This movie was very entertaining to watch, and i feel it was due mainly to the directing style of Steven Spielberg. Throughout the movie he would seemingly inject the audience into the scene by placing the camera in the middle of the action. He would not jsut show you the scene and display what is happening, he would make you feel as though you were inside of the film. In the temple scene,while the director of the clan was performing his ritulal, he placed the camera in the middle of the cultists, makeing you feel as though you were apart of the cult itself. This added specific drama to the scene that would have not been accomplished without this precise camera placement. If they would have used a crane or long shot to simply display the cult, instead of puting you inside of it, you wouldnt feel as though you were apart of the film, you would feel like an outsider looking in on this cult's activities. This drew my attention right away and i praise Spielberg for his cinematic genius.
Another element of this film that i really enjoyed was the restricted narration. We are focused on Indiana the whole time and foced only on what is happening to him at that time. We dont get random scenes of scheming gangster bosses or meddling raiders, which would have placed the audiences intersts elsewhere rather than on Indiana where it should be. If he gets poisoned, we dont know about it until it is already to late. I felt this was effective at keeping the attention specifically on the main characters thoughout the entire film.
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I agree with Mike on the part in the film with the cult and how they put the camera in the middle of it. It literally made you feel apart of the film. The only thing about this film that bothered me was the digital effects. It just made the movie look so fake and unrealistic. I was expecting this movie to be great like "The Raiders of the Lost Arc," but Speilberg just let me down, because it turned out to be the complete opposite of what i was hoping for.
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