Raiders of the Lost Ark

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate our 150th episode, the HDYR gang decided it was time to go on a long overdue adventure with our old pal, Indy. Not unlike Star Wars, this property was such a constant in our lives that we've always regarded it as something so much larger than any one film.

Which is why it's so fascinating to go back to where it all began and really examine Raiders of the Lost Ark on its own terms. For as much as the first three films in the series have in common, this one really does stand apart for several important reasons.

It's a milestone movie for a milestone episode, so let's get the boulder rolling!

Topics include: the original choice for the role of Indiana Jones, how the first fifteen minutes are a microcosm of the entire film, the really important bit of exposition about the ark that they cut out, the elaborate sequence that was almost entirely improvised, whether or not there's any weight to the argument that Indy has no effect on the plot, the big reason Kingdom of the Crystal Skull feels so different from the others, and much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember Raiders of the Lost Ark?
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:31.7	I'm Chris.
0:32.4	I'm Donna.
0:33.1	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.1	And today we're revisiting Raiders of the Lost Ark.
0:53.1	Yeah. I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Raiders of the Lost Ark. It was May of 1977.
0:56.0	George Lucas had retreated to Hawaii to escape all the anxiety he felt about the release of Star Wars and how well it would perform at the box office.
1:04.0	Stephen Spielberg was also on vacation there, having just finished close encounters of the third kind.
1:08.7	As the two of them sat on the beach, building a
1:10.8	sandcastle together, Spielberg confessed that he'd always wanted to make a James Bond movie.
1:16.8	Lucas smiled and replied, I've got an even better idea. He described a story he'd been developing
1:22.2	since the early 70s right alongside Star Wars. And, like Star Wars, this one was also inspired by the old matinee
1:28.8	serials he'd grown up watching. Specifically, the pulpy adventure tales produced by Republic
1:33.6	Pictures, which featured characters like Robinson Crusoe, Dick Tracy, and Zorro. And the
1:38.9	hero at the center of Lucas's more modern spin on those stories was a cunning treasure hunter
1:43.3	named Indiana Smith.
1:46.4	Spielberg loved the idea, but had just one criticism. Smith didn't sound quite right.
1:52.6	Okay, Lucas suggested, what about Jones? And that's where it all began. Lucas started writing
1:59.0	what would become Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Empire
2:01.2	Strikes Back at the same time. Screenwriter Lawrence Kasden eventually became involved with both
2:05.8	productions, and in January of 1978, he sat down with Lucas and Spielberg for five straight
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