{"id":296,"date":"2014-03-10T13:29:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2014-03-10T13:29:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:29:12","slug":"helping-fans-complete-a-labor-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/helping-fans-complete-a-labor-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping fans complete a labor of love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decades before <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Be_Kind_Rewind\"><em>Be Kind, Rewind<\/em><\/a>, a bunch of kids lovingly recreated Raider of the Lost Ark:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c\u2026One of the strangest permutations of &#8217;80&#8217;s nostalgia to hit movie screens\u2014the now-notorious Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, a 100-minute shot-for-shot amateur-video remake of the 1981 Spielberg-Lucas adventure flick, created over a span of seven years by a group of kids in small-town Reagan-era Mississippi. More talked-about than seen,The Adaptation arrives at Anthology Film Archives this Friday for a rare two-day run. Filled with ingenious contraptions and overweening jerry-rigs,The Adaptation remakes Raiders on less than 1\/2,000th of Paramount&#8217;s original $20 million budget, conjuring exotic locales out of cardboard sets in parents&#8217; basements, casting tweens in Boy Scout uniforms as Nazi bad guys, and rolling a gigantic hand-crafted boulder through the family garage to create the film&#8217;s signature scene. Nothing short of slapdash spectacular.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now they\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/raidersguys\/raiders-guys-and-the-lost-airplane-scene\">asking for help to fill in the project\u2019s one missing scene<\/a>\u2014and they\u2019re just $2,700 from their $50k goal with three days left:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/raidersguys\/raiders-guys-and-the-lost-airplane-scene\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[Via Sean Parent]\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades before Be Kind, Rewind, a bunch of kids lovingly recreated Raider of the Lost Ark: \u201c\u2026One of the strangest permutations of &#8217;80&#8217;s nostalgia to hit movie screens\u2014the now-notorious Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, a 100-minute shot-for-shot amateur-video remake of the 1981 Spielberg-Lucas adventure flick, created over a span of seven years by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}