Written by Mr. Mouseburger 29th Jun 2005
Mola Ram is the leader of the Thuggee cult which has taken control of Pankot palace once more. Human sacrifices are par for the course with this cult, which worships the goddess Kali.
Jones, has managed to free the slave children from tunnels under the palace, and has stolen the Sankara stones, which are the source of the cult’s power. Mola Ram has mustered all his followers to track down Jones and reclaim the stones. The pair meets on a precarious rope bridge which spans over a gorge full of rather hungry crocodiles.
Jones wraps his legs around the rope bridge and cuts the rope, causing a lot of cult members to fall into the waiting mouths of the crocodiles. Mola Ram has managed to hang on to the rope bridge and is clambering up it to safety. Jones manages to catch up to him and the pair have a bit of a fight.
Why did Mola Ram get on the rope bridge, when Jones made his intentions to cut it perfectly clear?!
Mola Ram uses his ‘hand on the heart trick’ with the aim of removing Jones’ heart. Jones, using all his strength, manages to repel him. Disappointed, Mola Ram then makes a grab for Jones bag, which contains the sacred Sankara stones and a tug of war ensues.
Mola Ram employs the most vicious of close quarter attacks, the nipple twist, before making a grab for Jones' bag
Jones then calls down the power of Shiva, one of the principal gods in Hindu mythology. The stones answer this call and burst into flame, burning through the bag. Two fall out in to the river below, but Mola Ram tries to prevent the third falling, and makes a grab for it. The flaming stone burns Mola Ram’s hand and he releases his grip of the rope bridge and falls into the gorge below, where he is torn to pieces by the crocodiles.
The glowing rock is too hot for Mola Ram to handle and he falls in to the river. The crocodile, having dined on some hors d'oeuvres, eagerly awaits the main course
This death is precisely why Indiana Jones is one of the greatest movie franchises of all time.
One On One?
Is that a sports watch on his hand in the third picture?
Whoa, I didn't notice that. Good eye.
Was it? or was it just a blurry bracelet?
Hang on. Why is there no other death from any of the other bad guys in the main part of the movie (e.g. the slave driver, the chancellor, the sacrifice etc.)?
Flashpenny Wrote:
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> Hang on. Why is there no other death from any of
> the other bad guys in the main part of the movie
> (e.g. the slave driver, the chancellor, the
> sacrifice etc.)?
By "chancellor" I assume you mean Chattar Lal, who for one is prime minister and not chancellor, and for another doesn't die (he just gets his ribs cracked although there is a deleted scene where he falls into lava). As for the others they just haven't been written yet. Also I wouldn't class the sacrificial victim as a bad guy, as he was very much an unwilling participant in the Thuggee's ritual.
Whoops the sacrifice wasn't a bad guy, I just meant any characters
And as for Lal I thought he died. Didn't Indy push him beneath the wheel and the poles pointing out crushed him between the floor and the wheel? It would crush his ribcage and you did see him actually breathing heavily before his breathing stopped.
Flashpenny Wrote:
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> And as for Lal I thought he died. Didn't Indy push
> him beneath the wheel and the poles pointing out
> crushed him between the floor and the wheel? It
> would crush his ribcage and you did see him
> actually breathing heavily before his breathing
> stopped.
He's shown crawling away in the background and in a cut scene had enough strength to get up and tackle Indy and fight with him on the swinging sacrificial cage/frame thing before getting knocked into the lava. But as far as the finished film is concerned he is just injured and knocked unconscious, and all official material related to the film (excepting the novel and comic which have the deleted fight scene) say Lal survived. In point of fact it's said that after Indy frees the children, while everyone else is off at the rope bridge, Lal, despite cracked ribs, actually steals some of the maharajah's treasure and escapes. To where it isn't said.
I strangely don't recall that. I just saw the movie last night and the last I saw of him was lying beneath the wheel as it was pushing down on him before gasping.
Here's a still from the deleted fight scene, showing Lal starting to fall off the cage.
Hey Koosh, out of curiosity, where do you get those screenshots?
That one, from an Indiana Jones forum. The others (such as the slew of Conan ones) I make myself.
I've got a question: am I the only one who really didn't like Temple of Doom? I swear, I liked Indiana Jones 4 better than this movie. The only part I liked was the film's final battle and even that felt like it dragged on for too long.