![]() ![]() ![]() This particular jacket would more versatile if it had a true Indy back with the vents. You can snug up the waist with the side tabs some if your waist is smaller than the jacket but it cannot be let out if it doesn't fit around your hips. Yes, with this jacket the sizing has to be correct. What he made is recognizable and invoking a particular era while being unique. Smart of Lucas to do that and until I saw Heston's character I always kind of wondered why he didn't just use an off the shelf flight jacket. I do see why the Indy jacket was changed from a flight jacket the way it was. Didn't seem like a rip off to me at the time just a story of the same style. It was how I recognized the Indiana Jones movie when I saw it. No idea what it was, I just recall black and white and the kind of adventure it was. I even recall seeing something like it on TV when I was young. At least I've read about it in many places and it didn't seem to me that it was supposed to be kept under wraps. I'd also guess that it is less a secret closely kept as much as an obscure movie that most wouldn't recognize if you mentioned it. My guess is the real reason it was never brought out is that it wouldn't be worth the expense of restoring the old footage and making the digital transfer. ![]() I'd think it would be the other way around, actually: if Indy triggered new interest in the old genre they might bring out the old movie to make few more bucks off it. I doubt they have that much weight with Paramount or would care that much. (That's sorta what makes it a genre.)Īs for Lucas and Spielberg deliberately keeping "Incas" out of circulation. Its not a direct statement of plagiarism as much as it is a testament to the fact that movie genres do tend to use the same themes. Its an impressive Easter Egg hunt the editor did collecting similar shots from 30 different movies of the genre. The shot comparison was fascinating but not really a side by side comparison of 2 films. How's that for a way to resolve the unresolvable argument? Turns out the real, real Indiana Jones jacket is, ready for this?, pretty much a mall jacket: an A2/G1 mix with name tape and what looks like a unit patch, but visible pocket studs and handwarmer pockets. In fact, now that it's available, the two films are so similar that there are shot-by-shot comparisons floating around the Internet:įor us leather jacket buffs, though, the most intriguing aspect of the flick is The Jacket. Until some clever soul posted Secrets of the Incas to YouTube, Secrets was unavailable on DVD and extremely obscure- so much so that there was speculation that it had been suppressed to prevent comparison: In some places, that would be called theft. And in both, the hero uses a map room with a miniature diorama to locate the treasure. In both, the heavies are fascists in crisp uniforms. Both open in South America, and have strikingly similar scenes involving pygmies and blowguns. How close a remake? Well, both involve a cynical but charming adventurer who wears a leather jacket, gabardine work trousers, and a fedora, carries a whip, and steals archaeological relics. Obsessive film buffs will tell you that Raiders is actually a remake of a 1954 adventure serial film, starring Charlton Heston, called "Secrets of the Incas". Reading the newest entries in the 12-page thread on Indy Jackets, I can't resist the chance to tell the story of the real Indiana Jones jacket, and the "first version" of Raiders of the Lost Ark. ![]()
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