On the eve of the release of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, it can be an intriguing thought experiment to contemplate how the legacy of Harrison Ford’s titular character has transformed with the times over the years.
Nowadays, there’s a greater cultural awareness about the fact that museum artifacts in Western countries can carry with them an unsavory colonial history if they are from a different nation of origin that wasn’t necessarily a focus in the original Indiana Jones trilogy. An example of pop culture’s greater awareness of this history can be found in 2018’s Black Panther — a billion-dollar-grossing film worldwide — in which Michael B. Jordan’s Killmonger asks a museum curator in regard to a fictitious artifact on display, “How do you think your ancestors got these?”
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