According to Youtube editor StooTV, it took him almost twenty years to track down the films that he considered contributed the most to the opening 13 minutes of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, and almost two years of spare-time editing to put together the montage seen above. While there's certainly a good amount of repetition in his choice of original material, there's still enough interesting correlations to make it worth a look. While Spielberg and Lucas have been clear about the way they were inspired by old serial films, who knew the rolling boulder sequence was apparently lifted wholesale from another film?
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An homage to 1930's adventure serials, Indiana Jones, adventurer-archaeologist, is hired by the United States to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do in this 1981 classic from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
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A lot of those edits appear to be exact copies only through sheer numbers. If you grab 50 films from before Star Wars then I bet you could recreate the opening scenes shot by shot. Some parts were obviously slow downed from other movies with others obviously taken out of context of the original movie in hopes of matching Indiana Jones.
To say a movie produced today, especially one like Indiana Jones which is admitted to have strong influences from older adventure movies, has influences direct or in-direct from older movies is just a given.
@FinalDasa: agreed
after a while i just ended up stopping the video and watching Raiders of the Lost Ark
holy shit 22 years for just this
That video is great but yeah Spielberg made the film as an homage to the great Adventure Serials of his youth.
@FinalDasa: Exactly. Now if there were 10 second parts here and there I could see it being more of an influence.
I have no doubt that Indiana Jones directly takes things from other movies like it (the hat, the leather jacket, the whip) but it is it's own adventure. And that opening scene is just that, an opening scene meant only to set up characters not the entire film. Just saying. Done ranting now :)
@FinalDasa said:
I don't think that this counts as a rant. Just sayin'.
@FinalDasa: I concur. I bet you could sync up some footage from Platoon and it would look pretty similar to some of the scenes in the jungle, but that wouldn't mean anything.
Still, the amount of time he put into this is pretty impressive.
Yeah, it seems slightly far fetched. There is without a doubt some similarities (and some pretty obvious ones too) but just because Indiana Jones scratches his chin doesn't mean it was ripped off from an old adventure movie.
I join the choir and say that it is far stretched
It's kinda neat but if nothing else just goes to show how directing is a language. There are only so many shots, just like a music only has so many notes and a writer so many words with which to work. This reminds me of the shot for shot mashup of the Beastie Boys' Sabotage and footage from Battlestar Galactica. I'd post it but looks like the record label nuked it into oblivion.
Pretty remarkable.
@j_kopplin: Aw man that'd be brilliant.
And yeah I'll join in and say that most of it is stretching it a bit. I mean, you could sort of do that with most movies, and Indiana Jones was meant to be influenced by past movies.
Some of the less-accurate examples detract from the credibility (not sure if that is the right word, it is 4:30am here) of the shots that are accurate. The way people are reacting as if this edit was made to devalue what that film did, but I really don't see it that way. It was simply interesting how well that lost genre of movies was recreated so well with Indiana Jones, to the point where nothing has really challenged that throne since.