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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
influenced by The Wild One (1953)
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Most of the in-jokes, in fact, are either aimed squarely at fanboys (a cheeky reference to an episode of the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series featuring Pancho Villa) or movie nerds (Mutt making his entrance looking exactly like Marlon Brando in The Wild One ), with little for anyone else other than convoluted archeological mumbo-jumbo meant only to move the characters from one overly elaborate chase to the next.
The Eisenhower-era highlight reel (war veteran Indy’s true blue patriotic valor gets shown off when our hero offers “I Like Ike” as his potential last words) is at its lamest when Shia LaBeouf’s greaser motorcyclist, Mutt, is introduced dressed and posed like Marlon Brando from The Wild One, a desperate and disproportional equating of two attractive young actors that cries out for a Lloyd Bentsen-inspired putdown.
Mutt is Marlon Brando's "The Wild One" character put into the frame of a "Back to the Future" era Michael J. Fox.
His journey reunites him with Marion Ravenwood (three cheers for the return of Raiders' Karen Allen) and also allows him to share adventures with a brash young greaser (Shia LaBeouf, amusingly making his entrance like Marlon Brando in The Wild One) and a loony old professor (John Hurt).
"What are you, like, 80?" asks young Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf), a ducktailed dropout armed with a comb and a switchblade, and an apparent jones for Marlon Brando in "The Wild One."
Neither is it such a great improvement to saddle Indy with an equally surly young sidekick, Mutt Williams, played by Shia LaBeouf, who's a dead ringer for Marlon Brando in "The Wild One."
And at the time, it felt like I was Marlon Brando in "The Wild One."
It's hard to say how much of this is the fault of first-time screenwriter William Fetters, who doesn't seem to release that Tyler is mostly an unjustified crybaby, and how much is the fault of Pattinson, who appears to have heard that there was once this fellow named Marlon Brando, but does not seem to have gone out of his way to watch The Wild One , and thus his performance consists only of directionless angry mutterings.
Despite the action and the tension, being light-hearted, it is a welcome addition to the motorcycle genre, which includes Marlon Brando�s The Wild One (1953) and Dennis Hopper�s Easy Rider (1969).
Pitt aber war für Fincher sowieso nur zweite Wahl: Sean Penn , der altgediente Method Actor aus " Der schmale Grat ", war zunächst für die Rolle vorgesehen - doch Penn verzichtete zu Gunsten seines ersten eigenen Regieprojekts.Fincher (" The Game ") ist ein geschliffener Stylist, und "Fight Club" ohne Zweifel sein bis dato aufwendigster Film - auch wenn die hier zur Schau getragene Komplexität in Wirklichkeit nur aufgesetzt und die gebotene Sozialkritik nicht neu, sondern ein Abklatsch dessen ist, was vor bald 35 Jahren Marlon Brando alias Johnny in dem Klassiker " The wild One " von sich gab: Gegen wen und was er denn nun eigentlich rebelliere, wird Johnny da gefragt.
Beware of cult flicks, though, whose reputation sits uneasily on little more than a look; how often did the restive kids who papered their walls with stills of “Easy Rider,” or of Brando in “The Wild One,” sit through the actual movie?
Cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, who shot “United 93,” deploys similar hand-held methods here, and while Bigelow’s work is no less stylized than “Point Break,” or “Strange Days,” or her first feature, an arch homage to “The Wild One” called “The Loveless,” the style suits the material.
Marlon Brando as a surly motorcycle gang leader in "The Wild One" (1953), James Dean in 1955, and the emergence of Elvis Presley in 1956: These three role models decisively altered the way young men could be seen in popular culture.