Indiana Jones was at the TOP of his game in.....?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Thursday, April 21, 2005 02:43
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I think Raiders might be a better movie than Crusade (as far as plot), but I like Crusade more, for several reasons:
1) Sean Connery
2) River Phoenix
3) The background information that said actors provide us with (I always like those kind of stories about established characters - my favorite moments in Whedon shows are mostly the flashbacks that help us understand why a character turned out this way)
4) JJ Hardy. Who's that, you say? Young Indy's friend, the fat kid who went and got the sheriff. My one connection to Hollywood is that I know JJ, and it just cracks me up every time I see his scenes. Ooh, I have some trivia to contribute: in the opening scene, when camera pans out and the boy scouts dismount their horses, and the fat kid falls off his horse - that was an accident. Spielberg saw the humor and tried to recreate it with a close-up (and a pad on the ground) but couldn't get it to work-out (he was apparently very protective of the child actors and didn't want anyone to get hurt). I like the subtlety of the original shot better, anyway.
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Cybersnark, I agree, Raiders' music WAS Williams' best score, EVER! Even better than Superman.
All Musical and such Chrisisall
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Originally posted by Zoot:
But possibly my favourite scene in all three is when Short Round and Indy are playing cards in the jungle and every time she turns round, Willie is scared by a different animal - I still laugh when I see that and the other thing I tend to hate is slapstick!
Plus Harrison is at his most beautiful in Raiders (with the exception of the point of carbon freezing)...
Yeah, that " I'm very little; you cheat very big!" line has me in tears(of laughter) every time.
But check out Indy's shoulders and pecks in ToD- wow!
Doesn't mean I'm gay Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Yeah, that " I'm very little; you cheat very big!" line has me in tears(of laughter) every time.
But check out Indy's shoulders and pecks in ToD- wow!
Doesn't mean I'm gay Chrisisall
Yeah - ain't no man, woman or transgendered mtuant alive could say no to Indy on a good day, I'm thinkin'....
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
But check out Indy's shoulders and pecks in ToD- wow!
If I'm not mistaken, that's Body by Jake (Steinfeld).
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I liked Riaders. You gotta love a movie when they have nazis melt like a snow cone in Phoenix.
Those 
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But Crusade was good too. I like the funny relationship between father and son. It was funny. 
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My favorite of all three of them was definitly LAST CRUSADE. RAIDERS I had the good fortune of seeing on the big screen so that was cool. But when they came out on DVD, the only one I rented was CRUSADE because it was my favorite of the three for many reasons.
1. I think that with part threes of a franchise, it's usually the film that clicks the most. The first film sets everything up, part two is them ironing the kinks out and #3 is them knowing what works. BTTF3, LAST CRUSADE, DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE, RETURN OF THE KING are all good examples of part threes that perfectly capture the spirit of the series. And one can see that in LAST CRUSADE. They have the religious artifact, the Nazi's, the deft, cheeky humor, the welcome return of Marcus Brodie and Sallah and the heart racing action and eye covering horror amped up (the whole bit in the desert between Indy and the tank was perfect and I still cover my eyes with the deconstruction of Donovan.) But the big thing that ties it together is the actual crusade. The whole Xtian mythological journey of finding the Grail. Of finding that one thing that makes you spiritually complete, whether it be respect from your father or as Henry Sr. puts it "illumination". That really elevates the flick above RAIDERS and TAMPLE OF DOOM, although the scene in DOOM where they're racing in the mining cars along the track at unfathomable speeds. They way they did it puts every CG chase to shame. You feel as if you're actually there.
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Raiders was a classic. That movie will go down in history with the likes of Casablanca. It's about as close as it is possible to get to a perfectly flawless film. The other two were certainly worth watching. I actually liked the Temple of Doom, and Crusades is loads of fun. But neither of the other two had the same style as Raiders.
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Originally posted by YT:
Temple o' Doom was a rush job. It was originally developed to be set, & filmed, in China. Then tanks rolled in Tiannanmen Square, & crushed that idea.
Umm, I think the timeline is kind of out of synch here; Temple of Doom premiered in 1984; the Tiananmen Square protests occured in 1989. That's one hell of a long filming schedule.
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