Sucker for a guy in a fedora, what can I say

[annathepiper]

So my Raiders of the Lost Ark fangirling is still going strong, folks. A few spins through the Raiders soundtrack, and all I can think is "God-DAMN, I love this music! I love this movie!" *sighs happily* I love each and every note in this soundtrack, from the opening bars of "The Raiders March" to that high, sweet violin note held out in the End Credits track, as the orchestra segues from Marion's theme back into the main theme. This is the music that made me want to join the London Symphony Orchestra as a kid, and made me giddy every single time my middle school band teacher told us to get out our parts for the Raiders March.

This past weekend, spazzkat even helped matters along some by deciding he was in the mood to watch Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Which is certainly the least of the Indy movies, but which does at least have the fabulous Short Round as well as Indy's best pickup line ever: "Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." Which really, really needs to be an icon, and I may have to get on that. Still, after all the spins I've taken through Temple of Doom, I still want to strangle Willie every single time she shrieks. And when she coos to Indy that "you'll never have better". *snork* I keep wanting to pipe up "Oh yeah he will! Next year, when he crosses paths with that two-fisted, hard-drinking, smart-mouthed brunette!" ;) Yes, fangirls of my Friends list, I am a total Indy + Marion OTPer. 'Cause, well, how could you not be?

All of which brings me around to mentioning that I keep hearing rumors about Indy IV. This both thrills me and scares me. Thrills me, because there's still a corner of my fangirly brain that would slurp up a new Indy movie with great glee. Scares me, because the rational part of my fangirly brain does point out that Mr. Ford is sixty-four years old now, and really too old to be chasing after archaeological relics across the big screen. Plus, I can't exactly say I trust Lucas to cough up a good script anymore.

If Indy IV actually does make it to the theaters, I strongly suspect I will be holding my DVD copy of Raiders over one ear and my laserdisc copy over the other, going "LA LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T SEE YOU" until I see some reviews that assure me they won't fuck it up. Please oh please, Harry, don't fuck it up.

So tell me, people, what are your favorite moments in the Indy movies? Any one. Open call! :)

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[kieri.livejournal.com]

I've heard a rumor that Indy IV might, just _might_, involve Indy...and his son.

(Teehee)

Marion+Indy=OTP! I tototally agree! I was even watching Magnum PI the other day and there was this brunette husky-voiced chick looking for sunken treasure with him and I was like, "Dude, that's totally Marion from Raiders." Different actress, same character. Albeit possibly with less drinking. :)

[annathepiper]

I'd been thinking for a while that if you really must insist on doing an Indy movie with Indy in his sixties, you'd need a younger guy as well to handle keeping the younger audience swooning while all of us who grew up on the original Indy movies are still cheering on Harry. ;) I was halfway fantasizing about a grown-up Short Round played by Jason Scott Lee (yum), but y'know, a heretofore unknown son of Jones would work, too. 'Specially if Marion was the mother. Whee! Y'know what'd be funny? If they got Sean Patrick Flanery to play the son.

Karen Allen will always, always be Marion to me. Well, at least when she's not being redheaded and singing and Shenner in my MUSHing brain. :D

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

I could see the Indy & Son thing working, although I was thinking along the lines of Indy being the teacher/master/ol' wise guy dude.

[annathepiper]

Oh, Indy would totally be in a teacher/master type role regardless. We already know the man teaches!

Heh--this is what I get for also being a raving fan of the Amelia Peabody books, in which the Emersons are active archaeologists clear up into their sixties. I can easily see Indy commanding a dig at that age, and roaring right and left at all the young grad students he's hauled out into the desert. ;)

[annathepiper]

Oh yeah, and the way Indy rolls his eyes with this exhausted, exasperated "oh for fuck's sake" look is beautiful. :D

[(Anonymous)]

They'll fuck it up.

I never liked Short Round, either, so between him, Willie, the unremarkable nature of the Temple of Doom quest, and the lack of Nazis, there just wasn't much for me in that film. Despite that, I still like it because it's an Indy film.

"Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?"

[annathepiper]

Heh! Yeah well, if Indy IV does actually screw things up, I'll just strenuously pretend it doesn't exist. ;)

And the snakes line! *beam* Another fine example of Harry conveying volumes with one "oh God" look.

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

oh, that was me.

[annathepiper]

I was wondering! :)

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

So tell me, people, what are your favorite moments in the Indy movies? Any one. Open call! :)

"We named the dog Indiana."
"You... were named after the dog?!"
(It's funny 'cause it's TRUE.)

Any time Marcus blunders into something. Gotta love Marcus.

Dennis Muren's cameo, since I am a hopeless geek.

"Snakes... why'd it have to be SNAKES?" (Also: the snake on the plane, for obvious reasons.)

Sword, 0: gun, 1.

The infamous bouncing boulder.

"Great... more boats."

Indy falling asleep on Marion just when things were getting good. Poor girl. ;) Bonus points also go to her whacking him on the chin with the mirror.

It's not that I like the scene, exactly, but I will never forget Kate Capshaw's expression over the monkey brains.

Club Obi-Wan, dude.

Melting Nazis. I mean... melting Nazis. Hello.

Sometimes... just sometimes... X does indeed mark the spot.

Elsa, the known traitor, crying over the burning books.

The whole bit with Indy, his dad, and trying to get out of those ropes. "The floor's on fire. ...and the chair."

DON'T CALL ME JUNIOR.

Henry Jones, Sr. and his umbrella.

Marion trying to keep up with Indy on the steps after that ill-fated meeting at the end of Raiders -- and the fact that that whole scene was Marcia's idea, since the boys (ahem) had sort of forgotten to write Marion into the end of the movie. Sometimes I wonder if George's divorce was when he lost a lot of his storytelling sense....

EVIL NAZI MONKEY! (and: "...bad dates.")

That shot of Marion with the necklace in her bar, just before things go up in smoke (kinda literally).

Indy/Marion may have my heart forever, but I also have to give a nod to Indy/Vicky, for his younger-years OTP. (...yes, that was the TV show (http://www.indianajones.com/young/chapter/chapter07/); I'm cheating. And yes, when it aired, I had adolescent crush issues. ;)

The mine-car chase scene in Temple of Doom (my only real excuse for liking that particular movie, I confess :) .

"It belongs in a museum!"

The fact that somewhere in the hieroglyphics in the map room in Raiders, R2-D2 and C-3PO are on the wall.

Marion and the frying pan.

River Phoenix. Again with the adolescent crush issues. ;)

And three words: GIANT. ROLLING. ROCK.




I could go on for a while, but you get the idea. ;)

[annathepiper]

*giggle* Okay, now, I gotta debate with you about Marcus--'cause one of the many reasons that Raiders stands tall for me as the jewel of the Indy trilogy is that Marcus is not in fact an idiot in that film. :) (Now that said, I did like Indy's snarking in Last Crusade--"he got lost in his own museum!")

*BEAM* I love the entire Indy/Marion scene on the boat. "Well goddammit, Indy, where doesn't it hurt?" "HERE!"

And yeah, the fire scene in Last Crusade is gold. :D To that I must also add the look on Henry Sr.'s face when Indy comes groping over the clifftop, his squeezing the life out of his boy, and then Indy falling over *flump* on the sand. "What're you doing sitting there resting when we're so near the end?"

EVIL NAZI MONKEY! EVIL NAZI MONKEY! Clearly a soul-brother to the Undead Pirate Monkey of the current era! ;D And the catalyst for some of the best Indy/Marion banter as well! "He loved you like a son. It took a hell of a lot for you to alienate him." "Not much, just YOU."

And oh my yes, the squee of River Phoenix. How well he channelled Mr. Ford was downright spooky!

Some more faves of mine:

Okay, fine, Temple of Doom gets points for Indy being completely shirtless. ;)

The entire truck chase sequence at the climax of Raiders, but in particular, the look on Indy's face as he looks into both side mirrors and sees the soldiers coming along the truck, and that little "unh!" oh-shit noise he lets out.

Indy! On! A! Horse! In both Raiders AND Last Crusade. :D

Oh my dear gods suntanned windblown Indy on Sallah's verandah... *swoon*

The crooked little grin on Marion's face as she pulls back out of her haze during the drinking contest, and proceeds to drink the humongous guy across from her under the table.

And I'll meet and match your Indy fangirlishness over the TV show by my having all the Indy novels!

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

agreed on the additional bits listed here... :)

and heh, I used to have the novels. I think they got cycled off to some used bookstore or other eventually, but I have indeed read them all!

But here's the question....

Do you have the hat?

I bought mine outside the ride at Disneyland when I still had my 35% discount. Great deal, nice fedora, and yes, it's got a subtle Indiana Jones-logo pin in the band. :)

[annathepiper]

I do not have the hat, but not for lack of temptation and opportunity--because I have indeed been on the Jones ride, and I will be going on it again at the end of next month. I'll have to look very long and very hard at the hats while I'm busily deciding on my next Jones T-shirt. ;D

[howlinhobbit.livejournal.com]

Since you're "a sucker for a guy in a fedora", check out my online buddy, Craig Robertson here (http://www.robertsonstudio.com/) and here (http://www.ukulelenoir.com/). His music is more film-noir than Celtic, but I think you might like it anyways.

The best part -- for me anyways, it probably won't thrill you quite as much -- is that on September 16, Craig (from Boston) and me (from Seattle) will be meeting up at the Mississippi Pizza Pub (in Portland, OR) where we will play ukulele (and other things) together.

(BTW... I recently celebrated my birthday and my sweet Fallen Angel gifted me with a trip to Bernie Utz where she bought me an outrageously beautiful Stetson fedora. To give you an idea of what it looks like, if Humphrey Bogart should appear through a magical time-warp he'd think I was wearing his hat.)

HH

[annathepiper]

Hey, I can dig some film noir. See previous commentary re: Bogie films we've watched around here lately! And thanks for the links, I'll check 'em out. :)

Happy belated birthday, and yay new fedora! :) :)

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

If you really want that on a shirt, I know two different companies which make shirts and which should have tables at WorldCon.

Ray Van Tilberg could even airbrush Indy in a classic pose on one for you, with the motto. ;-)

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[annathepiper]

Thanks for the suggestion! But nah, airbrushed shirts aren't really my thing. And when it comes to Indy pics on T-shirts, I'll go for actual Indy pics on T-shirts, which I will be doing when we get to the Jones ride at Disneyland next month. :D

Besides, I didn't want the line on a shirt--I wanted it on an icon. And I can do that myself!

RE: Sucker for a guy in a fedora, what can I say

[ii2none59.livejournal.com]

Favorite moments in Indy movies??

Well, Raiders is my second favorite movie of all time! When it came out in 1981, I saw it twenty-five times in little over a year. It played in Louisville FIRST RUN from June 1981 to June 1982 -- the third movie in Louisville history to play a year first run (the others were Star Wars and Jaws). I knew every line, every sound effect, every single friggin' piece of music so I could hum right along with it....I could even listen to the score and know the very second when Indy lets the staff containing the medallion slip into the hole down in the Map Room!!! The movie affected me so much that I even dreamt I was tied up on that stake with Indy during the Ark opening! And yes, I shut my eyes even though it was a dream. I wasn't taking any chances!!! LOL

Anyway, favorite scenes:
1) The Map Room -- there is just something about that scene that gives me goosebumps, especially when the camera pans down from the medallion and onto Indy's face.
2) The truck chase -- along with The French Connection, that may be one of the best chases involving vehicles in movie history.
3) The Flying Wing scene -- nothing like watching Indy get the crap beaten out of him. But there's so much going on for the big set-up/cliffhanger in that scene. Indy's fighting the German mechanic; Frank Marshall's unconscious in the plane; Marion (GO MARION) trying to get the plane to stop revolving while she shoots Germans at the same time....The fuel getting knocked over and spilling out...then the fire starting from the machine gun fire! OMG!
4) The "love scene." It's not the years...it's the mileage. Well where doesn't it hurt? Marion clocking him with the mirror!
5) The Well of Souls from the moment Indy and Marion are sealed inside to when they finally get out (although to this day I still can't look at that snake coming out of the skull's mouth. Looks like it's puking the snake up. GROSS!)
6) The scene between Indy and Belloch in the tavern. You and I are very much alike. Archaeology is our religion, yet we have both fallen from the True Faith..."
7) Indy versus the Bad Guy in Black. I don't even think I can imagine the fight that was originally planned. Thank you God for dysentary LOL
8) Inside the temple in Peru: avoiding all the traps...the famous scene of Indy switching the bag of sand for the idol...being chased by the boulder! WOOHOO!
9) This is more of a moment, but it's after Indy has surveyed the area & determined where the Well of Souls is. He and his team head up this little slope....Indy pauses for a second as if realizing how close he now is...then starts to dig as the music swells...then we segue to that great silhouetted moment of Indy and the diggers in long shot. Tell ME I don't know this movie! LOL

Anyway, those are my favorites. I can't remember a lot of Last Crusade although I loved it when Indy got Hitler's autograph in the Grail diary LOL Temple of Doom: I've tried hard to push that one out of my mind and I saw it SEVEN times at the movies. My one regret is that they didn't drop Willie faster into that lava pit! (I heard a rumor that SHE was going to be returning for Indy IV if there was one. That's enough to make me gag). When I got my DVD I still started laughing when I saw the dolls in the mine car. (Ever notice the Barbie doll's blonde hair looks more bleached and out of control than real Willie's? LOL)

I'm at a point in my life where I don't need an Indy IV. Maybe 10-15 years ago I might have felt differently, but so much has happened since then, and it's not like Harrison is a spring chicken anymore. I had trouble watching him in Firewall and Hollywood Homicide! Good grief I've gone on long enough. You would get me started on Raiders! Thanks for the memories. If there is an Indy 4, I can't say if I'll be there or not. I think Indy 4 and just see a bad story and way too many CGI effects; a much older Indy and Lucas writing the script. *sigh* Calgon take me away!