ToD Cufflinks

Neolithic · Post by **Neolithic** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 3:55 am

Anyone noticed the cufflinks Indy wears in the opening scene of ToD?
They look like cool little motifs of the Eye of Ra...
Too hard an object to go searching for do you think?

Pyroxene · Post by **Pyroxene** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:13 am

I was just thinking about it this weekend.

Minnesota Jones · Post by **Minnesota Jones** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:16 am

I was looking at those back when I was putting together my tux. They'd be pretty tough to find I think. I have about 6 or so pair of my Dad's old cufflinks from the 1940's and 1950's, so I used a set of them.

auntsugar · Post by **auntsugar** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

No search is "too hard" do ya think? That's the fun, and frustrating part of this hobby. I never noticed the cuff links, but will look for them tonight.
Thanks for the tip...

Indiana Texas-girl · Post by **Indiana Texas-girl** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:54 pm

I wonder if you can use the Idol belly ring that Michaelson mentioned in another thread and alter those into cufflinks of sorts. (just an idea for you guys...we girls don't do cufflinks ya know.)

rbxb · Post by **rbxb** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:57 pm

Actually cufflinks are making a comeback.
Thats a good thing

DocIndyJones · Post by **DocIndyJones** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:50 am

The cufflinks are not motifs of Ra... I was watching the VHS closely (wasn't allowed to buy the DVD's... the release date so close to Christmas... but I already guessed the present and my girl told me it was the DVD's... but she still won't let me open them till Christmas...) anyway... the guys with the DVD's open if you look where Indy takes the champine glass you can see they're not Ra.

Besides why would they be Indy hadn't discovered Ra at this point anyway... TOD takes place before Raider's as we all know.

Now I could be wrong and this could be a inside joke played by the people involved in the film.

-Doc

Gater · Post by **Gater** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 9:58 am

As an archaeologist and a scholar, I have to assume that Professor Indiana Jones may have heard of the Sun God before he went searching for the headpiece. Just an assumption. It's a fairly common diety, after all.

Neolithic · Post by **Neolithic** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:52 pm

Apologies, guys- just to clear some confusion...
I didn't mean the headpiece from Raiders (is that what you meant DIJ?)- I meant that the cufflinks appear to be 30's streamlined versions of the Eye of Ra of real Egyptian mythology- do a Google Image search and you'll see what I mean...
After thinking about this more though, I'd be very suprised if it was anything vaguely Archaeological... although it's just so hard to see clearly even on the DVD (although my TV isn't huuuuge).
I can't do screenshots- but the best views are when Indy is about to swirl his finger through his poisoned drink and while he is going for the antidote down Willie's top. (Just typing that last line sounds more metaphorical than literal)...

DocIndyJones · Post by **DocIndyJones** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 2:18 am

I thought you where refering to the Ra headpeice from Raiders. You where right with the google search it very well could be. And now that I think about it would the Headpeice make some cool cufflinks?

-Doc

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