When Indy and Elsa arrived
at the Brunwald castle
to free Henry from the
Nazis Indy presents himself
as a Scottish lord by
imitating a Scottish accent.
The suspicious butler
who opens the door acknowledges
Indy's skim and
answers by saying, "If
you are a Scottish lord,
then I am Jesse Owens."
The reference to the black
Olympic runner who defeated
Nazi Germany at the Olympic
games of 1936 was appropriate
for the time and place,
but might have gone over
the heads of many viewers.
Lucas and Spielberg changed
the reference to the '30s
Hollywood starlet Mae
West, but decided again
that modern movie audiences
would miss the joke. So,
they settled on Mickey
Mouse, something everyone
young and old can relate
to, even though it wouldn't
be the first thing to
come to the mind of an
elderly German butler
from the '30s.
With his bluff called
off Indy knocks the old
butler unconscious, takes
him on his back and starts
looking for a place to
hide the body while Elsa
congratulates him for
his accent. Finally, they
hide the butler in a sarcophagus
that once closed its lid
features a face similar
to the butler's
face.
In the finished film,
we see Indy knocking off
the butler and from there
we witness Indy and Elsa
wandering in the castle
with no interest in the
butler's body.
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