Thursday, February 9, 2012

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Review











Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom


Release Date: 19th July 1984 - Australia


Production Companies
Paramount Pictures (presents)
Lucasfilm Ltd.

Distribution
Paramount Pictures Australia


Genre: Action/Adventure

Rating: M

Runtime: 118 minutes


Budget: $28,200,000

Box Office Gross: $333,107,271 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
In 1935, courageous
archaeologist Indiana Jones
is in China, negotiating with
Chinese gangsters for an
artefact when he narrowly
avoids death. With night-
club singer Wilhelmina
"Willie" Scott and a
twelve-year-old boy, Short
Round, they end up in far-
off India, where they come
across a small village in crisis,
where the people believe that
evil spirits have taken all their
children away after a precious
sacred stone got stolen!

So Indy embarks on a quest with
Willie and Short Round as they
set out to find the missing stone
and children before stumbling
into a terrible discovery
surrounding a booby-trapped
temple called the Temple of
Doom! With the power of all five
Sankara Stones at their possession,
Thuggee is on a quest for world
domination! It is up to Indiana to
retrieve the stone, rescue the
kidnapped children and end the
Thuggee campaign.


Cast
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones
Kate Capshaw - Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott
Jonathan Ke Quan - Short Round
Amrish Puri - Mola Ram
Roshan Seth - Chattar Lal
Phillip Stone - Captain Phillip Blumburtt
Raj Singh - Zalim Singh
D. R. Nanayakkara - Shaman
Roy Chiao - Lao Che
David Yip - Wu Han
Ric Young - Kao Khan
Chua Kah Joo - Chen
Pat Roach - Chief Guard
Dan Aykroyd - Weber (Cameo)

Crew
Director - Steven Spielberg
Story/Executive Producer - George Lucas
Screenplay - Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz
Associate Producer - Kathleen Kennedy
Executive Producer/Second Assistant Director: London -
Frank Marshall
Producer - Robert Watts
Casting Directors - Jane Feinberg,
Mike Fenton, Marci Liroff and Mary Selway
Production Designer - Elliot Scott
Production Illustrators - Ed Verreaux
and Andrew Probert
Chief Art Director - Alan Cassie
Art Director - Roger Cain
Art Director: California - Joe Johnston
Assistant Art Directors - Peter Russell
and Stephen Scott
Draughtsman - Richard Holland
Set Decorator - Peter Howitt
Property Master - Barry Wilkinson
Costume Designer - Anthony Powell
Assistant Costume Designer - Joanna Johnston
Chief Makeup Artist - Peter Robb-King
Chief Hairdresser - Colin Jamison
Director of Photography - Douglas Slocombe
Director of Photography: California -
Allen Daviau
Additional Photography - Paul Beeson
Steadicam Photography: Sri Lanka - Garrett Brown
Operating Cameramen - Chic Waterson and
David Worley
Operating Cameramen: California - John J. Connor
and John M. Stephens
First Assistant Cameraman: California - Eric Engler
Location Manager: California - Richard Vane
Production Manager: USA - Robert Latham Brown
Production Manager: UK - Patricia Carr
First Assistant Director: USA - Louis Race
Assistant Director: UK - David Tomblin
Second Assistant Directors: UK - Roy Button
and Steve Harding
Second Unit Director - Michael D. Moore
Second Unit Director: California/Stunt Arranger:
Location/Stunts - Glenn Randall Jr.
Stunt Arranger: Studio/Stunts - Vic Armstrong
Choreographer - Danny Daniels
Mechanical Effects Supervisor - George Gibbs
Special Effects Supervisor: California - Kevin Pike
Chief Special Effects Technician - Richard E. Conway
Special Effects Assistants - Peter Davey,
Steve Hamilton, Joss Williams and Michael Dawson
(Uncredited)
Floor Effects Supervisor - David H. Watkins
Visual Effects Supervisor - Dennis Muren
Effects Creative Consultant: ILM - Phil Tippett
Optical Photography Supervisor: ILM - Bruce Nicholson
Additional Photography: ILM - Rick Fichter
Chief Visual Effects Cameraman: ILM - Michael J. McAllister
Visual Effects Cameraman: ILM - Michael Owens
Assistant Cameramen: ILM - Kim Marks,
Pat Sweeney, Randy Jonsson and Joe Fulmer
Modelshop Supervisor: ILM - Lorne Peterson
Chief Model Makers: ILM - Paul Huston,
Barbara Gallucci, Charlie Bailey, Ease Owyeung
and Michael Fulmer
Matte Painting Supervisor: ILM - Michael Pangrazio
Matte Camera Supervisor: ILM - Craig Barron
Matte Photography: ILM - David Fincher
and Deborah Morgan
Stop Motion Animation: ILM - Tom St. Amand
Stage Coordinator: ILM - Edward Hirsh
Editor - Michael Kahn
Assistant Film Editors - Bruce Green,
Steven Kemper and Colin Wilson
Sound Design/Re-Recording Mixer - Ben Burtt
Sound Mixer - Simon Kaye
Sound Effects Editors - John Benson,
Teresa Eckton, Ken Fischer and
Suzanne Fox
Dialogue Editors - Gloria S. Borders
and Richard Hymns
Re-Recording Mixers - Gary Summers
and Randy Thom
Foley Artist - Dennie Thorpe
Music - John Williams
Supervising Music Editor - Kenneth Wannberg
Music Recording Consultant - Bruce Botnick
Marketing and Promotion - Sidney Ganis


Awards

1985 Academy Awards
Best Visual Effects - Dennis Muren,
George Gibbs, Lorne Peterson and
Michael J. McAlister (Won)
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Best Original Score - John Williams (Nominated)


Review
Technically, a prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM is fun yet darker and threatening than its predecessor. This film indicates the personal turmoil that Spielberg and Lucas were experiencing at the time. DOOM includes nightmarish scenes like the evil priest pulling the heart out of a victim while he was still alive. I still liked Harrison Ford's performance in that movie despite pulling through. I find the mine cart chase sequence thrilling and the bridge fight scene impressive. My only complaint would be Jones' love interest, Willie Scott, who is nothing but a whiner and a cause of danger. It doesn't help that Kate Capshaw, the director's future wife, portrayed this character. They should have made her more serious and less of a damsel in distress and would have made the movie a 10 out of 10.

Although THE TEMPLE OF DOOM was not as good as the first and third Indiana Jones films, it's still an enjoyable and semi-decent adventure for fans if they are willing to get past some of its political incorrectness.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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