Geographical Malfeasance in Movies #23

In recently re-viewing The Raiders of the Lost Ark, I found myself cracking up at the car chase scene when one of Indiana Jones's foes, after chasing him through several miles of lush vegetation, plunges off of what appears to be a thousand-or-so-foot cliff. I haven't been to Egypt, but I'm pretty sure the only extensive areas of lush vegetation are in the Nile River valley, which I'm pretty sure is never a thousand feet above some land on its border!

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  1. My college roommate used to crack up that Indie had to dump some of the sand out of the bag before placing it on the pedestal where the gold idol was. I.e. the bag of sand would have been far too heavy initially to replace just a lightweight golden statue.

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