RedeemedChild
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Pale Horse said:This discussion demonstrates why noir is always touted by venerated members (past and present) of this forum.
Tough gritty soul wrenching performances always come from characters who experience loss. Marion was a fireball in Raiders, because (as she was presented by the screenwriter) she lost her dad, and Indy too...that's how we found in the Raven Bar. Lost and empty. That made her real.
Mutt had no loss in his life either. The story arc shown he had an absent (step) father in Collin (Williams) and a loopy mother. He's an adult adolescent at best, mimicking James Dean 'just to be bad'....
Surely he's privileged, but no real loss.
Indy V needs to be filled with loss. Lots of it. Like Rocket says, real consequence, real emotion, real pain. Only then will we find our hero redeemed and will we get the redemption we're looking for.
It's the only way back into the garden, so to speak. (For when you eat of the tree, you will surly die...) That is why I high five this plan.
That's a nice way of looking at it Pale Horse.
I for one, would like Indiana Jones 5 to be have a Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn feel to it or for maybe have a story plot similar to that of Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, in which something precious to Mutt is lost and must be regained.
For example:
Indy 5 could open up in a very mythological setting behind the stone cold walls of a Gothic/Medieval castle in which a cloaked figure is vowing to overtake the world and plunge it into eternal darkness and escape her imprisonment.
Back in the modern world Mutt is riding about on his motorcycle when he notices a broken bridge up ahead and then stops on the brink of the washed out and broken stucture and dismounts from his bike. There on the ground beside him is a bag with a note attached to it informing the reader that inside is a box that contains vast evils and must not be opened for it imprisons the power of darkness.
Howbeit our young and brash Mutt thinks that it's all a hoax and opens this box and unleashes great chaos and the rise of the evil. Marion has been captured by the Dark Guardians and Mutt with Indiana Jones as his mentor must grow up and rescue her in less than 48 hours and return the dangerous artifact AKA "Pandora's Box" to the abyss which is none other than Bermuda's Triangle.