OldIndy2323
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Hey Stoo,
First, another great job with your bookends! I can't wait for the most important one (in my "Indy's family" obsessed mind): Thanksgiving '93.
Second, I completely agree the eye patch should make a movie appearance. The long forgotten "Sword of Arthur" script had a nice way of revealing the patch and scar at the end of the "movie": the final minutes of the movie are a slow pan into Indy's classroom, with his back to the class /audience as he writes on the board. Turning around reveals his long scar and eye patch. Lucas has mentioned something about "no one wants to see a 'damaged' Indy", but maybe he'll make this essential connection to YIJC, kind of like he slipped in the "Pancho Villa" story in KOTCS
Finally, you have some pretty convincing evidence for Staten Island. I still maintain that the quote, "just across the river" is in reference to where he was living in the present, as it comes after he asks where the boys are from. I agree that the hospital is Indy's local hospital and that the cops are New York cops, but the bowling shirt could just be Mike's favorite shirt from when he lived on Staten Island, nothing suggests he was in the middle of bowling when his trip to the emergency room happened. I think I would need to find an area of Staten Island that resembles the exteriors of Indy's daughter's house to finally convince me; having been on Staten Island frequently and not having come across any area that looks like Indy's street.
What we need to do is get George Lucas or the YIJC writers to tell us where they meant to set Old Indy's life.
First, another great job with your bookends! I can't wait for the most important one (in my "Indy's family" obsessed mind): Thanksgiving '93.
Second, I completely agree the eye patch should make a movie appearance. The long forgotten "Sword of Arthur" script had a nice way of revealing the patch and scar at the end of the "movie": the final minutes of the movie are a slow pan into Indy's classroom, with his back to the class /audience as he writes on the board. Turning around reveals his long scar and eye patch. Lucas has mentioned something about "no one wants to see a 'damaged' Indy", but maybe he'll make this essential connection to YIJC, kind of like he slipped in the "Pancho Villa" story in KOTCS
Finally, you have some pretty convincing evidence for Staten Island. I still maintain that the quote, "just across the river" is in reference to where he was living in the present, as it comes after he asks where the boys are from. I agree that the hospital is Indy's local hospital and that the cops are New York cops, but the bowling shirt could just be Mike's favorite shirt from when he lived on Staten Island, nothing suggests he was in the middle of bowling when his trip to the emergency room happened. I think I would need to find an area of Staten Island that resembles the exteriors of Indy's daughter's house to finally convince me; having been on Staten Island frequently and not having come across any area that looks like Indy's street.
What we need to do is get George Lucas or the YIJC writers to tell us where they meant to set Old Indy's life.