Since the 1920’s, archeologists in fiction have been stereotyped according to what the public depicts them, or their field of study, to be. Some of these stereotypes, such as that in the Indiana Jones, are misinterpretations of true archeology. Although, in the movie, March or Die, the actual archeological method was represented, and adhered to. March or Die was directed by Dick Richards, and features an archeologist by the name of Monsieur Marneau. He was a man who had true interest and in-depth appreciation, of antiquity. He had spent his lifetime in this study, and his control of the North-African department of the Louvre in France, depicted his peer recognition. He also had attributes which depicted his archeologist stereotype – appeared to be in his 40’s, wore glasses, and was slim and of average height. Also, his beige-colored clothes and signature anthropologist hat which he wore sometimes, showed this. His words portrayed him to be rather scholarly and academic as he expressed his way of life, loyal to reading and studying archeology not only due to his personal interest, but also to enhance his country prestige as a global cultural house. Although, when his words weren’t doing this, they were showing his gentleman character, especially, towards Madame Picard, who was the daughter of one of the curators that had gone missing during the first Arab attack on the legion company in Morocco. She was the main female figure in the story and she added to the film a touch of love and hope. Through her, it is shown how love can break the barriers of class inequality. Also, due to the fact that she had lost her husband and father in war, she depicted what I believe was one of the movies themes, grief. Another woman, had followed he... ... middle of paper ... ... desert. Marco, one of the soldiers, then repeats some words of Major Foster, and they all sing, perhaps in honor of him. In the movie, it was very important that the character was an archeologist because, for example, a zooarcheologist, or an archeobotanist would be of almost no use in a desert. A historian might have been able to understand what was written on the entrance to the tomb, but the entrance wasn’t needed eventually. Also, even though a field archeologist works in a field and does controlled excavations, would he have known where to dig? Archeologists spend their lives trying to understand what the past means, whereby, “the meaning of the past is one of the most difficult concepts for the non-archeologist to understand” (Wenke, 2007, p. 3). The character being an archeologist was key to the movie, as only an archeologist could have known certain things.