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Not by a long shot.
They wanted to update the Saturday-matinee serials of their respective childhoods for a new age of state-of-the-art spectacle.
We can hear the protests already.
What aboutThe Last Crusade?
Still, none of the sequels come close to the rollercoaster peaks ofRaiders.
Part of the lightningRaidersbottled was the intersection of Spielbergs growing confidence behind the camera and Fords burgeoning star power.
Where the two met, an icon was born.
Indiana Jones is never more interesting or charming than he is in the original.
It helps that Ford has Karen Allen as a scene partner, of course.
Poor Kate Capshaw, put in the impossible position of replacing Marion Ravenwood.
But Spielberg won that war pretty decisively in 81 with the goriest of mic drops.
From the moment it became a big success, that firstIndiana Joneswas destined to not be the last.
And so they made the best possible version of the story they could.
But what did that leave for the sequels?
