jobloffski
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Purely instinctive reaction: Get the title right and all else follows.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull just sounded clunky, too many syllables, an 'and the' and an ' of the'
in the same title, just feels wrong. Just like Raiders of the Lost Ark now feels wrong with its now official title of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark). The and the/of the adds clunkification. I had to make up a clunky sounding word to express the point.
Indiana Jones and the Bermuda Triangle, if that is being seriously mooted as a title, simply not 'Indy' enough
Whereas...
Indiana Jones and the Triangle of Fear
would manage to sound like an episode of the old serials Lucas is supposed to be homaging, it allows the Bermuda Triangle to be referenced but not too obviously AND hints at the tone of the film, also, it subliminally suggests a plot via which three parties form the three points of a 'triangle of fear' to build the plot towards a crescendo at the end...
and the largely seaborne setting (with I assume some island hopping) even allows contextual self reference like 'we're not crashing, we're sinking' (see what I did there, etc).
And, since there is a mystery concerning disappearances relating to the setting, there's scope to speculate on where things disappear to, and more importantly to the tone of an indy film, what threats may enter our realm to try and kill Indy...From other times/dimensions, ie anything from any time, any place...any armed foe, from any era...trying to get into our time/world...
A mysterious build up culminating in the usual conclusion: there are some things we are not meant to mess with...with the attendant deaths of all the seekers of power and the survival of the hero who realises just in time...there is a door to knowledge/power here...but its not one we're meant to open.
The basic schematic for the indies, including 'Skull IS that basic, but the thing the previous film got wrong was in not making its set pieces both totally stand alone and increasingly perilous in increments. The waterfall stuff was a gag too far, pretty much beyond all credibility, even for an IJ film and even if people didn't like the whole 'escape the nuke by hiding in a fridge' thing, had that been the ending and built up to, it would have been preferable to having such a spooky out there preamble to the boom at the opening that the rest of the film never stood a chance of achieving that 'ghost town' level of ''what's happening, this is a bit scary' again.
The abject lesson is you END your film with your biggest bang, you don't START it that way.
Anyway, blah, blah blah, whatever...Indiana Jones and the Triangle of Fear...
< Message edited by jobloffski -- 9/6/2010 10:08:07 PM >
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