Indiana Jones 5 Could Be Everything The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Wasn’t

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There aren't many eras in cinema that is more nostalgic than the period of action-adventure movies from the late seventies to early nineties. This era's films in the genre mainly come from filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. If anyone were to list filmmakers who influenced that period in cinema the most, it would be difficult to convince anyone that they weren't the top two. Star Wars, E.T., Jurassic Park, and obviously their infamous collaboration, Indiana Jones, created an era in cinema defining the summer blockbuster.

Because they were so influential, many of the newer filmmakers jumping into the profession now were massive fans of those movies. Like any generation of filmmakers, they were very much like the Movie Brats. The Movie Brats were a young, up-and-coming group of film buffs turned filmmakers coming out of college creating cinema heavily influenced by the movies they group up with. This era marked the rise of the likes of Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. They took what they loved and made something new in homage to that, much like George Lucas being influenced by Akira Kurosawa movies for Star Wars.

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This trend happens a lot. A more recent group that was heavily influenced by the Movie Brats came into cinema in the mid-2000s. Among that group of filmmakers who grew up watching Spielberg and Lucas is J. J. Abrams, who made a name for himself with his series Felicity and his production company Bad Robot. Much like the original Movie Brats, he created his own style and took major influence from the filmmakers and movies that he loved. Just watching an Abrams movie like Super 8 makes it almost painfully obvious that he was a student of that era of cinema.