McClures ripped outfit - Temple Indy
elder boffin sidekick - Last Crusade
watching sacrifice from elevated position/mind control/lava stuff - Temple of Doom
arena showdown with beast - Episode II
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Lucas and Spielberg may have taken a few ideas, but these are also well known story "shots" used in older films as well. Check out some of the older films, particularly black and white films (not necessarily serials) that deal with explorers and adventurers. You'll a repetition of the shots you refer to.
shareThinking it's likely a case of ''mining the same source'' than actual lifting from this movie, but yeah, there are similarities.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs is definitely a great influence on the genre. I mean by the time they got round to releasing a decent John Carter adaptation, everything in it had been done plenty of times in the decades before it.
shareThat reminds me of something that George Lucas said about Star Wars: "I wanted to make a Flash Gordon movie, with all the trimmings, but I couldn’t obtain the rights to the characters. So I began researching and went right back and found where Alex Raymond had got his idea from. I discovered that he’d got his inspiration from the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and especially from his John Carter of Mars series books. I read through that series, then found that what had sparked Burroughs off was a science fantasy called Gulliver on Mars, written by Edwin Arnold and published in 1905. That was the first story in this genre that I have been able to trace."
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