So you win and you lose both ways.” ORIGINSĪs with every Indiana Jones film, production on Temple of Doom got underway with prolonged debates over plot and tone.
If you give people the same movie with different scenes, they say ‘Why weren’t you more oiginal?’ But if you give them the same character in another fantastic adventure, but with a different tone, you risk disappointing the other half of the audience, who just wanted a carbon copy of the first film with a different girl and a different bad guy. Spielberg: The danger in making a sequel is that you can never satisfy everyone. I got a little bit jealous, I got a little bit frustrated and I signed on for one more.” Spielberg: “I knew if I didn’t direct, somebody else would. Things, of course, would change… A SEQUEL? “There’s more of a careful balance in Temple of Doom between horror and comedy than there was in Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was a straight-arrow adventure, at times even a conservative adventure.”
“Having seen both movies now, I can truthfully say that Temple of Doom is another kind of adventure movie,” he told the ‘Making of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ book. Indeed, Spielberg actually seemed to think Temple was superior to what had come before. During filming and leading up to release, he and Lucas seemed happy with Temple of Doom, content that they had made a thrilling, funny and suitably different movie to Raiders. Spielberg’s attitude to the film was not always so negative though. Last Crusade, Spielberg confessed, was “an apology” for its predecessor. Moreover, Spielberg and George Lucas had taken a beating from social commentators, who criticised the film for its treatment of race, religion, and gender. Critical reaction had been largely poor and the sense of freshness Raiders of the Lost Ark so effortlessly achieved seemed lost. The five years between the two films had been harsh on the second entry in the Indy franchise. “ Temple of Doom contains not an ounce of my personal feeling,” said Steven Spielberg in the build-up to the release of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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