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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK review
Isn’t it fantastic to watch a perfect film with a perfect
audience in a perfect theater with the perfect trailers
and the perfect atmosphere?
It’s funny... I’ve seen this film maybe as many times
as 35. When RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK came
to Austin in 1981 my sister was just a week or two
old. It was the first film she went to. She probably
doesn’t know that factoid. I do though. It was at the
ol FOX theater... a grand two screen treasure trove of
filmic plunder. In addition to Raiders, it is the
location of the first memories of ROCKY III,
BLADE RUNNER, JOHN CARPENTER’S THE
THING, EXCALIBUR and many others... but.. the
film I remember and mark the territory by is
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
God, what I would give to see it in that theater
again... but now... well... now the theater is a
Mercedes-Benz dealership... kinda fitting, what with
the Mercedes in RAIDERS.
I wasn’t going to see RAIDERS tonight, I went and
saw ELIZABETH at a sneak here in Austin. I was
tired after the film. It did not in the least invigorate
or charge me. The film is fine. Beautiful art
direction, Geoffery Rush is fantastic, Cate Blanchett
is wonderful, but... It wasn’t the film I was in the
mood for after watching 52 continuous hours of the
EPISODE ONE trailer.
I came away criticizing minuscule unimportant
nuances. I was griping about hiding the sets in
shadows. My father would argue that, “That’s the
way it was!” I would respond with, “I don’t care if
they took a damn time machine back and shot it with
the actual real lighting, I’m tired of not being able to
see my set. In THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN
HOOD, they sure as hell made it look like I thought it
could be torch lit.....” I continued for thirty minutes
to an hour.
I sat in my room and began thinking about how I wish
they made films like CAPTAIN BLOOD, SEA
HAWKS, THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH
AND ESSEX... Then I thought... “RAIDERS is at
the ALAMO!!!!”
That is what I need to see... this very instant, this
second. That is the film to see after 52 hours of
continual bombardment of the Prequel trailer.
Sooooooo....
I call everyone I know, they are all asleep, the lazy
bums, so dammit, I ain’t a waiting for em, so Dad and
I load up into the Tick (our bloodsucking van covered
with bird droppings) and putt putt our way downtown
to the
Alamo Drafthouse to watch Indy do his thing.
We arrive to behold crowds... and of course Quint.
Yup... Quint is there. You see, he has never before
seen RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK on the big
screen. For him... well this will be a religious
experience.
The crowd is mainly twenties to early thirties. They
are jabbering throughout the groups. Noone staying
to their individual click. As the theater doors open
up, and the crowd floods in... well we grab our seats.
Instead of having nothing to watch while we wait the
twenty some-odd minutes till the trailer... well Tim
decides to show us the Original very very first STAR
WARS trailer, the one... without John Williams
music.
STAR WARS TRAILER ONE:
I owned a 16mm copy that I traded two dozen prime
gumcards from the MARVEL SUPERHERO sticker
set. Cool stuff like the “Peter Parker picked a peck of
pickled peppers.” I got it at the San Diego
convention well well before the film ever came out. I
have seen it.. countless times. As a young kid, I’d
make my parents, thread it up, rewind, play, rewind,
play, rewind. All the things my local computer does
for me.
What was very funny for me was the fact that the
audience (packed house) reacted the same way as the
audience in California did to the Prequel trailer. As
soon as it began, Whoops and hollers, then silence.
The ‘thum thum thum thum...” droning on while that
voice promises you glory beyond your wildest
dreams. After the final explosion.... CHEEERS!!!
Next came the weirdest damn thing I’ve ever seen. A
video that had stuff like the Drill Sgt dialogue from
FULL METAL JACKET sync-ed in over Vader’s
dialogue from Star Wars. Really really cool and
funny.
Then TROOPS. The greatest fan creation I’ve ever
seen.
Next came Tim, the owner and P. T. Barnum of the
Drafthouse, out to tell us about Quentin Tarantino
and Jack Hill bringing a group of Jack Hill films to
show us, possibly in December or January. Currently
it may be SPIDER BABY, COFFY and THE BIG
BIRD HOUSE. He then said we might be getting
GOONIES shown in January or February, he’s
working up his next schedule.
Then he said he had more Spielberg and Lucas
trailers before showing us... RAIDERS OF THE
LOST ARK. The crowd went nuts.
First trailer....
STAR WARS EPISODE ONE: THE PHANTOM
MENACE.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
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Dad hadn’t seen it with an audience yet. About two
thirds of this crowd was completely unprepared for
the trailer. Even though I’ve seen the trailer over and
over and over... well... it gets me. When and how
soon? Well, I know this will sound unreasonable, but
it’s that first shot of you know what coming out of the
mist. Why? Because... well, let’s just say for now,
that the scene will lead into something so incredibly
cool and powerful that... well, I couldn’t begin to
describe it. And this isn’t the place to do it.
The audience was screaming, throwing fists in the air,
pumping them like in Arsenio’s ol Dog Pound. As
soon as the trailer blinked out of existence. A
universal scream of joy. From people that mostly
didn’t have a clue they were going to be seeing that,
or knowing of it’s existence. About two minutes
passed before the next trailer. The audience was
buzzing, friends and neighbors talking about their
favorite moments, the things that bugged, delighted
them. High fives were witnessed.
SIXTEEN CANDLES
Coooooooooooooool. I love this film, and have no
memory of the trailer at all. It was nice to see. Man,
I so love Molly Ringwald. She just instantly brings
back that... “Wow, that’s a girl” thing that used to go
off in my head when I saw her in the great Hughes
films before he... decided to not make cool movies
anymore.
Next was...
E.T.
Oh man, tears just started flowing. This was the
rerelease trailer. I remember this trailer brainwashing
my infant sister into falling for that little alien dude
with the nightlight fingertip and the craving for
peanut butter and chocolate. The row of girls behind
me started making “aaaaaawwwwwwwww” sounds
and sniffles.
JAWS
Wow, what a great run of trailers. I still can’t believe
the MPAA let Spielberg get away with a full frontal
nudity shot in his TV and Theatrical Trailer spots.
They’d never be that cool in today’s Jack Valenti
days. Quint was... well lip-syncing to the trailer. His
eyes beaming. This is his trailer.
JURASSIC PARK
The amber trailer, the teaser. This, my friends, is a
teaser trailer. It created such anticipation in me. I
soooo wanted to see this film, I was foaming at the
mouth. Dinosaurs dinosaurs dinosaurs... Yeah yeah
yeah....
Man, I was fired up to see this film. I don’t think
anyone could get me so ready to see a movie I’ve
seen well over 100 times between theaters and video.
There was about two minutes of dark while Tim got
everything just right. During that two minutes the
audience began singing John Williams’ music out
loud. It began with five girls sitting behind us, and
spread. Then that mountain broke the chorus and we
were all in our own geek chapel beholding a
masterpiece.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
I believe there are a whole bunch of us that were just
raised with this film on the tips of our tongues. Hell,
everytime my family went on a hike, my sister would
scream out, “IT’S INDIANA JONES TIME!!!!”
That was just her point of reference for not walking
on a sidewalk or mowed grass. If there were
branches... then... Indiana Jones was there.
This film cemented Lucas and Spielberg as the guys
the world could not begin to compete with. Problem
is... well for me, this and Empire Strikes Back have
both yet to be topped by both.
Why? Well... I personally feel that in both films there
is not one single wasted frame of film. Tight little
monsters of a film. I’ll just chime in a bit on each of
my fave characters.
Marcus Brody--- Here... well in this film he is not a
bumbling fool. To me... well he seems like an
ex-adventurer much like Indy himself. The line, “If I
were ten years younger I’d join you myself,” or
something like that. (don’t have the script handy)...
well for me, that line felt like he longed for the ol
days of high adventure. When he had his own theme.
And his warning to Indy, was that instinctual or
learned. The point is, while a tad mother hen-ish, he
isn’t the “got lost in his own museum” or “does
anyone speak English or even ancient Greek” Brody
of LAST CRUSADE. And during the briefing with
the ‘Army’ guys... well, he does a great job of filling
in the holes that Indy has and viceversa. He’s just a
great supporting character.
SALLAH --- Perfection. Not since Alan Hale Sr. has
there been a greater sidekick. Not so much a
‘skipper’ to ‘gilligan’ as much as a Little John to
Robin Hood. My favorite thing is that he is a family
man. A respected man. A man that gets things done,
and pulls his friend out of danger when need be. He’s
loyal, he’s a good friend. Not a buffoon.
MARION --- There was bad blood between Indy and
Marion. But there was also a heartbreaking love
story that we haven’t seen. All you have to do is look
into Jones’ eyes as he drinks alone. Or look into
Marion’s eyes when Indy falls asleep with her tender
kiss. I love the fire in her eyes, the indomitable spirit
of hers, I love the breathing her character lends the
film. It’s got a lot of soul because of Ms Ravenwood.
The Nazis --- While being the most loathsome of
screen villians, that ultimately are shown to be wiped
clean from the very sight of man by God, him/her/it’s
self. They are... simply... Nazis. They do what it is
that Nazis in an action film would do. For the
dimensional villian you have to go to...
Rene Belloq --- A great character. The monologue he
gives Indy when he’s drunk and down on his look.
“It would take only a nudge to push you out of the
light and into the shadows with me” (once again
butchering a classic line, but hell it’s 5:22am and the
very fact I’m concious is in tribute to the greatness of
this film.) I love the idea of ‘grades’ of bad guys.
There are some bad guys that will just... kill and
sacrifice everyone. While others... well, for example
Belloq doesn’t want Marion dead, he wants to take
care of her. He wants to share the excitement of the
Ark with Indy. For him, the Nazis are mearly a
means to reach his ends. Literally.
Then you have INDIANA JONES.
Possibly the most iconoclasticly cool character in the
last 20 some odd years. Like DIRTY HARRY and
the Duke... he’s just a filmic deity. Here he's as rough as they come. He's shot in the arm, thrown through a windshield, rides atop a U-boat, chases down a convoy by horseback... He's just the sort of action god every little boy, grown adult has ever wanted to be. Imagine living this life. The journeys, the discoveries, the moments of history. Imagine having him as your grandfather. Toooo cool.
God I hope to see Lucas and Spielberg at this level
again. I hope that Lucas is headed to surpass it with
his next film. It has that kind of potential.
The score, the editing, the cinematography, the stunts,
the adrenaline rush... all of it is sheer perfection. I
was talking to a director friend of mine not too long
ago, and we were discussing the concept of what
Spielberg could do on a budget. He then told me that
Spielberg made Raiders for $22.8 million. Even when
factoring in inflation... that’s a cheap film today.
I came out of the theater on a high, reminded exactly
why I dream of greatness when names like George
Lucas and Steven Spielberg and John Williams float
about. It’s because their kind... well they have woven
the tales we live with.
As we were driving home, the thoughts of the trailer,
of the film started dancing. I should begin bottling
the drool now...
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raiders, jaws, star wars, many others, and now episode one...
these are films that generally people don't really care a lot about.
i mean we'll go crazy about them and the girl sat a row infront will just sit there shaking her head and complain to her boyfriend that she can't see what all the fuss is about.
the fuss is this - cinema is what is today because of what happened 20 years ago. multiplexes, everything we see and hear about today is because of these films getting made - whether it's pretty woman or titanic, you wouldn't get the 'buzz' without having jaws or star wars in the first place... so to all of you who don't care or just don't get it - fuck you and stay in... raiders is special, jaws is special, episode one is special... they're gonna help me grow old and keep warm. I hope they do the same thing to all of you aswell... -
Crash Landing! Hold on to your potatoes,Harry, we going for a ride!
I know what you mean Hardseid, being here in the UK. I did something terrible to my phone bill for no good reason - they showed the bloody thing at least twice yesterday, again this morning on breakfast TV. I wouldn't even be surprised if Chris Evans shows it tonight on TFI. I managed to not have the VCR ready on each occasion, naturally. Ho hum... -
I remember reading the things that went wrong with the filming of RAIDERS. The truck that was supposed to roll over and explode but instead just kinda tipped over and blew up. The huge statue that Indy rides through the wall was supposed to make a huge crash but instead just kinda poked a hole in the wall. Those 'mistakes' gave the effects and film crew headaches. They did not have the money to do them more than once. But it is those very things that make the film organic, and alive. Less calculated and more like life. The same things were true for the original STAR WARS. The stormtrooper who bumps his head, the orange glow below the landspeeder, The firefly looking spaceships as they leave the rebelbase on route to attack the deathstar. I love all those things that are supposedly flaws. We have now reached a time where everything will be perfect. We wont see the zipper on the Ewoks. Instead of imagining Jabba moving about, we will see it. Indiana Jones wont pull the gun out and shoot the bad guy instead of getting into a fist fight because he wont be in a hurry to get back to his trailer since all he is doing is acting in front of a bluescreen in an air conditioned studio. Dont get me wrong, I think the advances in technology are awesome. But I will always look back at the days when you could see where the set ends and the matte painting begins, and remember it with a nostalgic fondness.
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I've been following the repartee of comments re: Episode 1 trailer release. The Brits are some of the best news/info people around the globe - of course the trailer would make it to the television over there. When I'm away from Canada I'll watch the BBC News for international news coverage (on PBS here in the U.S.). Also obvious was that starwars.com would have the trailer on the net asap for everyone to enjoy. O ye of little faith.
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Harry
I'm sorry mate, but I think a certain amount of grip getting needs to be done here. The whole Star Wars thing is the coolest thing, and I am ridiculed on a daily basis for my devotion to a movie that I felt shaped my life, but please, don't lose sight of other film events between now and May ( or bleedin' July for me being a limey..... bugger).
Take a deep breath, and go see Elizabeth again, it is a dark, beautiful stylised rendition of true and valid events.
TPM is going to be a life affirming event I'm sure, but education and enlightment from films is just as important.
Or is this a grandmother / eggs situation.
No offence.
Matt
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that's a fair point Matt, I guess I was getting a little carried away earlier. Anyone seen Gods and Monsters yet?
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that's a fair point Matt, I guess I was getting a little carried away earlier. Anyone seen Gods and Monsters yet?
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You writing your reviews at 5 o'clock in the morning is what made me fall in love with this web page. I love your reviews because I think you look deeper than just plain old reviewer stuff and go for how the movie makes you feel
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I remember coming out of the Cinema in Bellevue and seeing this cardboard cutout of Indiana Jones, the usher said he'd hear it was cool. I took note of the preview date and on that date Iwas the last person they let into the preview. What luck. I have never been to a movie where the audience was so in tune with what was going on. I mean I saw people other than me lifting their feet off the floor in the first bit with spiders. The sighs and oh my gods in unison. The clapping when Indy shot the guy with the sword. The cheering at the end. It was a long time ago, but never forgotten. I've seen it 100 times and never, ever get tired of it. Thanks for bringing back that memory for me Harry.
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Hey, I've got that original STAR WARS trailer on my computer! I got it from T'Bone Fender's site at http://www.starwarz.com/. He's got a collection of them. He has all the original trailer, the SE trailers, the 1980 reissue of Ep4, and more! Also, I think it's the dune sea at www.dunesea.com that has some other rare trailers for it. Both sites have the original 'REVENGE' OF THE JEDI trailer (which I have as well). I'm attempting to get around to downloading the original ESB trailer. I think that the music in the original SW trailer was from a movie called 'SATURN' or 'SATURN 5.' You realize that Williams didn't start recording music until two months before the movie's release in May. Goto http://www.starwarz.com/ or http://www.dunesea.com/ to check out those trailers! -NJM
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Raiders of lost Ark is surely one of the best film i've ever seen!!
i really do think there's a beauty in Trailers, but no one around me just don't get it. doh!
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Although TPM looks quite awesome and a religious experience and all that, for me, there can be no comparison to the feelings I had, as a wee one of ten years, when first I saw the trailer for the original "Star Wars." Having been weened on the original Trek, Fantastic Voyage, Dr. Who, etc... all of which, despite their, sall we say, chintziness, were feasts for the imagination. But that special little thrill... when first seeing Luke and Leia swinging accross the chasm, Ti-Fighters careening over the top of the M.Falcon, Chewie growling, all that
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Whoops! I hadn't finished (the perils of multi-tasking). Anyway, my point being that the original Star Wars was the first film in my memory which promised to surpase the limits of my imagination (I wasn't disappointed). Though I am, as are we all it seems, a hype junkie, no trailer could ever do that for me again. Also, when I saw the original Star Wars, I knew absoloutely nothing about the story, nor did I until seeing the movie. I had thought it was going to be more straight fantasy - swords and sorcery and such taking a back seat to technology. Ironically, it seems that TPM may actually be more like what I thought the original was going to be when I was ten.
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In addition to the major characters that you mentioned, are several great characters in smaller roles: Katanga-a seemingly shady character who turns out to be trustworthy; Satipo-the cowardly guide who tries to doublecross Jones and pays the price; and of course, Toht-the mysterious Nazi, shadowing Indy, who says little, but creates a lot of uneasiness. Not many movies can create a character that has less than five lines yet generates a relatively significant amount of interest for the viewer. Raiders has three (at least). Impressive.
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...just like Harry's sister....except I was a bit younger...I was taken (heh) to it 10 or so days before I was actually born, according to my mother :)
...it also might explain why I'm such a big fan of John Williams music...my mother said she had to leave the theater a few times because the music was loud and she was worried it would traumatise me. ...just a little presonal story. -
As many people seen this one? I saw it at a school trailer night along with 4 hours worth of others, even some porn trailer--God those were long. I think it was almost exactly like the RotJ trailer save for the cool blood-red title: Revenge of the Jedi! :)
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Raiders of the Lost Ark manages to get a midnight screening here in Dallas every nine months or so and I have been lucky enough to catch it twice. A couple of months ago I was watching my laserdisc copy and there was one scene that had struck me funny. It was where the Nazis had boarded Katanga's vessel and had recaptured Marion. She pokes his finger at his chest and says, "Don't you touch me." This had been the first time I had watched the movie since seeing it at the theater a year before and I seemed to remember her saying, "Don't you hurt me." I looked closer and indeed her lips were mouthing "hurt" but what came out was "touch." I know Lucas has a penchant for tweaking his movies even after their theatrical run. Aside from the obvious tweaking he did for the SW special editions I have noticed quite a few changes from the official video release of Star Wars and my bootleg video copy of the original theatrical print the one in which "Episode IV" is absent from the crawl. Can the same be said of Raiders of the Lost Ark? Please, I must know. Another secondary character I'd like to add to the list is Doc. Although he's in the movie for about 2 minutes somehow I have this image in my head of good old Doc, the guy who is always there to get Indy out of a serious bind with an aerial escape route. If not for anything else that is George Lucas' one true gift as a storyteller. His worlds seem so much richer and deeper and fuller than what is actually shown. Even the extras in the background start to have a history because we imagine it. Boba Fett has three lines in the entire trilogy but he has become a favorite. I can't think of another filmmaker who can do that.
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I just have one thing to say - I wish I was there too !!!
I am from Israel and here we don't have things like that.
I can only wish we'll have something like that ONCE here.
The Lucas-Speilberg team is -as far as I think- the best movie-making team in history. Alone, each of them can make a blast of a movie (i.e. Jaws or the StarWars trio) but togethet they are AWEASOME !!!
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Im only 14 so I never got to see the movie on the Big Screen. But, I must say, Raiders of the Ark is the single greatest movie ever made. Speilburg and Lucas were the best-matched team in movie history. I have memories of me in that Fedora hat I got at Disney-world. I had an electroic garage-door opener, and I used to close it and roll(with my hat!)under the door before it closed. Raiders left such an impression on me that I really wanted to be an archologest (that spelling is wrong) and fight the Nazi sucm of the earth "Nazis, I hate those guys."
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Hey, can someone explain to me the bit about a stormtrooper bumping his head about something? I know this is off the subject, but I've seen this remark made a few times over the last few days (isn't it funny how once you hear something new it keeps popping up over and over again) and I've never heard of it before. Where does this happen? (I'm assuming it's in Episode 1). Any other cool gaffes like that? This could be a funny idea for a talk-back section of its own.....
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I know what you mean, Shade Vick. Harrison Ford has been my hero (and kind of a foster father as well) since I saw him in ESB. There are actually only 3 films that really changed my point of view towards cinema (and in fact a bit my life)with HARRISON FORD in it, namely EMPIRE, RAIDERS and the sublime BLADE RUNNER (next to Rutger Hauer, of course).
I will never forget these films as long as I live on this planet (sounds a bit corny but, hey, who gives a shit!). -
Nothing like a good review to get one thinking! I certainly must agree that Indy is the best action hero there is! Anybody who gives mercenaries a bad name is tops in my book.
This is going to sound pretty hammy (but it seems many of us are reaching deep down into our sentementality for great movies) since I was a kid (even before Indy) I've wanted to be an archaeologist. I remember when I read about the first time Tutankhamen's tomb was opened, I shivered as I put myself in that place. From that moment on, I was envious of anyone who had taken the first breath of 5000 year old air. Then came Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was sold on archaeology as a life. Of course, I come to find out that it can be one of the most tedious professions in existence (you try counting 11,000 year old fish bones for 3 weeks - BUT they were 11,000 years old!)
So I too as a kid would place myself in many situations (imaginary of course) and wriggle my way out of them Indy style. Even now, as I am studying archaeology as a profession (next year is graduate school) and having been out in the field for a few months, sometimes Indy crosses my mind and I admire the dirt and dust which cover my boots (and everything else).
I have yet to see another action hero as stylish, persistent, intellegent, and resourceful as Indy.
And as for Raiders - the other two movies really don't compare! I won't even mention TOD, but IJLC didn't have the intense soundtrack (though done by Williams). Who can forget the foreboding motif of the Ark theme, the intensity of the map room scene. It still feels like we were dealing with powers beyond our comprehension. The mystery and intrigue that is present in Raiders is just too lacking in IJLC. We all know what the grail could do, but the Ark - nobody knew what to expect when it was opened. Another aspect is that there was respect for the Hebrew God, and the mythology/religion that surrounds that. In our society, respect for a higher power seems too rare.
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Sorry, man, but a minor quibble.
The consistently weak point of all three movies is the women.
In #1, Marion is way too young, if IJ and she had had a "thing" twelve years ago, he should have been shot for child molestation.
As for #2, what can I say, the only use for the heroine would have been as bait!
In #3, the nazi babe is alternately tough and sentimental, but not in any way consistently enough to be characterization, just another mainfestation of Spielberg's ambivalence toward women, at least in his flic's.
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Sure...Spielberg's ambivalence towards women. Like Celie in "The Color Purple". Man, he had a hard time with that character. Wow, how out of touch with women he must be. Oh, and Ellen Brody in "Jaws" or Goldie Hawn in "The Sugarland Express". Frightfully out of sinc and unsure with his handling of female characters. Don't even talk about Helen Hirsch in "Schindler's List", or his trio of suburban mothers, Teri Garr in "Close Encounters", Dee Snyder in "E.T.", and Jobeth Williams' Mrs. Freeleng in his screenplay for "Poltergeist". Truly a man who is unsure of how to direct - or write - female characters.
(clearing throat)
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When, oh when, will Paramount and Lucasfilm release the Indiana Jones Trilogy widescreen on videotape? Don't have a LD or DVD player, and I simply refuse to buy them until this happens. This hurts, too, because those are some of my favorite movies. Does anybody know when this will happen, or how to e-mail Lucas and request this to happen? I'm dyin' over here...on another note, a tidbit of trivia...The guy who pulled the gun on Indy in the beginning of the first film and the monkey guy in the first film are played by the same actor - now director, Alfonso Arau, who directed Like Water For Chocolate and A Walk In The Clouds.
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hi alan,
just a few questions: at the beginning of the first Indy? but which scene is that? the part with the Hovito's?
and did this actor also star in the Sam Peckinpah's Wild Bunch as the sergeant of the government soldiers?
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The guy who pulled the gun on Indy in the beginning of Raiders, when he clicks back the hammer and Indy'd silhouette turns his head and whips out the bullwhip. YYou later se him as a pincushion full of Hovitos needles. Then the same actor plays the monkey keeper in Cairo - different characters, but same actor. I don't know if he was in The Wild Bunch, though.
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You're right - oops. Sorry about that. I remember reading some interview with Arau and he said it was Romancing the Stone. I don't know how I got ROTLK in my head about that. I guess maybe the similar subject matter.
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I'm a licenced projectionnist in Canada, and I just felt like expressing my saddened state regarding Raiders. I recently projecting the film, from it's original state, and was disheartened at its condition. It's too bad that such great films have to fade away. So many crucial parts of the film were lost to age and mistakes from other projectionnists. I beg everyone to take care of each time they handle a film, no matter how old or how new it might be. It was painful to see Indy jump around the screen from lost frames and segments of film.
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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK CAME OUT ALMOST 20 FREAKIN' YEARS AGO, AND IT STILL STANDS HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE A LOT OF FAR MORE EXPENSIVE ACTION FLICKS THAT HAVE COME OUT SINCE!!!!!!!!!!
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I think Raiders Of The Lost Ark is the greatest movie ever made for kids. I mean when I saw it i was like 9 or something, and I dreamt of being Indy everynight.
Indy is himself some kind of kid, with his funny mimics, an his naive approach to life.
The historical villains, opposed to that 'grand enfant' Indy is, was the best thing I've seen as a child and I can't watch it without remembering what being a kid is all about.
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could capture that same spirit of Raiders...sigh..where are these movies now???
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