Raiders Of The Lost Ark Analysis

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This class has been quite the experience for me. I have listened to many interesting lectures, read many intriguing stories, and wrote countless discussion posts reflecting on them. These discussions actually helped me to discover the key points in each story that were most important to me, the reader. Indirectly, I now have a better memory of these stories as a result of writing 300 words about each one, but the story I can recall clearly is the story of Raiders of the lost Ark, directed by Steven Spielberg. This is the story of a dashing archaeologist on a quest to discover religious relic thought to be only myth. Raiders of the Lost Ark is an attention grabbing movie with a compelling main character, and a story which reflects events from the 1980s that molded this fantastic movie. Raiders of the Lost Ark follows the courageous Indiana Jones as he fights for what he thinks is right, securing the Ark of the Covenant in a museum once and for all, and preventing the Nazis from using its destructive power to wipe out entire cultures. While Indiana Jones travels across the world on his adventures, the biggest events of the story take place in Egypt during World War II, where the Nazis believe the Ark is being held in an ancient city pillaged by a sandstorm thousands of years ago. There are many scenes …show more content…
With an incredible score by John Williams, and a story which begs to be explored, this isn’t a movie one would want to miss out on. Throughout the movie, there are many recurring parallels to events that occurred during the time this movie was being produced. Indiana Jones’s conflict with the Nazis is reflection of the conflict between the United States and the USSR during the Cold War. Jones’s victory against the Nazis is symbolic of the nature of the failing communist government of the Soviet Union, and how they were eventually defeated at the end of World War
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