItYes — 9 years ago(July 19, 2016 05:37 PM)
Whether the Man in White was a good guy or bad guy neither Indy or any museum had more of a right to own the cross than he, the Man in White, did. The Man in White paid some men to find the cross for him. They found it. They gave it to him. He paid them.
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Karl Aksel — 9 years ago(November 06, 2016 01:51 AM)
What I always wondered was how young Indy could be so sure that was the cross of Coronado. First of all, even if there was such a cross, it would be a trinket of little archaeological value. Second, why couldn't this have been just any old golden cross, for all Indy could have known at the distance from which he spied it? And third, removing it from that location without properly registering it would render it absolutely worthless from an archaeological point of view, as the context of the find would then be ruined. Archaeology is not interested in artefacts for artefacts' sake, but for what the artefacts can tell us of the past. What is this "cross of Coronado" supposed to reveal? It's nice to look at and made of precious material, but that's it. Its preservation or display is without historical/archaeological value.
Also, according to the narrative as established by Last Crusade, he was looking for the cross while he was having his adventure in Pankot, and also while he was recovering the Ark. He dealt with the Thuggee in the span of what could not have been more than a day or two; his adventure with the Ark might have spanned a week or two, and the same with the Grail. But the cross? He had been looking for that all his life. That little side-quest was actually the most significant of all the quests we have seen him undertake. No object received more dedication from Indy than the cross of Coronado.