Rocket Surgeon
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Indy as a cartoon before the feature lends itself to the format best.
Rocket Surgeon said:Indy as a cartoon before the feature lends itself to the format best.
gabbagabbahey said:Well, yes & no. Yes, because it would be radically different because as far as I know nobody has tried this before with a major release, but no because it would be based on the classic pulp formula.
They shoot the whole thing at once, but break it down into four, one hour "mini movies", then, release them one week apart in chronological order. Of course, each "episode" leaves you hanging so you come back & watch the next one to see what happens. Because in the end you have a 4 hour long movie they could pretty much pull out all the stops for the final Indiana Jones release.
The movies would have special admission pricing, say, $4.99, so that you don't turn people off too much because they have to keep coming back to see what happens. In the end though, the producers/theaters are bringing in $20 for the release instead of the usual $8 (or whatever).
Is it a risk? Hell yeah. Could it work? Hell yeah. Sometimes you have to think outside the box & blaze some trails. If any series could pull it off it would be the Indy series, which was practically born to be released this way.
Remember, you heard it hear first. : )
Thoughts?
HovitosKing said:I wouldn't invest 1 trip to the theater and $12 for a ticket to see anything from the Lucas/Spielberg camp after what they did with Indy IV. Lots of other people wouldn't either. This idea is a bomb.
That's what I've been saying all along. 15 -20 minutes!Attila the Professor said:Incidentally, while it's entirely apart from what gabbagabbahey initially suggested, I suspect that a more action-oriented approach might be one that sliced the films into segments closer to being 20 minutes in length rather than 30.
Attila, it saddens me to discover that you're ignorant of this. (How can you NOT know???) In the classic cliffhangers, the break comes right at the point where the hero is about to DIE!!!Attila the Professor said:Now, I'm not a serials guy. I'm not versed in them, and I've barely seen any of them. This means that I don't have a great sense of where exactly the divisions are usually placed. Are they when danger begins? Are they at the tensest point in the action? Are they at the point right where the way out is revealed? Or just before that point?
Yes, your ideas are very in line with contemporary TV but that doesn't make it wrong...Attila the Professor said:The other question: is the placement of segment divisions in the old serial manner one that would really shift properly into this new idea in this new age. While action based cliffhangers could be a little hard to make work in a more modern era, particularly with regards to the reveal of the precise solutions that would come into play, I fear that some of my moodier transitions feel more akin to where episode breaks come in the long-form television dramas of today.
Erm...Hovitos, you are the one who needs to "go back" and do YOUR OWN RESEARCH. Serials of the *'50s* being marketing devices? You obviously have no idea what you're talking about...Hovitos King said:Go back and research serials of the 40s and 50s. They weren't what you paid to see, they were marketing devices to keep people paying to see the features.
Stoo said:That's what I've been saying all along. 15 -20 minutes!
Attila, it saddens me to discover that you're ignorant of this. (How can you NOT know???) In the classic cliffhangers, the break comes right at the point where the hero is about to DIE!!!
Stoo said:Attila, it saddens me to discover that you're ignorant of this. (How can you NOT know???) In the classic cliffhangers, the break comes right at the point where the hero is about to DIE!!!
One could have new footage replaying some of the more crucial events from a different character's perspective, reminding the audience of what happened in the last 'episode' while also revealing some new detail (which might be particularly effective for serial-style cliffhangers), or just not have a visual recap at all and write the dialogue so that it fills in the gaps between chapters. The second option would not work so well for most cliffhangers, but it could work for less dire cliffhangers or, conversely, those more extreme ones where the fate of a character is all but sealed (which is how Rossio and Elliot handled the segue from Pirates of the Caribbean II to III, if you're familiar with that).Attila the Professor said:Is there any real way to make the recaps of the prior chapter(s) at the beginning of the segments after the first not feel:
A) like a "Previously on <I>Indiana Jones</I>" television opening?
OR
B) campy as all get out?