nitzsche said:But there is a prologue teaser adventure.
we find Indiana Jones in a not customary place-that was George's idea. George said, 'This time, I'd like to introduce Harrison playing Indy in the trunk of a car.' I said, 'That's fine by me-I haven't seen that before! All the opening sequences [of the Indiana Jones movies] are sort of like the third act of another movie you didn't get to see." |
"In this film, Marion is a focus of the search; Indy doesn't know it, but she is what he's been searching for over the last twenty years." |
eroc said:Spielberg: "When our story begins,
we find Indiana Jones in a not customary place-that was George's idea. George said, 'This time, I'd like to introduce Harrison playing Indy in the trunk of a car.' I said, 'That's fine by me-I haven't seen that before! All the opening sequences [of the Indiana Jones movies] are sort of like the third act of another movie you didn't get to see."
Agent Spalko said:Well that's pretty damn disappointing. I knew the blame should be rightfully directed at Lucas. He has lost his mind.
"...Yes Chewbacca is a girl! However, Indiana Jones obviously isn't! |
Agent Spalko said:But the prologues have been almost completely independent from the main plot of the films, almost like a "movie-within-a-movie." All we are doing here is coming into the story already in progress. All of the setup has been removed. There is no prologue.
Agent Spalko said:Well that's pretty damn disappointing. I knew the blame should be rightfully directed at Lucas. He has lost his mind.
Agent Spalko said:A bit? Ha! It's completely deviating from the Indy template. Even in Raiders we meet Belloq in the prologue to establish his character later in the film, in Temple of Doom we are introduced to Shortie and Willie during the prologue and in Crusade we meet Indy's father in the prologue when he was a boy. The least they could have dome was introduce Mac's character on some previous adventure with Indy and how and where they had known each other from.
Raiders112390 said:Why? We don't know where Indy met Belloq (well we do from the novels but that's a different story), or how Indy got involved with Lao Che. Mac and Indy meeting may be told of in a later part in the movie.
Just because it ''deviates'' from the template doesn't make it bad. It's called originality. Keep repeating the same formula, it gets stale. As you said in another post, you'd have loved to see Indy search for another Biblical artifact. That'd be the third time he's searched for a biblical artifact, and the 4th time that same intro style is used. That's stale, and that's what happend to Bond.
eroc said:Hey, I'm completely fine with the deviation, it helps 4 stand alone from the OT.
Agent Spalko said:But it's not Indy. The point was it establishes the introduction of Indy's character in Raiders and his nemesis Belloq. We didn't need much exposition for Lao Che because it was a sub-story but it does introduce Willie and Shortie and in Crusade it sets up the father/son relationship central to the main story. I'm already disappointed. Menaced again.