Greatest Protagonist of all Time

Rating: Null/10 (3 May 2004)

I don't think it helpful for me to blabber on and on about how it is my favorite movie of all time and how I dressed up like Indiana Jones every Halloween for seven years. Instead I hope to clarify to naysayers why exactly Indiana Jones is the most remarkable and fascinating of all movie heroes.
There are many words that can describe Jones: Courageous? Yes; Smart? try Brilliant; Obsessed? Absolutely. And he's also quick and funny and drop dead gorgeous etc. But of all the qualities that Make Dr, Henry Jones Jr. so memorable, the most accurate and powerful is: "Cursed." As a rule, a rigid regulation, no matter how noble his cause or how fearless his pursuit, nothing may ever ... EVER ... go right for Indiana Jones. That is why he is never boring. The circumstances that contsantly surround him are not just dire ... they are unnecessarily hopeless. They make Job look like Harvey Weinstein. In pursuit of two Arabs dressed in white who have placed Marion in a laundry basket to kidnap her, Indy happens upon a courtyard filled with nothing but Arabs dressed in white carrying laundry baskets; After barely making it out of a booby trap infested tunnel alive with a priceless golden idol, he loses it to his rival and is chased away by hundreds of angry natives; Finally locating the resting place of the Lost Ark he lowers his torch only to find it is infested with snakes (and it couldn't have been spiders or crocodiles. It HAD to be snakes); The most likely explanation of why he survives at the end of Raiders is that God gets tired of picking on him.
It is for this reason that of all the people who had some part of the creation of Jones -- Harrison Ford's delivery is incredible, Lawrence Kasdan did his finest work ever on this script -- The credit must go to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg who were both responsible for Indy's conception and the conception of all the painful, frightening and wonderful pitfalls he must undergo.
As for the movie Itself I give it a 10 out of 10. thats all.