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Steven Spielberg defends worst scene in 'Indiana Jones 4'
FROM CNN:
Steven Spielberg is taking full responsibility for the most infamous scene in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
Actually, it's less of a movie than a horrific catalogue of everything that is miserable and boring in modern Hollywood: The urge to sequelize into infinity, the paycheck-gravitas of great British actors, the redefinition of "plot" as "a series of digitalized set-pieces signifying nothing," the notion of Shia LaBeouf as an action hero, the notion that Russians still make interesting villains, the limits of Cate Blanchett's greatness, but, most of all, the TV-ification of movie stardom, whereby every movie star is only really a star when they're sleepwalking through reheated incarnations of their most iconic roles.
But "Crystal Skull" was directed by Steven Spielberg, who has almost certainly earned the right to strike out every now and then.
In a new interview with Empire, Spielberg sounds pretty serene about the "Indiana Jones" fourquel. That's not to say he doesn't understand that people have a gripe with the central plot point of the film, which you'll recall forced Harrison Ford to run around the jungle waving a Crystal Skull and yelling "Crystal Skull! Crystal Skull! Crystal Skull!" for 90 minutes.
CNN.Com:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/27/showbiz/movies/spielberg-indiana-jones-4-ew/index.html
See full article at EW.com:
http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/10/26/steven-spielberg-indiana-jones-crystal-skull
FROM CNN:
Steven Spielberg is taking full responsibility for the most infamous scene in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
Actually, it's less of a movie than a horrific catalogue of everything that is miserable and boring in modern Hollywood: The urge to sequelize into infinity, the paycheck-gravitas of great British actors, the redefinition of "plot" as "a series of digitalized set-pieces signifying nothing," the notion of Shia LaBeouf as an action hero, the notion that Russians still make interesting villains, the limits of Cate Blanchett's greatness, but, most of all, the TV-ification of movie stardom, whereby every movie star is only really a star when they're sleepwalking through reheated incarnations of their most iconic roles.
But "Crystal Skull" was directed by Steven Spielberg, who has almost certainly earned the right to strike out every now and then.
In a new interview with Empire, Spielberg sounds pretty serene about the "Indiana Jones" fourquel. That's not to say he doesn't understand that people have a gripe with the central plot point of the film, which you'll recall forced Harrison Ford to run around the jungle waving a Crystal Skull and yelling "Crystal Skull! Crystal Skull! Crystal Skull!" for 90 minutes.
CNN.Com:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/27/showbiz/movies/spielberg-indiana-jones-4-ew/index.html
See full article at EW.com:
http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/10/26/steven-spielberg-indiana-jones-crystal-skull