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Shia's enthusiasm and committment to the role seems to bode well for his character. The switchblade thing was especially cool.

Um, thanks for the wise insight Captain Obvious. Whenever I hear the term Captain Obvious, I think of this guy from TPM:

They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. If that's the case, then we must all be intellectual midgets here on this board.

If there was ever a case for putting someone prematurely into a retirement home, it would be George Lucas. Seriously - everything the man has said in the past 10 years has been cringe-worthy and nutty!

It just occurred to me while re-watching ROTLA on BBC3, we're going to probably be getting renditions of both the Ark Theme AND Marion's Theme. That gets me excited - I wonder how the maestro will incorporate these - Marion't Theme especially, since it is so gorgeous.

Thanks for the links Pieter.

I like anytime when "Short Round's theme" is used in TOD. The introduction of Short Round in the film is one of the best times it is used, I would think.

I don't get you people saying that Harrison Ford doesn't look like Harrison Ford in the poster. Come on - the man is in his 60s, and as we all know, when humans get to that age they start to sag [in all the wrong places]. You can see that age is finally catching up to Ford both in the poster and the trailer, but you know what? That's not a bad thing - it's comforting in a way. Indy has had many adventures and escaped from many perils, but time is one thing he will never escape. I personally would have found it worse if they produced a "spruced up" pretty image of Ford just for the poster, because then the sentiment would be disingenuous. The poster is depicting reality - Ford's once glorious face is losing the battle with time, but that is a fact of life. Let's just be glad that the story has a 60 some odd year old running around and getting into crazy capers. Perhaps people don't like the poster because it reminds them of their own mortality on a deeply subconscious level? Or maybe i've just been reading too many psychology journals.

My personal favorite recording is with Charles Mackerras and the London Symphony Orchestra (the CD also has an excellent recording of 'Capriccio Espagnol'). Here is a link to the amazon page of the album. There's a certain crispness and precision in the playing that has made it my favorite recording, with the Brass especially on form. However, with 'Scheherazade' some of the older recordings with their lack of clarity make the music even more evocative - making the ancient-sounding music sound even more authentic (especially with the violin solo wailing it out). I'm thinking primarily of Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Come to mention it, the above-mentioned Ormandy recording of 'Scheherazade' was probably the first piece of music I ever remember hearing as a child - I think it was on a children's story tape telling the story of the Arabian Nights. I have very lucid and fond memories as a 5 or 6 year old listening to those stories with Korsakov's music soaring in the background, framing the story perfectly in my fertile imagination. Good times.

Hmmm...any idea what this is from? It seems to have triggered some small corner of my childhood memory...

I agree - in fact, it seems like she has posed in all shots the i've seen of her (like she's fogotten how to "act" or something). Let's hope this doesn't translate to film!

Talk about recursion! It's like a play within a play.

New poster.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but with the exception of DVDs all those things came out for the other films too. I distinctly remember playing in my youth.

What's the purpose of the trigger valve? Does it allow for lower notes?

The reveal of Indy's shadow with him putting on his hat - obviously. He truly is back.

Why not try a brass instrument? The left hand is used to essentially stabalize and hold an instrument, while all the playing and dexterity is done with the right hand.

Great stuff! Especially since I have never seen a performance of JW conducting any music from Hook - and what a great performance it was.

Good mention - I hadn't even thought of that cue.

True. Beats the hell out of the egotism of some violin players though....yeesh, you guys counter their superiority complexes. In my High School and University wind nsemble/marching band, it was always a Trumpet vs. French Horn thing.

This is all true, but when one has a burning passion (and immense talent) for something, it usually consumes them - and that shows in their work. Of course it is a lonely profession, but i'm sure he does it for himself just as much as anything else. Look at all the great composers - they all went on composing well after they didn't really need to anymore (Beethoven went on even after becoming deaf). There is no "retirement" from the ebb of creativity.

Clarinet, Trumpet and Piano for me. lol! Every viola player I know thinks that way.

Flipping eck - being next to that thing would bring out a primordial fear in people from when our distant ancestors were eaten by giant spiders.

God could we get a video or audio clip or something already!!