Cool.



The pic with Henry Jones Senior holding the grail diary, it looks like he's saying: "I just lifted your wallet, Junior!"

Sure beats the khakis off Joe Corroney's:



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About half of those look like the actor they are supposed to and none of them is Harrison Ford.

The one in the tux from Club Obi Wan looks like an angry 20 something and the one with the glasses look entirely too much like Jean-Paul Sartre.

It's kind of hard to make Harrison Ford look ugly, but the guy did it.

To be fair, getting a good likeness is hard. The guy above didn't really capture Indy either (although he did a great job with the Senior Jones). Mr. Corroney does have a bit of a problem with lips and teeth though, and slightly 'off' bits which keep his portraits from being really good.

Woe unto thee, ye despisers of *interpretive* art.

No souvenir fedora for yez.

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To be fair, getting a good likeness is hard. The guy above didn't really capture Indy either (although he did a great job with the Senior Jones). Mr. Corroney does have a bit of a problem with lips and teeth though, and slightly 'off' bits which keep his portraits from being really good.

You do it well. I bet you wouldn't make Harrison look like Jean-Paul Sartre.

Yes it's hard but they ought to be able to find "Top men" being as Lucasfilm is involved. This is the same Lucas who recalled tons of Ewoks figures and blacked them out on the back of the packages because he didn't think the fur looked real enough!

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Woe unto thee, ye despisers of *interpretive* art.

No souvenir fedora for yez.

It's photorealism he's after so I gets to hold him on it, likes.

I'm with colin, Corroney's confidence tapers off at the nose & mouth -- then he reinforces with black and winds up way overcompensating. Also there's plain old fashioned imprecision.

Hey, great work getting the contract, though. . .

Maybe he draws with betel nut ink?

Kambo, turns out.

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To be fair, getting a good likeness is hard.[snip]

You do it well. I bet you wouldn't make Harrison look like Jean-Paul Sartre.

Well, maybe, but that's more because I couldn't make Jean-Paul Sartre look like Jean-Paul Sartre. You overestimate me. I think I'm just getting into the realm of the barely recognizable:

Overestimation would mean you'd post your version, and it wouldn't slaughter 99% of Indy "fan art". (If I can be permitted an emoticon).

Tangentially, looks like Schoenmaker's is the prototype for



Which, apparently, exists or is in the process of becoming.

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This is the same Lucas who recalled tons of Ewoks figures and blacked them out on the back of the packages because he didn't think the fur looked real enough!

I think that was actually because the cardbacks came out before the movie and the Ewoks were blacked out to prevent a spoiler. Those are known in the trade as the 65A backs. The 65B card backs were exactly the same, just without the Ewoks blacked out.

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It is interesting to note that the 65A back has two figures blacked out on the card. These are both Ewoks. The reasoning behind this is that these cards were released before the movie Return of the Jedi was actually in theaters. George Lucas wanted to keep the Ewoks a secret, so he insisted that Kenner not reveal them.

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Originally posted by colin:
To be fair, getting a good likeness is hard.[snip]

You do it well. I bet you wouldn't make Harrison look like Jean-Paul Sartre.

Well, maybe, but that's more because I couldn't make Jean-Paul Sartre look like Jean-Paul Sartre. You overestimate me. I think I'm just getting into the realm of the barely recognizable:

I think... that if you just emphasized his upper lip vertical cleft (there's a name for it, yes?), you'd be really close, actually.

It's called the philtrum.

I think his upper lip may be a bit too tall (a problem I often have) and that his nose may be a bit small, myself. Plus, his mouth might be shifted a bit to the right (although there's also the twist of his expression there). Jaw a little heavy/dropped on the left? Lots of little things. Mind you, it's better than I often do.

Why is it that I feel a great deal of apprehension when it comes to the new Indiana Jones movie?

For some reason I haven’t watched the trailer yet. But I’ve heard the spoilers. And if those spoilers are true, I think it is a worthy plot line, however the movie ends, but one which will be extremely difficult to pull off. Extremely difficult.

I don’t know. I do not doubt that ILM is absolutely the best at what they do. I’m just worried that, well... Simple images can be very powerful without simplification. I’m hoping this movie doesn’t run away from the questions it asks.

I’m arguing for leaving it in the movie, even if I don’t know what that thing is. Leave it in. Although the movie is already done.

For instance the following was in the shooting script for “Revenge of the Sith”. I think it didn’t make filming. I’m not sure it could have worked - it may seem silly to the audience - but I would have loved to see them pull off a scene close to it.

Yoda: Failed to stop the Sith Lord, I have. Still much to learn there is...
Qui-Gon: (V.O.) Patience. You will have time. I did not. When I became one with the Force I made a great discovery. With my training, you will be able to merge with the Force at will. Your physical self will fade away, but you will still retain your consciousness. You will become more powerful than any Sith.
Yoda: Eternal consciousness.
Qui-Gon: (V.O.) The ability to defy oblivion can be achieved, but only for oneself. It was accomplished by a Shaman of the Whills. It is a state acquired through compassion, not greed.
Yoda: ...to become one with the Force, and influence still have...A power greater than all, it is.
Qui-Gon: (V.O.) You will learn to let go of everything. No attachment, no thought of self. No physical self.
Yoda: A great Jedi Master, you have become, Qui-Gon Jinn. Your apprentice I gratefully become.

There is too much to Indiana Jones for the movie not to be good. So we’ll see.

Please watch the trailer. It does not mock yours nor anybody else's childhood. Promise.

Tangentially -- the lines below came from an early Sith draft, I thought perhaps of interest to all (colin, weren't you an early defender of Sith? At least, partially?)

AT THE OPERA . . .

Darth Sidious: I have waited all these years for you to fulfill your destiny. I arranged for your conception. I used the power of the Force to will the midichlorians to start the cell divisions that created you.

Anakin: I don't believe you.

Darth Sidious: Ahhh, but you know it's true. When you clear your mind, you will sense the truth. You could almost think of me as your father.

Anakin: That's impossible!

Darth Sidious: Nevertheless, you must decide...

Revenge of the Sith? I can't remember, except that I thought the opening scene was pretty promising when I was watching it, and that there were some good bits, but overall I was disappointed. I also seem to remember someone nearby was dressed as a jedi and gasped with joy during the preview for The Chronicles of Narnia.

Never liked that midichlorians thing. Something like the Force doesn't need explaining.

Midichlorians:

I remember my math tutor felt the same (1999, mind you). I might agree. It's why you can't really ever go to an Alien (xenomorph!) home planet ("explanations obliterate mystique").

The real problem I had with the prequels was described very well in a "top ten SF movies never made" thing I saw recently that I have since lost the link for. The prequels compressed the universe. The same dozen characters showing up everywhere, traveling down a steadily narrowing path towards a known conclusion, takes the whole galaxy teeming with billions that seemed to exist just off stage in the first three movies and turned it into a place with three, maybe four planets, each with a single small city consisting mostly of facades, and occupied by at most a hundred people. That was the real disappointment.