kongisking
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I don’t know if anyone has picked this up yet, but just in case, I thought I’d share this with all you fellow obsessive-compulsives out there. While admiring the DVD menu for the second disc of the KOTCS special edition pack, at one point I saw cursive writing flash across the screen during the clip of Spalko unsheathing her sword. Curious, I paused the screen on my computer, and was able to make out a bit. To my delight, it was Marion’s letter to Mutt, telling him to find Indy!
Now, I don’t know if this was actually the intended contents of the letter, or if the text was just invented for O-C geeks like me to stumble upon, but I basically grabbed a pencil and paper, and proceeded to re-watch this section of the menu over and over. I had to pause constantly, in an attempt to catch all of the words. What follows below is what I was able to discern before the text disappears off the screen. Everything in parenthesis is comments that I have made, and in cursive is the actual letter. Hope you all get a kick out of this.
Dear Son,
Please read this letter carefully. I don’t have time to fully explain right now, but I need you to do something for me that is terribly urgent. Ox has stumbled into a very bad situation down here and I’m afraid he won’t get out of it without the help of an old friend of ours. He goes by Indiana Jones but his real name is Dr. Henry Jones. He is a professor at Marshall College in Connecticut.
(The next paragraph is located on the closer left of screen, and appears to be a continuation of the one above.)
It is imperative that you search him out and give him the enclosed page written by Ox just before he was kidnapped. Ox had made some discoveries about the skull that Indiana will have some knowledge of.
(This is the paragraph directly below the first and most prominent one, and continues off the second.)
The effect of these discoveries has taken a huge toll on him and I’m afraid that his behavior makes it appear that he has lost his mind. His captors have threatened to kill him if he doesn’t (at this point the words cannot be made out. I presume it ends with “cooperate” or something like that.)
There was another paragraph on the far left side, but the words were too small for me to make out. Though I think the ending was, “It could be a matter of life and death, but I have all the faith in you. Much love, Mom.”
Now, I don’t know if this was actually the intended contents of the letter, or if the text was just invented for O-C geeks like me to stumble upon, but I basically grabbed a pencil and paper, and proceeded to re-watch this section of the menu over and over. I had to pause constantly, in an attempt to catch all of the words. What follows below is what I was able to discern before the text disappears off the screen. Everything in parenthesis is comments that I have made, and in cursive is the actual letter. Hope you all get a kick out of this.
Dear Son,
Please read this letter carefully. I don’t have time to fully explain right now, but I need you to do something for me that is terribly urgent. Ox has stumbled into a very bad situation down here and I’m afraid he won’t get out of it without the help of an old friend of ours. He goes by Indiana Jones but his real name is Dr. Henry Jones. He is a professor at Marshall College in Connecticut.
(The next paragraph is located on the closer left of screen, and appears to be a continuation of the one above.)
It is imperative that you search him out and give him the enclosed page written by Ox just before he was kidnapped. Ox had made some discoveries about the skull that Indiana will have some knowledge of.
(This is the paragraph directly below the first and most prominent one, and continues off the second.)
The effect of these discoveries has taken a huge toll on him and I’m afraid that his behavior makes it appear that he has lost his mind. His captors have threatened to kill him if he doesn’t (at this point the words cannot be made out. I presume it ends with “cooperate” or something like that.)
There was another paragraph on the far left side, but the words were too small for me to make out. Though I think the ending was, “It could be a matter of life and death, but I have all the faith in you. Much love, Mom.”
Is it my imagination or is there somewhere else where a facsimile of the complete letter can be seen?
(I don't have my books with me to check.) Would be interesting to compare the two.
