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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Omar won't risk killing Al-Juhara because he's superstitious himself, though not enough to stop him from impersonating a holy man.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: WhyDontYouJustShootHim:
** Omar won't risk killing Al-Juhara because he's superstitious himself, though not enough to stop him from impersonating a holyman.man.
** Jack demands this when Omar puts him and Joan in a sadistic DeathTrap, only to eat his words when it turns out Omar is just cribbing from a Joan Wilder novel.
** Omar won't risk killing Al-Juhara because he's superstitious himself, though not enough to stop him from impersonating a holy
** Jack demands this when Omar puts him and Joan in a sadistic DeathTrap, only to eat his words when it turns out Omar is just cribbing from a Joan Wilder novel.
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* MeaningfulName: At the end of the film, Jack names his newly-purchased boat ''Angelina'', after Joan's fictional heroine.
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* TookALevelInBadass: ''Joan''. She starts out the movie as a mousey, cringing DamselInDistress, but by the end of it she's throwing switchblades, burning Zolo with his own cigar, bashing him with a broken board right in his handless stump, knocking him [[KillItWithFire onto a lantern]], and dodging so that [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill he falls into a pit of crocodiles]]. How far she's come is first hinted at during the start of hostilities at the fort: when the guns start going off, Elaine (who Joan had initially thought was the stronger sister) screams and cowers on her knees, but Joan doesn't even bat an eye, simply helping her up and dragging her off to safety elsewhere. Later, when Joan's knife gambit doesn't work, Elaine faints.[[note]]Then again, Elaine got a piece from her husband from Zolo, and had been a hostage for days, so her mental health probably wasn't at its best.[[/note]]
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* TookALevelInBadass: ''Joan''. She starts out the movie as a mousey, cringing DamselInDistress, but by the end of it she's throwing switchblades, burning Zolo with his own cigar, bashing him with a broken board right in his handless stump, knocking him [[KillItWithFire onto a lantern]], and dodging so that [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill he falls into a pit of crocodiles]]. How far she's come is first hinted at during the start of hostilities at the fort: when the guns start going off, Elaine (who Joan had initially thought was the stronger sister) screams and cowers on her knees, but Joan doesn't even bat an eye, simply helping her up and dragging her off to safety elsewhere. Later, when Joan's knife gambit doesn't work, Elaine faints.[[note]]Then again, Elaine got a piece from of her husband from Zolo, and had been a hostage for days, so her mental health probably wasn't at its best.[[/note]]
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* TreasureMap: Played straight, thanks to the genre. Joan Wilder is sent a treasure map by her sister for safekeeping. But then the sister is kidnapped and Joan is forced to travel to South America to deliver the map. Inevitably, she and Jesse Colton end up following the map themselves. The landmarks on the map are labeled in Spanish (but Jack can read it), and thanks to a couple of {{Contrived Coincidence}}s (the bus Zolo directs Joan to going into Cordoba, the escape from him and his men leaving the pair right near the pitchfork-shaped tree Tenedor del Diablo) they end up in just the right place to follow the map. In a unique twist, the final hiding place for the Stone is revealed by folding the map so that a drawing of a woman with long hair becomes the waterfall it's behind.
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* TreasureMap: Played straight, thanks to the genre. Joan Wilder is sent a treasure map by her sister for safekeeping. But then the sister is kidnapped and Joan is forced to travel to South America to deliver the map. Inevitably, she and Jesse Jack Colton end up following the map themselves. The landmarks on the map are labeled in Spanish (but Jack can read it), and thanks to a couple of {{Contrived Coincidence}}s (the bus Zolo directs Joan to going into Cordoba, the escape from him and his men leaving the pair right near the pitchfork-shaped tree Tenedor del Diablo) they end up in just the right place to follow the map. In a unique twist, the final hiding place for the Stone is revealed by folding the map so that a drawing of a woman with long hair becomes the waterfall it's behind.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Jack Colton. Actually he's more like "adventurer".
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: AdventurerArchaeologist:
** Jack Colton. Actually he's more like "adventurer".
** Jack Colton. Actually he's more like "adventurer".
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* DoubleSubversion: After obtaining the map, just when it seems he will pull a YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo on Joan and Elaine, Ira...actually does release them. Then, just when it seems they've gotten away scot-free, gunshots suddenly ring out. [[ZigZaggingTrope It appears]] that Jack [[BigDamnHeroes has come to rescue them]]...only to have it revealed he's been captured by the BigBad.
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* DoubleSubversion: DoubleSubversion:
** After obtaining the map, just when it seems he will pull a YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo on Joan and Elaine, Ira...actually does release them. Then, just when it seems they've gotten away scot-free, gunshots suddenly ring out. [[ZigZaggingTrope It appears]] that Jack [[BigDamnHeroes has come to rescue them]]...only to have it revealed he's been captured by the BigBad.
** After obtaining the map, just when it seems he will pull a YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo on Joan and Elaine, Ira...actually does release them. Then, just when it seems they've gotten away scot-free, gunshots suddenly ring out. [[ZigZaggingTrope It appears]] that Jack [[BigDamnHeroes has come to rescue them]]...only to have it revealed he's been captured by the BigBad.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Kidnapper Ira really doesn't like Zolo.
-->'''Elaine:''' The man who killed my husband?\\
-->'''Elaine:''' The man who killed my husband?\\
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Kidnapper Ira really doesn't like Zolo.
-->'''Elaine:''' --->'''Elaine:''' The man who killed my husband?\\
** Kidnapper Ira really doesn't like Zolo.
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* HowWouldYouLikeToDie: Done twice, first in an excerpt from one of Joan Wilder's novels and played for comedy:
-->'''Grogan''': You can die two ways: quick like the tongue of a snake, or slower than the molasses in January.
-->'''Joan, narrating''': But it was October.
-->'''Grogan''': I'll kill you, goddammit, if it's the Fourth of July!
-->'''Grogan''': You can die two ways: quick like the tongue of a snake, or slower than the molasses in January.
-->'''Joan, narrating''': But it was October.
-->'''Grogan''': I'll kill you, goddammit, if it's the Fourth of July!
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* HowWouldYouLikeToDie: HowWouldYouLikeToDie:
** Done twice, first in an excerpt from one of Joan Wilder's novels and played for comedy:
-->'''Grogan''': --->'''Grogan''': You can die two ways: quick like the tongue of a snake, or slower than the molasses in January.
-->'''Joan, --->'''Joan, narrating''': But it was October.
-->'''Grogan''': --->'''Grogan''': I'll kill you, goddammit, if it's the Fourth of July!
** Done twice, first in an excerpt from one of Joan Wilder's novels and played for comedy:
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Jesse. Of course, being a MartyStu, it's a given. [[invoked]]
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Jesse. Of course, being a an InUniverse MartyStu, it's a given. [[invoked]]
%%* InevitableWaterfallgiven.
* InevitableWaterfall: After Joan and Jack are racing away from Zolo and his goons in Ralph's car, she decides to [[CallBack reproduce]] Juan's "Lupe's Escape" ramp jump over the river. But since there isn't a ramp, they end up in the river...and carried downstream until they go over the waterfall, forcing them to jump out of the car to make it through unscathed. Since they end up separated on opposite sides of the river, she with the map and he with the stone, this ups the stakes for the climactic face-off/hostage exchange, making this actually a significant plot point. To further keep the waterfall from seeming like a random danger, it's actually one of the landmarks on the map (and behind which the stone was hidden).
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* InevitableWaterfall: After Joan and Jack are racing away from Zolo and his goons in Ralph's car, she decides to [[CallBack reproduce]] Juan's "Lupe's Escape" ramp jump over the river. But since there isn't a ramp, they end up in the river...and carried downstream until they go over the waterfall, forcing them to jump out of the car to make it through unscathed. Since they end up separated on opposite sides of the river, she with the map and he with the stone, this ups the stakes for the climactic face-off/hostage exchange, making this actually a significant plot point. To further keep the waterfall from seeming like a random danger, it's actually one of the landmarks on the map (and behind which the stone was hidden).
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* MrExposition: Ira, with Elaine being an audience standin, spells out just how evil Zolo is, has described above in EvenEvilHasStandards.
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* MrExposition: Ira, with Elaine being an audience standin, stand-in, spells out just how evil Zolo is, has as described above in EvenEvilHasStandards.
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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: El Corazon is temporarily lost when a crocodile swallows it along with Zolo's hand. Jack Colton gives chase after it, and returns in the final scene with boots made from crocodile-hide.
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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: NeverSmileAtACrocodile:
** El Corazon is temporarily lost when a crocodile swallows it along with Zolo's hand. Jack Colton gives chase after it, and returns in the final scene with boots made from crocodile-hide.
** El Corazon is temporarily lost when a crocodile swallows it along with Zolo's hand. Jack Colton gives chase after it, and returns in the final scene with boots made from crocodile-hide.
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* RopeBridge
** An aged trestle, actually. Jack was apparently being hyperbolic.
* RunningGag: Everyone seems to have photocopiers, no matter how remote in the Colombian wilderness
** An aged trestle, actually. Jack was apparently being hyperbolic.
* RunningGag: Everyone seems to have photocopiers, no matter how remote in the Colombian wilderness
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* RopeBridge
**RopeBridge: An aged trestle, actually. Jack was apparently being hyperbolic.
*RunningGag: RunningGag:
** Everyone seems to have photocopiers, no matter how remote in the Colombian wilderness
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** Everyone seems to have photocopiers, no matter how remote in the Colombian wilderness
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* {{Expy}}: Omar is stated to be the setting's equivalent of Saddam Hussein and based on him. However, he's the dictator of a country called Kadir which is close enough to the Nile that tribal people call their spiritual leader its Jewel. In effect, making Kadir probably a stand-in for Libya and Omar a CompositeCharacter of Saddam Hussein and Quadaffi.
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* {{Expy}}: Omar Khalifa is stated to be the setting's equivalent of Saddam Hussein and based on him. However, he's the dictator of a country called Kadir which is close enough to the Nile that tribal people call their spiritual leader its Jewel. In effect, making Kadir probably a stand-in for Libya and Omar a CompositeCharacter of Saddam Hussein and Quadaffi.
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A sequel called ''The Jewel of the Nile'' was released the following year. Zemeckis was not involved, as he was busy at the time with a little film called ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', nor was Thomas, although she was still living when it went into production (she's one of the people the movie's dedicated to). Turner, Douglas, and [=DeVito=] all returned, however.
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A sequel called ''The Jewel of the Nile'' was released the following year. Zemeckis was not involved, as he was busy at the time with a little film called ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', nor was Thomas, although she was still living when it went into production (she's one of the people the movie's dedicated to). Turner, Douglas, and [=DeVito=] all returned, however.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The film was excoriated by several critics (Professor Jack Shaheen listed it among the "Worst" films in his documentary ''Reel Bad Arabs'') for, among several other reasons, misleading audiences into believing that Islam is centered around worship of a "holy man", instead of the same deity as Judaism and Christianity.
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba:
-->'''Ralph''': Come on, Colton! Where's the Jewel?\\
'''Al-Juhara''': Ralph, ''I'' am the Jewel. The Jewel of the Nile.\\
'''Ralph''': Yeah, and I'm a kumquat from Queens!
-->'''Ralph''': Come on, Colton! Where's the Jewel?\\
'''Al-Juhara''': Ralph, ''I'' am the Jewel. The Jewel of the Nile.\\
'''Ralph''': Yeah, and I'm a kumquat from Queens!
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* FakeOutOpening: As if being an AffectionateParody of AdventurerArchaeologist movies wasn't enough, it opens with one of a WildWest romance novel, complete with Joan's hammy narration.
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* FakeOutOpening: As if being an AffectionateParody of AdventurerArchaeologist movies wasn't enough, it opens with one of a WildWest romance novel, novel set in TheWildWest, complete with Joan's hammy narration.
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-->'''Ralph:''' I hate Americano! I spit on 'em! Ptui! American scum-o! Scum-o!
-->'''Zolo:''' Etes-vous Francais? (Are you French?)
-->'''Zolo:''' Etes-vous Francais? (Are you French?)
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-->'''Ralph:''' I hate Americano! I spit on 'em! Ptui! American scum-o! Scum-o!
-->'''Zolo:'''Scum-o!\\
'''Zolo:''' Etes-vous Francais? (Are you French?)
-->'''Zolo:'''
'''Zolo:''' Etes-vous Francais? (Are you French?)
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* FakeOutOpening: As if being an AffectionateParody of AdventurerArchaeologist movies wasn't enough, it opens with one of an OldWest romance novel, complete with Joan's hammy narration.
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* FakeOutOpening: As if being an AffectionateParody of AdventurerArchaeologist movies wasn't enough, it opens with one of an OldWest a WildWest romance novel, complete with Joan's hammy narration.
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-->'''Elaine:''' The man who killed my husband?
-->'''Ira:''' ''TheButcher'' who killed your husband. A very powerful man with his own private army to back him up. And whether he calls himself "Dr. Zolo, Minister of Antiquities", or "Colonel Zolo, Deputy Commander of the SecretPolice", he's still just ''a butcher''.
-->'''Ira:''' ''TheButcher'' who killed your husband. A very powerful man with his own private army to back him up. And whether he calls himself "Dr. Zolo, Minister of Antiquities", or "Colonel Zolo, Deputy Commander of the SecretPolice", he's still just ''a butcher''.
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-->'''Elaine:''' The man who killed my husband?
-->'''Ira:'''husband?\\
'''Ira:''' ''TheButcher'' who killed your husband. A very powerful man with his own private army to back him up. And whether he calls himself "Dr. Zolo, Minister of Antiquities", or "Colonel Zolo, Deputy Commander of the SecretPolice", he's still just ''a butcher''.
-->'''Ira:'''
'''Ira:''' ''TheButcher'' who killed your husband. A very powerful man with his own private army to back him up. And whether he calls himself "Dr. Zolo, Minister of Antiquities", or "Colonel Zolo, Deputy Commander of the SecretPolice", he's still just ''a butcher''.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Jesse. Of course, being a [[InUniverse deliberate]] MartyStu, it's a given.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Jesse. Of course, being a [[InUniverse deliberate]] MartyStu, it's a given.given. [[invoked]]
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-->'''Jack''': [''leans back out of a cloud of smoke with a goofy smile on his face''] Yeaaah ''that's'' what I call a ''campfire''.
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-->'''Jack''': [''leans back out of a cloud of smoke with a goofy smile on his face''] Yeaaah Yeaaah, ''that's'' what I call a ''campfire''.
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* KarmicDeath: Averted. We're led to believe that it's gonna be the villain who always plays with his crocodiles [[spoiler: But it's actually Zolo that gets eaten by them.]]
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* KarmicDeath: Averted. We're led to believe that it's gonna be the villain who always plays with his crocodiles crocodiles, [[spoiler: But but it's actually Zolo that who gets eaten by them.]]them]].
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Jesse. Of course, being a MartyStu, it's a given.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Jesse. Of course, being a [[InUniverse deliberate]] MartyStu, it's a given.
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* ICallHerVera: An automotive variety, as Juan denies having a car, just a "little mule" named "Pepe". [[spoiler: "Pepe" is a four-wheel drive bulletproof (and fireproof!) Jeep.]]
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* ICallHerVera: An automotive variety, as Juan denies having a car, just a "little mule" named "Pepe". [[spoiler: "Pepe" is a custom four-wheel drive bulletproof (and fireproof!) Jeep.Ford Bronco.]]
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** Juan is half-offended when Joan and Jack say he heard he has a car. No, he has his "little mule", Pepe. [[spoiler:Pepe being a tricked-out four-wheel drive Jeep -- which is definitely not a car.]]
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** Juan is half-offended when Joan and Jack say he heard he has a car. No, he has his "little mule", Pepe. [[spoiler:Pepe being a tricked-out four-wheel drive Jeep Ford Bronco -- which is definitely not a car.]]
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Omar fires a rocket launcher at our heroes, causing a rockfall that traps all his vehicles.
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* BigGood: The Jewel is this. His actual name is Al-Juhara.
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* BigGood: The Jewel is this. [[spoiler: The titular Jewel of the Nile is not actually a gemstone this time, it is actually The religious title of a person]] His actual name is Al-Juhara.
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A sequel called ''The Jewel Of The Nile'' was released the following year. Zemeckis was not involved, as he was busy at the time with a little film called ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', nor was Thomas, although she was still living when it went into production (she's one of the people the movie's dedicated to). Turner, Douglas, and [=DeVito=] all returned, however.
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A sequel called ''The Jewel Of The of the Nile'' was released the following year. Zemeckis was not involved, as he was busy at the time with a little film called ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', nor was Thomas, although she was still living when it went into production (she's one of the people the movie's dedicated to). Turner, Douglas, and [=DeVito=] all returned, however.
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