Jailbait. Very dangerous. You go first. - by Morte
Morte on 11/3/2009 at 20:23
This will probably only appeal to the complete movie nerds and Indiana Jones fans that didn't renounce everything about the series after the last half of KOTCS CHTULHU FAGN or whatever it was called*, but for whatever reason a 125-page (
http://www.sendspace.com/file/cnoe3r) transcript of the initial story conference for Raiders between George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan just got put online. I just started looking through it, but there's a fairly interesting analysis (
http://mysterymanonfilm.blogspot.com/2009/03/raiders-story-conference.html) here.
Oh, and here's the most immediately eye-popping bit:
Quote:
Then the discussion turned to how old Marion and Indy were at the time of the affair:
G — I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.
L — And he was forty-two.
G — He hasn't seen her in twelve years. Now she's twenty-two. It's a real strange relationship.
S — She had better be older than twenty-two.
G — He's thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve. It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time.
S — And promiscuous. She came onto him.
G — Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it's an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he...
S — She has pictures of him.
*AKA non-idiots, because Raiders of the Lost Ark will always remain glorious.
fett on 11/3/2009 at 20:26
It's not surprising considering GL ass raped my inner child the moment Jar Jar stepped in Bantha shit.
Ulukai on 11/3/2009 at 20:29
Snakes. Why did it have to be trouser snakes...
demagogue on 11/3/2009 at 21:03
That is pretty cool. I have an old script of Raiders on my computer that has parts of
Temple of Doom in it.
Quote Posted by Morte
that didn't renounce everything about the series after the last half of KOTCS CHTULHU FAGN or whatever it was called*
The best thing to come from that movie was the lovely phrase people started using for movies/series that have really outdone themselves (in a bad way), the equivalent of "jumping the shark" for TV: Nuking the fridge ...
I can't remember if I read about that here or somewhere else, but that phrase always makes me smile.
jtr7 on 11/3/2009 at 21:05
Bad dates.
Renault on 11/3/2009 at 22:16
Mola RAM
Martin Karne on 11/3/2009 at 22:44
Do you always nitpick Hollywood's fictional stories (yes even history or science becomes fantasy over there)?
SD on 12/3/2009 at 01:56
Directed by Roman Polanski
Queue on 19/3/2009 at 13:43
I don't know why people have recently turned against the brilliance that is George Lucas. I mean, he did help give us Howard the Duck. Pure genius.
That reminds me, another fine example of a comicbook turned into a film. Keep up the good work, everyone.