http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2004/09/27/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/ Film Forensic Investigations & Autopsies Our Specialty Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:54:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2004/09/27/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/comment-page-1/#comment-2235 Dr Clam Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:43:03 +0000 http://www.filmforensics.com/wordpress/?p=10#comment-2235 I thought I had read this, once upon a time! Rewatching the three films last week, I found that I was put off by the 'envelope pushing gore' of the Lost Ark much more than when I originally saw it, and enjoyed the Last Crusade the most of the three fillums. I must make the theological pedant's correction that the Lost Ark was not a Christian artefact in any way, but a Jewish one. I think that one of the (innumerable) weaknesses of Temple of Doom was that it had a central artefact that George made up, rather than something that comes with a host of pre-existing legends. The middle film of a trilogy should have a less famous artefact, certainly, and I think the Seal of Solomon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_Solomon) would have been a nice choice. I thought I had read this, once upon a time!
Rewatching the three films last week, I found that I was put off by the ‘envelope pushing gore’ of the Lost Ark much more than when I originally saw it, and enjoyed the Last Crusade the most of the three fillums.
I must make the theological pedant’s correction that the Lost Ark was not a Christian artefact in any way, but a Jewish one. I think that one of the (innumerable) weaknesses of Temple of Doom was that it had a central artefact that George made up, rather than something that comes with a host of pre-existing legends. The middle film of a trilogy should have a less famous artefact, certainly, and I think the Seal of Solomon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_Solomon) would have been a nice choice.

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