The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
Indiana Jones: Captain Blumburtt was just telling me something of the interesting history of the palace; the importance it played in the mutiny.
Chattar Lal: It seems the British never forget the mutiny of 1857.
[Captain Blumburtt laughs]
Indiana Jones: Yes, well you know I think there were other events before the mutiny going
back a century - back to the time of Clive that are more interesting.
Chattar Lal: And what events are those Dr Jones?
Indiana Jones: Well, if memory serves me correctly this area, this province was the centre eventuity of the Thuggee.
Chattar Lal: Dr Jones, you know perfectly well that the Thuggee cult has been dead for
nearly a century.
Captain Blumburtt: Yes, of course. The Thuggee was an obscenity that worshipped Kali with human sacrifices. The British Army Knights did away with them.
Indiana Jones: Well, I suppose stories of the Thuggee die hard.
Chattar Lal: There are no stories anymore.
Indiana Jones: I'm not so
sure. We came from a small village; peasants there told us Pankot Palace was growing powerful again because of some ancient evil.
Chattar Lal: Village stories, Dr Jones. They're just fear and folklore; you're beginning to worry Captain Blumburtt.
Captain Blumburtt: Not worried, Mr Prime Minister, just erm... just erm... interested.
Indiana Jones: You know, the villagers also told us Pankot Palace had taken something.
Chattar Lal: Dr Jones, in our country it's not usual for a guest to insult his host.
Indiana Jones: I'm sorry. I thought we were talking about folklore.
Captain Blumburtt: What exactly was it they say was stolen?
Indiana Jones: A sacred rock.
Chattar Lal: [he laughs dismissively] Hah! You see, Captain? A rock.
Indiana Jones: Something connected - the villager's rock and the old legend of the Sankara stones.
Chattar Lal: Dr Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumour. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were
accused of being a grave robber rather than an archaeologist.
Indiana Jones: Well, the newspapers greatly exaggerated the incident.
Chattar Lal: And wasn't it the Sultana Madagascar who threatened to cut your head off if you ever returned to his country?
Indiana Jones: No, it wasn't my head.
Chattar
Lal: Then your hands, perhaps?
Indiana Jones: No, it wasn't my hands... it was my
[looks downward]
Indiana Jones: ... misunderstanding.
Frank Serpico: You know that I'm totally isolated in the department. I don't have a friend.
Chief Sidney Green: Oh, don't give me that bullshit about friends. I've been putting cops away for thirty years. My name's an obscenity to every shithouse wall in every precinct in the city.
Frank Serpico: I've observed that, sir.
Chief Sidney Green: Friends! And I fought my way up as a Jew in the department in the days you were supposed to have an uncircumcised shamrock between your legs. I have this nightmare. I'm on 5th Avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body.