How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Quote #7
INDIANA: Remember the last time we had a quiet drink? Huh?
Henry pages through his Grail diary.
INDIANA: I had a milkshake.
HENRY: (Looking through his diary:) Hmm. What did we talk about?
INDIANA: We didn't talk. We've never talked.
HENRY: (Looking through his diary:) Do I detect a rebuke?
INDIANA: A regret. It was just the two of us, Dad. It was a lonely way to grow up—for you, too. If you'd been an ordinary, average father like the other guys' dads, you'd have understood that.
HENRY: (Looking through his diary:) Actually, I was a wonderful father.
INDIANA: When?
Henry finally looks up from his diary.
HENRY: Did I ever tell you to eat up, go to bed, wash your ears, do your homework? No, I respected your privacy, and I taught you self-reliance.
INDIANA: What you taught me was that I was less important to you than people who'd been dead for five hundred years in another country, and I learned it so well, that we've hardly spoken for 20 years.
HENRY: You left just when you were becoming interesting.
INDIANA: Unbelievable. Dad…
HENRY: Heh. I'm here now.
Henry closes his diary.
HENRY: What do you want to talk about? Hmm?
INDIANA: (Stammers, then laughs in resignation.) I can't think of anything.
HENRY: Then what are you complaining about? We have work to do!
Now we're talking—literally—and here's what we learn: it's taken Indiana a long time to gather up the courage to air his grievances with Henry, while Henry thinks he was a rad dad precisely because he was so hands off. Who's right? It doesn't matter. What matters most is that they're talking. Kind of.
Quote #8
HENRY: Those people are trying to kill us!
INDIANA: I know, Dad!
HENRY: Well, it's a new experience for me.
INDIANA: Happens to me all the time.
This exchange reinforces the conversation that Indiana and Brody have earlier in the film, when Indiana says his dad's not a field man but a bookworm. When it comes to hijacking planes, shooting guns, and avoiding getting shot, Indiana assumes the paternal, mentor role, and Henry has to follow his lead. Hey, we all know how that feels. Put a smartphone in your parents' hands, and suddenly you're the parent, are we right?
Quote #9
SALLAH: Please, what does it always mean, this...this "Junior"?
HENRY: That's his name. Henry Jones, Jr.
INDIANA: I like "Indiana."
HENRY: We named the dog "Indiana."
BRODY: May we go home now, please?
SALLAH: The dog?
Sallah starts laughing.
SALLAH: You are named after the dog?
Sallah laughs boisterously.
INDIANA: I've got a lot of fond memories of that dog.
So Indiana rebelled against his absentee dad by…naming himself after the family dog? At least the pooch wasn't named Fluffles or Popcorn, we guess. Fluffles Jones and the Last Crusade. Yeah, that's not going to cut it.