Andrea (dre)

Rating: 7/10 (19 May 2005)

Andrea (dre)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a movie a adventure and a story of a father and son's ability to bridge a gap that is between them. This movie shows you the many different camera techniques that are involved in film making today along with light and sound that set the movie and the scenes in it.
The main characters of the film were Indiana Jones- goes through life playing a super hero and trying to gain his father's approval. When he has his whip and hat he becomes the super hero that we are all use to. When he take off them and puts on a pair of glasses he becomes a professor at a school. Dr. Jones is Indiana's father who never seems to approve of his son's quests. Dr Snyder is a blond haired woman who slept with both father and son and betrayed them to get a hold of the grail that she had become so drawn to it. Nazi soldiers try to get the grail for them selves to gain absolute power. Point of view is in third person form. It moves around and acts like a extra person looking in on the scene and everything going on.
The setting of the movie first take place in the dessert on a Boy Scout camping trip. It introduces us to the young person of Indiana Jones and how he became the man we all know Plot is what makes the story from the beginning to the conflict then resolution. The story starts off with Indiana Jones in the past trying to get his fathers attention to show him that he brought back a gold cross. His father ignores him. In the beginning this proves that there is going to be conflict of the father and son trying to resolve the gap that is between them. The story then progresses into the place where Indiana is trying to rescue his father along with trying to find the Holy Grail at the same time. Through the whole story the only way the fighting was resolved was the near death experience with the father. The only way to save him was for Indiana to go through three tests and retrieve the Holy Grail. He uses his father's smarts and his own adventure skills to retrieve it and save his father. It confirms the bond of the two when his father calls him Indiana and not J.R. to save his life. Camera technique is used to make the story interesting and eventful to give us a clear picture of what the director wants us to see. One example is one of the tests the Indiana had to go through in the fortress to retrieve the Holy Grail. It was to be called a leap of faith. The camera switches back and forth from his father to Indiana in a technique called juxta position. The camera then moves to a full body view to a below view of Indiana taking a footstep on what appears to be nothing but air. When he does step on ground, it is a bridge to where the camera shows you from below to above the bridge while Indiana is walking on it. The most classic technique or angle is the scene of the hero's riding off in the sun set. Light is used to either keep things in shadow, to make them visible or to frame them. One example of this is when Indiana is a boy and he goes into a cave. As he is walking the shadows frame him and his friend so you pay attention to them and give you a sense of the darkness of the cave Sound is used to set the mood of the story. The one song that is used often in the film is the classic Indiana Jones song that usually played in a dramatic moment when he does something impressive. There were many other techniques and different things involved in the movie. So if you watched the movie before it is a good excuse to see it again and get a look of how they made the movie as great as they did