A Whip-Smart Sequel -- Indiana Jones Is Back, and He's Got Karen Allen, Communists and Elvis with Him

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For all their painstaking craftsmanship and elaborately planned action choreography, the Indiana Jones films celebrate improvisation and spontaneity - the happy accidents and ability to roll with the punches that Steven Spielberg has learned to embrace in almost four decades in that most unpredictable and uncontrollable of work environments, the film set.

As Indy himself said in his first adventure, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981): "I'm making this up as I go."

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A Whip-Smart Sequel -- Indiana Jones Is Back, and He's Got Karen Allen, Communists and Elvis with Him

The faux happenstance of Indy's exploits explains why special effects often don't mesh well with the hero's daredeviltry. A tribute to the breakneck Republic adventure serials of the 1940s (and to the motion picture stunt men who made the serials so exciting), "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was comprised of improbable but usually...

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