In the new Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Trailer
Jones says,
I don’t believe in magic. But a few times in my life, I’ve seen things, things I can’t explain. And I’ve come to believe that it’s not so much what you believe. It’s how hard you believe it.”
Indiana Jones opines that it doesn’t matter how hateful, violent, or evidence-manufactured one’s beliefs are. It doesn’t matter how much suffering, death, or destruction of freedom is inflicted by adherents. It only matters, “how hard you believe it.”
Indiana Jones has been chock-a-block with bigotry in the first four movies (see for example
this analysis of racism and misogyny in the series from Matt Berger on
Screen Rant), so the bar was already set low. Yet this trailer defies even the flimsy premises of the film series itself. Now, Jones seems to endorse both Nazi fanaticism despite Indiana confronting Nazis in
Raiders of the Lost Ark (film one), and Stalinist zealotry despite its role as the villainous ideology Indiana faced in
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (film four).