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Raiders of the Lost Ark

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  • Lucas reportedly received between one and four million dollars plus gross participation, while Spielberg received $1.5 million plus participation.
  • The script described the Ark opening only as “all hell breaks loose,” leaving the effects team to invent the sequence.
  • Tunisia stood in for Egypt in extreme heat; widespread dysentery spared Spielberg because he ate imported canned food.
  • The monkey salute reportedly required about 50 takes and a grape on fishing line; depleted stunt staffing led producer Frank Marshall to pilot the airplane for days in severe cockpit heat.
  • Stock footage came from Lost Horizon and The Hindenburg, while the canyon location and hieroglyphs connect visually to Star Wars.
  • Indy’s bullwhip sold for about $43,000 in 1999, and the Well of Souls occupied the same soundstage set footprint as the writing room in The Shining.
  • Vivian Kubrick reportedly halted production over snake handling until additional protections were provided.
  • Ford performed many stunts, bruising ribs, tearing a knee ligament, and narrowly avoiding worse injury under the airplane.
  • The German-mechanic fight was largely improvised as Spielberg kept adding ideas, and Indy’s clothing was based on Charlton Heston in Secret of the Incas.
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2001: A Space Odyssey

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