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On first principles, this is unfortunate. A good example of how technology enables the old to maintain a grip on power. I generally like Harrison Ford and his m

On first principles, this is unfortunate. A good example of how technology enables the old to maintain a grip on power. I generally like Harrison Ford and his movies, but deciding to continue with this franchise feels wrong, somehow. Undignified. Similar to Biden running again or Feinstein (or RGB!) not retiring. Let go, man.

lotsofpulp 4y ago
Real politicians being elected and leading people in real life is not similar to a movie studio trying to squeeze money from a nostalgic audience for a pure luxury purchase that no one has to buy.
- PKop 4y ago
  Film and TV is a multi billion dollar industry that produces, whether purposeful or not, whether with nefarious intentions or not, mass media propaganda, memes and narratives that millions of people around the world consume, and which then informs their views on and understanding of the world, history, culture, the human condition etc. To say their is no power involved in this process is naive. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays "... the father of public relations". His best-known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist "Torches of Freedom", and his work for the United Fruit Company in the 1950s, connected with the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan government in 1954. He worked for dozens of major American corporations including Procter & Gamble and General Electric, and for government agencies, politicians, and nonprofit organizations. Of his many books, Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and Propaganda (1928) gained special attention as early efforts to define and theorize the field of public relations. Citing works of writers such as Gustave Le Bon, Wilfred Trotter, Walter Lippmann, and Sigmund Freud (his own double uncle), he described the masses as irrational and subject to herd instinct—and he outlined how skilled practitioners could use crowd psychology and psychoanalysis to control them in desired ways." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Randolph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Randolph Marc Bernays Randolph - an American tech entrepreneur, advisor and speaker.[1] He is the cofounder and first CEO of Netflix. Another paternal great-uncle of Randolph was Edward Bernays, an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda.
- yieldcrv 4y ago
  Analogies compare dissimilar things with a common attribute Up to you to figure out the context or point out how there are no common attributes, or just how you don’t understand it for clarification, there’s almost never a reason to unilaterally correct a person making an analogy
sho_hn 4y ago
He's said it's the last time he will play the character, and that he won't be involved with the upcoming TV show. In a quite stern way, saying he "expects that it will be the last time you see the character", i.e. making sure that future digital resurrections will get bad press for going against his will.
yamtaddle 4y ago
4 should have been a hand-off to a grown up Short Round, who'd carry the franchise from there. '60s geopolitics were full of conflicts and great power games in relatively-wild regions featuring the ruins of cool ancient civilizations and such, would have been great. Southeast Asia, parts of Africa, some stuff going down in South America, tons of fertile soil for '60s-updated Indy. Put it in the early 60s and Short Round ("Actually, I go by Wan Li these days—Junior.") could start at about the same (fictional) age Indy did in the first three movies. Instead we got... what we got.

lotsofpulp 4y ago

Real politicians being elected and leading people in real life is not similar to a movie studio trying to squeeze money from a nostalgic audience for a pure luxury purchase that no one has to buy.

PKop 4y ago
Film and TV is a multi billion dollar industry that produces, whether purposeful or not, whether with nefarious intentions or not, mass media propaganda, memes and narratives that millions of people around the world consume, and which then informs their views on and understanding of the world, history, culture, the human condition etc. To say their is no power involved in this process is naive. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays "... the father of public relations". His best-known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist "Torches of Freedom", and his work for the United Fruit Company in the 1950s, connected with the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan government in 1954. He worked for dozens of major American corporations including Procter & Gamble and General Electric, and for government agencies, politicians, and nonprofit organizations. Of his many books, Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and Propaganda (1928) gained special attention as early efforts to define and theorize the field of public relations. Citing works of writers such as Gustave Le Bon, Wilfred Trotter, Walter Lippmann, and Sigmund Freud (his own double uncle), he described the masses as irrational and subject to herd instinct—and he outlined how skilled practitioners could use crowd psychology and psychoanalysis to control them in desired ways." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Randolph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Randolph Marc Bernays Randolph - an American tech entrepreneur, advisor and speaker.[1] He is the cofounder and first CEO of Netflix. Another paternal great-uncle of Randolph was Edward Bernays, an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda.
yieldcrv 4y ago
Analogies compare dissimilar things with a common attribute Up to you to figure out the context or point out how there are no common attributes, or just how you don’t understand it for clarification, there’s almost never a reason to unilaterally correct a person making an analogy

sho_hn 4y ago

He's said it's the last time he will play the character, and that he won't be involved with the upcoming TV show. In a quite stern way, saying he "expects that it will be the last time you see the character", i.e. making sure that future digital resurrections will get bad press for going against his will.

yamtaddle 4y ago

4 should have been a hand-off to a grown up Short Round, who'd carry the franchise from there. '60s geopolitics were full of conflicts and great power games in relatively-wild regions featuring the ruins of cool ancient civilizations and such, would have been great. Southeast Asia, parts of Africa, some stuff going down in South America, tons of fertile soil for '60s-updated Indy. Put it in the early 60s and Short Round ("Actually, I go by Wan Li these days—Junior.") could start at about the same (fictional) age Indy did in the first three movies. Instead we got... what we got.