Trivia

The first part of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas-produced staged film series, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" played worldwide at 20 million U.S. dollar production costs 384 million U.S. dollars. Overall, the film was nominated 8 times for an Oscar and received at least 4 of the gold trophies in the categories of Best film editing, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration ".

The second part of "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" topped with a recording of $ 333 million significantly the production costs of $ 28 million. He won the Oscar for best special effects and was nominated for best music. "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was" also an Oscar for best sound editing as well as two Oscar nominations. With a box office receipts of 500 million U.S. dollars, surpassing its predecessor again by nearly 170 million U.S. dollars. Nevertheless, the fourth and most recent installment of the series "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" with a box office of over 742 million U.S. dollars of the financially most successful part. You can be as successful as this while playing the online game Seafight.

Despite this commercial success was the last part of the adventure series mostly bad reviews and was awarded the Golden Raspberry negative price as the "Worst Sequel." It is also interesting that in almost all parts of the allusions to George Lucas conceived science-fiction saga "Star Wars can be found." Real role model for the character of Indiana Jones was the archaeologist Hiram Bingham, rediscovered Machu Picchu in 1911, the city.

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