"Indiana Jones" was filmed in the French coastal city of La Rochelle on June 23, 1980, and scenes about Nazi submarines were filmed here. After that, the crew moved to Elstree Studios to shoot "The Well of Soul" and the interior of the temple and tavern. In the "well of soul" where the ark of the covenant was hidden, the crew dropped 7,000 snakes, of which only the cobra was poisonous, but even so, one crew member was bitten by a giant python. To film the confrontation between Jones and Cobra, the crew placed a glass plate between Harrison Ford and the snake. During the filming of the opening scene, Alfred Molina had to get in close contact with a number of bird spiders, but fortunately, the large fluffy spiders have been indifferent to him. The boulder Jones chased him when he escaped the temple was 22 feet in diameter and was made of fiberglass. Spielberg once wanted to increase its diameter to 50 feet.
All the scenes that took place in Egypt and the canyon in the film were shot in Tunisia. Since many crew members had participated in the filming of "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope", the crew chose some of the same locations. The canyon is the plus The Wa people attacked the place of R2-D2. Due to the harsh shooting environment and the extreme heat, many actors and actresses suffered from acute gastrointestinal diseases. Harrison Ford was also suffering from injuries and suffering. When filming a scene where he was fighting with a German mechanic with bare hands, Ford had an accident. He slipped and the landing gear rolled over his left knee, causing the cruciate ligament to tear. When filming the truck chase scene, Ford, who had already had a lingering fear, decided to use a stand-in.
During the fierce battle in the small town filmed in Kewan, a city in northeastern Tunisia, Ford was suffering from dysentery again, and the action scene was obviously incapable of shooting. As a result, Spielberg canceled the rest of the play and filmed what is known as the funniest classic segment in movie history: I saw the Arabian warrior playing triumphantly for a while, and everyone thought that a big battle was about to take place. As a result, Jones, who was extremely impatient, drew his pistol and killed the samurai on the opposite side with a single shot. He was still full of disdain when he left.
At the end of September 1980, the crew rushed to the island of Hawaii to shoot. There was a scene where Jones escaped from the indigenous people and ran to the seaplane. According to the shooting plan, Jones would swim to the plane and then climb into the cabin. When the plane took off, Jones’s The legs are still swinging outside the cabin. This scene was shot very smoothly, but no one thought that the legs outside the cabin would affect the ascent power of the biplane. As a result, the plane had just climbed 20 feet and then plunged into the woods. Fortunately, all the crew members on board were unharmed, including Harrison Ford, who was unlucky for the third time.
