Goodeknight
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When you were a kid, and saw the films for the first time, did you "play" Indy?
I just posted this on Stoo's 30th anniversary of TOD thread:
My friends and I would play down by the creek, discovering bits of Noah's Ark or the 10 Commandments as we swam, or traipsed through the woods with bb guns. It seemed that adventure was all around.
The opening of "Without a Paddle" captures that feeling, as the characters play through an Indiana Jones adventure. It's not high art, but the movie is actually pretty good, in my opinion. (At the very least, it's underrated.)
So what were your backyard Indy adventures?
I just posted this on Stoo's 30th anniversary of TOD thread:
Goodeknight said:I was 12 at the time. It wasn't Raiders but Temple of Doom that inspired my first "close enough" Indiana Jones costume. Close enough was pretty far off, but I didn't care, or have any reference photos or the World Wide Web...
My costume consisted of a OD Army jacket, and a light gray cowboy hat. I buried it in our coal pile for a few days to dirty it up, then reshaped it as best as I could into a fedora.
On weekends, I'd get my parents to draw me treasure maps around the house and yard. Looking back, they were really great to indulge me so extensively. They drew maps, laid traps, hid clues, etc. They definitely went above and beyond. (I was an only child....)
The treasure was usually the same thing. I'd taken some scraps of wood and fashioned a small "idol" out of them, then painted it gold with my mom's ceramic paint. It was basically a stick with a 1/4 circle gold face and a hole for the eye. Wish I still had it.
My friends and I would play down by the creek, discovering bits of Noah's Ark or the 10 Commandments as we swam, or traipsed through the woods with bb guns. It seemed that adventure was all around.
The opening of "Without a Paddle" captures that feeling, as the characters play through an Indiana Jones adventure. It's not high art, but the movie is actually pretty good, in my opinion. (At the very least, it's underrated.)
So what were your backyard Indy adventures?