Indiana Jones 5s Time Travel Could Be Great (Despite Crystal Skulls Aliens)

Indiana Jones 5’s Time Travel Could Be Great (Despite Crystal Skull’s Aliens)

Indiana Jones 5’s rumored time travel plot could offer great story possibilities, but it needs to avoid the pitfalls of Crystal Skull’s aliens.

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Indiana Jones 5s Time Travel Could Be Great (Despite Crystal Skulls Aliens)

Indiana Jones 5 appears to involve time travel, which could offer great story possibilities, provided that it avoids the pitfalls of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’s aliens. The fifth movie is currently in production, with Harrison Ford once again wearing the wide-brimmed fedora for one final adventure. Director James Mangold is in the director chair after Steven Spielberg stepped aside, though he’s staying on as a producer.

The Indiana Jones films started out as homages to the adventure serials of the 1930s, though creator George Lucas innovated the genre by throwing supernatural elements into the mix. Raiders of the Lost Ark had the Ark of the Covenant unleashing the blinding power of God. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom dealt with black magic, while Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade played with the idea of eternal life. The supernatural elements are always present in the original Indiana Jones trilogy, but they don’t overwhelm the adventure. Conversely, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull pushed the supernatural element more to the forefront, to the extent where actual aliens — or inter-dimensional beings — and a spaceship end up on the screen. Between that and the film’s more outlandish elements (Indy surviving a nuclear explosion in a lead-lined refrigerator), Crystal Skull pushed the concept into the absurd. The film pulled back the supernatural curtain too far and overloaded the film with unnecessary CGI.

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Time travel is an equally “out there” idea for Indiana Jones 5, and one that at first seems close to repeating Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’s problems. However, the concept of time travel could work if the execution is right. The Indiana Jones films are at their best when the McGuffin is linked to Indy’s character development. In Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom he’s more concerned about the Ark and the Stones as prizes to be won within the parameters of “fortune and glory,” though eventually humbly recognizes their deeper value and ends up respecting them as more than mere treasures. In Last Crusade, the quest for the Holy Grail is intrinsically tied to Indy reconnecting with his estranged father. It’s the emotional journey of Indiana Jones as a character that makes him such an endurable hero to generation after generation. For time travel to payoff for Indiana Jones 5, it needs to similarly tie in with Indy’s character journey.

Taken at face value, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has all the ingredients of a classic Indy film. The father/son scenario returns, with Indy now in the paternal role, but it crucially neglects to connect the skulls to Indiana’s character development. The same is true for Indy’s rekindled romance with Marion. It’s happening at the same time, but it’s not linked to the quest, and so doesn’t connect. For Indiana Jones 5, Harrison Ford is almost 80 years old, and time travel as an idea has real relevance for an older Indiana Jones nearing the end of his adventures. Elements of regret or the desire to change one moment in your past or history are well-worn time travel questions that could fit in nicely as a farewell to a beloved character. There is great scope for an emotional journey for the character with time travel as the hook, regardless of its outlandish concept.

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The visuals for how time travel is presented need to fit in with the established look of the franchise. Any current blockbuster can include dazzling sequences of time and space whizzing by in a flurry of CGI. However, this would be a wrong move for Indiana Jones 5. The original films are a triumph of old-school effects, and the visualization of time travel should capture the feel of the original Indiana Jones movies, even if modern effects are used. If they can connect Indy to the McGuffin, and capture the feel of the old films, then time travel could work in Indiana Jones 5 where the supernatural elements in Crystal Skulls failed.

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