Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

I was 12 when Raiders of the Lost Ark opened in 1981, and it changed my relationship with movies…..

There’s a Casablanca-like magic about Raiders, a serendipitous perfection of parts somehow coming together in a way not foreseen from the outset, when all Lucas had was “something better than Bond.” It could easily have been otherwise. Exhibit A: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Maybe Kasdan was right that the chaos in Lucas and Spielberg’s personal lives at that time…