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Indiana Jones 4 In Peru.Not filmed in Peru and my Novia & Peruvians upset at mistakes

Well I went with my 2 kids to see Indiana Jones Last Friday night and my Novia took her sister and her 2 nephews to the Movie last Saturday..

My kids and I really enjoyed the Movie.. Next day my Novia went and she was spitting fire after the Movie and was upset how they made the Movie so inaccurately about Peru, I guess it is like moving the statue of Liberty to Washington for a Movie or the CN Tower to Vancouver..

CanadaMan
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This is copy and pasted and was written by a Peruvian..

Dress latinos in native peruvian clothing add a little dirt to their faces, make them lay on the streets to do siesta or have them speak Spanish with a Central American accent, play mariachi music as background and finally add some chickens in the middle of an airport with peruvian flags ....what do you end up with? Indiana Jones visiting Cusco.

I just came back from the movies, was excited to see the latest Indiana Jones film, not only because I was a big fan, but because almost 20 years have passed from the last movie, and this time it involved Peru.

Aside from all the nonsense found in the movie (Nasca lines next to Cusco City - or should I say a rustic town full of natives?, thunderous Nasca nights, Cusco an international airport) I have to say I was really dissapointed and disgusted with it. I'm tired on how americans through Hollywood and the media depict Peru, Latin American countries and the third world in general as ignorant, dirty and blowgun wielding savages.

For Hollywood, a Mexican, Brazilian or Peruvian are all the same, they all ride llamas and dance to mariachi music.

Thanks to these type of media, gullible people accept the "Weapons on Mass destruction" fairy tale and use it as an excuse to invade a country controlled by the U.N.

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Another Peruvian with a opposite opinion on the Movie...

The movie takes place during the 50's and the bad guys are the soviet communists, not nazis. Look, the movie was a lot of fun, of course Indy is older, the previous movies "took place" during the late 30s, and this one in the late 50's so technically, Indy had to be 20 years older. But let's keep some perspective here, are we asking for historical and geographical accuracy from fantasy action movies? I would be upset if these were a biopic or a documentary, because there are those obvious "horrors" (more than errors), but come on! to demand accuracy of movies that had Indy riding a submarine all the way from Africa to a nazi sub base in Raiders? Or from people surviving a plane crash by floating on air in an inflatable raft in Temple? Or a crusader hundreds of years old because he was keeping the grail???

Lighten up and enjoy the entertainment! And I wouldn't be surprised if our tourism grows just because of this movie, let's make sure our visitors here get the real story and enjoy their stay, rather than bitching about stereotyping in Hollywood, like nobody in the world is not aware of it.

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By CanadaMan on Jun 6, 2008, 00:21 in Peru forum.

BillBigD says on Jun 7, 2008, 12:50:

I thought the movie was pretty disappointing

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elchibolo says on Jun 11, 2008, 16:45:

Yeah, the mistakes were pretty bad. The movie was OK, but I prefer the old Indiana Jones movies.

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JumboBond007 says on Jun 21, 2008, 14:41:

so what? Watching TOTAL RECALL ...should you be upset because the film was not set in Mars ????

Deaf But Happy :)

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elchibolo says on Jun 22, 2008, 12:12:

so what? Watching TOTAL RECALL ...should you be upset because the film was not set in Mars ????

Yeah well, it´s just that I have never been to mars but I HAVE been to Peru (am living here) so I know what it is really like. I don´t really think it´s a big deal, but it would have been more enjoyable for me if it was a bit more like the real thing.

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sloopskipper says on Aug 15, 2008, 14:46:

Well, it's entertainment, not a documentary.

But after the first 30-45 minutes, especially that seeming endless chase scene and much overdone special effects, it seemed to fall apart for me. But, I'm not an action fan, and never saw an IJ movie before.

I thought it was too long and walked out before the end.

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nbarrera05 says on Oct 31, 2008, 21:39:

To all who say it's not big deal, imagine hip-hop playing in during a romantic scene in Cape Cod between Richard Gere and- I don't know- Susan Sarandon. Yeah. That's what Mexican music playing in Peru is like.

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