Like ghosts appear in cigarette smoke

[sovay]

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 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.

Comments

[sovay]

if he could hobnob with Wilfred Owens and Siegfried Sassoon, I see no reason he shouldn't also get a walk-on part in an early adaptation of The Lost World.

Wait, what?

[skygiants]

My apologies, I misremembered -- it's Graves and Sassoon, not Owen.

(I discovered this clip after I read Goodbye to All That while looking for more information about the Graves and Sassoon interpersonal drama. This clip did not provide me with the information I was looking for but I think I was equally rewarded in other ways.)

[sovay]

My apologies, I misremembered -- it's Graves and Sassoon, not Owen.

(a) That's amazing. With a history like that, are you sure it isn't canonical that Indy had a career in early Hollywood?

(b) I like their Sassoon. I can totally see him giving Graves the cut direct over getting married.

(c) Damn it, now I'm going to have to rewatch Jarman's War Requiem (1989).