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Spielberg & Lucas Approve Indy 4 Script
Anonymous Coward writes "According to an article on ComingSoon.net, the script for the fourth Indiana Jones movie is moving forward. Lucas and Spielberg have agreed on the writing, with only Harrison Ford still required to sign off on the project before it can go into pre-production. Ford has yet to read the script."
Of the script? Is Ford really that able to make or break the script once he's agreed to do the project? Or, has he, essentially, not yet even agreed? With the buzz this has, isn't he more or less already beholden to do it?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
How many of those did George Lucas write?
You want to know who isn't running Firefox 2.x? They spell it "definately" and "rediculous".
It's "news for nerds". Which includes news related to "nerd films" such as: Star Wars, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings...
Circumcision is child abuse.
"... but why the need for anything after Osment dies at the bottom of the ocean?"
That was the best part of the movie!! Sadly, in a lot of ways, it was a little too subtle. (note: I don't blame the movie viewers for that, I think they made some questionable decisions at that part of the movie.)
David had a really nasty programming problem. He was hard-wired to 'love' one woman, his mom. Unfortunately, this program couldn't have been changed. David could, for all practical purposes, live forever, but his mother could not. After he was frozen underwater, he was found by the robots of the day. They survived, the human race didn't. When they found him, they interfaced with him, and worked out his program. (Thus evidenced by the 'touching scene' where his memories were being played back on their faces.)
As robots, it's easy to imagine they were quite sympathetic to David. He had a program that couldn't be fulfilled. Out of compassion, they found a creative way to fulfill his program. They gave him a bs story about bringing his mother back for only one day. (If you're curious what I mean about BS, consider that she was 'brought back', had all kinds of love for David, but never once asked where her husband or other child were. She was too good to be true. Fortunately, David was naieve.) David understood the one-day rule. So he spent the day with her and had the fun that he could. He knew when she'd fade away. When it was time for bed, he fell asleep before she did. If he were to wake up, he'd discover she was gone and his program would be fucked. So, instead, he fell asleep never to awaken. He dreamt, presumably of her.
Great solution to a really tough problem. I have a great affection for this movie, mainly because I really think most movies would have ended with him 'dying' under the water instead of trying to do something more meaningful. Very satisfying.
"Derp de derp."
That is the fear. However, the difference between an Indy movie and the SW Prequels is that Lucas wouldn't be directing.
In the prequels, Lucas surrounded himself with yes men who were too grateful to be associated with the "legend" to talk back to him.
Spielberg is a true contemporary of Lucas' and has no reason to pull punches. He would not let the Indy franchise go down with bad dialogue in order to save Lucas' ego.
Spielberg doesn't direct movies the way Richard Marquand did in ROTJ. He would not just be a puppet for Lucas. He would be able to make it work. He would let Lucas do what he's good at, which is come up with good action choreography, and fill in the rest.
Perhaps I'm mis-remembering, or maybe we just have different opinions, but personally I thought that the second Indiana Jones movie wasn't anywhere near the standard of the other two.
Raiders was a lot of fun, with both the script and the acting. It also had several very strong characters, including Marion Ravenwood, who's possibly one of the best female characters to have come out of a 1980's Hollywood movie.
In the Temple of Doom, this was all traded in for what seemed to be the boring stereotypical mid-80's movie formula at the time: a whinging helpless city girl being dragged along on an adventure, repeatedly made to look stupid by both Indy and an irritating 10-year old boy. The plot and the acting were both below standard.
I thought that Last Crusade was back to the original standard, though.
Indianna Jones is a really cool movie trilogy, and to be honest it's one of my favourites. I don't think you can look at it, though, and claim that it was classic and beautiful. I might go as far as saying that about two of the movies, but it severely trailed off in the middle. Maybe Lucas just got lucky with the original Star Wars movies.