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Indiana Jones, intrepid explorer extra-ordinaire, more akin to fighting the Nazis than aliens. What has Indiana Jones got to do with being on a site dedicated to all things space related. If Indiana is on this site, why not James Bond, after all 007 fought in space in Moonraker.
James Bond is covered on my other site Spy Intelligence Guide.
If you've seen the fourth film, you'll understand. He went searching for what he thought was a religious object but it turned out to be alien, a storyline more appropriate to the X-Files. Since the early eighties, he has been travelling round the
world, looking for ancient religious artifacts, the Lost Ark of the Convenant, Sankara Stones and the Holy Grail. The sought after items in each of the first three films belonged to a different religion, Convenant (Judaism), Sankara Stones (Hindi) and Holy Grail (Christianity).
The fourth
is supposedly an Inca item.
It was written (George Lucas) and directed (Steven Spielberg) by a gold-winning team which worked well together. They had both wanted to work together on a Star Wars film but due to scheduling, that had to be shelved. The films have a number of re-occurring characters,
Marion Ravenwood, Sallah and Dr. Marcus Brody.
They spun off the Indiana story into a television series known as the Young Indiana Chronicles which follows Young Indie as he fights the Germans in the First World War. It is set before the American enter the war. Harrison Ford made a guest appearance in one
episode 'Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues'.
Indiana has inspired a number of copcats, the most well known are Tomb Raider, the game then film series, the television series The Relic Hunter and the film Goonies. Both Raider and Hunter have female explorers to try and distance them from Indie as much as possible.
Although not followed both the storylines of female copies, there are bound to have an alien inspired story in one of the adventures.
Goonies was a shorty story written by Steven Spielberg which was turned into a film by Chris Columbus. It was about a group of teenagers who go off in search for a sunken treasure.
There's probably some other
Indie-inspired programmes/films or games out there but am not aware of them. |
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