Yes, Temple of Doom spooked up a new rating.īut the MPAA then created what some believe is a flawed system in which studios can create violent yet bloodless films and edit their way to a PG or PG-13 rating. So, the MPAA invented a new rating - PG-13 - which cautioned parents that the film contained scenes that may not be appropriate for children younger than 13. Most film studios view an R-rated blockbuster as a curse, especially after Raiders was rated PG (even though it features equally scary melting heads). It was given a PG rating because the alternative was an R, which means only people over the age of 18 could have seen it in America. The heart removal scene and other frightening moments led parents in America to protest the PG rating the film had been given by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Let's get it out of the way: Temple of Doom is scary. I grew up being constantly told it was the worst one. Even Spielberg said in interviews that it was not his proudest moment. And that is something worth thinking about."Īnd critics at the time were wowed by the spectacle, but not the tone. But obviously they felt there was no need to get that stuff right. Would it have been terribly difficult for the Indiana Jones team to get their India stuff right? Probably not. But perhaps we need to consider what it means when people only notice us on these terms. "As Indians, we are often overcome with pride when we see the rest of the world take notice of us in some way. Writing for Firstpost, Kuzhali Manickavel noted: Temple of Doom became notorious for all these reasons, but perhaps its biggest misstep was its racially insensitive scenes and reliance on Indian stereotypes. Lucas was in the middle of a divorce from Oscar-winning editor Marcia Griffin (who won for Star Wars - awkward) and Spielberg had been freshly dumped. The gloomy tone was exacerbated by real-world melancholy: the duo was in the middle of intense breakups during production. That shadowy vision, combined with Lucas's template, would subvert fan expectations and send Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) down a dark path. I wanted to paint a dark picture of an inner sanctum." "… what came to mind immediately was torchlight, long shadows, and red lava light. Spielberg recounts hearing the idea in the book The Complete Making of Indiana Jones: But when Lucas, and screenwriters Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, changed the haunted castle to Indian cults and black magic, he could see their vision. Spielberg, for his part, didn't want to do ghosts because he'd just worked on Poltergeist. He also wanted to make it a prequel: Temple of Doom is set in 1935, a year before Raiders. Horror was on the map for Temple of Doom because Lucas wanted to match the dark tone of his other trilogy, Star Wars, and its sequel, The Empire Strikes Back. Now, the Indiana Jones trilogy is back in cinemas in Australia (yes, it's a trilogy, we don't speak of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).īut don't listen to anyone who says you should skip Temple of Doom, because it's a worthy - if often misunderstood - follow-up to Raiders. That was the original pitch for the sequel to the 1981 mega hit, Raiders of the Lost Ark (Raiders).Ī follow-up was always going to be inevitable because director Steven Spielberg and writer/producer George Lucas, along with their business partners, had agreed to make a trilogy before the first film blitzed the box office. Indiana Jones and the haunted Scottish castle.
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