Túrin Turambar said:
Just seen Jurassic world and if that's pratts best effort for playing a serious straight
Character then I'd rather them get Larry David or one of the Marx brothers to play the next indy.
It was very forced and just bad acting, I like Pratt but the fact is he's not half the actor Harrison is. Harry is a underrated great actor. Pratts a good looking kid who got lucky a clown compared to Harry.
Could you see Pratt play regarding Henry or Harry in the mosquito coast character??
No the fact is he's got the looks but not the acting skills, Harry always had that .
Look, we all love Ford. We all love Ford as Indy. I personally would LOVE to see Ford play Indy again. But I've accepted that it's not going to happen again, and you need to, too.
Did Sean Patrick Flanery play Indy the way Harrison did? No. And it was just fine. NO actor WANTS to ape another's performance, even if it's in a signature role. It isn't rewarding, and it draws unfavorable comparisons.
So for Pratt to win you over, he'd have to transmogrify into a clone of Harrison? Or will you only accept a clone of Ford in the role? Because that's what it sounds like. It's funny how you talk about Harrison's range as an actor while completely denying that Pratt has any. Can he copy Ford as Indy perfectly?
We won't know until we see him try. But would he try? Probably not. He would want to bring his own sensibilities to the role, while retaining the core traits of the character.
You can act like Indiana Jones without acting like Harrison Ford. There's more to the character than that.
Far more. And it does the character a disservice to deny that. By the sound of your arguments, you must not like
anything from the franchise BUT the four films. If that's so, that's fine. But don't pretend to be open-minded to new actors in the role and then have so stringent a requirements list that nobody can live up to your idea.
The character in
Jurassic World, Owen Grady, is not Indiana Jones. He's more sarcastic and flippant. But it's
more like Indy than any other role Pratt has thus portrayed. In a lot of ways, it's similar to Han Solo. Another role played by -gasp!- Harrison Ford!
Anybody with a brain should be able to look at Owen Grady and see how Pratt can evolve that performance into Jones. And to say that Ford as Indy had no arrogant moments or wit/sarcasm is deluding themselves to avoid giving Pratt credit. There's many moments when Jones is snarky. Not in the vein of Star Lord, but absolutely in the vein of Owen Grady.
I didn't used to see what the Ford detractors saw, but now I'm coming around. The inflexibility around here is staggering. And before I'm accused of "hating" Ford or any such nonsense, note that I'm one of the staunchest lovers of KOTCS, and recall my posts from months ago where I firmly believed that Ford would star in Indy 5. Only when the recasting buzz took over did I realize that it was absolutely going to go that way. I woke up and finally saw the writing on-the-wall.
I think, had LucasFilm still been in the grasp of George, he would have just made 5 with Harry. But Disney has no interest in going against prevalent Hollywood trends. Why would they? They've no loyalty to Ford. They don't have to have it. And general audiences don't either.
Wake up, folks. The 'dream' is over.