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Whenever I see one of his videos pop up I'm always thankful for the ability to play YouTube videos at increased speed: if you set it at 1.25 or 1.5 playback it gets rid of that stupid effect he puts on his voice- what a dumb affectation. As if it didn't take him long enough to get to the point he actually slows his boring rant down.
Harrison Ford is in amazing shape. Will he be as agile as a 20 or 30 year old? No, but he will be convincing in moderate action.
Also, as I’ve speculated, because of the 60’s setting, I believe that mild de-aging will be done and will be flawless.
Indy 4 was Bad but had a few good moments so I have my fingers crossed for Indy 5, and really do hope it works out well. After all Indy is one of my heroes I want him to go out on a High.
I understand the apprehension, but “ Call of the Wild “ showed that he can still be convincing in a physical role.
At approximately 1:30 there’s a shot of him in the water that shows that Ford is not a typical 78 year old.
Well I think it's pretty much starting shooting any day now; I would imagine the first sets are built- I don't think it can get pushed back unless something serious happens.
I wonder if the main players are in the UK yet? Presumably there might have to be a quarantine process.
I love how this guy thinks that anyone who doesnt like woke nonsense thinks it means they are '' scared '' of black people and women.There is nothing at all wrong with having strong representations of both.The problem is that there is this narrative being pushed that its NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE! That for the first time EVER we are seeing STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS IN FILM! BLACK CHARACTERS IN LEADING ROLES!
Its funny because i remember Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise.Sarah Connor in the first two Terminator films.Wonder Woman,The Bionic Woman,Emma Peel,Sydney Bristow.I dont remember anyone complaining about those.
As for black people.There is a countless amount of movies with black leads.Just look at the careers of Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman for example.
The problem is that crazy feminists like Kathleen Kennedy and those idiots who write that BatWOMAN! show are trying to force a narrative that strong female characters and black leads have never happened.They also most likely hate men and are prioritizing gender,race,and identity politics over good storytelling.
Well that seems a totally level-headed point of view :))
I have a bit of a rule that anyone who uses the words 'woke' and 'narrative' is generally someone to be avoided. I must have missed those films opening with the caption 'THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE' :D
I love strong, confident female characters and don’t consider their inclusion to be “Woke”. What does fit that description are female characters who are presented only to put males in their place and wave the flag of social justice. The same could be said when dealing with race and sexual orientation.
It’s interesting Ellen Ripley in the Aliens films is one of the strongest women ever to Grace the screen; starting over 40 years ago she was kicking butt and taking charge and there wasn’t a peep about the threat of a strong woman. My thought is that back then Ripley wasn’t being used to push an agenda; today the same is not true as characters are used to do so.
Okay, people who use it without irony are to be avoided :)
Genuinely, I've not yet seen anyone use it who doesn't then say something objectionable. Same with 'narrative'- it's up there with 'sheeple'. It's in the vernacular but anyone using it in a non-ironic sense is pretty much always a crazy conspiracy theorist :D '5G narrative', 'vaccine narrative' etc.
I think the question would be why folks find that agenda threatening or upsetting. Ripley was very much the exception rather than the rule, which is perhaps why folks-who-say-woke didn't have a problem with it.
There was a drive to include more women on panel shows here about ten years ago because comedy shows were getting made with all-male casts way too regularly, and there was actually a mindset that culturally speaking, women weren't as funny as men because of their traditional place in society not giving them the opportunity to be / it's how men attract women etc. etc. And since they started actually forcing the change to include more women on comedy shows as an actual rule that has blown that thinking up to be a completely ridiculous myth. So there's really nothing wrong with making changes.
This is because they knew the result they were looking for before they did the experiment.
Yeah I watched the 90s movie Deep Rising tonight for a laugh (remember that one coming out?) - turns out it's really quite decent fun (and with a great Goldsmith score!) but Famke Janssen is stuck in a pretty thankless damsel role with Treat Williams struggling slightly in the lead, and I was struck that if they'd have just reversed the roles between the two actors you'd have had the more charismatic actor playing the lead (Williams probably would have been better in the damsel part too as he could have played it up a bit more comedic).
...sure, noticing frustrating aspects of Hollywood moneymen who only view those issues as trends and nothing more, rather than doing it right, is normal...
...but to expect it to be the case every time a particular person is hired or a particular subject is being explored or even subtly touched upon within a movie, like Indiana Jones and James Bond, seems overly expectant and can actually in certain contexts damage the film or even your own enjoyment of something that could actually be really good at the end of the day, and actually also halts us from being able to move forward and make castings, subjects, and contexts like those associated with identity politics and social justice feel natural, well-executed, with the odd bad one here and there, like many other things we get in our media,
I've always thought it odd that for strong female characters look at the Fast and Furious movies. Yes they're silly escapist fun, but all the women in it are as good drivers as the men, fight as good as the men, are as smart as the men and take no crap from anyone. I find it sort of funny that some strong female charters come from a testosterone filled muscle fest movie ;)
Indeed, like anything it can be handled poorly, but just because Waller-Bridge is involved in something you get these weird people complaining even though the only thing they've seen her in is a Star Wars film (where she played a tongue in cheek parody of a SJW!). And that Scots guy assumes that because the film is set in the 60s it must be about the civil rights movement in the US at that time...? What kind of eye-rolling paranoia is that? As if that's the only thing which happened in the 60s! It was a pretty eventful decade :D
And as if the Nazis (baddies in two of the first three Indy films) weren't a teeny bit racist themselves! Was it not okay to have racists as the baddies in those films? What's with the anti-racist agenda, huh? ;)
Yes, I thought that was a cracking gag! :D
The FF movies are rather good on that score: I often think a lot of the louder people haven't noticed that the main cast is pretty much entirely non-white. If it was a new movie coming out tomorrow and not a sequel, imagine how many tiresome complaints about 'box-ticking' we'd be hearing when the cast list was unveiled.
"I often think a lot of the louder people haven't noticed that the main cast is pretty much entirely non-white."
Sometimes just getting on with making a film, etc with the cast you want, without drawing attention to any politics etc can be best. Another great series is " The Expanse " on amazon prime, once again a multi racial cast with strong female characters and it's totally natural. No one mentions or comments on it, it just works.
Sure, but no-one involved has drawn any attention whatsoever to any politics in this Indy film, but the YouTube crazies still think that they (and evil Kathleen Kennedy!) have :D
YouTube is full of conspiracies, 5G, flat earth etc :D
Who knows they may be doing this as a goodbye to the character, a big glorious send off. A movie where he can act his age but has to overcome it to help others. Could be a good thing to show age shouldn't stop you from doing stuff.