Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Golden Age Cinema and Bar GOLDEN AGE CINEMA AND BAR ESTABLISHED MMXIII « Back to Now Showing Tweet | Share Father’s Day Special Dun-da-da-dun, dun-da-dun… Dun-da-da-duuun!, dun-da-dun… Celebrate Father’s Day with Golden Age and Indiana Jones. All dads will receive a complementary glass of Stella on arrival. Sessions Watch Trailer ‘Ah, dessert! Chilled monkey brains’ This second Spielberg adventure film starring the archaeology professor/adventurer places our globetrotting hero Indiana Jones in India. After narrowly escaping a Chinese crime syndicate in Shanghai, Indy finds himself in a small town whose villagers are desperate for him to help them retrieve sacred stones from a gigantic, labyrinthian underground temple. Along for the ride are a sultry female nightclub singer named Willie (Kate Capshaw) and an 11-year-old Chinese sidekick named Short Round who chirps pithy lines in broken English reminding us that 1984 was years before political correctness became a thing. Why should you see this film?

Temple of Doom is an apt name, not because it was soundtrack by Sunn 0))) (it wasn’t) but because compared to the first film this adventure is much more satanic and evil in a ’safe for 7 year olds’ kinda way. The adventure is much wilder and more fantastical, a la The Goonies mixed with the comical occult of that 80s Dragnet film. Flaming hearts, human sacrifice, eyeball soup and a mining cart ride chase scene add up to a film that was destined to become a pinball machine (whose left flipper always seems to be busted). Year: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Movies & TV on Google Play Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom May 1984 Item added to wishlist. Item removed from wishlist. You will receive an email when your movie becomes available. You will not be charged until it is released. ( 1,633) Synopsis The second of the George Lucas/Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones epics is set a year or so before the events in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1984).

After a brief brouhaha involving a precious vial and a wild ride down a raging Himalyan river, Indy (Harrison Ford) gets down to the problem at hand: retrieving a precious gem and several kidnapped young boys on behalf of a remote East Indian village. His companions this time around include a dimbulbed, easily frightened nightclub chanteuse (Kate Capshaw), and a feisty 12-year-old kid named Short Round (Quan Ke Huy). Throughout, the plot takes second place to the thrills, which include a harrowing rollercoaster ride in an abandoned mineshaft and Indy's rescue of the heroine from a ritual sacrifice. There are also a couple of cute references to Raiders of the Lost Ark, notably a funny variation of Indy's shooting of the Sherpa warrior. Also available in 2 $39.96 $34.99 Experience the adventures of a lifetime with Indiana Jones™: The Complete Adventures. For the first time ever, all four films are in high definition with remastered editions of the original films ... 2 Spielberg has come up with another rousing piece of entertainment.

Richard Corliss Again you will savor the Indiana Jones schizophrenia: by day a bow-tied, bespectacled archaeologist; by night a resourceful swaggerer, whom Ford brings to life as a modern blend of Bogie and the Duke, with just a glint of misfit psychopathy in his eyes. James Berardinelli It's not the darker turn that makes The Temple of Doom uncomfortable at times; it's its mean-spiritedness. Todd McCarthy Pic comes on like a sledgehammer, and there's even a taste of vulgarity and senseless excess not apparent in Raiders. Dave Kehr The film betrays no human impulse higher than that of a ten-year-old boy trying to gross out his baby sister by dangling a dead worm in her face. Colin Covert Set years before the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is sillier, darkly violent and a bit dumbed down, but still great fun.

Critic reviews Full Review Richard Corliss Again you will savor the Indiana Jones schizophrenia: by day a bow-tied, bespectacled archaeologist; by night a resourceful swaggerer, whom Ford brings to life as a modern blend of Bogie and the Duke, with just a glint of misfit psychopathy in his eyes. James Berardinelli It's not the darker turn that makes The Temple of Doom uncomfortable at times; it's its mean-spiritedness. Full Review Todd McCarthy Pic comes on like a sledgehammer, and there's even a taste of vulgarity and senseless excess not apparent in Raiders. Full Review Dave Kehr The film betrays no human impulse higher than that of a ten-year-old boy trying to gross out his baby sister by dangling a dead worm in her face. Full Review Colin Covert Set years before the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is sillier, darkly violent and a bit dumbed down, but still great fun. Full Review Geoff Andrew Part of the trouble is that anything clearly does go, including the slender hold on credibility that Raiders managed to maintain.

User reviews Bernhert 2257 August 18, 2015 I liked watching Indiana Jones but not Willie and Short Round. Indiana Jones should've have this adventure to himself. He's what everyone wants to see being a hero, not annoying, kicking butts. I think that Willie and Short Round are in the way! He does not need to put up with Willie always whining. Marion was better for a sidekick than Willie, and Short Round always screeching with a high pitch kind of tone just drives me crazy! The first movie was better not gonna lie, but this film is okay, but this one revolve with black magic that can be a little frightening. Full Review Robert Nolan May 3, 2014 How does one describe this movie? There are no words to describe Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, you need only to watch it. So do that right now. Full Review Sonny Fausel December 25, 2015 This does nothing as a prequel. It takes forever to get to the part I like and the characters suck.

I remember this being a fixture of thanksgiving at grandma's but I only remember looking forward to the scene at the end with the bridge slice & gators. Full Review Ryan Cox March 12, 2016 Possibly the most underrated sequel The description says it all. People seem to forget or dismiss this one, but I'd put it up there with the first and third and way above the forth. In my opinion it even kind of stands out, because they are not going after any bible relic, they are not in a desert, and they are not fighting the Nazis. I love how fun this film is, but it is rather dark as well. It has a great bridge climax and a fun minecart chase. The opening scene is fun and memorable as well. I don't get all the hate it receives, it's great Full Review Mine Jam July 29, 2015 ITS REALLY VILINT if thats how you spell it Ok this might seem funny but I watched this movie before the first one and I had no clue .

But my dad said lets watch Indiana Jones so I said ok sure whatever so we watched it and I was like what the heck people and movie was over and my dad asked if I liked it and I said umm sure I guess so then next day he figured out that we watched the second one before the first one and he got mad and I was like ok ? And my dad hates it when someone is watching the second movie before the first and I dont really care what I watch so I was watching something that had a series to it and I watched the third one first cause it looked interesting so he freaked out I mean freaked out lol btw this movie is really scary and epic Full Review Sammy Loccisano May 4, 2014 2nd worst in the series Is it a bad movie? No! Is it the best in the series? Not close! I kind of thought that the storyline was a little corny, I would watch it to rent and not buy. I love indiana jones but this movie is ok. I think kids would enjoy it but not much for grown ups, the grown ups would enjoy the other indiana jones movies more.

Full Review Boys Cornejo October 13, 2015 One of the best movies! Does not meet the standards of the first film, but a very entertaining sequel! David Oviedo March 8, 2015 Temple of doom A real classic Full Review Aaron Kitchen September 6, 2015 Excellent Impossible to consider one of these better than the rest. That said, I love the humor in this one. "There's gonna be 2 dead people in here". And " Indy, I'm right HERE!" Full Review Ender Skywalker November 5, 2015 Underrated Just because it's the one movie out the four that doesn't follow the formula, that doesn't make it a bad movie. Full Review Samuel Courliss September 11, 2016 Even better! This sequel is probably the best ever made. There's lots of action, intrigue, good acting, and even a little romance. You can't go wrong. The romance is handled gently and manages to balance out well with the action, and the acting has improved from the first, if that's even possible. Like the first, this is one of the greats.

Full Review Nathaniel Patrick June 19, 2014 Omg! I have always loved all of the Indiana Jones Series! This one is one of my fav's! I've seen it a million times n it never gets old! This is Harrison Ford in his Prime..lol..awesome movie thinking of buying it!? Full Review itiswhatitaint anditaintwhatitis August 4, 2015 Anything Goes! This is my favorite Indy movie! Yes It's a little dark for some but It's nonstop action all the way! From the razzle dazzle beginning, until the elephant spraying end, It's a roller coaster ride! 😨 Full Review Jeriah Ross March 27, 2016 In the second adventure of the franchise,was the first time that the titular adventurer teams up with a young Chinese orphan and an elegant singer as they recover 3 spiritual stones which was taken from a small village. Full Review Andrew MacNeil January 4, 2015 My Least favorite Indiana Jones but still great! It was a great film, it was mainly action, not enough archeology in the movie. But I loved the kid, his chemistry,with Jones, was great.

Harrison as always is great. Full Review Jeremy Code August 14, 2014 Dr.Jones! (Short round voice) Love this movie seen it dozens of times absolute classic ,my fav of the series worth the ten bucks for digital HD Albert K Cole November 11, 2016 Indiana Jones and theTemple of Doom Very sensational, and quite outstanding. Debbie Williams December 28, 2013 Wtf It was a good movie but not $17.99 good wtf! Full Review Sarai Meza July 2, 2014 Cool Im ivan and I barely got a blue ray dvd player so I got the indiana jones collection on dvd blue ray and these movies are cool David Watson May 3, 2014 I always love a good action packed, adventure filled film and this one doesn't dissapoint. Michelle Mika July 12, 2015 huge indiana jones fan. love all three! theme song is my ringtone. i will always love indi.

bharathi reddy July 2, 2015 Indiana Jones 2 Temple of Doom MCMLXXXIV Nikola Tesla February 2, 2016 Third best of this franchise Not bad, but not nearly as good as the first movie. Joey Dover July 19, 2015 My favorite Indiana Jones The action and adventure don't stop. Fun for entire family. Full Review Captain Awesome June 8, 2015 Okay For Spielberg, it's okay. The third one has to be one of the best. Still really good, though. Full Review Veronica Stetler January 2, 2016 Favorite in the original 3 This is my favorite Indiana Jones movie in the original 3 by far. Jeff Fanala January 24, 2014 Untouchable One of the all-time greatest films ever made!! No contest!! Sacred Espeon April 18, 2015 Good Not as good as the Frist one but still good.

Kyle Dean Bauer February 28, 2016 It would almost be my favorite if it wasn't for Sean Connery Alexandru Goga December 31, 2013 My favorite This is my favorite movienothing is better that's what I think Vincent Costa June 22, 2014 Great movie One of my favorites of all time! Shirley Breland Breland Shirley February 28, 2016 Indiana Jones Movies Kevin Cobble March 18, 2016 Indiana Jones 2 Al Elliott June 1, 2014 Loved it! One of my favorite movies from childhood. paige curtis May 8, 2016 AMAZING Would give 10 starts if i could. Alex Pjontek July 18, 2014 Not to bad It is great except that food part Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Lego Indiana Jones Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia LEGO Indiana Jones Wiki Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 575pages on Indiana Jones in the Temple of Kali Screaming Willie Mola Ram Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. Released on May 23, 1984, it is a prequel to the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark . Like Raiders, it starred Harrison Ford as Jones, and was based on an original story by George Lucas. Many members of the original crew returned, including cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, editor Michael Kahn and composer John Williams. New additions to the main cast included actress Kate Capshaw, who played the role of Wilhelmina 'Willie' Scott (Jones' second female lead following Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood , in Raiders of the Lost Ark), and Jonathan Ke Quan as Jones' 11 year old sidekick Short Round. It won an Academy Award for Visual Effects. It included scenes that were scrapped from Raiders which include: a bar fight, a plane jump on an inflatable raft, a mine cart chase, and a rope bridge battle. It is one of the two films that has a well-known song as an opening. This one starts out with "Anything Goes" (in Chinese) while Kingdom of the Crystal Skull starts out with "Hound Dog".

Featuring themes of child slavery, and destructive cult rituals, the film is darker in tone than its predecessor. The original story was intended to be a horror movie as well as a remake with elements of Gunga Din (1939). The original title was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Death. The film is also notable for the creation of the rating category PG-13. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - FAQ The content of this page was created directly by users and has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Visit our FAQ Help to learn more FAQ How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie? For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDbs Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom can be found here . What is 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' about?

After narrowly escaping death at the hands of Chinese gangsters, archaeology professor, Dr Henry 'Indiana' Jones ( Harrison Ford ), accompanied by his 12-year old sidekick Short Round ( Jonathan Ke Quan ) and nightclub singer Wilhelmina 'Willie' Scott ( Kate Capshaw ), crash land their plane in the Himalayan Mountains of India. They are taken in by starving villagers desperate for Indy's help finding their children and a magical stone they call 'Sivalinga', which they claim was stolen from them by the evil residents of the ancient Pankot Palace, previously thought to be deserted. Indy agrees to visit Pankot Palace, but the new maharajah, Zalim Singh ( Raj Singh ), assures him that there is no evil in his palace....until Indy stumbles upon a hidden passageway that leads to an underground temple where an ancient Thuggee cult has commenced worshiping the dark Hindu goddess Kali and conducting human sacrifices. Is 'The Temple of Doom' based on a book?

The Temple of Doom is the second movie in the Indian Jones series, preceded by Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and followed by Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). A fifth movie, Indiana Jones 5 , has been announced but no release date has been set. Temple of Doom is based on a story conceived by American film maker George Lucas. The screenplay for Temple of Doom was written by American screenwriters Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, who took inspiration from Gunga Din , a 1939 movie with a similar plot. Indiana Jones the the Temple of Doom was novelized in 1984 by James Kahn and republished in 2008. Is this a sequel or a prequel to 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'? It is a prequel. It's the second movie in the series, but the events in the movie are set in 1935, about a year before those in Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was set in 1936.

A title at the beginning of Temple of Doom confirms this when it reads "Shanghai, 1935." Was Nurhaci a real historical figure? Yes. As described in the film, Nurhaci was the first sovereign emperor of what became the Manchu Dynasty, the last ruling Dynasty of China. He reigned from 1616-1626 (when it was actually known as the "Later Jin" Dynasty) and is credited with unifying the warring tribes in modern day Manchuria and commanding them under a single massive military system. His descendants went on to found the Manchu Dynasty (AKA Qing Dynasty) in 1644 and conquer China as we now know it today. Lao Che was able to trace his own ancestry back to Nurhaci & decided he wanted to possess the emperor's ashes & hired Indy to find them. Why doesn't Indy know how to fly the plane? Although the 'Young Indiana Jones Chronicles' depicts Indy as being part of an air force squadron during the Great War, he is merely an observer rather than a pilot.

Although we see Indy fly a plane in The Last Crusade set in 1938, Temple of Doom is set in 1935. The assumption is that, in the intervening period, Indy learned to fly a plane but either didn't learn landing very well or quit his lessons before he could. How is the sacrificial victim kept alive without a heart? It is suggested that the High Priest Mola Ram is capable of "black magic". Later, the maharajah's voodoo doll of Indy also works because of black magic. At the end of the movie, Jones uses this supernatural theme to his advantage when he tells Mola Ram "You betrayed Shiva" and the stones perform their magic to bring about the end of Mola Ram and his cult of terror. Throughout all of the Indiana Jones movies, Indy comes across supernatural phenomena, such as the Ark which destroys all the Nazis or the Holy Grail which can save a person from dying. Why doesn't Mola Ram tear Willie's heart out? When Mola Ram sacrifices his first victim, in an infamous scene, he tears out the man's heart before lowering the victim into the lava, yet he doesn't do the same with Willie.

The real-world explanations for this are twofold. For one, Indy's love interest cannot die halfway through the movie -- a simple & practical plot point for the film. Two, having an actor sink his hand into an actresses' chest wouldn't be appropriate for a PG movie (PG-13 did not yet exist when this film was made). In the Indy canon, however, an explanation for this scene is harder to come by. One could argue that Mola Ram never actually rips his victim's heart out, but rather acts as though he does and convinces his drugged followers of it. There's also the possibility that Ram was still using Willie as a test of Indy's loyalty to the cause. We see him grin triumphantly at the camera after Indy shackles Willie's wrist to the cage. How does the movie end? Indy and Mola Ram battle it out on the remains of the hanging rope bridge, and two of the Sankara stones are lost at the bottom of the ravine. Mola Ram falls to his death and is eaten by alligators as Captain Blumburtt ( Philip Stone ) and his men arrive to arrest the remaining Thuggee warriors.

At the top of the ravine, Willie and Shorty stand and look for Indy, who, with a Sankara stone in hand, clambers back up to them grinning. They return to the village where life has already returned. The village children come running in behind Indy, Shorty and Willie and the stone is returned to the village shaman. "I know you are coming back... when life returned to our village," the shaman smiles. Indy nods and agrees that he now understands the magic of the stones. The film ends with Indy whipping Willie around the waist and pulling her towards him, embracing her in a kiss as the village children cheer and laugh and Shorty's elephant sprays them with water. What happened to Chattar Lal? There really is no definite answer. Chattar Lal ( Roshan Seth ) attempts to stab Indy with a small knife as Indy attempts to rescue Willie from the pit, but Lal is hurled onto the chain-pulling device and crushed beneath it. Moments later, he is crawling around on the floor in pain. Then, suddenly, in the next shot, he is gone and never seen again in the rest of the film. Probably more of an editing error than anything.

The most logical answer lies in that notion that British Captain Blumburtt returned to secure and empty the Temple of Doom and arrested Chattar Lal in the process. There is some evidence of a cut scene here. After Chattar Lal is seen crawling away, we see a few cuts, after which he has disappeared. What has actually happened is a scene where, subsequent to Willie's rescue from the cage, Lal returns to continue the fight. The fight leads out onto the top of the metal cage where Indy holds onto the two chains at the bottom of the cage, jumps up, and kicks Lal off the dipping side of the off-balanced cage. A picture of this scene is contained on an old school notebook folder for the film, which contains many random movie stills. It was also hinted at in the script, novelization, and comic book versions. You can view a picture of this deleted scene here . In the novelization of the film, Chattar Lal and Indy resume their fight not long after Indy rescues Willie from the cage. Lal is pushed onto the cage by Indy and it swings over the pit. As soon as it does, Willie releases the brake on the wheel and it sinks, taking Lal with it.

In the novelization, Willie had become charmed by Lal himself and was taken with the fake hospitality that he'd shown them all when they arrived at the palace, so she wanted revenge. What ever happened to Short Round? He immigrates to the United States with Jones following his adventure. The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones, published in 2008, detailed that Short Round became an archaeologist and tracked down the Peacock's Eye (the diamond from Doom's opening sequence) to Niihau. Where did Short Round get his unusual nickname from? He probably got it from Indy himself. Indy talks about how he found Shorty living as an orphan on the streets of Shanghai after the Japanese bombed the city. "Short round" is a military term that refers to a mortar round or shell that either doesn't launch properly or only travels a short distance and doesn't explode. Such an occurrence can be very dangerous to the crew that launched it since the round can be highly unstable and explode unexpectedly. Indy probably gave his sidekick that name because of his exuberant and cocky personality. How did Shorty know that burning Indy with a torch would release him from the black sleep?

There are two possible explanations: First, Shorty was desperate to bring his friend back and simply burned Indy in the hope that it would shock him back to his old self. As we see, the ploy worked and Indy comes back. The second theory comes from the film's novelization: there's a scene in the book where Shorty, while laboring in the mines, sees one of the kids uncover a small vein of lava. When one of the thuggee guards comes over to investigate, the vein spits some lava onto his bare legs and the heat snaps him out of his trance. He's immediately taken away by other guards -- presumably to be forced to drink the blood of Kali Ma again to return him to his trance. However, Shorty is a witness to the incident & figures out that heat or fire will wake up Mola Ram's hypnotized followers. I've heard that Harrison Ford was injured on the set of this movie. True or untrue? Yes.

Harrison Ford seriously hurt his back during the filming of Temple of Doom and had to leave the production for a number of weeks while stuntman (and longtime Ford double) Vic Armstrong took his place for many of the action sequences, notably the fight with the large Thuggee on the conveyer belt. Fortunately, at that time, Armstrong was a close look-alike to Harrison Ford, so the switch went quite unnoticed for these scenes. Ford himself was added in later for close-ups and anything else that was needed. What scene(s) did Dan Aykroyd play? I never found him. He plays a British man, Earl Weber. He is the man who obtains a plane for Indy, Willie and Short Round near the beginning of the film. He only has a couple of lines and that is his only appearance. "Ah, Dr. Jones, I'm Earl Weber. I spoke with your assistant. We've managed to secure three seats. But there will be a slight inconvenience as you will be riding with a cargo full of live poultry." He also recognizes Willie as an entertainer and remarks on it. If this is a prequel, why doesn't Indy "believe" in magic in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'?

Indy saw clear magic and witnessed very mystical events during his journey in this movie, but he is still not very optimistic about the Ark in the next chapter chronologically. The real answer isn't clear, but it can be guessed that Indy had either written off the events that occurred in this movie with scientific theories or he had chosen to actually forget what had happened and decided that, as a scientist, whatever he saw had a "logical" explanation. His being possessed could have been explained by the fact that he was drugged, and he may have decided that much of the other things he saw were hallucinations caused by the drugging. Just because he saw evidence of the supernatural in Indian mysticism doesn't mean he automatically believed in the reality of Christianity/Judaism. Alternatively, he may have just been lying to reassure Marcus. During their flight across China, we see the plane flying over the Great Wall. How is that possible when they left from Shanghai which is over 700 miles south? The shot of the Great Wall is likely included just for dramatic effect during the "red line" travel. The Great Wall is an iconic symbol of Chinese culture and history and was used for that reason.

Also, the red line clearly shows the flight path from Shanghai toward the Himalayan Mountains, and it makes no diversion to the north. Has the out-take with Carrie Fisher and Barbara Streisand ever been released? Not officially. Steven Spielberg wanted to play a practical joke on Harrison Ford and Streisand, who was filming Yentl in London at the time, visited the set of Temple of Doom while they were filming the scene where Mola Ram has Indy whipped and forces him to drink the blood of Kali. Streisand dressed up as a dominatrix and started whipping Harrison Ford herself as he was tied to the rock, in order to "punish" him for all the successful films he's made. While doing this, Carrie Fisher also appeared with Streisand, dressed as a Thuggee guard and tried to "protect" Ford from the whip, and Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner was also present and in on the joke. The joke was actually filmed but has not been officially released anywhere, though a low-quality copy has been circulating on the internet for many years. See here Why has the movie been cut in the UK?

The original release was cut in 1984 to obtain a PG rating, in order to make the film more widely assessible (avoiding a 15 rating as the UK's 12 rating did not get rolled out until 1989). When it came to the UK Region 2 DVD release, Paramount requested to release the original cut; however, the BBFC apparently required the consent of the director. This was not forthcoming, thus edits were replicated as close as possible to the original UK theatrical release from1984. The scenes that were originally cut from the UK version in 1984 were: - In sacrificial Thuggee ceremony, the tearing out of the young victim's heart, and sight of it in High Priests hand was reduced, implying it was seized by magic - Shots of the pulsating heart removed, except the final one when it burst into flames - Greatly reduced terror of victim as he is lowered into fiery vortex, missing all prolonged emphasis on his screams as the cage descends.

The film cuts away as soon as he disappears through trap door, and his death is reduced so that it ends a lot quicker - Reduced sequence where Indiana cries out as his voodoo doll is burned in flames - Reduced drinking of blood and whipping of Indiana, and deletion of the flogging of Shortie - Reduced line "leave him alone, you bastards!" to simply "leave him alone!" (on some prints the line is excised entirely) - Removal from soundtrack Indianas cries of agony as he writhes on ledge after drinking blood - Close shots of Willie screaming as she is locked in cage and lowered towards the fire removed, and reduced sobs on the soundtrack and the sight of her suspended over flames - When Shortie burns the guards chest with the torch, the sound of flesh scalding has been eliminated - Heavily cut fight between Indiana and overseer, removing in particular heavy punches to back, chest, and head.

Also the sound effects of all impact blows have been reduced, so they approximate to the sounds associated with old-fashioned fisticuffs - Shortened sight of blood on roller after overseers death - More reduced sound effects of impact blows on soundtrack, including screams of pain as fight leads into final chase in the mine cart - Reduced sounds of punches to High Priest's head on rope bridge - Removal of sight of High Priest's head cracking against rock face as he falls, and sound effects removed of his body bouncing off the cliff before he hits the water. Although the UK DVD release continued to have these cuts, the UK Blu-ray release is the original cut of the film, identical to the US Blu-ray release, and is therefore the first time the film has been released uncut in the UK. Jonathan Ke Quan - IMDb IMDb Graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinema Television.

See full bio » Born: a list of 47 people created 06 Jan 2012 a list of 46 people created 31 Aug 2012 a list of 26 people created 08 Mar 2014 a list of 35 images created 03 Nov 2015 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Jonathan Ke Quan's work have you seen? User Polls 2 wins & 1 nomination. See more awards » Known For | Edit Filmography Short Round (as Ke Huy Quan) Hide 2001 The One (assistant: Mr. Yuen) 2000 X-Men (assistant fight choreographer) / (translator: Mr.

Yuen - uncredited) Hide 2009/I Enigma (Short) (stunt coordinator) 2000 X-Men (stunt rigger - uncredited) Hide 2001 The One (assistant director to the action choreography - uncredited) Hide 2006/I The Other Side (additional editor) Hide 2006/I The Other Side (foley artist) Hide 2012/I Far (Short) (special thanks) Hide 1985 The Making of 'The Goonies' (TV Short documentary) Himself 2010 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) Richard 'Data' Wang 2003 The Stunts of 'Indiana Jones' (Video documentary short) Himself Cyndi Lauper music video "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" (from the film "The Goonies") Publicity Listings: 1 Interview | 3 Magazine Cover Photos | See more » Alternate Names: Huy Quan Ke | Ko-Wei Kuan | Jonathan Quan | Ke Huy Quan Height: Did You Know?

Trivia: His brother was the one actually auditioning for the role of Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). Jonathan just followed his brother along, but the casting people decided to pick him instead. See more » Star Sign: Heroes and Sidekicks Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - 01 - YouTube Heroes and Sidekicks Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - 01 Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on May 22, 2011 ''HEROES and Sidekicks - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,'' the CBS special on Channel 2 at 8 tonight, is really about two things: movie heroes and their pals, and the glories of the Stephen Spielberg-George Lucas film. The connection between the two is that the swashbuckling archeologist Indiana Jones has a sidekick, and that this is in the great Hollywood tradition.

In fact, it seems to be the apotheosis of the tradition. Jones's sidekick, Short Round, ''is the perfect sidekick,'' William Shatner, the narrator, says, ''loyal and funny.'' Short Round is played by a 12-year-old Vietnamese boy, Ke Huy Quan, who, in one of the excerpts we see from the Spielberg-Lucas film, says, ''Okey dokey, Dr. Jones,'' and clearly is prepared to risk his life for Harrison Ford. Super Reviewer ½ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is nowhere near as good as its predecessor, Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it hasn't lost the sense of adventure that made that earlier film so iconic. Certainly the boundaries of realism and plausibility are stretched rather thin, but this sequel (actually a prequel since the events take place before the events in Raiders) is solid entertainment. This time around, Indy finds himself narrowly escaping a botched attempt in China to retrieve a precious diamond. He ends up in India, where he is employed by a small town to find a stolen gem as well as a multitude of kidnapped boys.

This endeavour is quite unsettling as the truth that Indy uncovers is not only mean-spirited but downright terrifying. Accompanied with a cast of popular Indian actors that add to this film's universal appeal, Temple of Doom is a fun adventure that will disturb and enthrall in equal doses. Edward Boxler Super Reviewer ½ While not having as great a story as the original film, "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" serves as a very entertaining picture towards this adventure franchise, which has lasted decades and deeply impacted cinema. I must say that the characters in this film are much more fun to watch, due to their silliness, and the direction is just as good as before. The story unravels, less interesting than the first, but the action is far more improved. This sequel is not one to miss if you are a fan of the first. I enjoyed the hell out of it, although it's not as original! KJ Proulx Super Reviewer ½ There's a great myth in filmmaking that stories with dark tones or subject matter are inherently more interesting than stories which are more light-hearted in premise or execution.

People who've been following my reviews for some time might conclude that I agree with this sentiment, generally gravitating towards and heaping praise upon dark films like Killing Them Softly, Chinatown and We Need To Talk About Kevin. But in the end, dark storylines are like any other aspect of filmmaking: they are brilliant and effective when they are done right. Darkness has to be justified every bit as much as silliness, and just being or going dark for its own sake can often make a film feel desperate and misjudged rather than impressive or deep. When it comes to action films there is no better example than Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which pales in comparison to Raiders of the Lost Ark and still has its problems after nearly 30 years. In hindsight it's not hard to see why Lucas and Spielberg decided to go dark with Temple of Doom. Like Star Wars before it, Raiders was a far greater success than anyone could have imagined, reviving Spielberg's career and leaving an indelible mark on popular culture. Any sequel (or prequel) would have a hard act to follow, needing to raise the stakes and deepen the characters in order to justify itself.

Lucas and Spielberg knew that they couldn't just repeat the formula of Raiders, with the former outright rejecting any more stories about Nazis (for the time being). In making Temple of Doom, Lucas and Spielberg tried to follow the template of The Empire Strikes Back, with more time being devoted to character interaction and much less of an overall quest. As with Empire, Lucas' involvement was confined to the story and production aspects, and so you cannot entirely blame Temple of Doom's failures on his creative input. The bigger problem is that the second instalments of each series serve very different purposes, responding to and addressing different aspects of their predecessors. It made sense for Empire to be darker and slower because we needed something to believe that Luke, Han and Leia were more than just walking archetypes. We needed to believe that the Empire were not just a monster-of-the-week bad guy, who could be defeated by just blowing up the newest Death Star. The film succeeded because it gave us these things, adding bigger stakes while keeping the experience enjoyable. Indiana Jones, on the other hand, is a franchise whose appeal comes from the thrill of the chase, going through different locations discovering clues and getting into scrapes.

It is possible to do character development, but it mustn't interfere with the pacing to such an extent that we start unpicking the plot. This is where Temple of Doom comes unstuck, spending far too long setting things up and ultimately not delivering on the thrills until the last half hour. When Lucas and Spielberg saw the first cut, they both felt the film was too fast - something they rectified by letting certain scenes play out for longer, giving the story time to breathe. Without having seen the original cut, it's hard to know how much better it would have been, but as things stand the film is paced very inconsistently. The opening section feels baggy, the middle is just about right and the ending is a breathless rollercoaster that almost wears us out. The opening of the film immediately sends alarm bells ringing, starting not with an action-packed quest or thrilling chase, but a musical number. As a director Spielberg can do many things; big musical set-pieces is not one of them. The whole opening is intended as a tribute to Busby Berkeley musicals of the 1930s, but all it does is bring back horrible memories of the jitterbugging scenes in 1941.

It's a lot more coherent and has better choreography, but it still feels forced, as though Spielberg wasn't really sure what he was doing. In terms of its characterisation, Temple of Doom is more rooted in the conventions of the fantasy genre. Short Round acts as Sancho Panza to Indiana's Don Quixote, following him everywhere out of chivalry and devotion, and often being bemused by the choices that he makes. But while Short Round is tolerable, Willie Scott is perhaps the single most annoying character in the history of the series. She is the damsel in distress turned up to eleven, spending the whole film either screaming, moping, preening or being rescued. Spielberg was quoted as saying that his subsequent marriage to Kate Capshaw is his only means of justifying the film (bear in mind: snakes, eyeballs and bugs won't always work on first dates). The central problem with Temple of Doom is simple: it doesn't always feel like an Indiana Jones film. While you can understand Lucas and Spielberg not wanting to do a straight-up rehash of Raiders, they go so far against the grain that they lose sight of what made Raiders work so well.

All the moments that are set up as funny are either inherently not funny or are executed in a slapdash manner. We do get some good humour, such as the bedroom scenes, but the food scene is far too gross and creepy to be funny. In my review of Raiders, I mentioned that if you stopped for any length of time, you could start to notice aspects of the plot which don't add up. This wasn't a big problem, for the reasons I laid out, but it becomes a problem with Temple of Doom because we are never so involved in the story that we can avoid noticing them. While Raiders' plot functioned like a well-oiled machine, Temple of Doom is like a ghost train; different elements are thrown at us in quick succession without much attempt at narrative cohesion. Some of the shortcomings can be written off as continuity errors, such as the reappearance of Indy's whip. Others are excusable on the grounds of shock value: we have no idea how a man can have his heart torn out and still live, but the experience is so striking that we overlook it. But most of the time, the shortcomings are downright idiotic - for instance, Indy escaping from the trance by being burned, in a cult based on burning people to death.

While the original was hardly 2001, this is very much a 'leave your brain at the door' action movie. We now come on to the delicate issue of racism - specifically the accusation that Temple of Doom is racist in its depiction of India and Hindu culture. As with Raiders, the B-movie territory dictates that the depiction of religion and culture are plot devices rather than dramatic details. But while it's not meant to be taken seriously, there was an effort made with Raiders to make the mythology both consistent and referential enough to have dramatic impact. In other words, even if it wasn't accurate, it made enough sense within the story so you could read into it without being offended. In this case, we're dealing with a mishmash of names and symbols from Hinduism, voodoo and other religions. In creating a fictional cult, Spielberg is stereotyping a series of cultures as one for the sake of having easy-to-recognise bad guys. It isn't racist per se, insofar as it doesn't depict all Indians as backward devil worshippers, but it does unfairly exploit recognisable elements of these cultures, for no good reason other than to differentiate our heroes.

Had Lucas and Spielberg simply made up a culture, taking things further into the fantasy genre, it might not have been so problematic (or uncomfortable to talk about). In spite of all its problems, there are certain things about Temple of Doom which do still hold up. While the darkness of the plot ultimately works against the characters, the film still looks really good. Douglas Slocombe's cinematography is great, using carefully placed smoke, red light and wide angles to such effect that you'd never know you were looking at a sound stage. The Kali temple feels like a Hammer film on steroids, and for all the inconsistencies surrounding the cult itself, Mola Ram is still a terrifying villain. The film is also entertaining as a piece of action. In the second half the pacing does pick up and the set-pieces begin to flow one from another every bit as wittily as the truck chase in Raiders. While the film as a whole feels like a fairground ride, you couldn't have shot the mine sequences in any other order; they make perfect sense and build to a famous climax. Even when it starts blatantly repeating Raiders (the sword vs. gun joke), it's such a marked improvement on the first half that we let it slide.

If Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was very by-the-numbers and then lost its way at the end, Temple of Doom spends its first half trying to find itself and eventually ends up on firm footing. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a heavily flawed film, which deserves its reputation as the weakest and most problematic of the original trilogy. It is of some value both visually and for the spectacle, and it does steadily improve in its second half. But there's so much wrong with it, both technically and thematically, that it doesn't quite make the grade compared to Raiders or Last Crusade. In the end it's as flawed and entertaining as Crystal Skull - it has its problems, but it will not be your doom. Daniel Mumby Chapter 2: Scouting for Locations and New Faces Robert Watts, who was associate producer on Raiders, would be producing the film while Frank Marshal would share executive producer credits with George Lucas. Watts would be basically responsible for organizing the whole of the movie's shooting, plus jointly with Marshall, seeing it through post-production. Ever since the film's body structure had been finalized location scouting got underway while Paramount agreed to give a $28 million budget, sure that this time they were betting on a winner.

Negotiations had been opened with the Chinese government to film scenes like a motorcycle chase along the Great Wall and the discovery of dinosaurs in a lost valley. However, the Chinese refused permission to film on the Wall, and inflated the prices for everything else needed to make the film. Producer Robert Watts. Watts brought onboard Elliot Scott as production designer and together they went to India and spent several weeks scouting the country for locations. There they found every location called for in India with the exception of a gorge they needed for the film's climax. Watts and Scott thought about looking in the Himalayas in the north of India, but the area was likely to be covered in snow during their preparation period. And that wasn't the only problem. Although they had found most of the desired locations they were so far away the one from the other that made filming logistical wise forbidding. Sri Lanka with its exquisite jungle foliage and picturesque terrain was ideal for Indiana's new adventure. When they scouted in Sri Lanka, they find the gorge in a place where their other location needs would be accessible from their base of operations, which was Kandy, the second principal city after Colombo, the capital.

"We found the gorge by helicopter, and we were extremely fortunate that there was a dam under construction right behind it," said Watts. "A British company, Balfour Beatty Nuttall, was constructing a major dam for the Sri Lanka government, a gift from the British government. They didn't do it for nothing but it was certainly much cheaper than if we would have to import engineers and equipment. And there were access roads and all the things that go with having a building site on hand. They strung the bridge across the gorge, so we were confident that it was structurally sound and they gave us the number of people we could put on it, which was twenty, and we kept it below that figure, so it was perfectly safe." Still, for interior shots Watts hoped to film many scenes in the Rose Palace of Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan, but the local government, scandalized by the script's horror-comic character, demanded so many changes that he and Lucas decided Elstree's soundstages would be just fine.

Douglas Slocombe, one of the many who worked on Raiders and returned for Indy's new adventure said about his relationship with Spielberg, "The wonderful thing about working with Steven is that he plans everything very, very carefully in advance. He starts off by doing rough sketches, little drawings of the visuals, which are eventually finalized by professional artists. Of course, he adapts certain shots on the day, but the important thing is that everyone has had a pretty good idea weeks and months in advance of what he intends to portray. This helps one enormously in planning what equipment will be needed and what conditions one is likely to encounter." Elliot talking to Steven. Elliot Scott had never before worked with Spielberg and that proved a revelation to him, "I've never worked with a director like Steven Spielberg before. He plans and plans and plans. He's not a hard man at all, in fact he's rather pleasant, but his sheer enthusiasm just carries you forward. He uses sketches to map out virtually the entire film, forcing himself to consider all the options at the drawing board stage. These are very rough sketches visually, but there's a lot of depth in them, a lot of information.

He would have sketch artists adapt his roughs and send them over to me saying: 'This is the way I want the action to go.' Then I would try to adapt the sequence to fit the set. Prior to that I would have shown him a model of the set so he knows in general where things are, but using these action sketches he would find that he needed, say, another camera or another doorway or another this or that. He would ask us to adapt the plans of the set, make something longer, shorter all at the drawing board stage, which saves considerable amounts of money in the long run and allows everyone involved to know where they are going." Anthony Powell was assigned with costume design duties. He's previous work included, among other films, Dragonslayer and Evil Under the Sun. Powell, who had spent 25 years visiting museums and building his own research library, found himself in a great deal of research. While researching pre-war China for the scenes in Macao, Elliot Scott, the Production Designer, showed Powell a Carrier Bresson book of photographs from 1937. In that book Powell spotted a photograph of a little Chinese boy wearing baseball shoes and immediately thought of Short Round.

Steven loved it and said: "Let's give him an American baseball cap, which he's gotten from one of the tourists." In the Bresson book Powell also found photographs of Chinese and European refugees at the airport. The real life refugees were dressed in ways one could never invent. Priests wearing pith helmets and carrying tennis rackets. Chinese people wearing absolutely conventional European suits but with the most bizarre Chinese hats on their heads. Again, Powell showed them to Steven and they ended up putting a huge crowd of missionaries into the airport scene. Of course Powell could not avoid getting involved with Indy's wardrobe and its problems. "We couldn't use the original costumes because they had been virtually destroyed. To the public, Indy wears an old shirt and an old pair of pants, but they don't realize how much is involved and how expensive it all is. For a start, you need six of everything because what clothes have to go though on an action picture is phenomenal. Every time Harrison falls down a ravine or jumps in a river, he will need a change of costume. There are also stunt men and doubles that have the same requirements. On this movie alone, we needed about thirty shirts for Harrison, and it doesn't show on the screen at all.

Continuity is another problem. Films aren't shot from the beginning to the end. Quite often, shooting starts at the end of the script and works backwards. This poses special problems on clothing. By the end of the movie, Harrison's costume has to look like he's crawled through jungles, fallen down mines and fought his way to hell and back. Now to make clothes look like as if they're in that condition and as if someone has been wearing them for ten years involves, say Grand ball gown. The cost of aging clothes artificially can be much more than the cost of making them in the first place. There are a million tricks of the trade involved: staining, bleaching, washing, dyeing, sandpapering. It's very hard work! There is. Even for a movie, which isn't based in reality, like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, it's always worthwhile doing careful research beforehand. Truth really can be stranger than fiction." Original costume drawings by Anthony Powell. More Temple of Doom costume drawings by Powel. "I like to make my original costume drawing not too specific." Anthony Powel said. "As long as the drawing gives the director and actor idea of what they're going to get, that's sufficient.

The real work comes in the fitting room. It seems to me that unlike theater, where an actor can transform himself and be totally convincing, cinema is a different medium. The camera sees through artifice. The most interesting and successful screen actors have been those who have traded on their own personalities, presenting different aspects of themselves in various movies. What I feel I have to do is take what is actually there in an actor, not just physically but in the quality of personality, and take the character in the script as it's written and bring these two together halfway. One may have worked something out very carefully on paper, but the important moment is in the fitting room. Clothes have to look absolutely right for that person. You have to strive for something that looks inevitable, that looks as if it has been airbrushed on the person. All of that happens in the fitting room, not in preliminary drawings." Mola Ram's headdress. Tom Smith, the film's make-up artist, was also responsible for creating costumes and props out of Powell's designs. "The headdress for Mola Ram, the Thuggee high Priest, was an interesting challenge. I was shown drawings of it by the costume designer.

They were scouring all over the place trying to locate real horns, which weight a ton, and the whole design was becoming difficult to manage. Especially as the actor would arrive at 7 am and had to be ready on the set by 8.30 every day. I set about simplifying the whole thing and did four clay mock-ups of the shrunken head that's fastened to it. The headdress was like the skull of an animal, based on a steer's head, and I used bony formation, rather than horns, which also as an anchor for the hair of the shrunken head. We actually plugged the hair in with a needle, directly into the latex, to create the effect of correct density in such a small area." With the script in revision state and the film in heavy pre-production mode auditions for the actors who would portray the new characters in the Indiana Jones saga begun. More than 1000 actresses, including East Coast soap opera stars and one Noxzema girl auditioned for the role of Willie Scott. Among the totally unknown actresses auditioning for the role was one named Sharon Stone.

Although she was among the top three choices she didn't take the part; instead, she went on to co-star in the remake of King Solomon's Mines, opposite Richard Chamberlain, in a role similar to the one she lost. Finally, Spielberg chose a green-eyed Texan girl called Kate Capshaw after viewing her videotaped test. Kate wearing a fedora. Born Kathy Sue Nail, she had graduated from the University of Missouri with a master's degree in learning disabilities, and taught school for two years before she realized she wasn't happy with what she was doing. Following the birth of her daughter Jessica, she decided to pursue a career in show business. Starting as a model for the Ford agency in New York, she appeared in many TV commercials, then moved to soap operas like Edge of Night, and in 1982 made her first feature film called A Little Sex, playing opposite Tim Mathison. Capshaw's then-agent happened to be a jogger and one of his jogging partners was the casting director of Indy II. It was then when she decided to audition for the part. She wasn't unfamiliar with the character of Indiana Jones.

"I was living in Hollywood, and one night, my boyfriend and his friend wanted to take my girlfriend and me to see Raiders of the Lost Ark. I told them that they should go and we would do something together while they were in the theater, but he was very persistent. I went, very petulant and sulky, and stayed that way for about two minutes after the movie started," she relates laughing. "When I came out, if there had been anyone doing interviews, I would have been a great advertisement for going to see that movie!" Nothing could predict that some years later she would become part of the cinematic legend. Learning that she had won the role came to a surprise to her. "Steven called me and told me I got the part. Maybe I was expecting fireworks and bombs but I just laughed. I thought he was kidding!" Kate as Willie Scott. Capshaw loved the character of Willie Scott from the start and she was looking forward to bring it to life. "Willie has led this pampered life and feels that's what's due her - to be cared for and looked after. She meets Indiana Jones, a person unlike anyone she has ever been involved with, and ends up going off with him.

In the course of all their adventures, all of her earlier life is stripped away from her, and Willie must fall back on her own resources. She discovers that she is a very strong woman, a gutsy lady. Willie is a much different character than the woman Karen Allen played in Raiders." To convey the 1930s leading lady image Capshaw had her hair bleached under Spielberg's advice. Quan as Short Round. Finding a child actor to play Indy's 10-year-old sidekick proved much harder than finding the female partner for the daring archaeologist. Spielberg asked casting director Mike Fenton to arrange open calls in several major cities, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, Hong Kong and London. Open call means that anybody, professional or complete amateur, can walk in off the street and be interviewed on videotape. In total they held something like eight open calls and looked at almost six thousand young boys. On a Saturday morning of February 1983 while Spielberg was visiting LA's Chinatown schools he discovered a little Vietnamese boy called Ke Huy Quan. Quan was born in Saigon and his father ran a plastics business.

In 1976 Quan, with his parents, six sisters and two brothers fled Vietnam as one of the "boat people", as the press called them. The Quan family seeked refuge in Hong Kong and stayed there until they were accepted by the U.S. Government for resettlement, in 1980. Due to his lack of film background Quan treated the whole process of auditioning like a game. Even when he was asked to screen test opposite Harrison Ford. "He wasn't intimidated by the fact that Lucas, Spielberg and Ford were in the same room with him", relates Watts. And that was true, since he had never seen Raiders he was unfamiliar with the character of Indiana Jones and the men who created him. "I had heard of Han Solo before but I didn't know his real name was Harrison Ford," replied innocently the young actor. Ke Huy Quan and Steven Spielberg between takes. Quan although spoke English very well, he couldn't read. So Spielberg decided to go with improvisation. He explained to Quan a scene he had just made up: he would play cards with Ford and he would realize that he had been cheated.

"When he pulls a fifth ace and he takes your money and he's a cheater, you don't let him go away with that. You have to win that card game," was Spielberg's only directions. Ford and Quan played the scene and it was so good they decided to keep it in the film. Once he was chosen, the youngster had to watch Raiders to know what the first one looked like, so Spielberg arranged a private screening for him. Watts had assumed that they would get a Chinese kid who, because he lived in the States, would sound like an American - or had they found one in London, like a cockney or something and so he had reckoned and budgeted for a dialogue coach since he expected that the boy would have to be coached to achieve a Chinese accent. "We roamed the globe looking for this kid and what happens? He turns up in our own back yard," he said laughing. At the time of the casting for the supporting actors Spielberg had moved to the St. James Club, a private hotel south of Piccadilly, which became his base of operation.

Spielberg took there miniatures of the major sets, the crusher room, the temple and the mine cave built by Scott along with four thousand storyboards, drawn by Ed Verraux, Joe Johnston and Elliot Scott, and he spent five months studying them in order to find the angles he wanted to photograph. Mr. Puri as Mola Ram. For the role of Mola Ram, the arch-villain, they searched through England and the United States to find someone to play the part-both Lucas and Spielberg were most anxious that they did not cast the principal Indian roles with Western actors darkened down. They wanted real Indians. They couldn't find anybody amongst the resident Indian actors in the United States, and so they got a permit for Amrish Puri, one of India's top actors, to go and do the film. Puri was working on 18 films in India simultaneously at the time of his casting. "This was something I had never before come up against," commented Watts. "The Indian film industry operates in a manner that would drive me stark raving mad. The actors work sometimes two or even three shifts a day, four-hour shift.

And they may work on two or three different films; they'll be in one in the morning and another in the afternoon. In the end, we had four different visits from Amrish (one in Sri Lanka, three in London). He had to juggle around all his Indian commitments to do this movie. It wasn't easy." Veteran Indian actor Rosan Seth was given the role of oily prime minister of the Pankot Palace, while David Yip, known in Britain by the TV series The Chinese Detective, would play Wu Han, an ill-fated ally of Indy in the opening night club scene. Ford was pushing 41 and since Indy II was a prequel to Raiders his character was younger, so Spielberg advised him to get in shape and spent eight months in training and muscle building under the supervision of Jake "Body by Jake" Steinfield right after completing his work on Return of the Jedi. "I don't know why they did that to me. I got three years older and the character got one year younger. So I'm four years older than the character. And I can feel the difference," Ford stated in wonder. Steinfield specialized in training entertainment personnel and worked with Harrison Ford before and during the movie, keeping him in shape.

He was also working out Steven every day. Jake used to double for the Incredible Hulk. When they traveled to Kandy they found there an old YMCA, so he and Ford would go down there to work out two or three times a week. It was the most primitive weight room anyone ever saw, with very old weight and ancient benches. Filming was to begin in April 1983, because Spielberg wanted to attend the Academy Awards ceremony since E.T.. was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.

Question: Who was Indiana Jones' 11 year old Chinese sidekick in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?
Answer: Short Round