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moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 13 hours agoWhere do you get that he hired them?
The opening scene is them discussing that the tribe would kill them just for being in the area, and then Belloq taunts Jones saying he can’t warn them that he’s scamming them because Jones doesn’t speak Hovitos. No where does it say he hired them.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Scamming them is even worse, no?
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 10 hours ago
He didn’t know Belloq was there until after he had robbed them.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
So the entire point of my original comment was to give Indiana Jones a bit of vindication from the thinly veiled slander that he was nothing more than a tomb robber working for the colonialist west. How does your correction that Belloq was scamming the Hovitos, not paying them, make any difference to Jones’s character?
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 3 hours ago
It doesn’t. You said Belloq hired them to be his personal army, which paints the Hovitos as complicit in working against their own self-interests. As in, they were the betrayers of their own people and were selling out to Belloq for some cash.
But no, the reality is both Jones and Belloq were out to screw them: Jones by directly robbing them, and Belloq by first scamming them and then robbing them. Both were being imperialist and the Hovitos were the victims.