Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Literary Elements

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Literary Elements

Director

Steven Spielberg

Leading Actors/Actresses

Harrison Ford

Supporting Actors/Actresses

Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, and Jonathan Ke Quan

Genre

Action-Adventure

Language

English

Awards

Temple of Doom was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score; it won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

Date of Release

May 23rd, 1984

Producer

Robert Watts

Setting and Context

Rural India, 1935

Narrator and Point of View

The film is told from a third-person point of view; it has no narrator.

Tone and Mood

Violent, Dark, Energetic, Brooding, Solemn, Mysterious, and Intense

Protagonist and Antagonist

Indiana Jones is the main protagonist; Mola Ram is the main antagonist.

Major Conflict

Indy’s fight to defeat Mola Ram and return the stone and children to the desperate villagers.

Climax

When Indy and Mola Ram fight on the rope bridge.

Foreshadowing

Mola Ram’s heinous death is foreshadowed early - and often - in the film.

Understatement

The extent to which Short Round influences the story’s favorable outcome is understated throughout the film.

Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques

N/A

Allusions

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lost Horizon, Flash Gordon, Gunga Din, Jungle Girl, The Steel Helmet, Hong Kong, King Kong, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bloodsucking Freaks, Soldier of Orange, Star Wars: A New Hope, Cannibal Holocaust, Evilspeak, history, and geography.

Paradox

Indy is an academic, yet has an inordinate number of skills (like fighting and swordplay, for example) that are physical in nature.

Parallelism

N/A

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