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I mean if you hate it when Hollywood claims it’s doing something groundbreaking by not casting a cis white male actor in a role… just ignore it. Why do you have to get your panties in a twist? It’s all so dumb. Just white male fragility.
What on earth does that mean?
It also made me think of the Doctor Who two-parter, The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon. Two really good episodes.
Utter rubbish. I haven't been so let down by a film since Blade Runner, where nobody was running blades.
After Schindler's List and learning about the extent of their atrocities, he swore he would never use again Nazis for comic relief.
But communists are supposed not to believe in myths, legends or religions, there's no mysticism around Soviets. So, they made up for a poor Nazis substitute, while it would have been very easy (and in line with pulp fiction from the fifties) to have Nazis in hiding (in South America for instance) waiting for an opportunity to start a fourth Reich.
So, I'm all in favor of these opponents returning for the new film.
Unless it's as heavy-handed and insulting as in the Prime Video show Hunters, where one of the main plot lines involves Nazi scientists hired by the US Government.
Hmm, not sure I really follow that logic. Nazis are certainly a purer evil, but the Russians were effective enough bad guys.
I think he's right to not want to trivialise them further- personally I wouldn't want them in it. It's the 60s anyway, it would be a bit weird. There weren't many Nazis driving tanks and flying fighter planes at that point so they would be a bit toothless.
Personally I'm hoping for a film more in the Temple of Doom mould: where it didn't feel it needed to be a carbon copy of the first one. We've had two Raiders remakes in the series already, we don't need a third; and Temple showed that an Indy film doesn't need to be that.
One of the best ideas from the Bond adaptations was to introduce SPECTRE much earlier, and use it in Dr No and FRWL. Having Klebb as a secret SPECTRE operative in FRWL is a great change. Instead of having SMERSH attempting to discredit both Bond and the Intelligence Service in a plan decided by a faceless committee (even if it's decided by a faceless committee...), it allows Klebb to shine brighter as a villain and double agent in service of a secret cause. Russians were already the big baddies in everyday life in Western countries. SPECTRE allowed the plot to be more original.
Sure, but they didn't go after those things. In Skull they were looking for knowledge, and potentially a weapon too. Don't forget the first place they raid is an American airbase, not following a treasure map.
Indeed. It also allowed them to be less antagonistic in the political situation too. I think it was perhaps as late as 1977 before Bond fought against actual Russian agents, and they still weren't the baddies of the film.
Well put, and agreed. Those scenes are kind of uplifting, which is of course the point.
Just go for a different set of villains like TEMPLE OF DOOM did. Why not the Illuminati?
That's going to be fun. They just shouldn't make the title too long and cumbersome. "Indiana Jones and the Adjective Thing" is fine, as is "Indiana Jones and the Thing of Things". But "Indiana Jones and the Thing of Adjective Things" is starting to be a little too much, like with "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull".
Yes, exactly. It doesn't need to be a military force: it can be an adversary or locals or the mafia or spies or an evil corporation or anything, really.
I've always thought the Billion Dollar Brain plot of a mad millionaire with a private army could be fun: some bonkers US preacher who wants to wage a literal war on the devil or something.
It'd be quite nice to have Indy find himself in a situation again, rather than the going-on-a-quest thing of Raiders/Crusade/Skull.
I wouldn't even mind losing the 'And The' and have something like 'Indiana Jones Beyond The Noun' or 'Indiana Jones At World's End' or somesuch.
It could have been shortened to INDIANA JONES AND THE CRYSTAL SKULL.
In this day and age, I wouldn't be surprised if the next film is simply called INDY.
I can see why you think “ Indy” would seem a possibility but I doubt it. I think it will follow tradition with an “ Indiana Jones and the...”
Even though the film may involve the space race, it’s very likely that there will be an archeological McGuffin, that is where the title lies.
Just two hours of Willie Scott yelling the title.
That's a much better title for Indy 4.
I'm also anticipating the title, can't be much longer now with all the cast announcements over the past few weeks and filming starting soon.
That's cool, where did you hear that?