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Post #342919

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HeKS
Parent topic
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Edit Suggestions
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Date created
23-Jan-2009, 1:11 AM

DINER SCENE

- This seems fine up until Indy's line, "Nice try kid, but I think you just brought a knife .... .... .... to a gunfight". He pauses far too long to allow the Russians to show the guns that he already can tell they have. Fortunately this is a pretty easy fix. After Indy says "knife" the camera switches to the Russians as they slowly pull out their guns, followed by the rest of "to a gunfight" said off screen. We just need to grab "to a gunfight" and move it to immediately after the camera change. That way there's only the tiniest hint of a pause in the line, which seems pretty natural to me.

- After they exit the diner and before they get on the bike, Indy says, "Your mom didn't escape. They let her go, so she could mail the letter and you could bring it to me and I could translate it!" He seems to be spending a lot of time here with a punctuated and paused delivery of exposition and then he gives this blinking look back towards the door of the diner as though he's forgotten that they have a problem. Mutt then has to tells him, "Get on gramps!". It's one thing for Mutt to say this as part of his attitude towards Indy ("Hey old man" on the train platform), because he doesn't know him ... but we shouldn't be thinking it too, but we do, so something should probably be done. Instead of me taking too much time to figure out exactly how to improve this, let's just note it as something we might want to change and we can figure out how later.

 

We're now 33:32 into the movie. Woohoo! We passed the half hour mark. And only about 100 changes or so :|

Ryan