Post by ravi02 on Feb 6, 2019 8:32:41 GMT
I don't agree that Marcus changes in Crusade. We only see him at the start and end of Raiders and within his university. It's not too much of a stretch to believe he'd be clumsy outside of his element. He still gets in some badass moments like when he tells Donovan he's meddling with powers he can't comprehend.
Also, actor Denholm Eliot himself said he enjoyed playing Brody's more comical bits.
He didn't act nutty at all in Raiders--and said something about being envious of his adventure, yet IJ didn't have a "yeah right Marcus" attitude.
At any point in LC does he not act like a clown?
In Raiders he was completely normal when talking to the government people.
But again, we only see him in a university setting and without any outside interference.
He's played pretty straight for the first half of Crusade - the opening University and Venice sequence for example. It's only when he's attempting to traverse through the Alexandra train station does he show more of his comical side. He still shows some more of his serious side like the part about Donovan's meddling and when he's comforting a dying Henry Sr. in the climax.
And also again, actor Denholm Eliot himself (as mentioned on the Indiana Jones Trilogy Making-Of Documentary) loved played Marcus's funny moments. If he was OK with it, then what's the issue?