That is the boundary and the price of immortality. But the Grail cannot pass beyond the great seal. A strange sensation overcomes him, a feeling of peace and contentment… and we see his wounds begin to heal. Indy brings the jug to his lips and takes several large swallows. Indy goes to the well and fills the earthenware jug with water, then pauses.
As he tells Indy, the Grail cannot be taken beyond the bounds of the “great seal,” and - as it presumably needs to be drunk from continually in order to work - once one stops partaking of it, the power of immortality is lost. The second instance, meanwhile, involves a dialogue exchange between Indiana Jones and the third knight who still guards the Grail (Robert Eddison), who has survived hundreds of years longer than his counterparts by remaining inside the temple. Indy views the manuscript with considerable interest. And before dying of extreme old age, he supposedly imparted his tale to a-to a franciscan friar, I think.ĭonovan produces an ancient leather-bound volume with very brittle pages. Two of these brothers walked out of the desert one hundred and fifty years after having found the Grail and began the long journey back to france. The first instance he highlights involves an exchange between Indiana Jones and Walter Donovan (Julian Glover), in which the former relates the story of two knights who survived another 150 years after discovering and regularly drinking from the Grail - only to die almost as soon as they passed beyond the entrance of the temple where the Grail is housed: Take the following from Q&A site Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange, where user “Richard” pokes holes in the theory using lines from the actual script.
So is Indiana Jones really immortal? After checking out my conversation with HitFix's Roth Cornet about the theory in the video above and below, you can read my dissection of it further down the page.Īt face value, the reason offered for Indiana Jones' unlikely survival sounds like a plausible (though obviously unintentional on the part of the filmmakers) theory…until, that is, you start really thinking about it.įor one thing, a quick Google search reveals a number of rebuttals to the idea, which has previously been postulated online but never gathered steam until now. In case you haven't come across it yet, an intriguing fan theory concerning Indiana Jones has been circulating today that posits that the reason the hero was able to survive that notorious “Nuke the Fridge” scene in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is because he drank from the Holy Grail in The Last Crusade - thereby granting him eternal life.
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