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Indi­ana Jones remains one of my top all time favorite movies. Any­one that doesn’t agree with me should be thrown into a pit of snakes.

The key to this extremely suc­cess­ful series of movies is it’s star, Har­ri­son Ford as Indi­ana Jones who breathed life and pro­vided a real­is­tic dimen­sion to the char­ac­ter. Orig­i­nally, Tom Sel­l­eck was cast as Indi­ana and truth­fully I don’t think it would have con­veyed itself as well. It’s hard to imag­ine Mag­num P.I. as a whip crack­ing arti­fact slueth. How­ever, it’s never hard to imag­ine an action role for Har­ri­son Ford espe­cially since this has been the bulk of his work in the past 20 years.

Ever since his begin­nings in the 1960s in a few for­get­table roles, he’s con­veyed a sense of deter­mi­na­tion. It wasn’t until his role in 1977’s Star Wars that truly let this actor flex his ‘act­ing’ mus­cle and show the pub­lic he could do action and act! (Unlike some other actors who flex their mus­cles and spit out their lines worse than a 3^rd grade play).

Indi­ana Jones had all the suc­cess­ful ingre­di­ents of mod­ern movies mixed with the key ele­ments of 40s and 50s seri­als. It kept the audi­ence on the edge with Indi­ana get­ting him­self into many inter­est­ing and dan­ger­ous predica­ments. Like for instance his dar­ing escape from a rolling boul­der and col­laps­ing booby trapped doors. The magic of these movies is essen­tially cap­tured on screen through the excel­lent writ­ing, act­ing and spe­cial effects. It was truly one of a kind.

A great site con­tain­ing a wealth of infor­ma­tion about the Indy movies is Indyfan.com. It’s at this site I learned that the DVD por­tion of the Indy series will be com­ing out soon. I’m think­ing it might be timed with the Indi­ana Jones 4 movie com­ing out in 2005.

Can’t wait.