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Kelly McClure

A storied history of Indiana Jones' hat

"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," the fifth and (so they say) final installment of the franchise to star Harrison Ford as the titular whip-cracking archaeologist, centers on the joining of two pieces of Archimedes' Dial — "an Antikythera mechanism built by the ancient Syracusan mathematician Archimedes" — which allows for transport through fissures in time in a very "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" sort of way. 

Using time travel as a plot point in addition to incorporating CGI to de-age Ford in certain scenes, you can all but feel director James Mangold and his team of screenwriters (brothers John-Henry and Jez Butterworth, along with David Koepp) stretching hard to wrap a bow around 42 years of cinematic history, but it provides a nice opportunity to say goodbye to Indy via tracing his adventures to their origins.

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