FilmSeries· 1981· Adventure
Indiana Jones: 1 recorded work traces back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
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Jordan Mechner has named the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark, alongside the swashbucklers of the 1930s, as a model for the game: a lone hero running a gauntlet of spikes, pits and closing gates, where one mistimed jump is death. Filed MEDIUM: the setting and story come from the Arabian Nights.
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Spielberg has told this story himself. French reviews of Raiders of the Lost Ark compared it to Tintin, he had not read the books, he then did, and he spent nearly thirty years trying to film them before making The Adventures of Tintin in 2011. Whether or not it reached him before Raiders, Hergé built the form both share: serialised globe-trotting adventure where an artefact drives the plot, research is shown on the page, and each chapter ends on a fall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin_(film) This is a rare example of circular influence/not a direct A to B influence and therefore kept as LOW.