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Raiding the Lost Ark, A Filmumentary is the culmination eight months of reading, trawling, interviewing and editing. This time Jamie has sourced some of the interviews himself, with contributors from Wolf Kahler (Colonel Dietrich), Brian Muir (legendary sculptor), Mark Mangini (part of the Oscar winning sound team) and most surprisingly Sean Young (talking about her audition for the part of Marion Ravenwood). Raiding is available for your viewing pleasure on Vimeo from 4th February 2012.

What may be a holy grail of Indiana Jones artifacts was posted online on Monday (March 09, 2009): a 125-page transcript of the original story-conference meeting involving producer George Lucas, director Steven Spielberg, and writer Lawrence Kasdan. The blog, Mystery Man on Film, somehow got its hands on the alleged transcript, which features the filmmakers talking at great length in January 1978 about what would eventually become Raiders of the Lost Ark. The thing’s a pure joy to read. In it, you can find the genesis of everything from Indiana Jones’ name to his fear of snakes to his (possibly risque) romantic history with Marion Ravenwood. (source)

You may download a copy of the script [August 1979] here.

GITS Script Reading & Analysis: “Raiders of the Lost Ark”

For Day 1 of our analysis focusing on general comments, go here.
For Day 2 of our analysis focusing on structure, go here.
For Day 3 of our analysis focusing on characters, go here.
For Day 4 of our analysis focusing on themes, go here.
For Day 5 of our analysis focusing on dialogue, go here.