Daily Dialogue — September 13, 2015

Indiana Jones: Elsa…
Colonel Vogel: That’s far enough, put down the gun Doctor Jones. Put down the gun or the Fraulein dies.
Professor Henry Jones: But she’s one of them.
Elsa: Indy, please!
Professor Henry Jones: She’s a Nazi.
Indiana Jones: What?
Professor Henry Jones: Trust me.
Elsa: Indy…no!
Colonel Vogel: I will kill her!
Professor Henry Jones: Oh yeah? Go ahead.
Indiana Jones: No! Don’t shoot!
Professor Henry Jones: Don’t worry. He won’t.
Elsa: Indy, please do what he says!
Professor Henry Jones: And don’t listen to her.
Colonel Vogel: Enough! She dies!
Indiana Jones: Wait! Wait.
[Indy tosses over the gun. Vogel lets Elsa go and she runs right into Indy’s arms]
Elsa: I’m sorry.
Indiana Jones: Don’t be.

Elsa takes the grail diary from Indy’s pocket, smiles, and move back to Vogel.

Elsa: But you should have listened to your father.

— Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), screenplay by Jeffrey Boam, story by George Lucas and Menno Meyjes

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Betrayal. Today’s suggestion by James Schramm.

Trivia: Elsa is the only love-interest in an Indiana Jones movie who turns out to be a villain, and also the only love-interest who dies by the end of the movie.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by James: “This is a perfect example of how a Turning Point should work in a movie. The audience is taken down one path; Indy has found his Dad and almost rescues him and then BAM a huge turning point; betrayal by the beautiful woman and we are off in a completely different direction.”