05-04-2025, 11:42 PM
(05-04-2025, 09:23 PM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/there-really-was-a-lot-of-indiana-jones-inspired-media-in-the-late-80s-huh.1180884/
Wrexis wrote:King Solomon's Mines
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Solomon%27s_Mines#Films
Quote:The first cinema adaptation (a silent film version) was directed by Horace Lisle Lucoque in 1919 (now lost),[22] followed by the first sound version in 1937, King Solomon's Mines, which was directed by Robert Stevenson. The best known version premiered in 1950, King Solomon's Mines, directed by Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton, which was followed by a sequel, Watusi (1959). In 1979, a low-budget version was directed by Alvin Rakoff, King Solomon's Treasure, combining both King Solomon's Mines as well as Allan Quatermain in one story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_(character)#Origins_and_inspirations\
Quote:Indiana Jones is modeled after the strong-jawed heroes of the matinée serials and pulp magazines that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg enjoyed in their childhoods (such as the Republic Pictures serials, and the Doc Savage series). Sir H. Rider Haggard's safari guide and big game hunter Allan Quatermain, who appeared in King Solomon's Mines (1885) and its seventeen sequels and prequels, is a notable template for Jones.[51]
Always their knowledge only extends to the most pop culture of pop culture references.
For a bunch of people who think they are no "not mainstream" they are pretty fucking mainstream.
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