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Yeah, I'm not buying that either. The elements were enjoyable (to me) because they were archetypes. The sexy, mind-reading Soviet schemetress may be from this movie or that, but the point is she's from this movie and that movie, and that other movie, and already spoofed in that cartoon and that movie and that TV show and that other movie.
To say she's a specific homage to Jet Pilot is puny, and misses the boat by a wet mile.
Similarly, I don't find any of the Temple of Doom elements references specific to Gunga Din, when they are hoary old archetypes used, yes, in Gunga Din, and a hundred other films and stories.
Perhaps Gunga Din was the best repository of those elements .... heheh, before Temple of Doom came along.
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