The next Indiana Jones actor?

[AE35Unit]

I would like to see Johnny Depp......
He can do the funny, hard, good looking guy like Harrison Ford.
Maybe he can take Indiana Jones to a new level.
I would hate to see some guy to try to be the caricature of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.

Hmmm I don't think he would be right. Not rugged and 'american' enough.

 

[Urlik]

the Indy franchise could progress with another actor very easily.

just make a few prequels with a new actor in his mid 20's and then the character ages as he does.

by the time he is 40 there will be a couple of generations who won't even know Harrison as Indy and, if they make enough films, they can change the lead actor just like they have in the Bond or Batman films.

 

[nikhta]

Hmmm I don't think he would be right. Not rugged and 'american' enough.

no his not rugged thats why i think he can go indiana to a next level.......
I don't like to see someone be like Harrison Ford...
Harrison was and will always be the best Indy ever.
If someone try to copy him will fail
Thats why i think Johnny Depp is the right one..... because he is different

 

[AE35Unit]

no his not rugged thats why i think he can go indiana to a next level.......
I don't like to see someone be like Harrison Ford...
Harrison was and will always be the best Indy ever.
If someone try to copy him will fail
Thats why i think Johnny Depp is the right one..... because he is different

Well no I disagree. Ford was Indy,in that film he became the character,how he acted in that film is how he thought Indy would be. So for someone else to take over they too have to be Indy. If they make him too different it will fail. Its like James Bond. You have to find someone who can be the character. Take away his tough exterior,make him less debonair and less of a womanizer and you no longer have Bond!
Take away the ruggedness and you take away a big part of Indy!

 

[nikhta]

Well no I disagree. Ford was Indy,in that film he became the character,how he acted in that film is how he thought Indy would be. So for someone else to take over they too have to be Indy. If they make him too different it will fail. Its like James Bond. You have to find someone who can be the character. Take away his tough exterior,make him less debonair and less of a womanizer and you no longer have Bond!
Take away the ruggedness and you take away a big part of Indy!

Do you think if Tom Selleck was Indiana Jones would act the same??????

Indiana Jones is NOT only that........
He has humor, brain, irony, passion for women and archaeology, and he is crazy..............
He is also a teacher part time.
Indiana Jones is not Rambo.
Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones are the same.
Thats why i think Depp is the best.

 

[AE35Unit]

Well of course Indy is all those things,but I fear you missed my point. And just because you be a great Jack Sparrow doesn't mean you can be a great Indy. They're totally different characters.

 

[nikhta]

I really really trying to understand you but you think that this guys (Hugh Jackman, Tom Jane, Jason Connery) can be better Indy than Depp?
Hugh Jackman maybe but the other two are awefull......
I saw Tom Jane on "The Punisher" and he was like gay!!! I don't have a problem with gay but he can't play Indy!!!
I'm not saying that Sparrow is Indy, I'm saying that both of them have some similarities, thats all and that Johnny Depp is a very very good actor. He can change from movie to movie. I hope you agree to that

 

[ktabic]

Can't we just say 'Noooo! No more Indy!'?
It's hard enough ignoring that last film (Aliens? wtf? Seriously, WTF?!?).

 

[nikhta]

Can't we just say 'Noooo! No more Indy!'?
It's hard enough ignoring that last film (Aliens? wtf? Seriously, WTF?!?).

I think the last movie was great.
Besides Indiana Jones always was involve with the supernatural.
The Raiders of the lost arc - spirits come out from the arc and kill everyone.
The Temple of doom - Hearts were ripped off while the man was still alive and that didn't kill him.
The last crusade - Internal life for those who will drink from the cup of christ.
So why not aliens?

 

[AE35Unit]

The Punisher wussy,are you serious? I think Tom Jane is great for that part,and why I pick him for Indy

 

[Jev]

I think the last movie was great.
Besides Indiana Jones always was involve with the supernatural.
The Raiders of the lost arc - spirits come out from the arc and kill everyone.
The Temple of doom - Hearts were ripped off while the man was still alive and that didn't kill him.
The last crusade - Internal life for those who will drink from the cup of christ.
So why not aliens?

To me, though, I think the difference is that the first three movies dealt with established beliefs and/or mythology--Raiders with the Ark of the Covenant; Temple of Doom with the Thuggees/Kali cults under the Raj, and Last Crusade with Arthurian mythology. Aliens are not an established mythos like the above, hence why I think for many people (myself included) that fell flat in comparison. It was a weak basis, and the end (main villain gets killed by aliens due to her own hubris) tried to evoke the hubris of the Nazis opening the Ark/Walter Donovan and Elsa drinking from the phony Chalice, but it was not grounded enough to make that choice matter.

(There was also too much cutesy stuff in the film. Indiana Jones may never have been the darkest of films, but it was never cutesy before (ie the funny monkey in Raiders turns traitor and gets killed by poisoned dates), and those cutesy parts in Crystal Skull were pretty unwatchable.

Indy needs someone physical to inherit the role (although not quite as much of a jock as Vin Diesel or The Rock). Depp isn't physical enough. Jackman would be better on that basis, anyway, although neither of them look anything like Harrison Ford.

 

[nikhta]

AE35Unit not the film, the actor. Anyway didn't like him in that movie. He didn't convince me!!
Jev there was a lot mythology in the last indiana jones. I loved the scene that Indy said "they (the aliens) were archaeologist".
But you're right, they were looking for an alien skull. But in mythology you can find many stories that lead you to aliens without saying the word thou. The Titans and the Gods and what about all this temples they build with no technology at all. I heard many historians say that maybe there were aliens on earth but no one can say that with facts.
No one will ever know if that really happen or not.
I heard for the pyramids and the heavy huge rocks that they used to build them.
Aliens are not in mythology or in history but the forces that were in the three other Indiana movies weren't either....
And the last movie was about beliefs to. "Mutt : Gods are not like that.
Indy : It depends who your god is."
The aliens were the gods.
Anyway i'm not saying that you are wrong but i'm from greece and i heard many many stories about the 12 gods. I think the ancient greeks believed the planets not the aliens. But you can't never say what they have seen

(sorry for my english)

 

[Jev]

But you're right, they were looking for an alien skull. But in mythology you can find many stories that lead you to aliens without saying the word thou. The Titans and the Gods and what about all this temples they build with no technology at all. I heard many historians say that maybe there were aliens on earth but no one can say that with facts.
No one will ever know if that really happen or not.
I heard for the pyramids and the heavy huge rocks that they used to build them.

The problem is simply that there are too many of these stories throughout the world. It's like using a Great Flood (which practically every culture has a myth of) or a Cinderella story (again, practically every culture has that story in it even if the names/various details are different) as a basis. It's too generic.

Aliens are not in mythology or in history but the forces that were in the three other Indiana movies weren't either....

I think we're crossing wires. The thing is to me that the three first movies had beliefs that were easily attributable to a given religion/culture/what have you. Assuming for the sake of argument that alien intervention has not happened, it is a far-reaching myth that ranges from the Yucatan to Egypt, from Australia to Siberia, and back again. It wasn't something that was uniquely/indivisibly tied to the history of where they were, hence why it felt less grounded/resonant than the forces in the first two movies.

And the last movie was about beliefs to. "Mutt : Gods are not like that.
Indy : It depends who your god is."
The aliens were the gods.

Again, to me that's too general. It's not specific enough. It came off in the movie as hand-waving mumbo jumbo. The threat didn't feel "real" enough, in the world of the movie, hence why the end felt like a deus ex machina (aliens kill baddie) as opposed to something where the baddie truly earned her just desserts.

Anyway i'm not saying that you are wrong but i'm from greece and i heard many many stories about the 12 gods. I think the ancient greeks believed the planets not the aliens. But you can't never say what they have seen

(sorry for my english)

No worries about the English; I teach college for a living and have to deal with far, far worse from people who supposedly speak it as a first language. It may be true that a Greek may see the film differently than an American, and your perspective may be/probably is closer to what the movie was aiming for than my own is. But judging it from my own perspective, the story's mysticism felt cheap and flimsy compared to the first three. If they had tied it more directly to South America, or anywhere else in the world, it would have felt like a closer fit.

 

[AE35Unit]

AE35Unit not the film, the actor. Anyway didn't like him in that movie. He didn't convince me!!

Yes but you said that Tom Jane looked gay,yet the part he played was a tough guy,and played well,like the actor was up to the job. The actor certainly didn't act gay to me!

 

[nikhta]

Probably you're right about the difference Greek and American (been closer to the movie) but i think that the film was more about Marion and Indy than archaeology......
I'm sure they could found more historical things to put in the movie (existing things) than a "crystal skull" witch nobody ever heard or read about.
You' re right now that i think of it.
But i still believe that Johnny Depp is the best next Indiana Jones

 

[Rinman]

Random thought came across my mind...Arnold Schwarzenegger a possibility...riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...

 

[nikhta]

Yes but you said that Tom Jane looked gay,yet the part he played was a tough guy,and played well,like the actor was up to the job. The actor certainly didn't act gay to me!

He had that look on his face every time and his voice that somehow it was not the tough guy thing.....
I mean it was like pretending to be a tough guy.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Why not give it to Sean Flanery? HE did a great job in The Chronicles , and would fit into a perfect timeline if the adventures were set prior to the 4 already shown. Also has a black belt in karate , so no problems from a 'garder than he looks' angle.

As long as they don't give it Nick Cage...

 

[Jev]

Oh god, no! Not the bees!

I mean, snakes!

 

[Rodders]

Indy's best left alone for the time being.