It took me awhile to decide which story I was going to analyze using Kurt Vonnegut’s Shapes of Stories concept, but after racking my brain I decided to go with a favourite childhood movie of mine. I still remember being amazed, disgusted (monkey brains anyone?) and slightly disturbed the first time I watch Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but It was one of those stories that captured your attention from beginning to end! Even though the story starts out with Indy getting poisoned and doubled crossed they did manage to escape and survive a plane crash, so I call that a win and some good fortune in my books. Of course things proceed down hill from there with missing sacred rocks, crazy trance inducing rituals and human sacrifice. In hindsight it may have not been best movie to watch as a child! In classic story telling fashion just when things look like they can’t get any worse the protagonist manages to turn things around and the upward slope begins all culminating in the demise of the bad guy, a rescued village and Indy even gets the girl. What’s not to like about that?!
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