Brazil Goes to the Map Room

My favorite movie is Raiders of the Lost Ark. My parents dragged me to it when I was six years old. I say "dragged" because I wanted to see Clash of the Titans instead. Based on the picture of Indiana Jones in the newspaper wearing a Middle Eastern headdress,* I feared that the movie was going to be an extension of Sunday School, which I was already mature enough to find boring. Two hours after being forced against my will to go into one of the theaters on 29 in Charlottesville, I came dancing out, convinced that I had seen the best movie in the history of the world. Three decades later, I will admit that there might be other movies of superior technical quality, but no movie has surpassed Raiders as my favorite.* - Showing a similar mentality, my five-year old described our neighbors' nativity scene as "Jews, a camel, and a donkey."One of Raiders' best aspects is that it is stuffed to the gills with iconic scenes. Indy running away from the boulder...