Post by ravi02 on Feb 7, 2019 3:45:26 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!
Sounds like someone forgets the character of Willie Scott in Temple of Doom, or the entire elephant trek in the jungle and the monkey brains feast.
There is humor in Crusade, but not to the point that there's no seriousness. You forget the brief discussion about Indy's mom, the conversation aboard the zeppelin between Indy and Henry, when Indy threatens to strangle Elsa for betraying them, the subtle bit of respect Indy gets for Henry when he says "I suddenly remembered my Charlamagne" or the entire finale where Henry gets shot and Indy has to save his life.