'Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny' - Interview With James Mangold - video Dailymotion

James Mangold Had A Very Good Reason For Opening 'Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny' With A Big Flashback

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00:00 - Well, not only that, but it was one of the main reasons

00:02 I was really hell-bent to open with a very large sequence

00:05 taking place in the '40s, was because I felt like

00:08 before we confronted our audience with where Indy was

00:12 in 1969, we had to somehow, I felt like I wanted,

00:16 as a good chef to continue the cooking,

00:18 to offer you an appetizer that made you aware,

00:21 we can do this, we're gonna do this,

00:24 but it's gonna be a journey 'til you're back

00:26 to this kind of heroism again, you know, in the third act.

00:29 So that, but we wanted to whet everyone's appetite,

00:33 give them a chance to kind of partake of the thing

00:36 we all love about these films, which is the kind of

00:39 intricate filmmaking style, golden age filmmaking style,

00:42 the score, the look, the Nazis, World War II,

00:46 the whole nine yards.

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