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Jun 4, 2023 · Without CGI in popular use, nothing like the Indiana Jones face melt scene had ever been attempted before. It was a challenge that director Steven Spielberg accomplished by shooting footage of actor Ronald Lacey screaming and then trusting ILM to make the rest a reality.
Jun 12, 2021 · The head of Nazi colonel Herman Dietrich (Wolf Kahler) shrinks as he dies hideously, freaky henchman Toht (Ronald Lacey) screams when his face melts down to the skull, and Belloq’s head blows...
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Feb 5, 2024 · VFX artists analyze a flaw in the face-melting scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark: The glasses make the time-lapse filming technique noticeable upon close examination.
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Major Arnold Ernst Toht had at least one sibling, a sister named Ilsa, a future agent of the Third Reich herself. Toht joined the Gestapo and, as with the rest of his Gestapo brethren, was trained in the art of combat, interrogation, torture, and espionage, and was well-versed in mysticism and the belief in Aryan society. Over time, Toht became a skilled torturer and interrogator, relishing the opportunity to inflict pain and suffering even for its own sake, and a firm believer in the Nazi do...
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1. "I have the perfect man for this kind of work." 2. ―Herman Dietrich In 1936, Toht was sent to Nepal by the Third Reich Special Antiquities Collection to acquire the headpiece to the Staff of Ra from Marion Ravenwood. Toht and his surbordinate Otto hired three henchmen off the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal known as the Ratty Nepalese, the Mean Mongolian and the Giant Sherpa, paying them a handful of cash to ensure their loyalties. They all followed the American archaeologist Indiana Jone...
Legacy
After Toht's death, his sister Ilsa tried to avenge him by killing Indiana Jones, the adventurer who had contributed to his death. Ilsa, a high-ranking official of the Third Reich in the same vein as her brother, became head of a plot by the Nazis involving the theft of the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol and its use in manipulating the South American native peoples into sabotaging the American rubber interests and joining the Third Reich were war to break out. Deeming her as nasty as her brother,...
Toht was portrayed by the late Ronald Lacey in Raiders of the Lost Ark who is never referred to by name beyond the credits and only has a total of sixteen lines in the film. The film'snovel establishes Toht's first name as "Arnold" but in Marvel Comics' The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones, the character's sister Ilsa refers to him as "Ernst Toh...
Raiders of the Lost Ark novel (First appearance)Raiders of the Lost ArkcomicRaiders of the Lost ArkstorybookRaiders of the Lost Ark: Where there's smoke... on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)Raiders of the Lost Ark: Blazing battle on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)Arnold Ernst Toht on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)Mar 19, 2019 · The facial cast of actor Ronald Lacey for Toht’s famous face-melt scene was made of alginate, the same thing dentists use to make impressions of teeth. Special makeup effects supervisor Chris Walas was responsible for making the melting look effectively hideous.
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Jun 30, 2023 · To simulate Toht's face melting, a model of the actor's face and skull was sculpted using alginate, the same material used by dentists to make molds of teeth.
Ronald William Lacey (28 September 1935 – 15 May 1991) was an English actor. [1] He made numerous television and film appearances over a 30-year period. His roles included Harris in Porridge (1977), Frankie in the Bud Spencer comedy Charleston (1978), SD agent Sturmbannführer Arnold Ernst Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and the Bishop ...
