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Books-by-the-Foot for Dr. Jones
25/09/07, 4:15pm EST
The New Yorker published a very interesting article about the Strand Bookstore which provides ready-made libraries for private homes, stores, and movie sets such as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Here follows a few excerpts from the article:
Although prop books are meant to be seen and not read, they have to evoke a mise en scène, inside and out. For Indiana Jones, the filmmakers specified that the books cover such topics as paleontology, marine biology, and pre-Columbian society. They had to be in muted colors and predate 1957. ?People have gotten so character-specific nowadays,? Jenny McKibben, a manager at the store, said. ?It can?t just be color anymore. With high-def, they can just freeze the film and say, ?Oh, that?s so inappropriate.? ?...
Downstairs on the shopping floor, Bibbi Taylor, a Strand manager, perused the Africa aisle for Indiana Jones material ...
Taylor weaved around some undergraduates and shifted two bookcases to the left. ?Indy?s a philosopher of sorts, so I?d want some ancient-Greek stuff,? she said. She leaned down to a lower shelf and pulled out a green book with a faded spine. ?Oh, yes! A ?39 ?Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture,? ? she said. ?This could be something that he?s read many times.?
I thought this was a funny read, considering one of the most obvious revealing mistakes in the first three Indy films is from The Last Crusade. Right when Indy sys "X marks the spot" on the second floor of the library, you can clearly see a shelf of very plastic/fake books to his left. I can't find a picture of it but give it a look sometime.
Books-by-the-Foot for Dr. Jones
25/09/07, 4:15pm EST
The New Yorker published a very interesting article about the Strand Bookstore which provides ready-made libraries for private homes, stores, and movie sets such as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Here follows a few excerpts from the article:
Although prop books are meant to be seen and not read, they have to evoke a mise en scène, inside and out. For Indiana Jones, the filmmakers specified that the books cover such topics as paleontology, marine biology, and pre-Columbian society. They had to be in muted colors and predate 1957. ?People have gotten so character-specific nowadays,? Jenny McKibben, a manager at the store, said. ?It can?t just be color anymore. With high-def, they can just freeze the film and say, ?Oh, that?s so inappropriate.? ?...
Downstairs on the shopping floor, Bibbi Taylor, a Strand manager, perused the Africa aisle for Indiana Jones material ...
Taylor weaved around some undergraduates and shifted two bookcases to the left. ?Indy?s a philosopher of sorts, so I?d want some ancient-Greek stuff,? she said. She leaned down to a lower shelf and pulled out a green book with a faded spine. ?Oh, yes! A ?39 ?Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture,? ? she said. ?This could be something that he?s read many times.?
I thought this was a funny read, considering one of the most obvious revealing mistakes in the first three Indy films is from The Last Crusade. Right when Indy sys "X marks the spot" on the second floor of the library, you can clearly see a shelf of very plastic/fake books to his left. I can't find a picture of it but give it a look sometime.