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Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Raiders of the Lost Ark Summary
597 words, approx. 2 pages
While on vacation in Hawaii in 1977, filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas came up with the idea for a movie based on the serials they had loved as children: action movies set in exotic locales with cliffhangers every second. Recalled Spielberg:...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark Information
5,809 words, approx. 19 pages
<i>Raiders of the Lost Ark</i>, also known as <i>Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark</i>, is a 1981 adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first in the Indiana Jones film and...


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Harrison Ford fit for fourth Indy
7/14/2007: 583 words, approx. 2 pages
He may be 65, but Harrison Ford still fits into Indiana Jones' tight trousers.Many fans are curious to see if, 18 years after "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," Ford can live up to the physical rigors of the globe-trotting archaeologist in the long-awaited fourth...
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Ford can still fit into Indy's trousers
7/14/2007: 583 words, approx. 2 pages
He may be 65, but Harrison Ford still fits into Indiana Jones' tight trousers.Many fans are curious to see if, 18 years after "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," Ford can live up to the physical rigors of the globe-trotting archaeologist in the long-awaited fourth...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Critical Essay by Andrew Gordon
5,355 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Gordon argues that Raiders of the Lost Ark “transcends the old action serials” that acted as its inspiration as evidenced by the film's dense mythological and religious undertones.
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Critical Essay by David Denby
349 words, approx. 1 pages
Synthesizing [Raiders of the Lost Ark] out of trashy pop elements—occult and religous mumbo jumbo, cursed tombs, buried temples, cardboard Nazis—[Spielberg] has produced a work that is like a thirties serial, only grander, funnier, and blessedly free of interruptions…. In pop filmmaking, neither death nor history ever matters. Only thrills matter, and, trying for bigger and bigger thrills, Spielberg has done something almost offensive. He's thrown in the kind of inspirational rel...


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