05-16-2008, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
As I noted earlier, the plan wasn't to do a "darker" Indy film. It happened because Lucas was going through a terrible divorce, hence the "ripping out of hearts" by the main baddie.
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Originally Posted by The AV Club
Interestingly, the featurette associated with this disc features Steven Spielberg essentially placing the blame for the film's tone on George Lucas, whom he says wanted to echo the Star Wars series' progression, with a darker middle installment:
"I wasn't really okay with that, I kind of resisted it. But George was tenacious that he wanted the second one to be dark, and I feared it wouldn't be commercial enough. And it wasn't as commercial as the first one and the third one. But it was an important thing that he wanted to do, and I certainly deferred to George's better judgment because he had seen this three-movie arc and this is what he wanted to do and I was his director for hire."
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