The movie is based on the old movie house serials and could actually be broken up into episodes.  The traveling on the map, and the sepia tones, goes back to old movies when there was a big travel event and that is how they would show it.  A golden tribute to a golden era of film and story telling.

at 10:00  "Ancient weapons and hokey religions are no match for a good blaster at your side." - Han Solo

The coat hanger joke is fantastic.

It was scripted that Indy was supposed to use his whip to fight the man with the huge saber. However, Ford and many on the set had gastrointestinal problems that day and Ford said let’s end this now and have me just shoot him. Ended up being one of the great comic relief moments of the movie 😂

This movie is a love letter to the 30s/40s, travelling by map was a thing they did then.

The guy with him at the start is Alfred Molina: Dr. Otto Octavius.
And Sallah (with the dark beard) is John-Rhys Davies: Gimli.
Absolutely great cast!

42:22 is why John Williams is the greatest film composer of all time. There are definitely more virtuosic composers as far as technical mastery, and maybe some who rival him as far as iconic imprint, but no one so consistently controls the emotional experience of the viewer as he does.

To get the exterior shots of Cairo the locals were paid to take down all their television antennas from their roofs.

The map showing where the plane was going was used extensively in movies in the 1930s of which this movie is an omage to.

I like Jordan laughing as their faces started melting off. The innocent looks are deceiving! 😂

To show "travelling on a map" was actually a pretty common style of exposition in old movies. Spielberg was heavily influence by old adventure movies for Indiana Jones, to revive that style was one of a lot of his references and nodes to those old movies.

the warehouse scene at the end was the direct inspiration for a sci fi/paranormal tv series called Warehouse 13, I think you would enjoy reacting to it.

Fun fact: Spielberg and his crew had to remove 100 or so antenna towers and satellite dishes to get that one wide shot of Cairo so it looked 1930s accurate.

In the movie, Indy was supposed to have a big Boss Battle type fight, with the big guy who had the giant sword. But, on the day they were to film it, Ford was fighting a case of dysentery. It was a mild case, just enough to give him the "green apple two-step", diarrhea. So they did a quick rewrite and had him shot the guy.

John Rhys-Davies who played Sallah was also Gimli in The Lord of the Rings.  Great underrated actor.

The famous "Wilhelm scream" sound effect is used in every Indiana Jones movie.

I was tickled that she pondered whether Raiders was among the first movies to show an animated map montage to suggest travel... when the whole movie was an homage to such ancient movie tropes. It was nostalgia, not novelty. 40+ years later, through young eyes, the 1980's seems closer to the 1930's than to present day.

“Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation” is also well worth a look. A trio of teenage boys doing a shot for shot remake of this total classic. It’s a real labor of love, you root for the characters even more!

One of the best Action Adventure Films ever made!

Ah Dr. Jones. Fiction's most popular archeologist.