How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Quote #7
Vogel holds Elsa at gunpoint.
VOGEL: Put down the gun or the Fräulein dies.
HENRY: But she's one of them.
ELSA: Indy, please!
HENRY: She's a Nazi.
INDIANA: What?
HENRY: Trust me.
ELSA: Indy, no!
VOGEL: I will kill her!
HENRY: Eh? Go ahead.
INDIANA: No! Don't shoot!
HENRY: Don't worry. He won't.
ELSA: Indy, please. Do what he says.
HENRY: And don't listen to her.
VOGEL: Enough! She dies!
Elsa screams.
INDIANA: Wait! Wait.
Indiana slides his gun over to Vogel. Vogel lets Elsa go, and she runs into Indiana's arms.
ELSA: I'm sorry.
INDIANA: No. Don't be.
Elsa takes the Grail diary from Indy's pocket, smiles, and hands it to Vogel.
ELSA: But you should've listened to your father.
She's right; he should have listened to his dad. But that would go against Indiana's idea of masculinity. "Real" men are wiser than their old, bookish dads, right? Well, um, perhaps, but we're guessing "real" men don't get played the way that Elsa royally played Indiana here, either…
Quote #8
INDIANA: How did you know she was a Nazi?
HENRY: Hmm?
INDIANA: How did you know she was a Nazi?
HENRY: She talks in her sleep.
Guess Dad's not a total nerd, after all. Indiana's stunned by this revelation because he doesn't see his dad as someone who embodies any of the traditional values of masculinity that Indiana values—things like strength, virility, or magnetism.
Quote #9
ELSA: It's perfectly obvious where the pages are. He's given them to Marcus Brody.
HENRY: Marcus? You didn't drag poor Marcus along, did you? He's not up to the challenge.
DONOVAN: He sticks out like a sore thumb. We'll find him.
INDIANA: The hell you will. He's got a two-day head start on you, which is more than he needs. Brody's got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan. He speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom. He'll blend in, disappear; you'll never see him again. With any luck, he's got the Grail already.
Cut to the middle of a chaotic Middle Eastern bazaar and Marcus Brody sticking out like a sore thumb.
BRODY: Uh, does anyone here speak English—or even ancient Greek?
If Indiana and Henry are on different sides of the planet when it comes to masculinity, Brody's in a whole different galaxy. He's an academic to the max, and not nearly as resourceful as either of the Jones men. That's why the idea of him smoothly slipping away from the bad guys is so easily played for laughs. But does this make him less "masculine"?