Director's Cut Episode 144: Raiders of the Lost Ark

== Show Notes ==
: Did you ever hear this was inspired by serials?
== Films Discussed ==
*Directed by Steven Spielberg
**Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
**Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
**Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
**Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
**The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
**Bridge of Spies (2015)
*The Conversation (1974) Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
*Taxi Driver (1976) Dir. Martin Scorsese
*Star Wars Episode (1977) Dir. George Lucas
*Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983) Dir. Fendinando Baldi
*High Road to China (1983) Dir. Brian G. Hutton
*Romancing the Stone (1984) Dir. Robert Zemeckis
*King Solomon's Mines (1985) Dir. J. Lee Thompson
*Jake Speed (1986) Dir. Andrew Lane
*Quigley Down Under (1990) Dir. Simon Wincer
*Look Who's Talking Too (1990) Dir. Amy Heckerling
*The Polar Express (2004) Dir. Robert Zemeckis
*Chinese Zodiac (2012) Dir. Jackie Chan
*The Go Go Boys (2014) Dir. Hilla Medalia
*Mortdecai (2015) Dir. David Koepp
== Discussion Notes ==
*Raiders - the middle-class ideal of an outdoor movie
*Will shares his distaste for John Williams scores in Spielberg movies
*What makes Harrison Ford's performance work so well?
*Would a modern take on the story work in a more connected and 'aware' world?
*The consistent failures of the Indiana Jones rip-off movie
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