History Awesome / IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade

--->'''Henry Jones, Sr.''': "I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. ''"[[BadassBookworm Let my armies be the rocks and the trees, and the birds in the sky!]]"''"

---> '''Vogel:''' What is in the book? That miserable little diary of yours. ''[Slaps Henry with his glove]'' We have the map. The book is useless. And yet you come all the way back to Berlin to get it. Why. ''[Slap]'' What are you hiding? ''[Slap]'' What does the diary tell you that it does not tell us?\\

-->'''Indiana:''' [[SarcasmMode Two selfless martyrs... Jesus Ch-]]
-->''(Henry slaps him lightly)''
-->'''Henry:''' That's for blasphemy.

--> '''Sallah:''' Drop your guns...please.

---> '''Jones:''' Why are you trying to kill us?!
---> '''Kazim:''' Because you're looking for the Holy Grail!
---> '''Jones:''' My father was looking for the Holy Grail, ''did you kill him too?!''
---> '''Kazim:''' No!
---> '''Jones:''' Where is he?! Talk or you're dead! Damn it, tell me!! ''Tell me!!!''
---> '''Kazim:''' If you don't let go, Doctor Jones, we'll both die!
---> '''Jones:''' Then we'll die!
---> '''Kazim:''' ''[[NotAfraidToDie My]]'' [[NotAfraidToDie soul is prepared!]] How's yours?!
---> '''Jones:''' This is your last chance!
---> '''Kazim:''' No, Doctor Jones--it's ''yours!''

** Meta-epicness acquired from the fact that the finale was performed in real life for '''royalty'''. The royal family of Jordan (where the Petra temple - the real life "Grail Temple" - is located) attended the filming of those scenes.

* Meta awesome with Denholm Elliot, Marcus' actor. He was such a good rider, that he was able to make it look like he was about to wipe out without actually falling.

* Those crazy Knights Templar booby traps. When will they learn that you just can't get rid of Indiana that easy?
** Hey, don't knock those traps. The fact that they're ''still'' killing fools hundreds of years later, all while adhering to Christian themes, showed that those Templars were [[ReligiousBruiser Religious]] [[GeniusBruiser Genius Bruisers]] of the highest caliber.
** This Troper views Indy's decision on the final trap - a ''literal LeapOfFaith'' - to be a crowning moment when you see it for the first time, because you can't see how in the Hell Indiana can cross a vast chasm. The moment he lifts up that leg and prepares to leap off, you HAD to be on the edge of your seat thinking "How is he going to survive THIS one?"

* In this Troper's opinion, this movie has one of the most epic-looking FilmPosters '''ever'''. (See [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade the main page]]). Best of all, it doesn't exaggerate the thrills of the movie [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin one little bit]].

''[Vogel goes to slap Henry again, but Henry grabs his wrist before he can do so and [[DeathGlare glares right into his eyes]]]''\\

* [[RockBeatsLaser Indiana Jones on a horse vs. a tank and three trucks all full of Nazis]]. He tricks the tank into running over one of the cars, stuffs a rock down the side-cannon's barrel, jumps onto the tank, fights the Nazi Dragon, shoots three Nazis in one shot, throws the gun down to his dad so he can kill the Nazis in the tank and blow up the other truckload of soldiers (all while still getting beaten on), falls off of the tank into certain doom, gets back on anyway, chucks his best friend off the tank, saves his dad from being run over by the tank while the Dragon is still breaking ribs, manages to get his dad off of the tank, and manages to jump off himself just as it falls off a cliff taking the Dragon with it. And of course afterwards when everybody thinks he's dead, he climbs back up.

* Hey Indy, I bet you can't joust on a motorbike with a flagpo- NO WAY!!! Well, I bet you can't jam a flagpole into one of the Nazi biker's tire's and flip it ove- WHAT THE %$@*#!!! THE [[Series/{{MythBusters}} MYTHBUSTERS]] SAID THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE!!!

--> '''Sallah:''' Drop your guns....please.

** At one point during the tank scene, Marcus actually managed to knock out a Nazi soldier in the tank by lightly hitting him with a used canister shell, and as the soldier was knocked unconscious, he ends up accidentally firing the pistol he was holding, which then kills the driver of the tank after bullet goes around until it hit the driver's head, which then his limp body ends up causing the stick that controls the direction, and makes the tank go right, saving Indy from being crushed by a rock wall.

* In this Troper's opinion, this movie has one of the most epic-looking FilmPosters '''ever'''. (See [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade the main page]]). Best of all, [[PostersAlwaysLie the post doesn't exaggerate the thrills]] of the movie [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin one little bit]].

* Sallah gets one. While The Nazis and their escort are visibly freaked out after watching the Grail heal Henry. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Said Cohorts run like hell out of the temple]] leaving only the few Nazis left. Sallah takes the chance to hold the remaining few at gun point and making them drop their guns.

---> '''Kazim:''' ''My'' soul is prepared! How's yours?!

** Telling the Nazi colonel, "It tells me that goose-stepping ''morons'' like yourself should try ''reading'' books instead of ''burning'' them!"

[[caption-width-right:350:"You call this archeology?"]]

*** It's one of the few times his dad(a professor of medieval studies) is impressed.

** Also a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, but ''"Indiana. Let it go."''
** Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny (and possible {{Squick}}) but "She talks in her sleep."

* The ending ITSELF is an awesome moment. Watching the heroes ride off with the theme in full force leaves you feeling empowered! Also a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

** This Troper views Indy's decision on the final trap - a ''literal leap of faith'' - to be a crowning moment when you see it for the first time, because you can't see how in the Hell Indiana can cross a vast chasm. The moment he lifts up that leg and prepares to leap off, you HAD to be on the edge of your seat thinking "How is he going to survive THIS one?"

-->'''Marcus:''' ''[Calmly]'' I'd rather spit in your face, but seeing as I haven't got any spit...

** And speaking of Kazim--after he and Indy part on peaceful terms, he [[ChekhovsGunman comes back later in the movie]] with [[TheCavalry reinforcements]] to help Indy against ThoseWackyNazis. He dies fighting to protect the Grail, which is probably how he would've wanted to die.

---> '''Kazim:''' No, Doctor Jones--it's ''yours!''

* Hey Indy, I bet you can't joust on a motorbike with a flagpo- NO WAY!!! Well, I bet you can't jam a flagpole into one of the Nazi biker's tire's and flip it ove- WHAT THE %$@*#!!! THE [[Series/{{Mythbusters}} MYTHBUSTERS]] SAID THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE!!!
** [[MemeticMutation Indy rejects the Mythbusters' reality and substitutes his own]]. How, you ask? ''By being INDIANA-FUCKING-JONES,'' that's how!

** For years, Steven Spielberg was against making a fourth movie; that image was the perfect note to end the series on.

** Made even more {{Badass}} awesome by the fact that just before he realizes, "this tank is going off a cliff and I need to get the $#**% off", his [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere trademark fedora gets blown off in the wind]] and we think "Oh no, is this the end?". Then when he gets back off the cliff, bruised, bleeding, and for crying out loud just plain exhausted, with a look on his face that says "Hey, you guys go on ahead and find the Holy Grail without me, I'm just gonna lie down and die", his fedora blows back onscreen, he gives it a look, and resolutely puts it on and goes to join the others. Maybe Hitler declaring war on him wasn't such of an overreaction after all.

** Made even more badass awesome by the fact that just before he realizes, "this tank is going off a cliff and I need to get the $#**% off", his [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere trademark fedora gets blown off in the wind]] and we think "Oh no, is this the end?". Then when he gets back off the cliff, bruised, bleeding, and for crying out loud just plain exhausted, with a look on his face that says "Hey, you guys go on ahead and find the Holy Grail without me, I'm just gonna lie down and die", his fedora blows back onscreen, he gives it a look, and resolutely puts it on and goes to join the others. Maybe Hitler declaring war on him wasn't such of an overreaction after all.

-->'''Henry Jones, Sr.''': "I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. ''"[[BadassBookworm Let my armies be the rocks and the trees, and the birds in the sky!]]"''"

** Taking out a Nazi fighter plane with [[ImprovisedWeapon an umbrella and a flock of seagulls.]] "I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. ''"[[BadassBookworm Let my armies be the rocks and the trees, and the birds in the sky!]]"''"

* The opening scene with a teenaged Indy stealing the Cross of Coronado from a group of adults by making his way through a Circus Train, getting traumatized by snakes and taming lions along the way. In the end, he has to give up the cross. The fedora guy gives him his fedora, and when he looks up...