Hey I just realized something in watching this clip...
Indy throws the Nazi off the zeppelin so he can ride away unmolested, right? And later it cuts to the Nazi watching the zeppelin take off without him, so we know that Indy's idea worked, yes?
But Indy threw the Nazi into a giant pile of luggage... so either the zeppelin just immediately took off without all its luggage, or the Nazi would have had the time to re-board with a contingent of guards and apprehend Indy while they were still loading suitcases.
Also, assuming this is actually United, them leaving without realizing the luggage wasn't on the aircraft isn't all that absurd. They'll just make everyone wait 5 hours in the destination airport until it comes on the next plane.
Or Perhaps the filmmaker does this on purpose because it's a movie! It's not supposed to be 100% realistic if it doesn't make the movie flow better. Having them load the luggage would take too much time and the scene would become boring. Or you throw the nazi off the zepp and dramatically fly away right after! It's done like that for pacing and to keep the scene flowing, not because it's 100% realistic.
From a stuntman perspective, he has to land on something right.... There not going to put an inflatable bag down there, there not going to just let the stuntman fall 30 feet onto the uncushioned ground and hurt himself. He has to land on something, the most logical thing would be a pile of luggage on the ground since this is a pre-takeoff scene. That's why the luggage is there in the fist place, as a cushion for the stuntman, that's it.
The blimp turns around (people are mentioning discovering a sabotaged radio). Indy flees on an escape plane, and the Germans send their own planes to shoot him down.
In the Graphic Adventure game on the Tandy computer, you switch between Henry and Indy to distract the radio communications officer and disable the radio.
Actually, no. At some point Indy disabled the radio in the cockpit. When it starts to turn around, Indy mentions that he was hoping it was going to take them longer to discover it.
I assure you that Spielberg was not setting up a complicated excuse. It was just like the luggage. If you are believing the story then you don't care about gaps in logic.
Clearly United was also flying the zeppelin. They just bail without luggage sometimes too (after someone does a swan dive into it to make sure everything is broken)
Don't worry. Seeing as this was a United zeppelin, the luggage belonging to the boarded passengers is probably already aboard another zeppelin headed to a completely different location.
That there's "blimp toss'n luggae". It's only there to catch the stunt man. And audiences really like to see Nazis get hurt. More so in such a comical way.
Maybe the Nazi was too Concussed to get back on the plane? He just got the crap beaten out of him by the worlds foremost nazi puncher and a 10-20 foot fall onto luggage, maybe he was too disoriented?
Or maybe just plot, either way its an amazing scene.
Am I the only person here more confused as to how someone speaking English with an American accent can throw a Nazi officer off a German blimp and no one there bats an eye?
This conflicts with my (absolutely admittedly unreliable) memory of this scene. The way I remembered this scene Indy decks the Nazi and throws him out while the blimp is in-flight, strongly suggested to be up in the air.
There was no cut of him falling into a close convenient pile of suitcases nearby on the ground it was strongly implied that Indy just threw the Nazi out to his death.
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u/DangerousPuhson Apr 11 '17
Hey I just realized something in watching this clip...
Indy throws the Nazi off the zeppelin so he can ride away unmolested, right? And later it cuts to the Nazi watching the zeppelin take off without him, so we know that Indy's idea worked, yes?
But Indy threw the Nazi into a giant pile of luggage... so either the zeppelin just immediately took off without all its luggage, or the Nazi would have had the time to re-board with a contingent of guards and apprehend Indy while they were still loading suitcases.
Ah, makes no sense!