Why does Indiana Jones wear a leather jacket in the dessert?

[APP Adrian]

I've never watched the movies, but I would like to know why =).

 

[handymike]

Never watched the movies?!?
That's heresy around these parts.

 

[Seb Lucas]

It's a movie AAP Adrian. It's a movie...

There is no overarching "why", it just had the right look. A fedora, leather jacket and khakis was worn by the solider of fortune characters in a range of films that inspired Raiders, including China with Alan Ladd and Secret of the Incas with Charlton Heston. Raiders was intended as a pastiche of a range of movies and Saturday matinee serials.

The Raiders jacket was made of light lambskin to help reduce heat in filming locations and under studio lighting. Harrison Ford himself asked your question - he had to wear the sucker.

Here's Charlton.



Here's Alan.

 

[Sloan1874]

You try being dragged under a truck while wearing breathable cotton, see where that gets you! (it's on telly over here right now!). Oh, you want heresy? Not a single thing Indy does in the film has any bearing on the outcome of the plot. If he'd stayed home and marked papers, it would have been exactly the same!

 

[thor]

For a minute there I thought I read that he never watched the Indiana Jones movies, but that's impossible.

 

[gtdean48]

Leather is a good windbreaker & sandstorms would cut right thru cotton.
Desert nights get very chilly...

Only real reason is because it LOOKS COOL!!!!

 

[ykurtz]

@Thor, "I am your father, Luke.". Now THAT'S impossible!

 

[nick123]

Because he stumbled on the Fedora Lounge via his hat hobby and discovered the Outerwear section.

 

[tonypaj]

Desert, leather's OK, in fact. Tropics, forget about it. Dessert, kind of hard to chew.

 

[Fanch]

'cause like gtdean48 said "it LOOKS COOL!!!!" No other reason.

 

[emigran]

Oh, you want heresy? Not a single thing Indy does in the film has any bearing on the outcome of the plot. If he'd stayed home and marked papers, it would have been exactly the same!

Too funny...:eusa_clap:eusa_clap

 

[Monitor]

Not a single thing Indy does in the film has any bearing on the outcome of the plot. If he'd stayed home and marked papers, it would have been exactly the same!

Well, if anything, Indy (and Marion, of course) were the only ones that survived the opening of the Ark, so it was because of him that the Ark ended up in the USA government warehouse, not in Germany.

 

[eggleman]

You try being dragged under a truck while wearing breathable cotton, see where that gets you! (it's on telly over here right now!). Oh, you want heresy? Not a single thing Indy does in the film has any bearing on the outcome of the plot. If he'd stayed home and marked papers, it would have been exactly the same!

Someone watched the Big Bang Theory episode ?

 

[kronos77]

I saw one of the movies and hated it.

I don't like his leather jacket either.

Please don't ban me.

 

[Sloan1874]

Someone watched the Big Bang Theory episode ?

Yep, and you know what? It's absolutely true. I sat and watched it this evening for the first time since seeing that episode and the damn thing was ruined for me. It'll be a while before I can 'just enjoy the ride' again. :eeek:

 

[Sloan1874]

Well, if anything, Indy (and Marion, of course) were the only ones that survived the opening of the Ark, so it was because of him that the Ark ended up in the USA government warehouse, not in Germany.

But it would have been opened, killed everyone in the room and then been lost. Dramatically, not hugely different. Right, I've got that out of my system and I'm going to start to forget I ever saw that episode of Big Bang.

 

[Stanley Doble]

His tuxedo was at the dry cleaners?

 

[gtdean48]

Well, if anything, Indy (and Marion, of course) were the only ones that survived the opening of the Ark, so it was because of him that the Ark ended up in the USA government warehouse, not in Germany.

But if he hadn't, wouldn't it have gone to Berlin & killed Germany's WWII-era leader?

 

[Sloan1874]

There is a specific line where it's explained that it had to be opened and examined before being brought to Germany's WWII-era leader, lest something unpleasant be inside. Which, admittedly, was not to far off the mark...

 

[Mark Ricketts]

Whilst we are talking about Raiders, can someone please explain how he survived the submarine. Was a scene cut?