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Blade Runner, like its setting, is a beautiful, deadly organism that devours life; and Ford, the cockily engaging Star Warrior of Raiders of the Lost Ark, allows his heroic stature to shrivel inside it. In comparison, Hauer's silver-haired superman is more human than human, and finally more complex than Ford's victimized flatfoot. Because of this imbalance of star roles, and because this drastically recut movie has a plot that proceeds by fits and stops, Blade Runner is likely to disappoint moviegoers hoping for sleek thrills and derring-do. But as a display terminal...
First books became movies; then movies became books; now there are movies that have become video games. Parker Brothers is marketing a The Empire Strikes Back cartridge; a Raiders of the Lost Ark game will be out by December; and both Mattel and Bally are launching games inspired by Tron, a Disney Studios movie due out this summer. Bally is blitzing the arcades; Mattel is shipping more than 1 million Tron cartridges to dealers; and Disney Spokeswoman Hilary Clark says, "It's only the beginning." Indeed. Atari is developing a game called Krull, based on a movie that...
...shark with turkey feathers," terrified moviegoers to the tune of $410 million. Close Encounters of the Third Kind built a sense of biblical awe around man's first meeting with beings from outer space and put another $250 million into the till. Last year Raiders of the Lost Ark sent Saturday-matinee chills down a record-breaking number of spines-another $310 million. Spielberg won plaudits as well as profits for his masterly film-making technique. Still, critics often accused him of creating Pavlovian exercises in zapme thrills-movie machines that destroyed, with systematic elegance, the viewer...
...will find the infant fear of things that go chomp in the night. Search the skies for a Close Encounter, and you can chart a child's hope that whoever is out there will be just like him: small and smooth and smart and cuddly. Track the Lost Ark's Raiders, and you will discover the thrill of escape that whets the imagination of every fifth-grade Indiana Jones...
Fortunately for Spielberg, he soon had a closer, more crucial encounter, when George Lucas, whom Spielberg had known since 1967, asked him to direct the first film in a new adventure series called Raiders of the Lost Ark. With the Star Wars films, Lucas had demonstrated that energy, invention and an appealing ingenuity could somehow balance themselves on Hollywood's bottom line. "George knows how to put the most on the screen for the cheapest price," Spielberg says. "He did more than anyone to help me make a movie on budget. While we were preparing Raiders he would tell...