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Ok, I admit that I exaggerated about how much I don't like Indiana Jones. I knew it would be contraversial and I slagged him more than he probably deserves, mostly for the fun of it. That was a bad thing to do and I'm sorry. Actually I'm glad too because it prompted the excellent and very amusing suggestion of Alan Arkin as Jones.
But I disagree with this reasoning: that the films are sex-free because they're intended as homage to, presumably, Golden Age adventure films such as Gunga Din and King Solomon's Mines. Such films also didn't have sex in them, but they also didn't have the brutal and often excessive violence that the IJ films do. The IJ films sex-violence ratio is out of balance. Genre films that are as violent as IJ usually have fairly strong sex/sexual scenes, where appropriate. James Bond films, for example, are slightly more restrained in their violence yet Bond (whatever actor plays him) seems a far more virile character simply because we see him having sex quite frequently.
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