This always has bothered me. Especially since one of the many humanizing quirks of Indy was his fear of snakes? I mean, at all other points in the series he totally loses composure at the sight of snakes (the only exception is when Young Indy was trying to get away with Coronado's cross in the Last Crusade prologue)
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I don't think they showed Indy's reaction to the Snake Surprise dish. Most if not all of the food reaction shots was Willie and S Round.
But while he hated snakes, but he wasn't terrified of them. Without true terror, a person can control themselves.
In Raiders, he was in the plane's seat with Reggie. He wasn't happy about it to be sure, but he didn't lose control of himself and seemingly rode the rest of the flight with Reggie. Also in Raiders, he was in the tomb with Marion and thousands of snakes, which he kept at bay with his torch.
Also, the snake was dead. The animals inside were either eels or a legless species of salamander. I doubt Indy, even with a fear of snakes, is going to react that badly to a cooked, dead one.
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This movie takes place before Raiders, so maybe he got his fear of snakes sometime after the events of this film and before the events from Raiders
shareIndiana Jones is not afraid of snakes. Indiana Jones is afraid of DANGEROUS snakes!!!
shareWas Reggie a poisonous snake?
shareI think Reggie was a python.
shareActually, my bad... you said "dangerous" not poisonous. A python would certainly be dangerous. Funny that Jock had the time to make a python his pet then turned his back on it and went fishing. LOL.
The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull would not be consistent with previous films, though, because the snake that Mutt used to pull him out of the quicksand was not dangerous or poisonous but Indy was still afraid of it.
Just to pick a nit, a snake which injects or spits poison is not "poisonous," it is "venomous." A venomous animal can inject, spit, or otherwise transfer its poison to a predator or other creature.
A poisonous animal (or plant) contains a poison which will affect someone/thing who eats it.
Thus snakes such as cobras, vipers, copperheads, and so forth are venomous. Spiders and platypuses are venomous. Many amphibians are poisonous. (an exception is the garter snake which is poisonous rather than venomous.)
This is a technicality, and common speech does use poisonous to refer to snakes and such. But it is a good idea to know, and use, the correct terms. In the case of poisonous/venomous the two terms refer to very different things.
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Probably because Lukas hadn't decided yet how Indy got his fear of snakes. He might have had other story ideas before he made the 3 indy movie. Ultimately, he decide to include the snake scene at the beginning of the 3rd instead. Which is causing this continuity issue.
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