The new Indiana Jones film elegantly ties up the franchise’s most uncomfortable loose end.
isn’t a franchise to rewrite canon willy-nilly. If Indy had a son in the fourth movie, that son will still exist in the fifth one. What’s a self-respecting tentpole to do?handles the issue is so perfect I couldn’t help but chuckle when the movie got around to revealing what happened to Mutt. Read no farther if you don’t want to be spoiled …Yes, that’s right: Mutt Williams receives the ultimate write-off from ’60s-set period pieces, the hand-wave-iest hand-wave in postwar fiction.
The only waycould have given him a more ignoble fate would have been to reveal that, like Neidermeyer inIt’s a killer punch line for a joke of a character, but against all odds, the film finds a way to make Mutt’s absence something more than a clever bit of behind-the-scenes problem-solving. You see, it was Mutt’s death that caused the breakdown of Indy’s marriage and threw him into the depressive slump we meet him in at the start of the film.
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