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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 with
00:04a very large sequence taking place in the 40s was because I felt like before we confronted our audience with
00:11where Indy was in 1969, we had to somehow, I felt like I wanted as a good chef to continue
00:17the cooking, to offer you an appetizer that made you aware we can do this, we're going to do this,
00:24but it's going to be a journey until you're back to this kind of heroism again, you know, in the
00:28third act.
00:30But we wanted to whet everyone's appetite, give them a chance to kind of partake of the thing we all
00:36love about these films, which is the kind of intricate filmmaking style, golden age filmmaking style, the score, the look,
00:44the Nazis, World War II, the whole nine yards.
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