Stoo said:
Well, they kind of did (in the Marvel comics anyways...where SHE leaves HIM). I bet you $100 that Violet, Indyologist and Ronicle are going to chime in. Let down? I thought it was very in-character for the adult Indy.
I can't not jump into this one!
Anyhow, I was upset that Indy left her a week before the wedding, but I think he did it because he "didn't want to hurt her" like he said in the truck, I think he was in love with her all along but he realized he would make a terrible husband for her, running out on an adventure all the time, and I don't think either one of them knew she was pregnant, I think she probably found out after he left. Although Indy is just trying to make himself feel better, saying he left her so he wouldn't hurt her, what he really did was choose to be selfish and take adventure over being a husband for Marion. I think when he was getting on that train in kotcs he was really regretting that decision, that's what I loved so much about the wedding, because his life had a taken a complete turn from what it was when he was getting on that train, thinking he had nothing, and then getting a second chance! I know though that if Marion had written him back telling him about the baby, he would have come back to her right away.
and I hear so many people complain about Marion being out of character because she swoons at him so easily after the "they weren't you honey" but I don't think it's out of character at all! Think about her in Raiders, sure she was pissed at him at first, but after they left for Cairo, she all smiles, and then when he leaves her in the tent, she was really pissed at him after that, but it doesn't take her very long at all to forgive him for it, in no time she's kissing him again in the boat.. now go to Crystal Skull, when she first sees him, she's pissed! But give her a little time with him and she's forgiven him again.. let's face it, Marion can not stay mad at Indy for very long! She tries to be mad at him sometimes but she's been swooning for him since she was teen
one of my favorite parts from the kotcs novel, and I think it says a lot:
(( Her eyes traced his shoulders, the crook of his head in deep concentration. She remembered all the late nights. She would be in bed, and he would be at his desk, poring over a thick book or studying some bit of antiquity by candle light. She would wait for him to come to bed no matter how long it took. He would eventually blow out the candle, slip from his clothes, and slide under the covers beside her.
She would turn and kiss him, reminding him that life was more than history, that there was also a
present waiting for him too.
And she
had waited. Each night. But one night he never came home.
.....
As she stared toward the fire, she recognized a painful truth.
Though she had moved on with her life, a small part of her buried deep in her heart, had never truly stopped waiting for him.))
Marion has clearly always been crazy for him!
Indyologist said:
Could someone post a link so I can take a look at that Darabont script? I want to see for myself how Indy had to earn her back-- which makes way more sense. Thanks in advance.
It would have been a lot better to have made Indy have to win her back, and I know a lot of people didn't but I loved the Darabont script!
http://file.sunshinepress.org:54445/indiana-jones-4.pdf