As you already know, I’m a huge fan of the Indiana Jones movies. I like everything about them. (I like everything about the first three, that is. I only like most things about the fourth one.) And liking everything about them has led me to a shocking discovery.

One thing I really liked was a piece of music you hear in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. You hear it when Indy and his father have gone to Berlin to retrieve the Grail diary, as they’re surrounding by rallying, book-burning Nazis. I would hear that music and think: “I love that! It is awesome! John Williams surely composed a truly enjoyable piece in imitation of the kind of music heard at these events.”

But John Williams didn’t do anything of the kind.

See, a week or so ago I watched Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, an extremely important movie that I embarrassingly had only seen in excerpted form up to that point. So I’m watching it, and what do I hear? That music from Last Crusade! It isn’t an awesome pastiche of Nazi music. It’s real Nazi music! And I’ve been talking about how great it was!

Needless to say, my very perception of reality was shaken.

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