"Raiders of the Lost Ark"

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This paper reviews the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (the first action adventure of a series of Indiana Jones movies), directed by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. The paper introduces and discusses in detail, the basic plot of the film. It also briefly discusses characterization and camera use in some of the scenes of the film.

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"The final scene involving the Nazis and the rescue of the ark, is the site where the Nazis, who have retrieved the ark, plan to open it to discover its secrets, is one that employs the most intense special effects of the film. There is panning to set up the sense of how Indy is greatly out numbered by the Nazis and a lot of medium shots of Indiana as he poses with a rocket launcher threatening to destroy the ark. Of course, as an archeologist, he can't himself to do that, and surrenders to the Nazis. Taken prisoner with Marion, once again, there is a montage of action as the special effects through light and laser demonstrations take over to the thundering warning of the music warning the viewer of doom. In the end, the Nazis are destroyed with close ups of their faces melting through the layers of skin, ligament to bone demonstrating, first, their horrific terror of what they are seeing just before they disintegrate."

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