Raiders of the Lost Ark
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YouTube TVfuboTVDisney PlusParamount+YouTube TVWhat is a little amazing about “Raiders of the Lost Ark” is that this plot somehow holds together and makes some sense, even though it functions primarily as a framework for the most incredible series of action and stunt set pieces I’ve ever seen in a movie. Indiana and Marion spend the entire film hanging by their fingernails — literally, at one point, over a pit of poisonous snakes.Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
The Saturday serial aspects of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” have been much commented on, and relished. But I haven’t seen much discussion of the movie’s other driving theme, Spielberg’s feelings about the Nazis.Throughout the film, there is a parade of anti-Nazi symbolism and sly religious satire, as when a desperate Indy grabs the hood ornament of a Mercedes truck, and it snaps off. And when a Nazi torturer grabs a sacred relic and it burns a stigmata into his hand.
