Tuesday 13 September 2011

Raiders of the lost ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark (also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) is an American 1981 action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford. He is the first (chronologically the second) film of the Indiana Jones franchise. It pits Indiana Jones (Ford) against a group of Nazis who are in search of the ark, because Hitler thought that his army will be invincible. The film co-star Karen Allen, Indiana former lover Marion Ravenwood Paul Freeman as Indiana's nemesis, French archaeologist Rene Belloq, John Rhys-Davies, sidekick of Indiana, Sallah, and Denholm Elliott as Indiana colleague Marcus Brody.

The film comes from the desire of Lucas to create a modern version of the series 1930 and 1940. The production was based at Elstree Studios in England, but the shot also took place in La Rochelle, Tunisia, Hawaii and California, from June to September 1980.

Published June 12, 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark was the revenue of the films in 1981 and is still one of the most profitable film ever made. He was nominated for eight Oscars in 1982 including Best Picture, and won four (Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects) and fifth to win special prize for editing Achievement Academy Sound Effects. The success of critical and popular film resulted in three more films, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), a series TV, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992-1996), and 15 games from 2009. In 1999, the film was recorded in the library US registry Congress National Film to have been deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

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In 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones of the Braves of an ancient temple filled with Peruvian booby traps to retrieve a golden idol. On the stroke of the Indiana church is confronted by rival archaeologist René Belloq and Hovitos home. Surrounded by the number, Indiana has to give the idol to Belloq and escapes aboard a seaplane waiting to Waco.

Shortly after returning to college in the United States, where he teaches archeology, Indiana is questioned by two intelligence officers of the Army. They inform him that the Nazis in their quest for occult power, the search for his former mentor, Abner Ravenwood, who is in possession of the medallion of an artifact called the Staff of Ra and is the leading expert on ancient Egyptian city of Tanis . Indiana suggests that the Nazis are looking for Tanis, as it is supposed to be the place where the Ark of the Covenant, the chest Biblical built by Israel to contain fragments of the Ten Commandments, the Nazis acquired it will be their armies invincible. Staff of Ra, meanwhile, is key to finding the good of souls, a secret chamber where the Ark is buried. The officers then used to retrieve the Ark Indiana with a promise to show in a museum.

Indiana travels to Nepal to find that Ravenwood has died and that the headset is in possession of his daughter, Marion, Indiana embittered former lover. Indiana intends to purchase the historic three thousand dollars and two miles back to the United States. Taverne, Marion is suddenly attacked by a group of thugs led by top Nazi agent Toht. The tavern burned in the scuffle, during which Toht burning his hand on the hull of a searing heat as it tries to catch it. Marion Indiana and beyond with the headset, saying it will accompany Marion Indiana in their search for the ship, so you can pay your debt.

They travel to Cairo, where they learn from a friend in Indiana Sallah, a bulldozer of experts, Belloq and the Nazis are digging for the good of souls with a replica of the cover of the scar on his hand Toht. In a bazaar, Nazi agents trying to kidnap Marion and Indiana as running behind them, seem to die in an explosion. While deciphering the inscriptions on the helmet, Indiana and Sallah realize that the Nazis had miscalculated the location of many souls. Using this to their advantage, they infiltrate the Nazis searches and personal use Ra to determine the correct location and discover the good of souls, which is full of snakes. Indiana, while disguised, Marion is tied to a pole and gagged with a knotted handkerchief. He began his dismissal, but realizes that the Nazis will be for them, so that despite his objections, which is linked to new and regags.

When Indiana fends off snakes (by immersion in gasoline and put them on fire), and acquires Ark Belloq and the Nazis come to take him. He throws down a Marion Indiana, and kept so, but Indiana and Marion can escape. Having exhausted a fist fight a giant mechanical Nazis, blowing up the wing to fly and hunt the trail a truck convoy to take Indiana back to the Ark before it can be delivered in Berlin, even if it is shot in the arm in the process .

Indiana and Marion leave Cairo to escort the ship to England aboard a tramp. The next morning, the ship is boarded by the Nazis, who once again steal the Ark and Marion kidnapping. Indiana ranks in their submarines, and is on a remote island in the Aegean Sea, where Belloq plans to test the power of the Ark before presenting it to Hitler. Indiana comes back and threatens to destroy the Ark with a grenade launcher, rockets, but Belloq calls his bluff, knowing that Indy can not lead to the elimination of important historical artifact.

Indiana goes and joins a post with Marion and Belloq leads to an opening ceremony of the Ark, which seems to contain nothing but sand. Suddenly, the spirits, like the Old Testament description of the seraphim, awareness of the dangers of the supernatural to see open Ark, Indiana warns Marion to close their eyes. The appearances of a sudden become demonic creatures, and the rays start flying out of the ark, horribly murdered Belloq and the Nazis. The increase in fires in the sky, and then the Earth and the Ark closes with lightning.

Back in Washington, DC, military intelligence officers tell a suspect that Brody and Indiana's Ark "is a safe place" to be studied by the "men upstairs." In fact, the Ark is sealed in a wooden box labeled "top secret" and stored in a giant warehouse filled with countless similar government funding.

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