"RAIDERS" of the Lost Ark?

[DarkHelmet]

A co-worker and I were talking movies recently. He's 35 and said he's only watched Raiders a few times. He then asked me "Who are the Raiders"?

Hmmm, I never thought about that before but I just assumed over the last 42 years that it was both Jones and the Nazis. As we talked about it, he said he thinks it's the Nazis.

What say some of you?

 

[Lightning]

I can't find the trailer right now, but one of the original trailers has the narrator say at the end "and they are all raiders of the lost ark". So yeah, everyone including Jones.

edit: found it, its from the re-release in 82

 

[Apollo]

you, me , everybody!!!

 

[CessnaDriver]

The spirits that live in it. You open it, they raid you… badly.

 

[DarkHelmet]

Technically a Raider is a maurader, thief. Indy is rescuing/saving it.

 

[JediMichael]

Rated PG.......you just have to close your eyes just like Indy and Marion when they open the ark to keep it that way.

 

[pengbuzz]

Answer:

Spoiler

 

[Tommy]

Technically a Raider is a maurader, thief. Indy is rescuing/saving it.

Merriam-Webster offers an alternative definition of raid as "a daring operation against a competitor." Seems pretty on point.

But a worthwhile question. Incidentally, if Disney produces an Indy TV show as has been rumored, I'm betting heavily that it will be called Raiders.

 

[CessnaDriver]

Why that huge long "Indiana Jones AND the Raiders of the Lost Ark" is stupid.
Indy IS one of the raiders of the ark. It's redundant.

Once the ark was found, it's not lost anymore, then half the movie is just.... Raiders of the Ark.

 

[batguy]

I always read it to mean Indy was a 'raider' too. In the early creative stages of the movie he barely qualified as a good guy.

 

[CB2001]

Simple: Indiana, Belloq and the Nazis. Basically anyone who was going after the Ark were the raiders. So, for the renaming, it changes it from being everyone and separating Indiana from the raiders, who would still be Belloq and the Nazis.

 

[CessnaDriver]

What do we call the guys that hid the ark again?

 

[greenmachines]

Answer:

Spoiler

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After they moved out of Oakland of course.... Raiders of LA

 

[greenmachines]

What do we call the guys that hid the ark again?

Ghostbusters

 

[drusselmeyer]

What do we call the guys that hid the ark again?

Top Men.

 

[CessnaDriver]

Top Men.

Oh I would see that one.

If bureaucratic fools had a name, it must be...

Top Men and the Hiders of the Found Ark.

 

[greenmachines]

We've got our top men working on it....

 

[DarkHelmet]

On a side note, when I heard about the movie in various magazines before its release, I thought it was about Noah's Ark. Seriously. I had no knowledge of the Ark of the Covenant. I was baffled there was a movie coming out about Harrison Ford and Noah's Ark.

 

[CessnaDriver]

On a side note, when I heard about the movie in various magazines before its release, I thought it was about Noah's Ark. Seriously. I had no knowledge of the Ark of the Covenant. I was baffled there was a movie coming out about Harrison Ford and Noah's Ark.

Same here, my Dad had to tell me twice. I was all about Sci Fi at that age.

 

[greenmachines]

On a side note, when I heard about the movie in various magazines before its release, I thought it was about Noah's Ark. Seriously. I had no knowledge of the Ark of the Covenant. I was baffled there was a movie coming out about Harrison Ford and Noah's Ark.

Honestly that totally makes sense, how funny.