When Pixar released a trailer for a movie in which an old man makes his house take flight with a ton of balloons, skeptical audiences thought that the studio had finally jumped the shark. And then Up hit theaters and left that skepticism in its dust by using the story of a flying house as a giant visual metaphor for a widower dealing with gr

From establishing Indy’s characterization and his rivalry with Belloq in the gripping opening set piece to wrapping up the quest for the Ark of the Covenant in a neat bow with the grisly climax, Lawrence Kasdan’s screenplay for Raiders is airtig

Gaming is popular enough to have its own version of the Oscars, and presently the closest thing is the Korean Game Awards. Lost Ark had an impressive showing in 2019. A year after its launch, the game virtually swept the award with six w

Lost Ark follows in the footsteps of titles like World of Warcraft to some degree, there are some very basic characters that users can take on. Where this particular game stands out is the way those characters level up and evolve. Along with developer Brightsmile's biggest project comes the ability to truly direct who a player wants to become in this world, and eventually the hero can seem quite a bit different than what players started with. The US version of Lost Ark allows a player to start with five base classes. Eventually, there are so many twists and turns that there's a chance to get as many as 14 different charact

Munich , Spielberg’s cinematic retelling of Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli government’s response to the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, opens with an intricate tracking shot that frames each of its components perfectly. It opens on a gate, then two hands appear on it and a man climbs up to peer over. When the rest of his group arrives, he drops from the gate to join them. This is all conveyed through camera movements and angles, courtesy of cinematographer Janusz Kamiń

While the cast and crew were out in Tunisia, shooting the Cairo-set scenes for Raiders of the Lost Ark , they all got really sick from food poisoning. John Rhys-Davies, who played Sallah in the movie , apparently got so sick that he soiled himself during a scene that required him to bend over. The only person involved in the production who didn’t get food poisoning was Steven Spielberg, because he had brought his own food from home – which reportedly consisted of dozens and dozens of cans of Spaghetti-O’s – and didn’t eat any of the local food that everyone else was hav

Indiana Jones was instantly established as one of the most iconic heroes of action cinema in his big-screen debut Raiders of the Lost Ark . Played by Harrison Ford with equal parts grit and charisma and brought to life by Steven Spielberg’s camera , Indy is a timeless screen leg

While Spielberg’s dazzling visuals and Ford’s charismatic performance go a long way towards creating the sense of escapism that Raiders of the Lost Ark has to offer, what really sweeps audiences off their feet and takes them along for the ride is John Williams’ mesmerizing sco

The totally black frame could be read to represent the bleak reality of living in Nazi-occupied Poland, while the match could be seen to represent the beacon of hope that emerges in the form of Oskar Schindler, when he comes to his senses, renounces the Nazi Party, and uses his resources to save 1,200 Jews from concentration camps. The majority of this three-hour epic is shot in black-and-white , but it opens in color. It only turns to black-and-white when that candle burns

In the timeless, iconic story of King Kong , explorers capture a gigantic ape living on an uncharted island and take it back to New York to turn it into a glorified circus act. In one of film history’s most memorable climaxes, Kong escapes from captivity and scales the Empire State Build

South Korea is the unofficial capital of all things MMO. The culture is an important part of everyday life and not really limited to a particular age group. Hundreds of games of several different kinds have been developed in South Korea, and several have made it to international audien

Lost Ark tips Ark tries to combine the best of fantasy animation with more realistic-looking settings. The result improves the immersion factor even more for the average player, and that's a crucial step for a good video g

Paladins is another class that is well known in fantasy game lore, but there's a bit of a spin in Lost Ark . These heroes have a direct line to god that allows them to have powers like "Wrath of God," "Law of God," and "Execution of Justice" abilities, just to name a few. This warrior class is less about bashing through enemies, than killing them in powerful magic stri

Adapted from William Goldman’s self-aware fantasy romance novel of the same name by Goldman himself, Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride is a brilliant satire of fairy tales, taking the stock characters that are usually confined to the background of these kinds of stories and putting them in the spotli