'Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny' - Interview With James Mangold - video Dailymotion

James Mangold had a very good reason for opening 'Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny' with a big flashback.

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00:00Well, not only that, but it was one of the main reasons I was really hell-bent to open

00:04with a very large sequence taking place in the 40s was because I felt like before we

00:09confronted our audience with where Indy was in 1969, we had to somehow, I felt like I

00:15wanted as a good chef to continue the cooking, to offer you an appetizer that made you aware

00:21we can do this, we're going to do this, but it's going to be a journey until you're back

00:26to this kind of heroism again in the third act.

00:30But we wanted to whet everyone's appetite, give them a chance to kind of partake of the

00:35thing we all love about these films, which is the kind of intricate filmmaking style,

00:41golden age filmmaking style, the score, the look, the Nazis, World War II, the whole nine

00:48yards.