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From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
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Subject: Re:New "Raiders of the Lost Ark" question
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 19:58:04 EST
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>In article <1347@pyuxa.UUCP> ajf@pyuxa.UUCP (A Figura) writes:
>>Another thing I';ve never figured out is how Marion
>>survives the truck explosion (when she's in that basket)?
>>You never see her get out of the basket or off the truck
>>before Indy blows it to smithereens.
>>
> She was never IN that basket, so she wasn't in the truck.

Doesn't anyone out there have the film on cassette?  I got it when it
first came out.  The continuity of the film leaves no doubt that
Marion should have died in the truck.  We see a scene in which the
arabs are carrying a basket that is callin "I-i-indy-y-y" with Marion.
An instant later there is a scene in which they are carrying it to the
truck and putting it on.  The truck drives off and crashes.  So what?
Inconsistency is totally within the serial tradition.  Most episodes
of FLASH GORDON kill off a major good character at the end of an
episode, only to have a different scene in which the character saves
himself at the beginning of the next chapter.  I don't mean there is
just something they didn't show you the first time, I mean that Flash
would be shown actually falling out of the spaceship and beyond the
point where he could save himself, a week later he would be seen to
fall in a very different way and would grab onto the doorway to save
his life.  Cliffhangers very often cheated.  It was one of their less
endearing habits.  RotLA also cheats.  Marion had no chance whatsoever
to save herself.  It is a good film, but where it is dishonest, it
really is dishonest.  I am not going to rationalize for the script
just because I like the film.  Lots of places the script does not play
fair with the audience.  Anyone of the apologists out there want to
explain to me why sunlight makes a high pitched whistle when it goes
through the crystal in the map room (pointing to where the ark can be
found)?  How about why Indy's jacket and then Indy are not ripped
apart when being dragged behind the truck.  Or do you really think a
leather jacket and cloth pants are that protective?  Wanna try it?

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper