A couple movie news sites I frequent are all a twitter tonight, as a group of Internet journalists were invited to the set of the latest Indiana Jones movie and received a quick interview with Steven Spielberg. Phrases like "giddy," "squealing" and "like a bunch of 12 year old girls after Justin Timberlake walked by" were thrown about.
What's particularly fun to see is how journalists like Devin from CHUD and others who dumped on the movie for years while it was trying to get made, and wrote many many words in opposition to the idea of "Indiana Jones 4," suddenly become a pile of goo when presented with the actual filmmakers. When Harrison Ford walked up in costume, all the Internet geeks went nuts and couldn't possibly hide their enthusiasm.
There's something profound to that. How easy to speak in the abstract, how easy to snark. How hard to create and how glorious when you do. There's nothing wrong with being a critic but when you're an artist who has an effect on people, everything seems right from the outside.
As a fan of the Indiana Jones movies (even though they show a tendency toward diminishing returns), I find it hard not to smile when I think that somewhere within a couple thousand miles of me, they're shooting "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." It's easy to say "the title sucks," "Ford is too old," or "what's with Spielberg and Shai LeBouf" but it's equally easy right now to smile and think of the John Williams theme wafting across a trailer in about a month or so, to clamor for pictures of production and details of plot like we did when we were 7, to imagine what could be, because what came before was so damned great.
It's fun to know it's happening right now.
No comments:
Post a Comment