As expected, that one-sheet for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that you’ve been seeing around is just the “teaser.” Here’s the regular release design, which the official Indiana Jones web site is calling the “payoff” poster:
I’ve never heard that term before, but it seems to fit. In more ways than one. I really like this design. It’s in keeping with the standard pattern for Indiana Jones movies: the first poster depicted just Indy alone, and now this design is a collage featuring all the primary characters with a bit of action at the bottom. It is, in fact, very similar to the regular release design for Last Crusade, which is as it should be. It makes this fourth movie feel like it really is part of the series instead of just an afterthought. (Of course, we’ll see what the actual movie is like, but I think at this point my skepticism has degraded to about the same consistency as cheesecloth. I’m ready Uncle George, take me now!)
Still a couple of months to go, of course, before opening day. In the meantime, I think I’ll get out the old credit card and acquire another item for the Archives…
So, this is mostly unrelated but it does deal with Harrision Ford: I decided to watch the original Star Wars trilogy after many years and found out where you got your blog name. I felt cool.
Wow, I always assumed everyone would catch that reference right away… that’s what I get for being such a geek as to have those movies memorized! 🙂
I guess I’m not that big of a Star Wars geek. What is Karen talking about?
It’s a line of Han Solo’s from the first film, during the scene where he pooh-poohs the Force as Luke practices with his lightsaber. Han says, “There’s no mystical energy field [that] controls my actions. It’s all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.”
I thought that little catchphrase had some resonance when I first started blogging since (a) I’m a Star Wars fan (obviously), and (b) I had no idea what I was doing, so “simple and tricks and nonsense” was about all I could expect to accomplish.
Wooshed me too, but then one of my favorite sayings is “Oahhh, it’s verrry niice” (said in an outrageous French accent) which often goes right over the heads of many Monty Python fans.