Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

Two Mississippi kids spent years in the 1980s making a shot-for-shot remake of "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Here's the first ten minutes. Jim Windolf wrote about the remake in the 2004 Vanity Fair feature "Raiders of the Lost Backyard." You can read it here: www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2004 /03/raiders200403

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[Landomar]

you can diss this all you want but it doesnt change the fact that SPIELBERG loved it, gave it his stamp of approval, invited them to hang with him at dreamworks AND Someone BOUGHT the rights to these three guys story! who's really laughing?

[almussalix]

I keep thinking this is going to turn into porno.

[WiseGuy57]

I'm pretty sure the boulder was just a well managed sheet, but it was damn well managed.

[Tunewill]

What wattage toaster did you film this thing on?

[jerryscullion]

Well done! Love to see the whole thing.

[lightcameradeath]

@PlanetMan77 So did Lucas! When he made Star Wars: A New Hope, he copied the space fighting scenes from old movies with air fights.

[NotMadeByMe]

sweded as fuck

[rumbler227]

That giant ball rolling scene was actually kinda MORE exciting than the original cuz it was literally almost on top of him! lol

[Theomite]

This is the garage band filmmaking equivalent of "The Thief and the Cobbler": a total work of (derivative) love by people for no reason other than love of the material.

[PlanetMan77]

@davidolden Spielberg and Lucas "imitated" when they used classic Republic serials to inspire Radiers. These guys just duplicated.

[SpreadingtheMuse]

For a budget of $0, with 1982 editing power, this is astonshing