Wow!

Posted by Michaelson from leospace047.utsi.edu on May 01, 2001 at 10:33:24:

In Reply to: I thought "Raiders" was filmed in 1980 and released in 1981.(nm) posted by Dakota Ellison on April 29, 2001 at 20:41:03:

You can sure tell I typed THAT one in a hurry. I was off that much on my years! Yikes! Anyway, same point, just move everything FORWARD a year or so. That should work out better. (grins) Sorry about that. Regards. Michaelson

: : : Get this guys. My film professor was analyzing Raiders of the Lost Ark this past week in class and said that

: : : "Raiders wasn't about the 30s, it was about the 80s. For example, when Indiana Jones pulls his gun and shoots the evil, black clad swordsman in almost cold blood, that's a direct comment on Ronald Reagan's foreign policy towards the middle east during his administration."

: : : I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

: : : Mike

: : It's true in a large sense. You must have been to young to have been in the theater when the original release occurred, but if you'll look at the history of that time, we had just had our U.S. hostages returned from Iran a few months before Raiders came out. Every screening I attended that summer of 1980 had U.S. audiences yell with approval when that scene occurred, once with a standing ovation, and the comments made at that time were aimed at the Ayotolla (sp.?) that had held them, NOT the swordsman that Indy shot, and I mean at EVERY screening. I totally agree with your professor, but with a caveate, because I experienced that anger at the time.... it may not have been the actual thought process that was in place when the sceen was actually filmed in 1979, but that's how it was perceived by audiences when it was released. Regards. Michaelson

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: You can sure tell I typed THAT one in a hurry. I was off that much on my years! Yikes! Anyway, same point, just move everything FORWARD a year or so. That should work out better. (grins) Sorry about that. Regards. Michaelson

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: : : : Get this guys.  My film professor was analyzing Raiders of the Lost Ark this past week in class and said that

: : : : "Raiders wasn't about the 30s, it was about the 80s.  For example, when Indiana Jones pulls his gun and shoots the evil, black clad swordsman in almost cold blood, that's a direct comment on Ronald Reagan's foreign policy towards the middle east during his administration."

: : : : I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

: : : : Mike

: : : It's true in a large sense. You must have been to young to have been in the theater when the original release occurred, but if you'll look at the history of that time, we had just had our U.S. hostages returned from Iran a few months before Raiders came out. Every screening I attended that summer of 1980 had U.S. audiences yell with approval when that scene occurred, once with a standing ovation, and the comments made at that time were aimed at the Ayotolla (sp.?) that had held them, NOT the swordsman that Indy shot, and I mean at EVERY screening. I totally agree with your professor, but with a caveate, because I experienced that anger at the time.... it may not have been the actual thought process that was in place when the sceen was actually filmed in 1979, but that's how it was perceived by audiences when it was released. Regards. Michaelson

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