Darth Vile
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Kooshmeister said:Ah, so you're issue isn't with the fact it's there, but how it is presented? That's fair, I guess.
Yes indeed. It goes from the reality of a little night club show (on a small stage) into a Hollywood musical with 100 piece orchestra. It moves the movie from semi-reality into complete fantasy, and by doing so, sets the tone and captures the mindset of Spielberg/Lucas for the entire movie... and the movies to come. It's the moment, I'd argue, that Indy movies veered away from the original conceit that was executed so well in Raiders (and of course I'm not arguing that Raiders played like a documentary), and opened that particular universe up to the more ambitious, impractical and ludicrous events to follow (for better and worse)... much more so than "nuking the fridge" IMHO.