Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Plot hole?

titanicfan

I just noticed that in KOTCS Henry Jones is supposed to be dead. But in The last crusade he drank from the holy grail which gives eternal life.. Someone explain please?

cayman shen

Yeah, wasn't it that it gave him everlasting life only if he didn't cross the seal? That was the price of immortality, as the knight said.

Jedifyfe

Yep. Thread Done.

cayman shen

I rule!

Funky Jedi

So...titanicfan...any more questions?

Whiskey

What about the Raiders submarine problem?

Where's Sheldon???

WarPig

See, I always thought that *any* effects of the grail only worked behind the seal, which is why I never understood why Henry Sr. didn't fall over and die from his gunshot wound...

MFP 2020

As related to the Flying Wing problem?

"The Nazis have discovered TARDIS."

Clutch

Should be in movie forum.

Alan Castillo

Short thread

SVTStingRay

IBTL mofo's

Egon Spengler

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Bootlegger137

Immortality maybe, but what about this bit from the script of Last Crusade...(Indy talking with Walter Donovan)

Based on that, I should think that Henry would have lived a much longer life.

Larry Young

Who's to say how he died? As we know from the movies, immortality doesn't save you when your head's cut off. There can be only one!

Contec

The grail grants Immortality yes, but that don't mean that it stops the aging of the body. Just check the knight that guards the grail. He is not a young man anymore. He even has a hard time lifting the sword.

Plus at the time the two knights traveled to europe meant that you was considered real Old when you were 50 years or less, So having a guy appear just like 70 years mean't they thought he died of really OLD age (for that time)

CB2001

We don't know how Henry Snr. died. For all we know, he could have been ran over by a car or he may have gone on another "quest" somewhere and just never came back for reasons unknown (where he probably got killed in the process). Immortality may only be limited in its abilities after going past the seal is how I took it.

titanicfan

Guess I never thought of all of the possibility's haha

cboath

Enter the grail room at age 40, drink from the cup and hang out behind the seal for 1,000 years. Decide 1,000 years is enough, leave the grail room and cross the seal and the age process kicks back into gear.

Keep in mind, old age at the time of the Knights searching for the grail was probably in your 40's to begin with.

Goonie

They way that I always understood it is that the grail shouldn't have crossed the seal - If you wanted immortality, you'd have to drink from the grail somewhere in the inards of the temple, not past the seal. Sure Connery crossed the seal, but the grail did too, hence forfeiting immortality. If the grail stayed behind, then I guess he was immortal...

Kerr Avon

Bring in a high speed internet connection, cable TV, and a pizza place that delivers and I'd be set.

Ford W Maverick

The way I always understood it the Grail couldn't leave the building, but drinking from the Grail just once didn't grant you immortality. Drinking from the Grail once healed you, continuing to drink from it over time kept healing you rendering you, in effect, immortal. But since the Grail couldn't cross the seal you had to stay with the Grail.

ronski

I always assumed that you would be immortal as long as you didn't cross the seal. (The other knights died sometime after they left the temple due to old age, if I'm not mistaken) But I think I like this theory better!

Ford W Maverick

I mean, I could be wrong, but that's the way I understood it from having watched the movie about a million times.

CTF

We need a bigger plot hole to bury that turd in.

Zykotec

I have always wondered what that lone knight has been up to all these years. I mean, did he just sit there? Day after day, year after year, waiting for someone to come by? Seriously, hundreds of years, all alone !!! ...