Comments on: 'Indiana Jones' sued over missing crystal skull

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:43:00 +0000

Top men are hard to find.

By: Soon Lee

Soon Lee — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:57:00 +0000

We have top men working on it.

By: Luther Blissett

Luther Blissett — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:56:00 +0000

…a timeless beauty. BTW, I’ve seen the original, once upon a time in Vienna. If the soap is life size, better get some more to stuff the socks.

And the Link for your convenience: http://www.lwl.org/lwl-museum-fuer-archaeologie-shop/index.php?page=product&info=148

This should make it into BB’s gift list. ;)

By: KrisM

KrisM — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:04:00 +0000

Hollywood has a long history of stealing, they can’t seem to come up with anything original.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:37:00 +0000

They’ve been around for far longer than Indiana Jones–I’d heard about them back in the seventies.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:35:00 +0000

Lasers really wouldn’t be the best thing to sculpt something made of a mineral that’s basically clear glass. Think about it.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:34:00 +0000

Venus of Willendorf soap? Holy crap, best stocking stuffer ever!

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 04:27:00 +0000

Nope, it should have been “Double dumbass on you!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcC1f1jqCPI

By: Alden

Alden — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:18:00 +0000

The pictures of the skull on its official website look nothing like the decidedly alien-proportioned skull in the film. I’m going to guess the claim against Hollywood was a publicity stunt.

By: spejic

spejic — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:00:00 +0000

Uy ah ual ing ual ing wetail.

By: Michael Collins

Michael Collins — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:16:00 +0000

We have lots of Crystal Skulls at ntrocks.com

By: Dom

Dom — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:07:00 +0000

Seeking the profits from the film – good luck proving that the studio made a profit. Hollywood accounting surely shows a loss for that film.

By: Baldhead

Baldhead — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:49:00 +0000

Here’s what I don’t get: we know what the Mitchell Hedges skull looks like. We know what the macguffin in the movie looks like. Aside from the description “crystal skull” they look nothing alike. The MH skull actually looks like it comes from a human for starters. So they did not use it’s likeness and Awe’s claim they look similar is a lie- or one hopes it’s a lie given his job.

By: sagodjur

sagodjur — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:28:00 +0000

If that were the case, it still wouldn’t be copyrightable. Same result regardless of the origin.

Ironically, the movie studio might have the strongest claim to the likeness of the specific skull they created since it was a part of an artistic work in fixed medium.

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:43:00 +0000

I pictured that skull saying “I’ve never even been to Belize.”

And I believe the skull.

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:41:00 +0000

ha, was it critical acclaim? I mean, if you start with a lie for money and blow it up further, that’s just a solid work ethic.

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:39:00 +0000

Now I will turn the valve, quickly releasing the light!

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:37:00 +0000

I guess if you can find the Ark in that huge fucking warehouse ought to give it back too. Good luck with that.

By: bill_mcgonigle

bill_mcgonigle — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:53:00 +0000

Maybe the judge will find that pretty much nobody had heard of crystal skulls before that abomination of a movie and that it increased the profitability of those skulls to the skull owners, so they owe Paramount some money. OK, that’s silly, dismissed with prejudice would be sufficient.

By: Felton / Moderator

Felton / Moderator — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Alien lasers!

By: LightningRose

LightningRose — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 15:45:00 +0000

That too would be astounding considering that lasers didn’t exist until the late 1950′s.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 15:42:00 +0000

Steampunk lasers, I assume.

By: Tim Harrington

Tim Harrington — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 15:39:00 +0000

But extradition is another matter.

By: Dee Imma Newbie Cranney

Dee Imma Newbie Cranney — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:45:00 +0000

They were discovered to be fakes were they not?, they analysed them and found they were cut using lasers and dated round the early 1920′s or that

By: Luther Blissett

Luther Blissett — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:19:00 +0000

Nice. I like the Venus of Willendorf soap in your webshop. You should try to sell skullsoaps as well, maybe like the H. heidelbergensis cranial no.5 in a smaller version. I would suspect that the gouvernment of Spain would not be able to sue you. 3d scans should be readily available, e.g. with Friedemann Schrenk and colleagues.

By: Mordicai

Mordicai — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:19:00 +0000

Ah, but what if it isn’t an ancient cultural relic but in fact TOTAL BS?

By: Florian Bösch

Florian Bösch — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:11:00 +0000

Jep. I’m pretty sure that they’re already working on that movie. It’s got everything, charismatic/insane protagonist, drugs, sex, gangsters, shady governments, crystal skulls, tomb raiders, south america. Ohwait, I think they already did that movie.

By: ffabian

ffabian — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 11:26:00 +0000

Not one of the 13 known crystal skulls is a real meso-american artefact. Most/all were probably made between 1850 and 1950 in the region around Idar-Oberstein, Germany. Idar-Oberstein was (and still is) famous for it’s natural gemstone resources and skilled crystal cutters. In the 19th century it was so remotely located that probable rumors of the production of those crystal skulls didn’t spread very far.

There is a ongoing exhibition called Schädelkult (Cult of the Skull) in the Archeology Museum Herne, Germany that adresses the issue (among other things): http://www.schaedelkult.lwl.org/
(I’m part of the team that realized the exhibition.)

By: darkjayson

darkjayson — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 11:08:00 +0000

During world war 2 a lot of relics and art work where stolen by well everyone on both sides, decades later even when the original people who took the relics and art are gone the authorities in charge of finding and returning the stolen relics find and take them even from people who only inherited them. Just because your ancestors committed the crime does not mean you can still profit from it especially if it is with stolen items you still posses. They might not be charged with the theft but they can have the items taken of them.

By: Ian Brett Cooper

Ian Brett Cooper — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 10:40:00 +0000

Wait… isn’t the proper response. “SO DO YOU!”?