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The museum collections scene is the most realistic scene in Indiana Jones, cmv. (mander.xyz)

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[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

The best idea I heard about continuing the Indiana Jones franchise is Short Round (played by Academy Award Winner Ke Huy Quan) stealing artifacts from Western museums to return them to their rightful people.

[-] frustratedphagocytosis@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I thought about this setup but with Sallah's kids, he had so many that could team up and collect all the Egyptian artifacts in the British Museum during WWII since everyone else is distracted

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] Catoblepas 7 points 1 year ago

without a hint of self awareness about who fucked up these countries to begin with

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's irrelevant at this point, for this topic. If leaving it means it'll be destroyed by whomever is in power at the moment, then leaving it is a bad idea until it's stabilized.

[-] Catoblepas 1 points 1 year ago

Countries can and do ask the museums currently caring for them to continue to do so if they're unable to provide adequate care for the artifacts themselves for whatever reason. Yemen and the Metropolitan Museum of Art came to an agreement over looted artifacts just a couple of weeks ago with Yemen maintaining ownership of the artifacts, but on display at the Met. It's still important for countries to maintain ownership of culturally significant artifacts that have been looted.

[-] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Uh, no. The Taliban ordered the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, not Daesh / IS.

Daesh destroys relics, but the Buddhas were destroyed in 2001, before Daesh was even a part of Al Qaeda.

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago

well, but that awareness doesn't unfuck those countries. so they're still right

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Somehow I managed to only see one of these films once during my archaeology master's lmao.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Once again, I will promote the excellent podcast, Stuff the British Stole. No affiliation.

[-] stephfinitely@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Honestly with how good we have become are reproduction. Their is very little (I don't think any) that we need to keep the originals away from the county of origin.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now this is a format I can get behind.

[-] timduncant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

We are still looking at it!

[-] spark947@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That line was always supposed to be a joke.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

If we conqured you that nears you're par of our country now so it's technically still in its country of origin right?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Does the country of origin have a museum?

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