Indiana Jones: The Man in the Hat
This post is about Dr. Henry Jones, Jr., better known by his alias "Indiana Jones." I have recently finished rediscovering the man with the famous, yet fictional, archeologist of movie fame. I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark and its prequal, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, both of which are fantastic movies.
For those of you who don't know, Indiana Jones is a bullwhip-toting archeologist with an overdeveloped fear of snakes, played by Harrison Ford in a series of films by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Jones is modeled after the strong-jawed heroes of the pulp magazines and matinee serials that Lucas and Spielberg enjoyed in their childhoods. His films take place in the 1930's, but Indiana always has on the same outfit throughout all the movies: a worn leather jacket, revolver, bull-whip, sachel, sweaty white dress shirt, and an old brown fedora that never seems to get lost. Appearantly, the hat means so much to Dr. Jones that he is often willing to lose an arm retrieving it at the last minute from a closing stone door.
I can't wait for the fourth movie, which some believe will be titled Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis after a comic book on Indy by the same name.
Anyway, I just wanted to pay homage to one of the greatest movie heroes of all time and wish him luck in fighting angry Ancient cults and the Nazis.
For those of you who don't know, Indiana Jones is a bullwhip-toting archeologist with an overdeveloped fear of snakes, played by Harrison Ford in a series of films by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Jones is modeled after the strong-jawed heroes of the pulp magazines and matinee serials that Lucas and Spielberg enjoyed in their childhoods. His films take place in the 1930's, but Indiana always has on the same outfit throughout all the movies: a worn leather jacket, revolver, bull-whip, sachel, sweaty white dress shirt, and an old brown fedora that never seems to get lost. Appearantly, the hat means so much to Dr. Jones that he is often willing to lose an arm retrieving it at the last minute from a closing stone door.
I can't wait for the fourth movie, which some believe will be titled Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis after a comic book on Indy by the same name.
Anyway, I just wanted to pay homage to one of the greatest movie heroes of all time and wish him luck in fighting angry Ancient cults and the Nazis.
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