Director
Steven Spielberg
Leading Actors/Actresses
Harrison Ford
Supporting Actors/Actresses
Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, and Jonathan Ke Quan
Genre
Action-Adventure
Language
English
Awards
Temple of Doom was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score; it won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
Date of Release
May 23rd, 1984
Producer
Robert Watts
Setting and Context
Rural India, 1935
Narrator and Point of View
The film is told from a third-person point of view; it has no narrator.
Tone and Mood
Violent, Dark, Energetic, Brooding, Solemn, Mysterious, and Intense
Protagonist and Antagonist
Indiana Jones is the main protagonist; Mola Ram is the main antagonist.
Major Conflict
Indy’s fight to defeat Mola Ram and return the stone and children to the desperate villagers.
Climax
When Indy and Mola Ram fight on the rope bridge.
Foreshadowing
Mola Ram’s heinous death is foreshadowed early - and often - in the film.
Understatement
The extent to which Short Round influences the story’s favorable outcome is understated throughout the film.
Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques
N/A
Allusions
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lost Horizon, Flash Gordon, Gunga Din, Jungle Girl, The Steel Helmet, Hong Kong, King Kong, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bloodsucking Freaks, Soldier of Orange, Star Wars: A New Hope, Cannibal Holocaust, Evilspeak, history, and geography.
Paradox
Indy is an academic, yet has an inordinate number of skills (like fighting and swordplay, for example) that are physical in nature.
Parallelism
N/A
