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I was thinking about the Indiana Jones movies
A couple days ago, someone on my friends list was talking about showing his young daughter RAIDERS for the first time, and I started thinking about the series -- specifically the second movie, generally considered to be the worst of the lot.
Now, there are a lot of problems with it, most obviously the female lead, and second-most obviously, the kid sidekick, and third-most obviously, the really grim subject matter (human sacrifice is fine -- famine and starving children? Not so much for a two-fisted pulp adventurer).
But another thing that bugged people, if you'll pardon the expression, was the gross-out-for-gross-out's-sake bits. The dinner scene, most obviously, with things like live snakes and eyeball soup.
But the bit that REALLY got people was the "chilled monkey brains," served in an actual monkey's head.
But I think I know what Spielberg was thinking with that, and I don't see why people were so upset.
After all, there's no wrong way to eat a rhesus.
(Alternative: "After all, in ET, Spielberg had already shown characters eating rhesus pieces.")
Now, there are a lot of problems with it, most obviously the female lead, and second-most obviously, the kid sidekick, and third-most obviously, the really grim subject matter (human sacrifice is fine -- famine and starving children? Not so much for a two-fisted pulp adventurer).
But another thing that bugged people, if you'll pardon the expression, was the gross-out-for-gross-out's-sake bits. The dinner scene, most obviously, with things like live snakes and eyeball soup.
But the bit that REALLY got people was the "chilled monkey brains," served in an actual monkey's head.
But I think I know what Spielberg was thinking with that, and I don't see why people were so upset.
After all, there's no wrong way to eat a rhesus.
(Alternative: "After all, in ET, Spielberg had already shown characters eating rhesus pieces.")