Grumbling

[prog]

Is it weird that the Indiana Jones movies never struck me as particularly racist, but the Lego Indiana Jones video game sometimes makes me squirm a little?

Part of me suspects that neither is worse than the other in this respect, but the Lego game stands out more for being (a) brand-new and thus contextualized in 21st century cultural awareness, and (b) acted out by animated children's toys.

Also, except for watching Raiders a coupla years ago at a friend's house (which may have been the first time I ever saw it start-to-finish), I don't think I've watched the movies as an adult. My sense of heywaitasec was calibrated much looser when I was younger.

Comments

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

I can forgive the second one -- despite itself -- more easily than the fourth, which is "despite twenty years of people pointing out the racism in the second one."

[jadelennox]

Point. Very pointy point.

*sigh*