Udvarnoky said:That strikes me as sort of a disease of affluence. We don't exactly have an embarrassment of posters these days.
Henry Jones VII said:An honest question fellow Raiders:
do you think a new indy movie set in the 21st century could work, or the lack of the period setting would take away the charm of the adventure?
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Udvarnoky said:I think a smart thing to do in Indiana Jones 5 would be to keep him away from the States (a la Temple of Doom), which obviates the need to depict the guy in 1960s America, which I'm not sure I'd like to see. Have him already somewhere fantastic and isolated and immune to marching technology: the Himalayas, European castles, Greek ruins. Deal with the issue by avoiding it altogether. Frankly, it make sense for someone like Indy to spend his retirement years in places where modernization is a slower threat.
Maybe it makes him a bad father/husband, but hey, Indy already told Marion he knew it was wasn't gonna work. Archeology is what he does, and there's precious little of it to be done as Associate Dean. Mutt and Marion are just fine back home while Indy gets caught up in one last accidental adventure.
I'd also like it if he was kept out of the States in Indy 5 but this might be a bit of a challenge, were Spielberg to be on board as director. Does he still have it in him to go globe-trotting to different countries for one film? Considering that "Skull" was filmed entirely on U.S. soil (apart from 2nd unit shots of the waterfalls & footage grabbed from documentaries), would Steven be willing to do it differently this time around?Udvarnoky said:I think a smart thing to do in Indiana Jones 5 would be to keep him away from the States (a la Temple of Doom), which obviates the need to depict the guy in 1960s America, which I'm not sure I'd like to see. Have him already somewhere fantastic and isolated and immune to marching technology: the Himalayas, European castles, Greek ruins. Deal with the issue by avoiding it altogether. Frankly, it make sense for someone like Indy to spend his retirement years in places where modernization is a slower threat.
Now that Indy is Associate Dean, I can't imagine him taking students on an overseas field trip so, if they were to make 2 more, they could make a pre-1957 prequel and a post-1957 sequel.Toht's Arm said:Keeping in mind that Disney would want characters of different ages, Indy taking students on an overseas field trip might be the best way to do that. Then they could have all the cross-generational conflict that we know Spielberg likes, but perhaps without the family angle that some (many?) of us are getting tired of after LC and KoTCS.
Stoo said:I'd also like it if he was kept out of the States in Indy 5 but this might be a bit of a challenge, were Spielberg to be on board as director. Does he still have it in him to go globe-trotting to different countries for one film? Considering that "Skull" was filmed entirely on U.S. soil (apart from 2nd unit shots of the waterfalls & footage grabbed from documentaries), would Steven be willing to do it differently this time around?
Global? "War Horse" was shot in 1 country: England, within an area smaller than the state of California. England played England and substituted for France. Not much moving about was required, I'm afraid to say.Udvarnoky said:He had no problem going global for his subsequent production, War Horse.
Stoo said:Global? "War Horse" was shot in 1 country: England, within an area smaller than the state of California. England played England and substituted for France. Not much moving about was required, I'm afraid to say.
Uuuh..That is your reply? (1,2,3,4) I thought that you were some kind of master debater. (5) Apologies if the stuff that I write actually makes sense, unlike your old sparring partner, Darth Vile. (6)Udvarnoky said:Dude, I was rooting for you to pull off four smileys in one paragraph, but instead of swinging for the fences you got timid and settled for three.
Stoo said:I'd also like it if he was kept out of the States in Indy 5 but this might be a bit of a challenge, were Spielberg to be on board as director. Does he still have it in him to go globe-trotting to different countries for one film? Considering that "Skull" was filmed entirely on U.S. soil (apart from 2nd unit shots of the waterfalls & footage grabbed from documentaries), would Steven be willing to do it differently this time around?
It's quite possible that a new story would be constructed with this in mind, confined to U.S. geography as stand-ins for foreign envrionments. The Alaskan mountain range could certainly be used as the Himalayas but I can't think of much else besides the desert regions that would be suitable enough to portray another country. (Hawaii had been used twice already as S.America so they shouldn't do a jungle adventure again.)
Of course, they could always use the old-fashioned trick of filming doubles of the actors abroad in exotic locales, while the principal stars are shuffled from set to set within the comfort of home territory.
Stoo said:Now that Indy is Associate Dean, I can't imagine him taking students on an overseas field trip so, if they were to make 2 more, they could make a pre-1957 prequel and a post-1957 sequel.
Stoo said:Uuuh..That is your reply? (1,2,3,4) I thought that you were some kind of master debater.
Stoo said:Like you, I'd like to see "European castles" and "Greek ruins" in Indy 5 but can't see them being filmed on their actual locations (unless it's done by a 2nd unit). This is not an absurd concept.
Toht's Arm said:...and a big chunk of that is set on US soil. I really enjoyed that book, so Indy doesn't have to go nuts globetrotting.
Le Saboteur said:Tea at eleven? Serving yourself at breakfast on Sunday? Oh what fresh hell that War Horse shoot must have been. Deciphering all of those English language texts must have been incredibly difficult too.
Le Saboteur said:Isn't it about time this thread get renamed to something like "Random Thoughts About Anything Related to Indiana Jones?"
Stoo said:Uuuh..That is your reply? (1,2,3,4) I thought that you were some kind of master debater. (5).
Túrin Turambar said:I know Harry is doing the wars now, but Disney need to start this now he is 72 this year...what they going to do wait till he is 80 with his patch?