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15/100 Things - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Another one of my favorite movies of all time, Raiders of the Lost Ark gave me the action hero that I'd always wanted but I didn't know it.
He is the culmination of all action heroes - dashing, brash, irreverent, brilliant and afraid of snakes! What more could a girl want? This movie was simply lots of fun. It had the quintessential bad guys in the Nazis and the quintessential search in the search for the Ark. It took the cliched hero of old and gave him a rakish spin with Indiana Jones and his hat and whip. Indy screwed up a lot but we loved him even more for his foibles.
He is Han Solo in his own adventure, literally. The first was the best of the movies but the whole franchise was great fun. John Rhys-Davies gave us lovable Sallah, Indy's pal and his source of info in Cairo. Belloq, rival gone evil and working with the Nazis. Marion, Indy's once and future ladylove, who actually annoys me quite bit. If she's so tough in Tibet, why is she such a weenie in Egypt?
Never seen it? Do.
Indy is the man George Lucas would have been if he weren't Luke Skywalker!
He is the culmination of all action heroes - dashing, brash, irreverent, brilliant and afraid of snakes! What more could a girl want? This movie was simply lots of fun. It had the quintessential bad guys in the Nazis and the quintessential search in the search for the Ark. It took the cliched hero of old and gave him a rakish spin with Indiana Jones and his hat and whip. Indy screwed up a lot but we loved him even more for his foibles.
He is Han Solo in his own adventure, literally. The first was the best of the movies but the whole franchise was great fun. John Rhys-Davies gave us lovable Sallah, Indy's pal and his source of info in Cairo. Belloq, rival gone evil and working with the Nazis. Marion, Indy's once and future ladylove, who actually annoys me quite bit. If she's so tough in Tibet, why is she such a weenie in Egypt?
Never seen it? Do.
Indy is the man George Lucas would have been if he weren't Luke Skywalker!