Indiana Jones

by Dave

Jamie and I went to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls Thursday night. I won’t linger over a review of the film — if you’ve read the criticism on the web, I would agree with some of the more moderate takes on the film. Not as good as either Raiders or Last Crusade, but definitely a better film than Temple of Doom.

The point in starting with Indy is that he is the definitive version of the adventure story in our era. According to the tenth adition of Harmon and Holman’s A Handbook to Literature (the standard handbook of literary terms for lit majors), the adventure story can be defined this way: [click to continue…]

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