Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones: A True Hero

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Indiana Jones is one of my favorite movie trilogies of all time, and Harrison Ford was a hero to me when I was growing up. Something I always loved about Indy was how he cracked his whip. In fact, I first learned what a bullwhip was watching Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The first two movies—Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of
Doom—dealt with Indiana Jones the adult, already fully hardened and cranky. As I watched one movie after another, I wondered about his trademark hat and whip— why the fedora and why on earth a whip?
Finally, all was answered in the third movie of the trilogy, Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade. It was one of those satisfying aha moments that—although not at all that important in the overall scheme