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Article: Playing Indiana; Three Kids from Biloxi Reshoot 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
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- The Stranger
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- December 9, 2004
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HOW DO YOU get a boulder out of your bedroom? If you're the adolescent Chris Strompolos and his partners Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb--three budding filmmakers who had neglected to measure the width of the bedroom door--you build another, and another, and another, until an eventual total of five would be built.
These boulders were props constructed for a shot-for-shot childhood remake of the first Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Strompolos produced and starred, Zala directed, and Lamb was responsible for camerawork and effects. The kids worked in Biloxi, Mississippi, from 1982 to 1988, shooting on home video. They went to great lengths to duplicate the original film--including ...