oki9Sedo said:The Searchers is one of Spielberg's favourite films, and I wonder if the the similarities between Ethan and Charlie's relationship in that film to Indy and Mutt's in KOTCS is intentional.
Attila the Professor said:Charlie McCorry? Haw, haw!
Seriously, though, you mean Martin Pawley? That's not a bad thought. Late Ford often seems, either consciously or unconsciously, to have a slight John Wayne character to it, and in a couple of places I've seen <I>Crystal Skull</I> put forward as Spielberg and Lucas's <I>Donovan's Reef</I> or <I>El Dorado</I>, one of those late "getting the gang together again" movies Wayne made with Ford or Hawks.
Obviously, Indy isn't any kind of an obsessive in the film, but some of their moments - the scorpions, the "knife to a gunfight" line, the "Why don't you stick around?" exchange - have a Duke-like laconic drawl to them, and remind one of a few moments in <I>The Searchers</I>, as when Ethan makes them water the horses rather than riding straight on.
Stoo said:In the "similarities" category is: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
Stoo said:Lo and behold, a block in a wall (adorned with a golden skull, no less) is pulled out and releases a SAND trap. (Extremely similar to, "Crystal Skull"!)
I'll reply to that in the Tarzan thread.Montana Smith said:I remember this one from those Saturday morning Tarzans, but not clearly enough to have made those connections.
These don't appear to available on DVD.
I LOVE the '93 "Jungle Book"! You've inspired me to watch it again, Udvarnoky. As for, "Valley of Gold", being an influence on it: That's possible but it's probably not the only previous film to feature a similar sand trap (but I get what you're saying with the Tarzan/Indy-esque quality of the movie).Udvarnoky said:Actually, reading your post, it's so obvious to me that Tarzan and the Valley of Gold was a huge influence on Stephen Sommers' The Jungle Book (the 1993, Disney live-action film), which is bizarrely way more of a piece with Tarzan and Indiana Jones than it is in any way kin to Kipling's writings. The sand trap scene your picture depicts is very similar to one in the Disney movie where a guy gets buried alive in salt in a mausoleum, which in my mind still holds the trophy for most bafflingly inappropriate scene in a kids movie ever.
Stoo said:"The Atomic Kid" (1954) has been discussed in this thread a few times but a GREAT companion film was released the year before it...
"Split Second" (1953)
(One of these days, I'm gonna do it.)[/SIZE]
Impressive find.Stoo said:Compare "Crystal Skull" with:
Man in fedora gazing at mushroom cloud from "Panic in Year Zero!" (1962).
Though, what's gettin' blowed up ain't a fake town in Nevada...it's LOS ANGELES!
(Image flipped for a better match.)