Review of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) by Huseyn B — 03 Oct 2012

Except that producer George Lucas did not gave up the idea in their own way to continue the popular movie series and launched the TV series "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles", the third part of the adventurous archaeologist Indiana Jones was (but only because now is on its way next series, taken almost 20 years) the final, did his "Last Crusade." Director Steven Spielberg, gaining wisdom with age and already is philosophical about life, became increasingly gravitate to more serious stories. And in this film, he decided to combine like childhood fantasies and experience of life, recklessness of youth and sophistication of old age, have seen a lot in my time. The director seemed to remember that his character still has to be life: a childhood spent in Utah, hobbies archeology under the influence of his father, Henry Jones, who tried all his life to unravel the mystery of the "Holy Grail" - the cup from which Jesus drank nearly two thousand years ago.

In the third series of Indiana Jones does not have much visual, fantastic effects, breathtaking stunts, incredible car chases. Although the newly famous archaeologist cowboy, this time with his father, vies for possession of a valuable relic from enterprising Nazis wishing to present the Holy Grail Hitler himself. Father and son, John, of course, win - especially because of the power of the spirit, its own intelligence, wit, resourcefulness and cunning. And Sean Connery was invited to be the "father", Spielberg immediately opened his card, told a kind of "family tree" of the movie series. Who, except the first (and best) of the performer as James Bond, could all play Jones's father?

A prologue is a parody tape declaration of love to a Western, which was borrowed from the image of the main character - a dashing guy in a wide-brimmed hat, with a whip in his belt and the Colt in his hands. The plot of the quest for the Holy Grail, of course, refers to the romances, the story of King Arthur and the 'Knights of the Round Table ", the crusaders, who were making trips to the Middle Ages in Jerusalem. Indiana Jones affair with Elsa Schneider, a German-beautiful blonde is definitely a spy, evokes a lot of melodramas such international adventuress, as Mata Hari and similar femmes fatales. Even conventional and sometimes caricature in the characterization of Nazi imagery has a long tradition in American films - from "The Great Dictator" by Charles Chaplin and "To be or not to be" Ernst Lubitsch, ending comedy of Mel Brooks (he's played in the remake of the film titled Lubitsch).

Steven Spielberg's picture gives the impression that the director, giving the curtain tribute old passions in art, as it says goodbye to all that, going to continue to talk about more important - and already from the personal name. He never took off his belt, the memory of his childhood on the script of his sister Anne, but, nevertheless, in the works of Spielberg, which followed immediately after the third part of a series of Indiana Jones - namely, to "Always" and is particularly evident in "Captain Hook "tried to emphasize that our children and even adults do not disappear dreams and may choose to materialize.