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Because he prefers his chosen name of Indiana. Also, due to his strained relationship with his father, he's likely not thrilled about sharing his father's first name. Finally, when Henry calls Indy "Junior" it makes Indy feel like his father still sees him as a child.

When archeology professor Dr Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr (Harrison Ford) learns that his father, Professor Henry Jones Sr (Sean Connery) has disappeared and Indy subsequently obtains his diary that holds clues and a map to find the Holy Grail, Indy and museum curator Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott) travel to Venice, Italy in search of him. Aided by clues from a stone tablet found by private collector Walter Donovan (Julian Glover) and by Dr Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody), their search takes them to Berlin, where they become pitted against the Nazis in a race to find the Holy Grail.

The Last Crusade is the third movie in the Indian Jones series, preceded by Jäger des verlorenen Schatzes (1981) (1981) and Indiana Jones und der Tempel des Todes (1984) (1984) and followed by Indiana Jones und das Königreich des Kristallschädels (2008) (2008) and Indiana Jones und das Rad des Schicksals (2023). The Last Crusade is based on a story conceived by American film maker George Lucas and Dutch-born screenwriter Menno Meyjes. The screenplay for The Last Crusade was written by American screenwriter Jeffrey Boam The Last Crusade was novelized in 1989 by Rob MacGregor and republished in 2008.

1912 (young Indy prologue) and 1938 (the rest of the film).

The box was part of the "magic" car on a traveling railroad circus. It had a trap door in the bottom which dropped Indy onto the tracks below the train, where you see him running away. Another explanation is that it was truly magic, since Spielberg does use many supernatural elements in his movies or intentional moments in which the audience is supposed to suspend disbelief. However, this would seem to run contrary to Indy's assertion that he doesn't believe in magic, stated early in Raiders of the Lost Ark (though numerous events in the prequel film Temple of Doom also cause problems with this theme).

To make it harder for thieves to find. The markers, the stone and the shield, were left as clues. Also, the locations of the markers were not revealed in the journal either; the knight probably thought that the right person or persons who would do research to find the markers, would be on the side of righteousness. Henry Jones Sr is such a person who did 20 years of research and was able to draw his map to the temple.

The Nazis often held public rallies as a way of garnering support for their cause. The most famous rallies are probably the 1934 events that took place in Nuremberg, which are documented in Leni Riefenstahl's movie, Triumph des Willens (1935). At this particular rally, we see Hitler supporters throwing handfuls of books at a large bonfire. The Nazis were notorious for publicly burning books that they felt undermined or openly criticized the policies of Hitler and the Third Reich. The most famous of these burnings took place in May 1933 in Berlin.

No, since the quote is out of context. As he is about to leave the castle, Donovan receives two urgent telegrams from Germany that he reads: "We have Marcus Brody, more important we have the map" and "By the personal command of the Führer, secrecy essential to success, eliminate the American conspirators". After he reads both; as a purely personal comment to Vogel, he adds, "Germany has declared war on the Jones boys", as a way to joke about the order to execute them and not as a reference to any war literally being declared.