Joey Paur
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny came out this past weekend and while the movie fell below expectations at the box office, audiences and fans who have watched seem to have enjoyed it. It’s not as good as any of the other films in the original trilogy, but it’s still a fun movie that takes audiences on a great Indiana Jones adventure! If you haven’t seen the movie yet, we get into spoiler details here.
The movie brings back some familiar faces including John Rhys-Davies who returns as Sallah, and then there’s Karen Allen who makes a surprise return as Marion Ravenwood at the end of the movie. We learn early on that Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones and Marion have separated, but they end up having a wonderful and emotional reunion at the end of the movie.
In an interview with Variety, director James Mongold was asked about working with Allen in the film and he said with a big smile on his face:
“She’s so wonderful. She’s such a beautiful soul. And I can’t imagine how hard it was for her because she’s stepping into a movie that had been shooting for a long time. But it was really moving to me.”
The film ends with a call back to the scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, when an injured Indy is being kissed by Marion on the parts of his body that don’t hurt. In The Dial of Destiny, the roles are reversed, with Indy tenderly apologizing for the heartache he’s caused her, and he kisses the parts of her she says don’t hurt.
While this was a beautiful moment in the film, Allen told the Associated Press that she had a much bigger role in the Steven Spielberg version of the film before Mangold took over. She was also disappointed that she wasn’t in the move more. She explained:
“There was a period of time when Steven was going to direct the film. It was my understanding – although I never read any of those scripts – that it was being developed very much as a still-ongoing Marion-and-Indy story. When Steven decided to step down and James took over and brought in new writers, I knew it was going into a different direction. Having not even known what it was before, it was even more mysterious after they took it over. So I really didn’t know anything for a long period of time until they had a script. And I have to confess, I was a bit disappointed that she wasn’t more woven throughout the story and didn’t have more of an ongoing trajectory. However, the way in which she does come back into the story was very satisfying. I just thought, ‘OK, I’m just going to embrace this.’ I certainly would have been wildly disappointed had Marion just sort of vanished into the ether.”
What did you think about Karen Allen returning to the role of Marion? Did you like how she was utilized, or would you have liked to see her incorporated in the story more?