Question on a scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark?

It's great fodder for conspiracy theorists. I mean the idea that it is horded away by some secret agency, wow. Just like the DaVinci code, this will come back in another film sometime. The truth is, in the genre of 80's films, this fits the typical ending that comes, as there is supposed to be no real ending at all, but the thought that something could go on long after you've left the theatre. Today the director is trying to make a hook in the movie so that you can't possibly predict the ending. Like peices in a video game that you have to pick up along the way to solve the puzzle

I think part of it is the idea that the government has plenty of top secret things that they sock away and forget about.

But don't forget - the scene just prior to the warehouse is Indy and Marian together again, which was a re-shoot. So the original edit had - just before the shot of the warehouse - had Indy complaining to the government men that they had no idea what they had their hands on, and where was the Ark...

To which the government replies they have top men working on it.

Who?

Top men.

So it's really a dig at the government - lying, saying they're doing things they aren't, and entrusting something so powerful to a guy with a cart in a warehouse.

A huge warehouse. Government property. Secret weapons storage facility, for testing at a later date. How about that?

I remember that big warehouse scene, according to wikipedia, some type of government warehouse. It's meant to suggest (as a fiction) government have ton of other strange artifacts/objects in its possession.

No, I think it's more dramatic than scary because it's the introduction of Indiana Jones

It appeared to me to be a storage facility for top secret merchandise. I would imagine our government most likely has one of its own. You gotta have a place to hide your alien bodies and UFOs and those carburators that get you 100 mpg.

it was taken there so the goverment could keep it from public view. to b elost amongst all the other things we arent supposed to see.

I'm thinking it was probably a little of both. I know I would want to make that thing hard to find.

I'm going with the needle in the haystack theory. And it least with it in the U.S., it was away from the Nazis.

I think they were trying to say that there are many other artifacts that are hidden away