Re: A question for all those who remember 1981...

Posted by Michaelson from em12-686.utsi.edu on July 29, 1999 at 09:42:01:

In Reply to: A question for all those who remember 1981... posted by ROB T. on July 29, 1999 at 04:29:12:

: I was responding to Thuggee Bear's post about the name change for "Raiders" and it got me thinking about something I wanted to ask all those who can remember "Raiders" in its original release.
: With the controversy regarding the name change I'm reminded of my original feeling for the title "Raiders of the Lost Ark." I was sixteen in 1981 and the only Ark I'd ever heard of was Noah's Ark. Indy might have asked if I'd ever been to Sunday school (and I had) but I don't remember any talk of the Ark of the Covenant when I was a kid.
: Anyway, I originally thought that the title of the film was stupid and had very little meaning. Even after I saw the film and was blown away by it I didn't like the title. It didn't sound adventuresome and I thought it might turn off some potential viewers with its seeming vagueness.
: My question to you is this. What did you think of the title "Raiders of the Lost Ark" the first time you heard it, before the film became a big hit and a movie phenomenon?

You know, I never even gave the title a thought when it came out. We had so many different movies flying around us at that time, especially being in the middle of the Star Wars trilogy, I was more drawn by the advertisements of the action. I really didn't care what they called it, it just looked interesting. Strangely enough, it was my sister and her boyfriend that drug me to see the movie, as I had been working a lot of overtime at the plant I was at then, and they thought this would be right down my alley. Who would have believed that I would still be at it so many years later?! Regards. Michaelson

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: : I was responding to Thuggee Bear's post about the name change for "Raiders" and it got me thinking about something I wanted to ask all those who can remember "Raiders" in its original release.
: : With the controversy regarding the name change I'm reminded of my original feeling for the title "Raiders of the Lost Ark." I was sixteen in 1981 and the only Ark I'd ever heard of was Noah's Ark. Indy might have asked if I'd ever been to Sunday school (and I had) but I don't remember any talk of the Ark of the Covenant when I was a kid.
: : Anyway, I originally thought that the title of the film was stupid and had very little meaning. Even after I saw the film and was blown away by it I didn't like the title. It didn't sound adventuresome and I thought it might turn off some potential viewers with its seeming vagueness.
: : My question to you is this. What did you think of the title "Raiders of the Lost Ark" the first time you heard it, before the film became a big hit and a movie phenomenon?

: You know, I never even gave the title a thought when it came out. We had so many different movies flying around us at that time, especially being in the middle of the Star Wars trilogy, I was more drawn by the advertisements of the action. I really didn't care what they called it, it just looked interesting. Strangely enough, it was my sister and her boyfriend that drug me to see the movie, as I had been working a lot of overtime at the plant I was at then, and they thought this would be right down my alley. Who would have believed that I would still be at it so many years later?!  Regards. Michaelson

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