This Indy Girl set the bar (er, lasso?) really high.
There are almost too many iconic moments to name in Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark. The brilliant opening scene establishes adventure, tension, and a rolling ball of death. The climactic "f*** around and find out" finale when the Wrath of God spills out from the Ark of the Covenant and decimates the bad guys . Raiders is an endless gift of cinematic lore between the quotes, the comedic beats, the blockbuster iconography, John Williams' score, and the star-studded cast.
That same crackling physicality applies to Marion and Indy's reunion, which is a veritable "of all the gin joints" Casablanca moment in reverse. As Indy's shadow casts wide on the wall behind Marion, he says her name, she snaps two shot glasses to the ground in surprise — and she punches him in the jaw. Stop the presses, our dashing protagonist got slugged by a girl!
A lone woman cornered by men in the dead of night is a terrifying situation. Yet when Gestapo agent Arnold Toht and his lackeys crash the party, Marion grants them no more accord than if they were buzzing flies. She lounges, she smokes, and she scoffs. Her affirmation of "Nobody tells me what to do in my place" is undercut by Toht threatening her with a fire-hot poker, but who wouldn't be terrified? If anything, the fear just increases her vitriolic determination.
Marion never loses her defiance or her intelligence, either. The way she initially mocks Indiana Jones villain René Belloq's advances but clocks him within seconds, then carefully manipulates him without employing actual seduction, is brilliant. She holds her own and keeps her cool, or indignantly yells her head off when needed, instead of personifying the hysterical female stereotype; a patently false trope to begin with.
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