I think it could have been good if they'd underlined the subtext that Nazis never went away... I think the time rift in the 3rd act should have taken him to a version of America in the future that's led by a neo Nazi president with followers marching with tiki torches, and he has to do something with his band of 1960s counter culture misfits to help fix the future... like all this time he thought he was studying the past and fighting nazis in the past, but he finds out the past isn't dead, it's not even past.
Indy is a symbol for a lost America that used to know that punching Nazis was bad. Rather than some unseen vision of Mads Mickleson's nazi character as the threat, the threat should have been built into the subtext of where America might be going today.
Without subtext, the movie is just an old guy chasing another artifact, which is hollow. Think about The Last Crusade and what made it powerful- It wasn't about the grail, it was about getting your dad to respect you.
Why the film felt the need to pull it's (nazi) punches, I'll never know.
Indy is a symbol for a lost America that used to know that punching Nazis was bad. Rather than some unseen vision of Mads Mickleson's nazi character as the threat, the threat should have been built into the subtext of where America might be going today.
Without subtext, the movie is just an old guy chasing another artifact, which is hollow. Think about The Last Crusade and what made it powerful- It wasn't about the grail, it was about getting your dad to respect you.
Why the film felt the need to pull it's (nazi) punches, I'll never know.
Tell Your Friends