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Hollywood has been on a binge of Action, Blow em up movies for at least a decade. No plot, no character development, no story just Action, Blow em up special effects.

I really have to give credit to Lucas and Spielberg. Both of them were fans of the old movies and paid homage to the Serials of the 40s..like Buck Rogers. When viewing Raiders or Star Wars they included so many elements and scenes from not only the action movies of the the 30 and 40s but to the more serious efforts as well.

The one scene that really struck me as derivative was the last scene in Raiders of the Lost Arc, where the Arc is put into a large warehouse and essentially gets lost. If U look at the scene you can tell that the background of warehouse is painted. The orginal was the last scene in Citizen Kane where they pan the warehouse full of objects Kane had collected, resulting in the the Sled with "Rosebud" painted on it being thrown into the fire as junk (getting lost). In the Kane scene it is obvious that the background was painted as well. So it was this kind of homage that U see again and again in Lucas and Spielbergs earlier work.