Subject: The Indiana Jones Movie. May 22, 2008.
I just got through seeing the Indiana Jones movie
and it was really great. It's fiction but it does
talk about the lines on the desert in Peru and
many thing that I have talked about in the past on the
Internet.
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Plot: Famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry
"Indiana" Jones is called back into action when he
becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the
s-cret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal
Skulls.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/synopsis
Indiana Jones: Legend says that a crystal skull was
stolen from a mythical lost city in the Amazon,
supposedly built out of solid gold, guarded by the
living dead. Whoever returns the skull to the city
temple will be given control over its power.
Indiana Jones Clear your head of all the
cliché-ridden warnings that sequels are inferior: The
new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,
a faithful addition to the intrepid Professor Henry
Jones, Jr.'s archaeological adventures, sparkles like
its crystal skulls with wit and good-old races/escapes
without serious computer graphics, throwing us back to
the adolescent fun of serials and adventure movies of
the '50's.
The biggest challenge of this adventure for esteemed
director Steven Spielberg is casting the aging Harrison
Ford as the titular hero one more time. (Mac: "This
ain't gonna be easy." Indiana Jones: "Not as easy as it
used to be."). Besides sculpting a hero who still has
romance in his heart and limbs, not the dust
ac***ulating around tenured professors, Spielberg
smartly showcases a younger version in ****a LaBeouf as
Mutt Williams, a 50's motorcycling hair comber with
Jones's superior intelligence also hidden from view.
Writer David Koepp has wisely prepared us for this
young man to take over from Indy by having them work
side-by-side and showing Mutt's inexperience but also
resourcefulness that looks as if he were Jones's son.
Smart as well is bringing back Karen Allen's Marion
Ravenwood for romance and some eye-popping news for
Indy. Ray Winstone's "Mac" is a Brit triple-dealing
spy-adventurer who supplies intrigue and surprise with
a few ironic asides. And everyone else is right, not to
forget Cate Blanchette's Cold-W-r Russian troublemaker
Irena Spalko, outfitted in a black pageboy hair and
pants suit to make Stalin proud.
Spielberg is a pre-eminent director because he always
weaves substantial themes under the excitement. The
crystal skulls, MacGuffins to make Hitch delighted,
represent some intellectually superior ra-e, be it from
outer space or another dimension, for which knowledge
is the leading commodity. Jones, berating Mutt for not
fini****ng school, is a nagger about education. It is
highly probable that Mutt will go on in his education,
perhaps at Jones's own Marshall College. Throughout the
film Jones is the prime intellectual mover, just as it
was for Homer's Odysseus, that author of the Trojan
horse and not much of a stay-at-home guy either.
With the superiority of Indiana Jones and Iron Man
already, who gives a d-mn about H-llboy and Hulk? So
get your skull in summer gear, rev your romantic
engines, and race to Indiana Jones and his crystal
skulduggery.
"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It
is the sandbox of men who care not where they are
going; they merely want to know where everyone else has
been." Jim Bishop, "Sifting the Seas for Time's
Treasures."
(JW I recommend that everyone see the movie or see it
later on TV.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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