Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
5/18/20261 hr 27 min
It's time for the feel bad sequel of 1984! Join Chris and Lizzie as they explore how bad breakups and broken backs contributed to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg being branded villains by People magazine. Plus, why Ke Huy Quan's "Short Round" is the real hero, Kate Capshaw paying a steep price for not reading the entire script, and why we still love Harrison Ford even though he stole Short Round's lines.
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First 90 secondsLizzy Bassett· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Cut, cut, cut, cut. And action. Hello, and welcome back to What Went Wrong?, your favorite podcast, full stop, that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone a screaming sequel that left its impact on the rating system and on Chris's heart perhaps, as we learned in one of our more recent episodes. I'm one of your hosts, Lizzy Bassett, here as always with Chris Winterbauer. And Chris, what movie do you have for us today?
Chris Winterbauer· Host0:46
Well, the heart ripping joke was right there for the taking- I'm sorry ... and you didn't do it. We're gonna move on.
Lizzy Bassett· Host0:52
Hey.
Chris Winterbauer· Host0:52
[laughs] We're talking Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the feel bad movie of 1984. I'll save my thoughts for a moment. This is sequel month, if you [laughs] guys didn't know. We did a poll in the fall, and we offered a number of sequels to films that we've covered, and the top two winners were The Empire Strikes Back and Temple of Doom, the second darker entries into the respective Lucas and Spielbergian trilogies. George Lucas obviously spanning both. So Lizzy, I have to ask you, what are your thoughts on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? Thoughts as a child and thoughts as a grown adult person.
Lizzy Bassett· Host1:26
I believe I've seen this, although upon re-watching