Post by Prime etc. on Feb 7, 2019 2:53:32 GMT
But we barely saw him in Raiders. He's only there at the book ending segments of the film and hardly a pivotal character. I feel like this overreacting.
Plus, I find his comical bits funny and it fits with the more light-hearted father-son bonding adventure Spielberg was going for.
Yeah but the topic is characters who changed. If anyone watched Raiders, I think they would say Brody is a straight-laced kind of guy-even more serious than IJ who has comedy moments. Often British actors were used in 70s films as a way of making the subject taken seriously (Robert Shaw in Jaws, Cushing and Guinness in Star Wars, Stamp in Superman, Pleasence in Halloween). Elliot serves that function in Raiders--making the Ark stuff more serious.
But in Last Crusade, there is no such character. Just about every character is used for comedy at some point....even Hitler!