Raiders of the Lost Ark 5： 81-year-old Indiana Jones, no one watched it？

Special feature of 1905 film network Since its release on June 30th, the veteran IP sequel "raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny" has had a mediocre box office performance, with only 17 million box office receipts after four days of release, and the total box office forecast of all media is less than 100 million.For a classic IP with a history of 42 years, such box office results are really embarrassing.

According to the data, in the audience portrait of raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny, the audience aged 40+ accounts for as high as 21%. The movie fans who walked into the cinema to watch "raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny" seemed to be "paying for their feelings".

But in fact, this feeling is not only hidden in the hearts of fans, but also exists in the director’s creation.

In the latest release of raiders of the lost ark: Turntable of Destiny, we can see many details of the first four works, whether it’s the worms crawling all over the protagonist while searching for treasure, the affectionate confession of Indiana Jones and his lover, or the action design of "beating the enemy with one punch". These classic bridges in the previous works are all presented in raiders of the lost ark: Turntable of Destiny.

However, many plots of the previous tribute works are also a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they can satisfy the expectations of Laofen for IP feelings in the cinema, but on the other hand, they will also disappoint the new audience of raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny.

It’s true that these slightly clumsy plot designs are gradually out of touch with the current film market. When people who don’t know much about raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny enter the cinema, they expect to see a treasure-winning adventure film under the background of a new era, not just a "tribute film" that reviews the past and relives their feelings.

Although this work has been labeled as "old school" and ""the Chen Dynastyold",but for director James Mangold, he never shy away from aiming the camera lens at" Old Age "in raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny.

The initial intention of his creation is precisely to tell an old story in an old-fashioned way, so that an old-fashioned hero can bid farewell to this story seriously on the way of pursuing treasure.

The actor who plays Indiana Jones in the movie is 81 years old this year. Compared with 40 years ago, he is no longer a "whip-wielding god of war" in his early forties, and he has gradually retired from the super-popular actor who was active in Hollywood in the past.

When the turntable of time stayed at the 40-year-old debut of raiders of the lost ark: The Turntable of Destiny, the director followed the passage of time and told the story of an 80-year-old "dying hero" with romantic brushstrokes: Indiana Jones was no longer a superhero who saved the heroine in from the mire in his previous work, but an "adventure old man" who was helpless and saved by the hostess; Although Indiana Jones can still climb, ride horses and fight, everything seems a bit clumsy, and Dr. Jones himself spoke indifferently of this clumsiness during this adventure.

These voices of "getting old" pervaded the whole movie, but did not make the audience feel helpless in the face of time.It happens that this self-mockery and this bow to time reflect the director’s values hidden in the story: the real old age is not to surrender to time on the ground, but to take the hand of time and go further and further together.

Heroes can no longer be heroic, and heroes can also be saved by "beauty". Heroes can’t compete with time, but they can walk in time.However, the reason why "raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny" no longer attracts young audiences is not only the reason of "the old hero", but also deeply related to the "the old theme" of adventure and treasure hunting movies.

In recent years, the development of adventure movies in the domestic and foreign film markets has been weak, and few influential adventure movies have appeared. The movie that was once called "raiders of the lost ark: The Wheel of Destiny" was also released seven years ago.

Adventure and treasure hunt movies were all the rage in the 1980s. For the whole world, the 1980s was a romantic era. At that time, the world was full of unknowns and mysteries, and people wanted to pursue things beyond our knowledge, which also provided social and cultural soil for the vigorous development of adventure and treasure-hunting movies.

In the series of raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny, there is a story that is interesting: in the first part, Indiana Jones is an archaeological university teacher. When he is in class, the students under the podium are absorbed and fascinated; However, in his latest work "raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny", he said that no one looked up under the desk in class, and everyone no longer cared about archaeology, but cared about the vast universe and the boundless space.

The team of creators of "raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny" used this lens to compare and accurately capture the changes of people’s mentality in different times, and also announced the decline of adventure movies from the side.

In today’s era, everyone is looking up, looking forward to the mysterious universe in the deep blue, but less and less looking down at the solid land under their feet. Indiana Jones is just a member of the solid land, and he has always adhered to the initial intention of exploring the land.

From this point of view, the series raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny has spanned 40 years, and given such an epoch-making work in today’s film market, which has already completed its historical mission, and also handed over an answer sheet with the name of a curtain call for adventure and treasure hunting movies.

However, although the hero is old and the theme is no longer fresh, raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny is still a film worth going into the cinema and enjoying seriously.

This work inherits the classic and smooth plot trend of the previous work, and tells the ups and downs of adventure films very purely.

At the same time, as one of the top actors in Hollywood, how Harrison Ford plays the role of Indiana Jones as an explorer at the age of 81, and what superb details he will perform, is also worth seeing by the audience.

We have to admit that the golden age of exploration, which was once shining, has gone away from us, but the spirit of never giving up and going forward will never die.

This spirit of exploration also runs through the film raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny: 40 years ago, Indiana Jones was the embodiment of human exploration spirit; 40 years later, at the age of 81, he is still wearing armor, and on his own adventure, he keeps going forward and never looks back.