Random Movie Trivia - Raiders of the Lost Ark Part 2

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Raiders of the Lost Ark Part 2

• Despite having the dream team of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg behind the film, it was initially turned down by every studio in Hollywood. Only after much persuasion did Paramount agree to do it.
• The spirit effects at the climax were achieved by shooting mannequins underwater in slow motion through a fuzzy lens to achieve an ethereal quality.
• The out-of-control airplane actually ran over Harrison Ford's knee, tearing his ligaments. Rather than submit to Tunisian health care, Ford had his knee wrapped in ice and carried on.
• Harrison Ford actually outran the boulder in the opening sequence. Because the scene was shot twice from five different angles, he had to outrun it ten times. Ford's stumble in the scene was deemed to look authentic and was left in.
• When Brody first goes to Indy's house to discuss the mission, Jones is dressed the way he is because he was entertaining a young woman in his bedroom. The script originally planned to show her before moving to the next scene to give Indy a more worldly persona (like James Bond). However, her appearance was cut out as Spielberg thought that being a playboy did not fit Indy's character.
• Many of the snakes in the Well of Souls are not snakes but legless lizards (look for the earholes, which snakes lack).
• Indiana Jones' name comes from the name of Marcia Lucas' (George Lucas' wife) dog and is a play on Steve McQueen's eponymous character name in Nevada Smith (1966). Indiana the dog, who was a Malamute, also served as the inspiration for Chewbacca in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
• The Well of Souls sequence was filmed on the set of the Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining."
• Body Count: 67 (including the monkey).