Firstly, I feel that this is going to be too big of a change/problem to feature in another related thread, so hear me out on this.
A lot of people had problems with Indy IV's plot having anything to do with aliens. The idea of "Aliens in an Indiana Jones Movie" made them cringe. I can understand this, but I get the feeling that, at least from a creative standpoint, there really wasn't anywhere else to go for them to "up the ante".
He's found The Ark and the literal Holy Grail, where do you go from there?
Some would probably have a few other beloved religious artifacts they could think of, but when you're trying to close a franchise, you're going to go big.
When I heard it was going to be called Cystal Skull I knew instantly aliens were going to be involved, I didn't think we'd actually see any. The actual crystal skulls are shrouded in mystery, there are thousands of different kinds of stories you could tell.
My problem with Aliens in KotCS is this: They didn't need to be featured directly.
What makes the artifact interesting is the mystery behind it, we weren't explicity told in Raiders that god was real, but it was heavily implied.
We see an alien kill Spalko, yet we didn't need to see a giant foot squash Belloq, did we?
So what was stopping them from handling the aliens plot in the same way?
To make this more clear, here are some examples of "Changes":
* From what we do know about the Crystal Skulls, scientists believe they would have to be manufactured some way through incredible tools. Have the movie be about a race to find the Crystal Skull machine. Maybe the machine is some kind of primitive human builder, but they only could get it to work well enough to make skulls and nothing else. This leaves us with a subtle hint that this incredible technology is not of this earth.
* Pull a Fate of Atlantis. Commies could be searching for a power source to beat us to the punch with nuclear weapons, whatever this power source is could be alien in origin.
Etc.
Thoughts?
A lot of people had problems with Indy IV's plot having anything to do with aliens. The idea of "Aliens in an Indiana Jones Movie" made them cringe. I can understand this, but I get the feeling that, at least from a creative standpoint, there really wasn't anywhere else to go for them to "up the ante".
He's found The Ark and the literal Holy Grail, where do you go from there?
Some would probably have a few other beloved religious artifacts they could think of, but when you're trying to close a franchise, you're going to go big.
When I heard it was going to be called Cystal Skull I knew instantly aliens were going to be involved, I didn't think we'd actually see any. The actual crystal skulls are shrouded in mystery, there are thousands of different kinds of stories you could tell.
My problem with Aliens in KotCS is this: They didn't need to be featured directly.
What makes the artifact interesting is the mystery behind it, we weren't explicity told in Raiders that god was real, but it was heavily implied.
We see an alien kill Spalko, yet we didn't need to see a giant foot squash Belloq, did we?
So what was stopping them from handling the aliens plot in the same way?
To make this more clear, here are some examples of "Changes":
* From what we do know about the Crystal Skulls, scientists believe they would have to be manufactured some way through incredible tools. Have the movie be about a race to find the Crystal Skull machine. Maybe the machine is some kind of primitive human builder, but they only could get it to work well enough to make skulls and nothing else. This leaves us with a subtle hint that this incredible technology is not of this earth.
* Pull a Fate of Atlantis. Commies could be searching for a power source to beat us to the punch with nuclear weapons, whatever this power source is could be alien in origin.
Etc.
Thoughts?
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