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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 4251223" data-attributes="member: 63">Eh, I'm okay with the premise that some ancient people worshiped, say, a single alien who came to earth and decided to live it up. The humans built all the stuff; it's just that the secret is that the alien had awesome psychic powers and by reuniting its skull and its body you can claim that power for yourself.But if you have a dozen aliens in South America, then you've got to explain why there aren't any aliens anywhere else. The theory falls apart, unless, say, they used the Ark of the Covenant to annihilate the aliens and drive them off our planet. How would I have done the movie? Well, it's the 50s, so you have Roswell and fears of aliens. You have Communists and lots of paranoid fears. However, the one thing you cannot possibly do is have a living alien on screen. The aliens are gone, but their power lingers. I mean, God doesn't make a personal appearance at the end of Raiders, Shiva doesn't wave her many hands and say hi at the end of Temple, and Jesus doesn't give Indy the thumbs up after he picks the right Holy Grail. This is mythic archaeology; it's about things from the past, long lost, whose power cannot be safely grasped by modern men.So our premise is this: The Russians, doing research into parapsychology, want to steal the corpse of a Roswell alien for study. They get it, and discover that its skull is crystalline, but is shattered from the crash, useless. However, this cues them into the search for another, historical crystal skull, one that was revered and kept preserved for thousands of years.We ultimately find El Dorado, the City of Gold (yes, actual gold, dammit! none of this 'their treasure was knowledge' b.s.). It's okay, we're going to destroy the whole place.Now our theme that we're going for is that paranoia will destroy you. There is no room in this theme for another father-son story like we had with Last Crusade, so we ditch Shia LeBeouf, but we keep Marion in. See, we need friends of Indy's so that he can become paranoid of them, and then overcome that paranoia in order to save the day.I'm not quite sure how the story plays out in total, though. These things don't write themselves.</blockquote>

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