Dr.Jonesy
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kongisking said:Agreed! Let's take another gander at said shot, just for the heck of it, shall we?
Indeed. Damn these films kick ass.
Brilliant shot.
kongisking said:Agreed! Let's take another gander at said shot, just for the heck of it, shall we?
(Sarcastically): Gee, I never realized that dummy town, itself, was the "exaggerated" and "unbelievable" aspect of the scene.Daily Mail Reporter said:When the eponymous hero stumbles on an eerie abandoned city in 2008 hit Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, it may seem like a classic piece of Hollywood exaggeration.
But in fact the unbelievable scene, showing a deserted ghost town which is the site of a nuclear bomb test, is remarkably true to life.
The WAY it landed was poorly executed. It was too harsh. Had it be done differently, it *could* have made Indy's survival a tiny bit more acceptable amongst the popcorn-munchers.Dr.Jonesy said:The landing was necessary to give us that shot of Indy confronting the mushroom cloud which is one of the coolest shots in the entire series.
Stoo said:The WAY it landed was poorly executed. It was too harsh. Had it be done differently, it *could* have made Indy's survival a tiny bit more acceptable amongst the popcorn-munchers.
russds said:I do love that shot with the mushroom cloud and Indy silhouette.
kongisking said:It screams iconic. Too bad the film is so poorly regarded that all of its merits, such as this incredible shot, are more or less going to be forgotten because all folks will talk about in the future is its flaws. Sigh...
kongisking said:It screams iconic. Too bad the film is so poorly regarded that all of its merits, such as this incredible shot, are more or less going to be forgotten because all folks will talk about in the future is its flaws. Sigh...
Dr.Jonesy said:And hey, did you ever see the paintings Drew Struzan did of the mushroom cloud with Indy looking at it; I believe he did two of them. They were great.
Pale Horse said:Link?
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Dr.Jonesy said:
One of them is uber hard to find, give me a minute and I'll put both online here in a sec.
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kongisking said:Ho. Lee. Spit. Those are magnificent.
Brooke Logan said:I thought the whole nuclear town scene was actually one of the best and/or most interesting in that film. Maybe the fridge part was silly, but the rest of it was good. I thought that scene was chilling.
Agreed 100%!kongisking said:That was the only scene where I genuinely felt any sense of real peril for Indy. The rest of the action is too light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek to really be dangerous...
kongisking said:That was the only scene where I genuinely felt any sense of real peril for Indy. The rest of the action is too light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek to really be dangerous, but for this scene at least, you definitely have the impulse to bite your nails (a habit I kicked a long time ago... ).
Paden said:For some reason, when I think of the optimum way for the scene to play out, I think of something like this:
Jones, realizing where he is and what is about to happen, locates the refrigerator and climbs inside, muttering something along the lines of, "Sure hope this works."
The bomb goes off.
Cut to the refrigerator, which has been reduced to a smear of molten slag. In one of the melted lumps can be seen a shape which is vaguely suggestive of a fedora.
Cut to Marion Ravenwood and Mutt Williams seated together at a booth in a diner. Marion says, "Mutt, there's something I need to tell you about your father..."
Mickiana said:The fridge melted around IJ could have been more than reminiscent of Solo in the carbonite. You'd have your SW reference and Harrison would have his wish (???) of IJ being killed off. Unless the story has Marion freeing him from the molten lead slag only then to turn around and find Spalko and her team watching and laughing/sneering. Then cue some Hutt Palace music for extra bad taste.
kongisking said:"Here I am, out of it for a while, and everyone gets delusions of grandeur!" That should be his opening line in Indy 5...