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R A V I N I A F A M I L Y F U N G U I D E
ORCHESTRA CONCERTS
or years after seeing it—believe it or
not, there was a time before this was
common!) in the mid-1970s with the
movie
Jaws
, and Williams’s music was
a big part of what made it so popular.
So after the success of
Star Wars
later
that decade (Williams also wrote the
music for those movies), Spielberg
started his own series of adventure
movies featuring one of the
Star
Wars
stars, Harrison Ford, as Indiana
Jones, an archaeologist searching for
mythical, historic objects. Of course,
Spielberg reconnected with Williams
for the music, and the result was one
of the greatest movies, greatest char-
acters, and greatest themes being
created in
Raiders of the Lost Ark
. You
immediately feel like cheering for the
hero Indiana Jones when you hear his
theme, the “Raiders March”!
But while filming
Raiders
,
Spielberg began dreaming of mak-
ing another science fiction movie,
having had a lot of fun and success
a few years earlier (the same year
Star Wars
came out, in fact) with
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
,