{"id":16271,"date":"2026-05-07T17:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16271"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:44:08","slug":"kiss-me-deadly-and-opening-the-ark-of-the-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16271","title":{"rendered":"Kiss Me Deadly and opening the Ark of the Covenant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kiss Me Deadly<\/a> was a 1955 film noir that follows a tough private investigator that picks up a mysterious woman on the side of the road. They are assaulted by rough men and she is killed and he left unconscious. In investigating her death, he gets embroiled in a bleak and complex mystery of deceit, false identities, and violent men seeking a mysterious box. In the final scene, one of the characters opens the mysterious box and is engulfed in flames and mysterious sounds – ultimately burning down the entire building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One can’t help but see the connections to when the Ark of the Covenant is opened in the final scenes of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Many have suggested it took direct inspiration from Kiss Me Deadly. I know when I saw the scene, it’s immediately what I thought. Interesting how visual languages for this kind of horror have persisted almost 40 years apart and are still just as frightening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kiss Me Deadly was a 1955 film noir that follows a tough private investigator that picks up a mysterious woman on the side of the road. They are assaulted by rough men and she is killed and he left unconscious. In investigating her death, he gets embroiled in a bleak and complex mystery of deceit, false identities, and violent men seeking a mysterious box. In the final scene, one of the characters opens the mysterious box and is engulfed in…<\/p>\n

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