Mutt Williams
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NileQT87 said:
Nuclear tests always buried deep into the ground I think, remotely detonated. Could be wrong though, never witnessed any.
Possible first glimpse of the "alien ship" in flight.
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Nuclear tests always buried deep into the ground I think, remotely detonated. Could be wrong though, never witnessed any.
agentsands77
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It could be the rocket sled. I'd have to have a better visual of the terrain to really judge.
agentsands77
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Yeah, I can see it. It's probably the rocket sled. A HQ clip will verify/deny that, but for now, I'm with ya.effin said:
joelwatts
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Pretty sure it the sled. You can just barely make out the sage brush in the foreground. I can see how some might think its all couds around, but I think its definitley the desert ground on the lower half of the screen. The atmospheric lighting corresponds to an earlier sunset at the hangar, and twilight (the pic of indy at night in sillouette) after he gets off the sled?
Note well:
Indy's arrival in Doom Town, AT DAWN, (note the sun shining thru windows, on dummy's faces) is the metaphorical dawn of a new disturbing era in weaponry and war. Things are 'not as easy as they used to be'.
This sets the hyper-intense urgent/panick-striken 'red'-fearing tone of the whole movie therafter. This was the essential atmosphere of the fifties, and of this film, which is akin to all previous IJ-films, 'a period film'.
Indy's arrival in Doom Town, AT DAWN, (note the sun shining thru windows, on dummy's faces) is the metaphorical dawn of a new disturbing era in weaponry and war. Things are 'not as easy as they used to be'.
This sets the hyper-intense urgent/panick-striken 'red'-fearing tone of the whole movie therafter. This was the essential atmosphere of the fifties, and of this film, which is akin to all previous IJ-films, 'a period film'.
herr gruber
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I'd go with the atomic blast theory. It looks exactly like the atomic tests that I have attended. I should know, I've attended quite a few.
Gobi-1
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Tom Cook said:
Excellent analyses. Spielberg and Lucas are very deliberate in their use of visual cues to add more meaning to a film. Even if it's very subtle. The first act will set the tone for the rest of the film so it only makes sense that a new Indy movie in a new time period would begin at dawn.
isaac_z
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well, now that we think that it's the sled, just one question: do you think this is an indy-esque shot?
i don't know. for me, if this is in fact the rocket sled, this shot is far too distanced. correct me if i'm wrong, but most of the camera-work in the previous films implied large expanses of space/desert, but rarely (cases being the bridge scene in TOD and the tank in LC) showed the size on screen. even in those few instances, the camera was most often close to either a character or the action of the scene itself. so, unless this is a character's perspective or a misinterpretation on our part, i think this shot marks a compositional/cinematic change from the originals, as, i think, does the aerial shots over the car chase on the cliff and, to a larger degree, over the moving columns.
but then again, this could be a homage to the period films, as has been mentioned, which at times showed large, open spaces, as opposed to the close camera work in the republic serials of the thirties.
just my two cents.
i don't know. for me, if this is in fact the rocket sled, this shot is far too distanced. correct me if i'm wrong, but most of the camera-work in the previous films implied large expanses of space/desert, but rarely (cases being the bridge scene in TOD and the tank in LC) showed the size on screen. even in those few instances, the camera was most often close to either a character or the action of the scene itself. so, unless this is a character's perspective or a misinterpretation on our part, i think this shot marks a compositional/cinematic change from the originals, as, i think, does the aerial shots over the car chase on the cliff and, to a larger degree, over the moving columns.
but then again, this could be a homage to the period films, as has been mentioned, which at times showed large, open spaces, as opposed to the close camera work in the republic serials of the thirties.
just my two cents.