Starting with teens racing a US Army car, the film has the typical look of everything that is romanticized about the 1950s. I wonder if it was meant to connect with the 1950’s political climate of the story or that this movie was just done because of the money they were offered? It’s almost like this opening shot from director Steven Spielberg is warning the audience that things are not always what they seem. For Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that mountain is the dirt of a prairie dog hill. The movie opens with the titles and the classic allusion of the Paramount symbol, the mountain dissolving into the first scene of the movie. Williams to get the orchestra ready, but you don’t tell a maestro like John Williams what to do. Jones is a part of the Walt Disney Company, and it’s time to reflect on and be honest about his fourth movie. When it was released a decade ago, Lucasfilm was still an independent company, Paramount distributed the film, and the idea of more Star Wars movies seemed like a dream. Stanforth is later seen after the destruction of Doom Town when Indy and the Janitor manage to survive the nuclear blast with the refrigerator, they accidentally destroy Stanforth's car and apparently knock him out when opening the fridge's door.May 22nd marked the 10th anniversary of the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and unlike many it seems today, I am a huge fan of the movie. In LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues, Stanforth gives both Indy and George McHale their mission to find Mayan artifacts in Mexico before they are captured by the Soviet Special Forces. Despite this, his character is similar in function to that of Marcus Brody, the National Museum curator from Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, who was played by the late Denholm Elliott. Īccording to George Lucas, the character of Charles Stanforth takes the role that would have been filled by Indiana Jones' father Henry Walton Jones, Senior, if actor Sean Connery hadn't opted out of the fourth film. The character was developed from Frank Darabont's Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods script, in which Stanforth's name was Carl Stalling as a nod to the Warner Bros. ![]() Broadbent was contacted by director Steven Spielberg to offer him the role of Stanforth. Behind the scenes Ĭharles Stanforth was played by British actor Jim Broadbent in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. ![]() Stanforth and his family attended Jones and Marion Ravenwood's wedding, using Stanforth's Book of Common Prayer in the ceremony, which had to be rushed from its place in Stanforth's office desk. Īfter the affair of the Crystal Skull of Akator, and the clearing of Jones' reputation, Stanforth was presumably reinstated as Dean, and Indiana Jones became Associate Dean. Charles Stanforth succeeded in getting the concession that he be placed on indefinite leave with pay, but to do this, Stanforth had to tender his own resignation. In 1957, the FBI ransacked Indiana Jones' office, which scared the administration at Marshall College into pushing for him to be fired. Stanforth was acquainted and friends with Marcus Brody, Dean of Students at Marshall College between 1939- 1944, and succeeded him in the position. Charles Stanforth was married to a woman called Deirdre with whom he had two children: Don and Maggie Stanforth.
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