True fans here, true fans there... true fans... so ask yourselves: who is a real "true fan"? What does the word "true" imply? ...
Not to criticize anyone, but I think many of you are now missing the point.
I BET ALL OF US ARE "TRUE FANS", or we simply wouldn't be here. In any case, any of us does have his own personal tastes and his own personal preferences. This obviously means that any of us has different ideas too.
Some of you were accusing Sankara, but I think that's not exactly the right thing to do now. It is not correct, because he has only expressed his point of view.
I don't like the idea of aliens as much as he do. But that's NOT because I am a "true fan". That's NOT because I have a "robotic" opinion, and NOT because I usually speak "lame brain b.s." as someone had previousely written. It's only because I do have a certain perception of the franchise, a certain perception of the character and, most of all,
a certain perception of the adventures he should be involved in.
It's not the concept of aliens itself to be wrong to me. It's the concept of aliens in the specific context it seems to be inserted in. The context I'm talking about is more or less something like this:
- the year is '57, almost the sixties, the beginning of the space exploration era and also the age of the "science fiction genre" boom.
- we've heard about one scene involving the legendary Area 51... with probably the American government special forces trying to prevent Indy from doing/stealing something.
- we've heard about a scene possibly showing a nuclear explosion.
- now we hear about aliens used in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", which are meant to appear in this movie.
- I've also read somewhere that the aztec pyramid we've seen in some pictures time ago is actually meant to be sort of an alien spaceship.
Well, now, there's only one obvious thing that comes to my mind: this whole analysis makes me guess the new Indy film will be more of a
"scy-fi / fantapolitic drama / conspiracy-spy story movie" than an actual
"adventure movie". AND THAT IS A THING I ABSOLUTELY DON'T WANT FOR IT. I want to see a movie centered around archeology, mysterious places an' ancient religions. Not a movie focused on American/Russian army trying to get contact with green skinned little men, while Indy tries to stop them.
11thIndian said:
But in a series that includes the supernatural, and inspired by Republic serials, anyone who thinks that allusions to aliens in Indiana's world is out of place, are lacking in some imagination.
I personally disagree. I don't think it's the same thing for me. At least, I think it would depend on the context. But from the few things we believe to know, I can quite surely assume that the context on which this movie will be based IS UNFORTUNATELY THE WRONG ONE.
For example, I loved "Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine". That videogame was awesome, even if its plot dealt with aliens massively. But that was good, because the alien beings in the story were always treated and seen as "gods". Not as creatures from the outer space, meant to be captured and analyzed in Area 51. Not as creatures meant to be hidden in secret labs, where the American/Russian military forces also experiments new mass destruction weapons. This whole idea makes me think of "Man In Black", not Indiana Jones.
If we want the plot to deal with aliens, so let 'em be mysterious, ancient and monstrous forms of life... let 'em be mythical gods rather than little human-like puppies trapped in the bunkers of Area 51.
P.S. - I hope the message is clear enough for all of you. Please, feel free to comment. These are only my ideas, after all...
EDIT: oh, damn, this post is sooooo long... sorry 'bout that.