For more than 40 years, the first minutes of this film have inspired thousands of viewers to go on an adventure.

The first 5 minutes of a movie are very often the most important. During these 5 short minutes, which the filmmaker mainly uses to challenge the audience directly, the rest of the feature film takes place.

For the director, it is to leave the audience with the first lasting memory, to explain in record time that they are about to experience a great moment in the cinema, to remove tears (as in the studio above at Pixar. ), to give them chills (as in Prince of Egypt) or to traumatize them (as in Cliffhanger).

The genius of Spielberg

In this field, as in many others, Steven Spielberg is a real expert. So many years after discovering the introduction of jaws, many viewers are still hesitant before daring to dip their toe into the water. Or that the opening of Saving Private Ryan remains an irresistible war movie monument today.

A scene that continued to resonate through the darkened rooms

But today let’s focus on another sequence that still resonates in the memories of millions of fans four decades later. The one who 43 years ago gave the whole world an opportunity to get to know one of the most legendary characters in the history of cinema.

A lost temple in the middle of the Peruvian jungle, mysterious notes of John Williams, an old treasure map and an already legendary figure wearing a fedora, dressed in a coat and equipped with a whip. A miracle happens in some iconic shots. In the head of every viewer, the name Indiana Jones is already synonymous with the word “adventure”.

The adventure now has a name

Each subsequent frame only confirms the scene’s instant iconic status. Tarantulas on India’s back, tiles stuck in the temple floor, a gold statue replaced by a sandbag, a giant stone ball, an archaeologist being chased through the jungle by the Ovitos…

The public has only known Indiana Jones for a few minutes, but already everyone understood who he was dealing with, and no one has the slightest doubt: what happened now will forever be recorded in the annals of the seventh art.

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