IndianaJones vs. Logan: James Mangold compares his approach to continuing each franchise ...
Writer-director James Mangold takes the reins on the final chapter of a franchise that changed cinema forever with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Mangold steps into a role previously occupied by Steven Spielberg, and he does so with a comprehensive understanding of who the whip-cracking hero is and what made him a big screen icon to many generations.
PERRI NEMIROFF: You have now jumped into and continued two of the most iconic film franchises of all time. What is something that stayed consistent in your filmmaking approach from Logan to Dial of Destiny, but then also, what is something about an Indiana Jones movie that called for something different?
As far back, if you want to be an archaeologist about it, as Aristotle, there was this term “peripeteia,” the turning of the wheel. It's one of the things that people kind of have a hard time with when they get into dialogues online about movies because a movie isn't a single idea, it's a peripeteia, it's a turning of the wheel.
MANGOLD: Any movie I do will have to meet that basic idea, just that the character goes from one place to another.I have to talk about your collaboration with Harrison. You've worked with some of the best of the best in this industry.
You know, in our movie, there's this moment where he punches Mads Mikkelsen in the very beginning, first reel of the picture. In the script, it's just, “He opens the door, Mads is there, he clocks him.” But Harrison goes, “What if I tried something like this?” And he takes off his hat, puts it in front of Mad's face, and then punches him through the hat. There's no rational reason to do that.
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