Silvor said:I would love for the movie to a bit more sombre with Indy reflecting on his mortality and going on a final important adventure.
And personally I think giving the film a smaller budget in line with the originals would be a good idea. Maybe that could bring back a little of the old Spielberg who had to think on his feet and be smart about the movie.
You're not alone in your thinking. This article ponders an older wiser Indy and I was hoping to hear some of the venerated readers thoughts on it:
...This is the broader universe that Indy, by simple dint of survival, finds himself in. It?s also thematically near identical to the moral dilemma explored (and shot at, and exploded) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. There you had a man out of time faced with an amoral choice by the country he?d given his life, in every way, to defend. The end result remains one of the most satisfying and well produced Marvel movies to date.
It?s also, I?d argue, a blueprint for how a fifth Indy movie could and should be done. Have the villains as not simply Communists or foreign spies but the auspices of the US military industrial complex and government: terrified of global nuclear annihilation, convinced of the superiority of the other side, absolutely prepared to end the world even as their hand trembles on its way to the button. The villainy not just a product of evil but of fear.
Now, drop a veteran with a clear set of morals, an academic world view and a family to think of into the middle of that....
Joe?