Darth Vile
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If any particular moment of action/set piece doesn't quite work you can't really blame the producer or even the script. Look at the opening 15/20 mins of Raiders. The tone, the atmosphere, the peril is generated (in the main) from what Spielberg does with the camera (plus the lighting, editing, music and sound effect choices). The dialogue is generic (what there is) and there isn't any underlying narrative underpinning the thing at all. Spielberg takes a basic premise from the page (mysterious man venturing through jungle) and turns it into something quite magical. That's the real qualitative difference (IMHO) between Raiders and KOTCS i.e. a director who is 'on fire' in the 80's and a director who has moved away from directing action movies.