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People who are more interested in seeing the character age than in more action-adventure, perhaps?
Finn said:And even that stems from a very simple fact: Harrison Ford is growing - no, he IS old.
We all age, and at some point things must come to an end. 5-10 years ago no one would have suggested that Ford should hang up the role. Of course, it's not impossible that he could deliver one more strong performance, but it still takes some navel-gazing to an astronomic degree to not understand why some people might have doubts about that.
The man will be 74 in a couple of weeks, and 76 by the time this movie is being canned. That's all. Stating that fact is not hate, and there's no sentiment that tries to blame Ford for KotCS' shortcomings. Those are delusions, plain and simple.
If you wish to see more Indiana Jones films after (or perhaps even starting from, we don't know yet) the fifth movie, you have to accept someone else in the role. Only reason not to accept it is if you don't wish to see more Indiana Jones films after Indy 5. But who are seriously calling themselves fans of the character and do not wish that?
Somehow no one's bothered to comment on this point yet: How does the making of new films with a new actor discredit or invalidate the films that came before?Raiders112390 said:It's not "Ford Fetishism" so much as anti-Disney-ism. So much as sometimes it is better to let go and just let a series die. We had a great trilogy and one average followup. Let's not turn this into James Bond.
I agree with every word.Lambonius said:I absolutely love Harrison Ford. Do not get me wrong. BUT, I do not want to see an 80 year old Harrison Ford playing Indy. Full stop. At a certain point, such a movie would simply not contain the things that drew me in about the original trilogy. I want to see Indy in smart, fun, period piece movies, that are as much about (stylized) archeological investigative mystery solving as they are about action set-pieces. I want to see Indy as the in-his-prime, swaggering, intelligent character we grew up with. Put the right actor in that role, set the film during the late 1920s or early 30s (pre-Temple in the continuity) and take my goddamned money.
I personally think Disney is damn good at getting these things right though, and I'm not at all convinced that Indy 5 isn't going to feature some kind of split-narrative that introduces the new in-his-prime Indy actor. In fact, at this point, I'd say I'm actively hoping for it.
Duaner said:My feeling on the subject is that from 1935 onward Harrison Ford can be the only Indy. I am opposed to any recasting that places the new Indy within Harrison's timeline. 1916-1920 is Sean Patrick Flanery's time. So as long as any future films are set between 1921-1934, I am fine with seeing someone else play Indy.
Duaner said:My feeling on the subject is that from 1935 onward Harrison Ford can be the only Indy. I am opposed to any recasting that places the new Indy within Harrison's timeline. 1916-1920 is Sean Patrick Flanery's time. So as long as any future films are set between 1921-1934, I am fine with seeing someone else play Indy.
Duaner said:My feeling on the subject is that from 1935 onward Harrison Ford can be the only Indy. I am opposed to any recasting that places the new Indy within Harrison's timeline. 1916-1920 is Sean Patrick Flanery's time. So as long as any future films are set between 1921-1934, I am fine with seeing someone else play Indy.
Duaner said:My feeling on the subject is that from 1935 onward Harrison Ford can be the only Indy. I am opposed to any recasting that places the new Indy within Harrison's timeline. 1916-1920 is Sean Patrick Flanery's time. So as long as any future films are set between 1921-1934, I am fine with seeing someone else play Indy.
Silvor said:People are just different.
Some like myself just don't like recasting of characters.
To me Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones is the only Indiana Jones.
Any other actor would not be Indiana Jones anymore.
To me it would be as if somebody who was not my brother said they were and dressed the same and sorta tried to act a little like my brother, but in the end they would just be some guy and not my brother.
Considering the fact that, to me, The Force Awakens felt more like a legitimate SW film than KOTCS felt like a legitimate Indy film, I'm feeling pretty optimistic about what might happen with Indy under Disney's ownership. Of course, it's no guarantee that future Indy movies will be good, but at the moment, I have no particular reason to really worry about Disney ruining it.Raiders112390 said:I also don't trust Disney. I don't really want to see the series devolve further into something along the lines of The Mummy series - dumb action films that have a superficial veneer at best of archaeology.
Randy_Flagg said:Changing topics slighty...
Would anyone else prefer it if we don't get another scene of Indy teaching at the college? It's been done in three of the four movies already, and in LC and KOTCS, it already felt like it was being done mainly as an homage to Raiders. Doing it again in Indy 5 would just make it seem like they're really at a loss for ideas on how to tell the story.
I understand he's a professor (or a dean now), so it makes sense for him to be at the college, but I'd just prefer some variation in the narrative, and I don't want too many scenes that feel as if Spielberg is winking at the audience and saying, "Hey, remember this? Look, we're doing it again!"
Randy_Flagg said:Changing topics slighty...
Would anyone else prefer it if we don't get another scene of Indy teaching at the college? It's been done in three of the four movies already, and in LC and KOTCS, it already felt like it was being done mainly as an homage to Raiders. Doing it again in Indy 5 would just make it seem like they're really at a loss for ideas on how to tell the story.
I understand he's a professor (or a dean now), so it makes sense for him to be at the college, but I'd just prefer some variation in the narrative, and I don't want too many scenes that feel as if Spielberg is winking at the audience and saying, "Hey, remember this? Look, we're doing it again!"
Attila the Professor said:Co-signed, emphatically.
A scene of him with students on a dig, or giving a lecture in some global capital, or visiting a museum abroad (maybe to repatriate an artifact!), would be perfectly welcome, but keep him out of school.