Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Walter Donovan (Julian Glover)

After the knight tells them of false grails taking life, Donovan reveals that he has "no idea what it looks like." Elsa does not hesitate in making her move to be the one to pick a grail.

"Let me choose," she says. She doesn't ask, so much as she insists; it's in the way she speaks the sentence. Since Donovan has had no reason (at least so far as he knows) up till this point not to trust her, he does not second-guess her choice of grail. He drinks, he dies.

"It would not be made of gold," she then says to Indy, in just as sure a voice as she'd first asked to be the one to choose. She knew what she was doing all along.

Remember that, at the book-burning rally, Elsa pleaded to Indy: "I believe in the Grail, not the swastika." Her goal from the very beginning was the Holy Grail, and nothing else. She sided with whatever party could get her closest to it, and discarded that party when it no longer worked in her favor. So as it was with Indy in Castle Brunwald, so as it was with Donovan in the grail room.

Trivia:
- Conceptual art show Walter growing facial hair. This was obviously scraped at some point.
- Three different puppets were created, in different stages of decay, that ILM then edited together.
- For the skin decay, pieces of shrinkable plastic were pasted on a puppet, which then had hot air blew onto it. It was shot in time lapse. (a lot like how they did Toht melting).

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Mr Mouseburger
Comments for death : Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Walter Donovan (Julian Glover).

He earned it.

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Isfahan
She sided with whatever party could get her closest to it, and discarded that party when it no longer worked in her favor. So as it was with Indy in Castle Brunwald, so as it was with Donovan in the grail room.

Ironically, Donovan was the same. "Tha Nazis? Is that the limit of your vision? The Nazis want to write themselves into the Grail legend. Take on the world. Well, they're welcome. Hitler can have the world but he can't take it with him. I'm going to be drinking my health when he's gone the way of the dodo."

So he, too, eventually intended to betray and discard the Nazis (and possibly Elsa, too) after they'd served their purpose. Every time I watch that I scene I think he's lucky none of the German soldiers present speak English. XD

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Actualy, If she helped indiana jones then, she would have been killed by donovan. She did try to help him when his father was shot but when donovan told her to get back with a gun in his hand she obviously obeyed.

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He chose poorly...

I actually enjoyed it , but there is something I have to question...
Isn't that scene a bit scary?

I also thought it was fairly obvious that she was purposefully double-crossing him...nothing really else to add, just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in.

Are you telling me that Elsa sees Donovan as another obstacle as well?!