Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Raiders of the Lost Ark”

6 part series on the classic 1981 action adventure movie.

Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman

IMDb plot summary: Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.

Links to the GITS week-long discussion and analysis:

General Comments
Structure
Character
Themes
Dialogue
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Years ago, I came up with this mantra: Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. A link to my reflections on that here.

Cannot emphasize enough the importance of reading movie scripts.

For all of the other screenplays and commentary in the GITS Script Reading & Analysis series, go here.

For my 7-part series on How to Read a Screenplay, go here.

For links to over 100 free and legal script downloads, go here.