Important point about the grail: it only gives you eternal life if you DON'T CROSS THE SEAL. The knight didn't cross the seal, but the Jones Boys did. And actually the seal blew up, so not sure it would have worked anyway.
For the love of the Big Man, I don't even know where to begin with this one. If the Grail only gives eternal life if you DON'T CROSS THE SEAL then what the hell good is the Grail in the first place? Why would Hitler want it? Did he plan on building a nice condo on the other side of the seal and living happily ever after? Maybe slipping some Grail juice to Betty Grable and Eva Braun and piling them for the rest of eternity in his little Grail love nest? I guess some enterprising fellow could build a Grail hospital on the other side of the seal, and cure cancer, gunshot wounds, or whatever the hell else is wrong with you. But would you only be healed as long as you don't cross the seal? Doesn't seem that way, as Henry Jones Sr. was able to ride away on horseback showing no signs of a gunshot wound. And it sure doesn't seem to have corrected his eyesight, as he kept on wearing his glasses even after drinking from the Grail. So the Grail heals all wounds, regardless of whether the former wound later crosses the seal, but ceases to grant eternal life if one crosses the seal? Kind of an inconsistent set of effects. And you'd think these Grail scholars might have learned that about the Grail during all of their studies, rather than having to be told so by some gyppo grail knight. And how did the knight even know that? Its not like he was there when the Grail was created, he was just one of three doofuses who set out to guard the Grail hundreds of years after it was created. Turns out the Grail didn't really need to be guarded though, since it was essentially useless and in any event couldn't be carried across the seal without collapsing the cave around it and being lost in a chasm. Christ, you could drive a Nazi armored car through the logical holes here. Next, you're probably going to tell me that Top Men aren't currently studying the Ark of the Covenant.
Oh what the hell, let's dig a little further on this one. According to the script, here is what the grail knight says about the Grail:You have chosen wisely. But the Grail cannot pass beyond the Great Seal. That is the boundary and the price of immortality.
So it appears on first blush that this mystery commenter named "matt" might have a point. However, who says the Grail has to pass the Great Seal to be taken away? Why not drill a hole in the mountain and leave the other way? Or blow the top of the mountain off and helicopter that sucker out of there, careful not to fly over the Great Seal? Because helicopters were not yet invented? I beg to differ -
the Nazis had helicopters in 1936 capable of just such a thing. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, "matt."
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I think one had to keep drinking from the grail pretty regularly to get the restorative and life giving effects. So you'd have to carry it with you to live forever. Hence the bummer of the "great seal". But once it cured say a bullet wound on Senior, the wound would stay healed. The real question is, where the F did the seal come from? Did the Knight construct the seal as the worst security system ever? Did he park it right next to the great seal that was already there as one of the worst location decisions up to Candlestick Park? Candlestick park, home of Lou Seal... it's all starting to make sense.
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