this indiana jones movie is a very good example of how steven spielberg shot all of the fast action indy movies. through out the movie, indiana faces once intense escape and rescure sceen after another, with his damsal seemingly always in distress. steven does a good job at always keeping you on your seat by connecting one mini action series to the next. first marion in captured and indy must prefor on death defying stunt after the next inorder to rescue her, then is starts all over egen. steven keeps the plot flowing effortlessly but proving us with lots of information inorder to slow the movie down with unneccacary sceens. example; when indiana is sent on his mition to find the ark we are told that the nazis have alreay fround a site and begun to dig. and then magically indy is there ready for action. instead of showint the nazis finding the site and indys time traveling, steven simply sets up the outline and all we have to do is follow without any unneccaray think involved. i think that this is a good example of a steven spielberg action movie.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Steven Spielberg
There are many secenes throught this movie that show that with great riches comes great greed. twoards the middle of the movie, indy journeys to the minning site were the nazi soildgers serch for the ark. after indy locates were the acctual position of the ark he comes across his mistrus marion, he has a choice. rescue marion and make sure of her safty or retrive the ark before rescuing her to avoid a head hunt for him whlie searching for the ark. indy choose to leave his lover behind in greed for saving the ark before the nazis do. after many intense sceens later indy shows his colors agen through another choice once agen. indy holds up the nazi soildgers up in their track with a bazooka has has the choice to blow away the ark and the sloidgers and save Marion but when he sloidgers back from the ark greed consums indy, he cannot pull the trigger. he has spent his who life working up to this point looking for such an artifact that he himself wants it and cannot blow it away. not until the very end can indy over come the greed that consumed and lead the nazi solidgers to their death.
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Great review, I was also on the edge of my seat the entire movie! The Indiana Jones movies are always so intense and suspenseful! action movies usually aren't my favorite since im a girl, but i have seen most of the indiana jones movies!!!
Sorry it took me so long to respond. I just got the movie. I think it is interesting that you point out that Spielberg comments on Indiana's greed vs. his morals. He does this in a number of his films. It seems that Spielberg always tries to make his audience aware of the moral problems that exist. In Shindler's List, he has various commentaries about the Nazi's wrongdoings.
I find it funny how different his style is from other directors. He has such a fastpace sort of filming, instead of the more suspenseful drag-out-a-scene sort of filming.
On another note, is it ok if I do the one for this week, on Feb 19?
Although this is considered a classic, I feel like this film was somewhat lacking. Although the plot and camera work was good, I felt the acting was lack luster. Harrison Ford was pretty good, but Karen Allen was only mediocre. The dialogue also got corny and weak sometimes.
Although this is true, I think it supports the auteur theory as Spielberg adds a the touch of adventure and camera work to make this film a classic.
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