We all have our favorite moments in movies, books, and games, moments that stay with us long after the story is over. This column is my attempt to examine my favorite moments and see why they stick with me.

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NOTE: This article contains big spoilers for the climax of ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’

The Movie

‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’

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The Scene

Why it’s great

As I wrote in my last post, re-watching ‘Dial’ after looking at it with a different mindset led me to appreciate it more than I originally did, but one scene that is great from both my first viewing and subsequent one is when Indy meets the legendary Archimedes at the Siege of Syracuse. Not only is it Indy’s greatest dream come true (actually meeting history instead of excavating it), but a wonderful example of two people from two different eras just talking to each other with no hostile intent between the two… and if you turn on the automatic captions for the video, you get a hilarious alternate version where Archimedes and Indy both snorted something before meeting each other. In case the video is ever removed, here’s how the discussion goes.

Indy: It’s him!

Achimedes: A sparrow… they lay with us.

Indy: He’s asking how far we’ve come! (to Archimedes) They all feelings. We’ve come he the hell that’s wrong. But we didn’t expect to meet… zones for sale, Archimedes.

Archimedes: I forget soy pants.

Helena: That dial is a fourth deck it doesn’t take us anywhere!

Indy: He built it to get help.

Helena: Ticket well we just got off the entire Roman Navy so I think we’ve helped enough!