Episode 112: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) (Non-’Lon BoysPick #1)

The Trylon’s playing movies we already recorded on earlier in the pandemic, so we’ve changed the rules for a short Non-’Lon Series on movies we HAVEN’T seen and may never see at the Trylon!

Jason kicks us off with RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981), a seminal action-adventure ah hell, you know what RAIDERS is. It’s 40 years old in 2021, so we’re putting on our goggles and giving it a close contemporary read.

Of course, we all kinda gush about it (and simp for Karen Allen [really hope she doesn’t get cancelled, we kinda put all our eggs in one basket this ep]), but we also really pick apart what the movie’s really saying about the archetypes and tropes it famously dug back up. What it says about how our heroes embody our virtues, what happens when both of those things change, and which parts of our national identity we choose to cling to through our shared myths.

3:53 - Aaron’s fine, fine summary

8:07 - Jason’s thoughts

12:37 - Cody’s thoughts

16:30 - Harry’s thoughts

20:56 - Aaron’s thoughts

37:46 - Indy, Belloq, and “shadowy reflections”

46:33 - Why we build heroes and what we choose to remember about them

56:35 - The complicated (i.e., gross) Indy/Marion relationship and their general dynamic

1:04:39 - Douglas Slocombe, texture, and what we see in RAIDERS

1:11:29 - From ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE (2021) to RAIDERS

1:13:50 - How the way RAIDERS came together influences what we think of it today

1:17:20 - Harrison Ford is hot Humphrey Bogart forever

1:21:21 - The Year of the Simp: Karen Allen

1:26:49 - Cody’s Noteys (Indiana Knowns)

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