I also read a great article years ago that even Yakima’s stunt was first performed by a woman in cereal commercial ads during the silent film era. For the life of me, I can’t remember where I read it nor can I find it, but I swear on George Lucas’s life, I read it and saw the images too, She was dressed just like Indiana Jones, but the stunt was under a wagon/stage coach.  I’m not going to stop until I find her name. 

The clip doesn’t include Donald Duck comics either.

this is a strange thing to be outraged about, given that the movie was intentionally made as an homage to early adventure movies and was marketed as such.

The outrage is that the people who did this are buying up the government so that they can make laws that make it impossible for other people to do this.

If I were to make,say, a western movie today, I would find it nearly impossible to avoid mimicking the numerous classic films that defined the genre.  Also, a lot of the shots seem to be fairly standard practices in regards to cinematography, composition, etc.

The Indiana Jones series was, in my opinion, a beautiful homage to the many adventure films that preceded it.  I had always assumed it was deliberate.

this totally makes me want to see the movie again, it’s been a while.  man, harrison ford was hot.

The same arguments play out in writing too though.  After all, when you right down to it, there are only three basic plots: a man leaves town, a man comes to town, and a swarm of nanobots turns the citizens into a horde of rampaging cyborgs.

For a minute and a half we have people walking.  People have walked before, and people have walked on film before.  Then for about twenty seconds, we have explorers looking at ancient rock markers.  Clearly, this has never happened before nor has it ever been featured in any other kind of media.  Then we’re back to people walking for about twenty more seconds before they stop, because they see something off-camera!

And at this point, I stopped the video(s?) because it was pretty clearly just “Look! these classic functional scene-establishing shots that are tropes in their own right have been used before, albiet with slightly different camera angles and subject matter!

Which is all to say, grow up and get over it. The main thing I compared is your mentality to what it deserves to be compared to: Nothing.

Thank you.  I think a lot of commenters are inferring something Cory isn’t implying.

But I agree that many equivalences here are due to clever editing and probably coincidental. I mean, seriously, scenes of people walking on a trail will always look similar.

He’s just a name on a poster; one that attracts good cinematographers, actors, producers etc., etc.  I’m confident that if you could (in an impossibly isolated way) remove him from the equation and replace him with someone just as generic his films would be exactly the same.

I could keep going.