Championing Lowbrow Since 1973
If you do not speak/understand Hindi and find yourself being sacrificed to Mother Kali (if we had a nickel for every time that’s happened!), here’s what to expect, say, and do. When the priest/priestess says, “Kali Ma Shakti de,” and pulls your heart from your chest, respond: “Om Namah Shivaya.” Pass out if at all possible because what comes next will cause you to load your underdrawers, and you don’t want to be that person at the human sacrifice!
Indiana couldn’t warn the natives about Belloq because he didn’t know Hovitos. In the next shot he redeems himself by shouting, “Start the engine, Jock!” to warn Jock about the natives. This is a subtle nod to his, and Jock’s, command of the English language.
If I only knowed what I’ll know in the future there’s something I definitely would, or wouldn’t, do. Oh, but I don’t know!
Snake Plissken has scopes on both his pistol and uzi. Why? Seems like conspicuous machismo, right? (It is!) Yet, they serve a ham-fisted purpose. You see, with only one eye Snake don’t aim so gooder. So the scopes even the odds. Granted, he looks like a dork when he to use them, so, eh…
Ice T’s metal band, Body Count, provided a song for the closing credits: Body Count’s in the House. It’s a subtle and multi-layered song that is the very height of ‘90s cinematic ethos. It’s repeating verses:
Body Count. Body Count.
Body Count. Body Count…
And the chorus:
Body Count’s in the house. Body Count.
Body Count’s in the house. Body Count…
C’est magnifique!
