Raiders of the Lost Ark: An Extra Wearing Jeans

Steven Spielberg’s iconic adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first in the Indiana Jones series, keenly depicts Egypt in the mid-1930s. However, between the earth-toned trinkets and the intricate tapestries that line the city market, there’s something, or rather someone, that ruins the entire atmosphere.

If you take a close look at the background of one particular scene, just behind Harrison Ford, you’ll see an extra wearing a T-shirt and blue jeans, casually co-mingling with Egyptian locals in traditional outfits as if he doesn’t stick out for his wardrobe malfunction. Of course, this wardrobe malfunction wouldn’t get much attention in 1981, the year the film was shot, but it attracts all the wrong kind of attention in 1936 when the film takes place.