aka LATEBLOOMER AND THE BOTCHED SHITTY HA-HA
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 11:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Today on the 31 DAYS OF SPIELBERG blog, the class of the bunch:
http://damianarlyn.blogspot.com/2007/08/day-13-indiana-jones-and-temple-of-doom.html
As for why Lucas was pushing for a much darker, stronger tone to this movie (with strong, graphic violence and a narrative involving black magic, torture and slavery), he was going through a divorce at the time and has said that he just simply “wasn’t in a very good mood.”
http://bp0.blogger.com/_wkpXQh0cBS0/RsElFBm1a-I/AAAAAAAACTg/7sqz-si-hxI/s1600-h/003.jpg
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
God, Karen Allen looks good for 55.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
agreed, fabulous
― Ste, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
It's official, as everyone suffering through the VMAs saw:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
So now we know why Damien Hirst made this:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/images/2007/06/01/hirstskullgetty.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.vintages.com/media_common/spotlights_images/sp2/champagne-cristal.jpg
― milo z, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Hooray!
Here's Wikipedia on the actual crystal skull phenomenon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull
So go nuts.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't forget the last Mastodon record. Here's the relevant excerpt from the decibel interview:
"My original idea was that getting to the top of Blood Mountain and obtaining the crystal skull, you would put the crystal skull inside your own head and eliminate the reptile brain, the primitive brain that turns you into a wild beast or brings out that evil in you. Like, for example, when you’ve drank a lot of alcohol,” he laughs."
― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay, now you have me imagining Mastodon doing the Indy theme in my head. And this is not a bad thing.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Finally, two of my loves intersect!
― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
DUN-DAH-DUN-DUN DUN-DUN-DAAAAAAAH
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link
(I actually have a bad ass Indiana Jones and the Temple of doom poster framed on my wall. My least favorite of the films, but the poster is cool. I am going to see if I can dig it up. Be back in a sec.)
― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/153/501840~Indiana-Jones-and-The-Temple-of-Doom-Posters.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:17 (sixteen years ago) link
WAHT
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I take it you mean the title and not Jeff's poster (which is indeed great, I still remember seeing that one at movie theaters and getting impatient for it).
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
exactly. there is no question that the sword represents his cock
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Dun-dah-dun-dun
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Machete, technically. It's a machete that represents his cock.
― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link
whatever it is it makes the vadge look like that limply hanging whip when he's done
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, so the whip represents his good-natured affability I suppose?
― Oilyrags, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
no. see previous post.
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Indiana Jones and the Secrets of Dr. Freud
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.indianajones.com/site/index.html
aaaaaand the new title is released
― kingfish, Monday, 10 September 2007 06:33 (sixteen years ago) link
duh, i are late. oh well
― kingfish, Monday, 10 September 2007 06:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Indiana Jones and the Tomb Studio Robbers
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 03:48 (sixteen years ago) link
John Hurt, the new ungrateful Alec Guinness:
"I enjoyed working with Steven hugely, and we had a great cast. I just wish we'd had something of fabulous interest between each other to act!"
"George is a bit socially crippled, really. Not good with people. So I just left him alone."
http://www.premiere.com/features/4335/q-a-exclusive-john-hurt-on-indiana-jones-and-the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull.html
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
We looked into it and there were various things about it — like the time I had to be on set — where I thought, "No, this isn't going to work out." But then I was advised by everybody that it'd be a good thing to do.
― gabbneb, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I said, "Well, I need to have a little bit of previous knowledge even if God is doing it." So they sent a courier over with the script from Los Angeles, gave it to me at three o'clock in the afternoon in London, collected it again at eight o'clock in the evening, and he returned the next day to Los Angeles. So that was an expensive read.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Great short interview in any event. Hurt should write an autobiography if he hasn't already!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://io9.com/345132/first-look-at-indiana-jones-in-the-cobwebby-alien-dungeon
― kingfish, Friday, 18 January 2008 06:19 (sixteen years ago) link
"If I burn this giant sage smudge-stick, it should dispel all the evil spirits."
― Oilyrags, Friday, 18 January 2008 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
is that the ghost of Ray Winston appearing in the second pic?
― Ste, Friday, 18 January 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Indy doesn't look very rough and ready in this shot, his trousers are far too clean for a start.
― Ste, Friday, 18 January 2008 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
intrsting!
http://mysterymanonfilm.blogspot.com/2009/03/raiders-story-conference.html
― i'm grand like auto theft 3 (Jordan), Thursday, 19 March 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf lucas.
George Lucas — 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.
Lawrence Kasdan — 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.
Steven Spielberg — 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.
― i'm grand like auto theft 3 (Jordan), Thursday, 19 March 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
okay George Lucas is a big NO
― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Thursday, 19 March 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
You know, I just watched "Temple of Doom" again for the first time in ages, and I was wondering: if the Thugees can hypnotize people with their magic blood and have voodoo dolls that work, and if the sacred stones glow during their sacrifice ceremonies ... then doesn't that legitimize their evil supernatural magic power, and sort of imply it's the villagers who are misusing this magic, intrinsically evil power?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
The metaphysics of the Indiana Jones movies is very perplexing
― Large Sack (Empty) (latebloomer), Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2012/10/indiana-jones-the-complete-adventures.html
If there is a better piece of writing on these films, I haven't read it.
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't know until yesterday that Temple of Doom was a prequel.
The part of my personality that's still eleven years old thinks that's big news and wants to talk to people about this.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
also the part of me that thinks the coolest part about Blade Runner is the "is he an android?" discussion and the part of me that desperately wants to know if Bond is one man or five different guys who go by the same code name James Bond.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
Dun dah dun dun
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah wow that last article is intense. I never realized what a horrible person Indiana Jones is.
Of course, he's a cartoon though!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 January 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
Does anyone else feel any poignancy in the Belloq/Marion relationship, culminating in his upset at her being tossed into the snake pit with Indy, or have I just watched Raiders so many times at this point that now I'm only looking for new things?
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Saturday, 3 August 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
saw Temple Of Doom around midnight on an *actual cinema* at a festival last week at very loud volume with a whooping, cheering crowd. it's scarier than i recall! the bit where they force him to drink from a skull in the Temple and all that stuff.. real intense. i'm surprised there wasn't much more of a fuss made back in the day about the horror aspect of a kids film, being as it was a PG over here. maybe there was a fuss made and i forget?
― piscesx, Saturday, 3 August 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
Well, it (and Gremlins) started the PG-13 rating.
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Saturday, 3 August 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, there was total fuss.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 August 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
Welp.
http://variety.com/2013/film/news/disney-acquires-indiana-jones-rights-from-paramount-1200927216/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 December 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link