When making Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg put in an in-joke (can’t call it an Easter egg for obvious reasons), that must have gone over the heads of 99% of his audience.
The Germans have captured the Ark of the Covenant. They’re getting ready to open it, and their pet archæologist is muttering some esoteric incantation:
La al enash rachitzna ve-La al bar-elahin samichna…
To almost everyone who watched that, it must have sounded merely like some arcane mystical-sounding gibberish, but those of us who know how to Daven recognized it immediately.
Because what else would you say when you open the Ark.
Fast forward a couple years. Spielberg is working on his next project, about a cute li’l kid who befriends a cute li’l alien. He’s racking his brains trying to come up with a catchy title. He thinks back to that scene, and suddenly it hits him: What’s the very next thing the hazzan says after Brich Shmay?
”Gadlu La-Shem E.T.”
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