Like ghosts appear in cigarette smoke
After careful perusal of box-office figures for 1981, we have determined that my answer to that data-scraping meme in which the main character of the number-one film of the year in which you were born is now starring in the first movie you ever saw is Indiana Jones and the Dancing Cavalier. Since ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch informs me that Indy was canonically born in 1899, he would be in his late twenties for the events of Singin' in the Rain (1952) and since I find it funnier to interpret this meme as a crossover rather than a substitution, I am now trying to figure out what archaeological mishegos he could be perpetrating in Hollywood that would bring him into contact with Cosmo, Kathy, and Don—and whether, depending on the nature of the mishegos and the timeline of his tenure at Marshall College, he could have Marcus with him. Inevitably, some producer is going to offer him a contract to star in an adventure serial.
spatch informs me that Indy was canonically born in 1899, he would be in his late twenties for the events of Singin' in the Rain (1952) and since I find it funnier to interpret this meme as a crossover rather than a substitution, I am now trying to figure out what archaeological mishegos he could be perpetrating in Hollywood that would bring him into contact with Cosmo, Kathy, and Don—and whether, depending on the nature of the mishegos and the timeline of his tenure at Marshall College, he could have Marcus with him. Inevitably, some producer is going to offer him a contract to star in an adventure serial.
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b) The #1 movie the year I was born is The Exorcist, but the #1 movie the *week* I was born was Cabaret. Technically, the first movie I ever saw was Bambi (because my parents wanted to introduce me to movies with a less overwhelming movie than Star Wars... um, oops?), but the first one I *remember* was Star Wars. So Liza Minelli in Star Wars makes sense on a level of "child of *different* Hollywood Royalty" sense.
ETA: Oh, protagonist. Sally Bowles As Princess Leia! ...eeeeyikes.
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I thought she was in Nepal by then! If she isn't, she's going to take Tinseltown by storm.
So Liza Minelli in Star Wars makes sense on a level of "child of *different* Hollywood Royalty" sense.
It does, honestly, and is a fascinating piece of casting to contemplate.
Oh, protagonist. Sally Bowles As Princess Leia! ...eeeeyikes.
That's no moon, it's a cabaret.
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That did occur to me after I commented. Certainly, the dialogue in Crystal Skull, as I remember it but am not going to bother to look up, would indicate they literally haven't seen each other since Raiders of the Lost Ark. But! A) One could declare that is Dumb, or B) perhaps better if one likes continuity, one could write it sort of like some of the post-Doctor Donna stuff, and have Marion interacting with people just after him, or just before, and just not let them run into each other at the time. That way you can have her sparkling, but not messing with Crystal Skull Reunion.
"...fascinating piece of casting to contemplate..."
Among other things, she's 10 years older than Carrie Fisher was. Fisher did Princess Leia pretty well, but I think Minelli'd've been able to have more... gravitas? (Though, dunno if the role required that kind of princessing.)
"That's no moon, it's a cabaret."
Hee.
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I may love the idea of Marion and Indy operating separately and simultaneously in 1927 Hollywood, leaving individual trails of cinema-archaeological chaos in their wake. (Marcus is probably aware they are both in town, but Marcus is probably also busy writing technical notes like these.)
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And, I appreciate Mr. Powell's notes on the script. Also, his comments on the premiere. "...it had been ‘an absolute welter of sex symbols in ankle-length white mink coats. I got myself photographed with Raquel Welch, and that you have to admit is quite something for the Headmaster of a Public (Private) School’." (I do have to admit that, yes!)
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I have no idea if I'm ever going to see the film, but I became very fond of Mr. Powell on the basis of this article!
"I shall thoroughly enjoy the exercise of writing the Latin. I doubt whether, in the whole history of Public Schools, any headmaster has ever written a Latin lyric for a film. But, about credits – quite seriously and honestly, I would prefer not to be mentioned. I have accepted the responsibility of helping you as much as I can over details of school life, and doing a bit of Latin composition is one of them."