kongisking
Active member
In my many, many, many revisits of KOTCS, I've come to decide that the majority of the third act is the biggest, most devastating flaw of the film. When it should be upping the intensity, it makes everything seem sillier. When it should be fast and thrilling, it starts and stops like a car that's almost out of gas. When it should be at its most emotional and profound, it plays it safe and goes through the motions.
So...my question is: how would you folks have re-written the third act? The thing is, you can't alter a single thing from before that. The movie up until then needs to be exactly as it was. But you can redo the third act as much as you'd like, to remove its flaws or even give new context to earlier scenes that work better. For the sake of this experiment, I am going to have the moment that Marion appears act as the starting point of the third act (as IMO, that is where the flaws begin in earnest with this section of the film).
I'd love to hear the various creative ideas. And keep in mind, this section had the Dovchenko fight, in my opinion the major saving grace of the third act. So, whatever you come up with, don't neglect to give Indy his deserved fistfight setpiece!
So...my question is: how would you folks have re-written the third act? The thing is, you can't alter a single thing from before that. The movie up until then needs to be exactly as it was. But you can redo the third act as much as you'd like, to remove its flaws or even give new context to earlier scenes that work better. For the sake of this experiment, I am going to have the moment that Marion appears act as the starting point of the third act (as IMO, that is where the flaws begin in earnest with this section of the film).
I'd love to hear the various creative ideas. And keep in mind, this section had the Dovchenko fight, in my opinion the major saving grace of the third act. So, whatever you come up with, don't neglect to give Indy his deserved fistfight setpiece!