This issue was compounded by the prequel TV series in which “Young Indiana Jones” encountered magical knick-knacks on an alarmingly regular basis. And when Raiders of the Lost Ark was finally sequel-ized with The Last Crusade, Indiana Jones had seemingly undergone a factory reset, back to the same guy we saw in the opening moments of Raiders. Not only is there no mention of Marion, but he also doesn’t seem to have learned from the events of the first movie at all; he’s back in the same outfit (which he apparently cribbed from some random crook) and is once again plundering for profit.
This is fine for someone like James Bond, whose character growth, by design, never goes beyond perhaps trying a new cocktail or contracting an exotic STI. But in that first adventure, Spielberg and his collaborators imbued Indiana Jones with something James Bond never had: a capacity for change. Regardless of how good or bad they might be, the sequels fundamentally drain the original of much of what made it emotionally fulfilling to watch the first time. Even more frustrating is the fact that the most recent sequel, the much-reviled Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, ended with … Indiana Jones settling down with Marion.
It took them almost 30 years to circuitously get Indiana Jones back to the very same conclusive story beat he had in the very first movie, which everyone proceeded to ignore.
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