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Indiana Jones is an action / adventure series created by George Lucas. It is named after its title character, the archaeologist/adventurer Indiana Jones.
Overview
The Indiana Jones franchise has been going since the first film, back in 1981. It covers all of the films as well as all of the Indiana Jones merchandise. The stories concern mainly the (quite adventurous) life and discoveries of archaeologist and professor Dr. Henry Walton Jones, better known as Indiana 'Indy' Jones. According to the so-far released canon, the Jones character met and interacted with many historical personalities of the 20th century during his youth, while later he made discoveries concerning religious relics, legendary artifacts, places and topics, often having to do with the supernatural.
Indiana therefore not only met (and sometimes befriended) T.E. Lawrence, Pancho Villa, Albert Schweitzer, Nikos Kazantzakis, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud and others[1], but also discovered the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, the Spear of Destiny, Avalon, Atlantis, El Dorado and even participated in the recovery of the Alien remains after the crash of Roswell. Despite however the importance and fame of his discoveries, because of some kind of counterbalancing fate, no trace remains of them thereafter, keeping thus their dangerous power forever hidden and lost.[2]
The nature of his discoveries often have to do with the prevention of the 'villains' obtaining the power. The villains traditionally have been Nazi agents, a concept largely inspired from the legendary Nazi mysticism. In the later timeframe, the Nazis are sort of 'replaced' by Soviet characters.
Corpus
- List of Indiana Jones films
- List of Young Indiana Jones episodes
- List of Indiana Jones games
- List of Indiana Jones comics
Setting
The Indiana Jones adventures are mainly during the early 20th century, surrounding World War I and World War II. In the earlier adventures, real-life events and personalities are heavily featured.
In the later adult Indiana Jones adventures, the setting becomes a sort of crossover fiction, since all myths, legends, legendary and holy objects, turn out to be true and actual, along with the related supernatural powers, in the Indiana Jones world.
Films
- "...the secret of the Indiana Jones movies’ success has always been their free-spirited inventiveness, a what-the-hell quality that can’t (or shouldn’t) be faked, even on a gigantic budget."
- ―nytimes.com[src]
So far, there have been four Indiana Jones films, starting with the first and original, Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, its prequel, Temple of Doom, in 1984, and its sequel, The Last Crusade, in 1989, with the newest Indiana Jones movie, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in 2008.
Since the release of the fourth installment of the IJ series, rumors for a fifth IJ movie have ran wild among fan sites, and all over the internet, and ideas for a fifth have been mentioned by several actors and crew members from the fourth, most notably George Lucas, but an official announcement has not yet been released.
Main characters
| Character | Film | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | |
| Indiana Jones | Harrison Ford | Harrison Ford River Phoenix |
Sean Patrick Flanery Corey Carrier George Hall Harrison Ford |
Harrison Ford | |
| Henry Jones, Sr. | Sean Connery Alex Hyde-White |
Lloyd Owen | |||
| Anna Jones | Ruth de Sosa | ||||
| Marion Ravenwood | Karen Allen | Karen Allen | |||
| Mutt Williams | Shia LaBeouf | ||||
| Helen Seymour | Margaret Tyzack | ||||
| T. E. Lawrence | Joseph Bennet Douglas Henshall |
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| Remy Baudouin | Ronny Couterre | ||||
| Marcus Brody | Denholm Elliot | Denholm Elliot | |||
| Sallah | John Rhys-Davies | John Rhys-Davies | |||
| Short Round | Jonathan Ke Quan | ||||
| Willie Scott | Kate Capshaw | ||||
| Mac | Ray Winstone | ||||
| René Belloq | Paul Freeman | ||||
| Mola Ram | Amrish Puri | ||||
| Walter Donovan | Julian Glover | ||||
| Irina Spalko | Cate Blanchett | ||||
External links
- ↑ http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_historical_figures_portrayed_in_Young_Indiana_Jones
- ↑ Comment made by Indy after the collapse of Atlantis in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis