Indy's brother inspired me in another thread so here are some more
snowy ideas (which may or may not have been mentioned before):
1)
AVALANCHE! An avalanche is a standard of the old serials and we haven't seen one in an Indy film yet. I would love to see Indy try to outrun a cascading torrent of
snow! (The 1935 version of H. Rider Haggard's "She" has a cliff-side,
snow avalanche which ends up revealing the entrance to a tunnel.)
2) CRACKING
ICE! Remember the part in "The Lost World" (Jurassic Park II) where Julianne Moore is in a deathly situation on the slowly, cracking glass? For me, that tension-filled scene was the best part of the movie. Imagine a similar situation with Indy on a thin sheet of cracking
ice, ready to break at any moment! (Fall into
sub-zero temperature water with no way out, you're dead in about 30 secs.
)
3) SWEPT UNDER
ICE! Just like in "Damien: Omen II", where a guy falls through a weak spot of a
frozen river and gets swept away by the current. His friends can see him under the
ice being carried away and follow his path trying to break it with their hockey sticks! Scary stuff.
How could Indy escape from something like this? I don't know but it's one hell of an idea!