Spielberg was foreshadowing Belloch's destruction

Posted by Inby from ppp34.nwnetwork.net on June 22, 2001 at 02:24:42:

In Reply to: This could be what Belloq ate.... posted by Fall Guy on June 22, 2001 at 01:17:30:

by introducing a plague of insects into the shot. Unfortunately only one got past the cutting room floor.
"Plagues of desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Förskal), have been recognized as a threat to agricultural production in Africa and western Asia for thousands of years. Locust scourges are referred to in the Christian Bible and the Islamic Koran, and in some places, locust plagues have been held responsible for epidemics of human pathogens, such as cholera (this is because of the massive quantities of decomposing locust cadavers that would accumulate on beaches after swarms flew out to sea and drowned). Published accounts of locust invasions in North Africa date back to about AD 811, but more precise records were apparently not kept until the twentieth century (Showler 1993). Since then, it is known that desert locust plagues have occurred sporadically up until the present." (http://ipmworld.umn.edu/chapters/showler.htm).

Or maybe poor Rene and Indy were simply exchanging "tough guy" behaviors in a diseased environment:
http://www.medteams.com/countries_fact_sheets/Deseases_by_Region/North_Africa.html
and I don't need to be reminded of O'Toole's remark in Lawrence of Arabia about the desert being clean.

I'm going home to listen to my Carrol O'Conner blues albums.
Meathead.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Disease/diseases_NAfrica.html

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: by introducing a plague of insects into the shot.  Unfortunately only one got past the cutting room floor.
: "Plagues of desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Förskal), have been recognized as a threat to agricultural production in Africa and western Asia for thousands of years. Locust scourges are referred to in the Christian Bible and the Islamic Koran, and in some places, locust plagues have been held responsible for epidemics of human pathogens, such as cholera (this is because of the massive quantities of decomposing locust cadavers that would accumulate on beaches after swarms flew out to sea and drowned). Published accounts of locust invasions in North Africa date back to about AD 811, but more precise records were apparently not kept until the twentieth century (Showler 1993). Since then, it is known that desert locust plagues have occurred sporadically up until the present." (http://ipmworld.umn.edu/chapters/showler.htm).

: Or maybe poor Rene and Indy were simply exchanging "tough guy" behaviors in a diseased environment:
: http://www.medteams.com/countries_fact_sheets/Deseases_by_Region/North_Africa.html
: and I don't need to be reminded of O'Toole's remark in Lawrence of Arabia about the desert being clean.

: I'm going home to listen to my Carrol O'Conner blues albums.
: Meathead.

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