Indiana Jones realizes that the Nazis are as pathetic as they are evil

Everywhere of Lucasfilm Indiana Jones franchisethe looming threat of Nazism is the background to the adventures Indy embarks on to protect whatever MacGuffin he’s after – which invariably one of Hitler’s lackeys also sets out to achieve in order to support the Reich’s pursuit of power on every price. And while yes, it’s included many hits by Harrison Fordthe films also talked about how the Nazi ideology of using white supremacy as a solution to mass control would quickly backfire or (face) melt away – long before the Führer could lay his hands on any mystical objects that would pronounce judgment against evils they represent.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, with the production direction of Kathleen Kennedybase their tales on the idea that democracy’s greatest enemies will seek out the occult and super-powerful artifacts for weapons to help achieve their agendas. Historically, these enemies have used the appropriation of customs like the Roman salute to show that their way is the next great empire. Decades after World War II, we all know what that is hail salute means in the context of so many lives lost in battle and the holocaust, not to mention the hate groups that continue to exist today. It can hardly be called an embarrassing incident when someone causes a shrill dog whistle. The Indiana Jones the movies demonstrate it it’s evergreen to see dastardly men in power try to use the knowledge of great civilizations that – we must remind you – collapsed anyway to justify horrible tactics against other races and marginalized people to keep an empire in power .

Indiana Jones as a character represents the good of everyman working with a team of knowledge seekers who would instead look into the history of these objects to learn from the past rather than try to repeat it. And of course he will step up and use the necessary violence against those who support the revival of fascism.

c Indiana Jones stories, the Nazi threat is that they will use archeological relics with a touch of mystical superstition to assert their belief system of asserting racial superiority and fascist rule. c Raiders of the Lost The Ark, the Ark of the Covenant represents an unfathomable power to carry out Hitler’s iniquities. The Holy Grail in The Last Crusade it meant immortality, villains foolishly thinking themselves worthy of it. c Dial of fate the hope is to go back in time and win – and c The Great Circle video game (which takes place between Attackers and The Temple of Doom), the goal is to achieve a huge portal to move their armies everywhere.

Of course they fail every time…outwitted by Indiana Jones and company, no matter how many times a secret arm of the SS sought to use the promise of mystical power to round up stooges, including Americans. Their appeal usually strikes the lowest types of people because as The big circleEmmerich Voss said it, “Insecure men are easy to manipulate.” In a time where knowledge of our history is actively forbidden, we turn to the arts to learn why it is important to keep records of the good and the bad. We need to learn from history, something Indiana Jones has always stood for (and he’s not above emphasizing that with a solid punch), so we don’t get stuck in it.

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