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  • ‘Dial of Destiny’s Director Explains Why This Was the Right Ending For Indiana Jones

    ‘Dial of Destiny’s Director Explains Why This Was the Right Ending For Indiana Jones

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    The following post contains SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Like, the ending of the movie. It also spoils that Indiana Jones is in it. Sorry.

    One expects a certain amount of supernatural goingson at the end of an Indiana Jones movie. The newest film in the series though, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, takes a really big swing.

    The whole film is a chase for the object of the title, supposedly created by the ancient mathematician Archimedes. (The object, or at least an object like it without supernatural powers, is real by the way.) A former Nazi played by Mads Mikkelsen wants the dial so he can go back in time and fix Hitler’s mistakes in World War II and win the war. Naturally, Indy wants to stop him.

    But, in somewhat typical Indiana Jones fashion, he fails to stop the bad guys. Mikkelsen’s character gets the dial, and then uses it to find a “fissure in time” that he can fly a plane into. He believes he will be sent back to 1939. Instead, the plane — which also contains Indiana Jones and his goddaughter Helena Shaw — winds up traveling way off-course, back to the Roman siege of Syracuse in 212 BC. There, Indiana Jones is gobsmacked to discover that after loving history all his life, he has traveled back into it. He wants Helena to leave him in the past, likely to die. (Indy has been shot by this point in the film.) Instead, Helena punches Indy and knocks him unconscious, then drags him back to the present day.

    It’s a wild ending — and certainly a surprising one. But according to Dial of Destiny co-writer and director James Mangold, he doesn’t see it as a story about “time travel” but rather the conclusion of the entire film’s exploration of time. In the movie, Indy is now 70, and finds himself deeply out of step with modern life in the late 1960s.

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    As Mangold told The Hollywood Reporter, the twist ending was very carefully designed to match the previous Indiana Jones movies…

    [Indiana Jones movies] are always a kind of fanciful interaction between an aspect of history, science and miracles, and so my goal with the end of the picture was to have a big swing, which is a staple of these movies at the end. I wanted Indy to be confronted with something that would not only challenge his notions of belief, but also tempt him in a way. Life in the modern world had gotten disillusioning enough that the idea of actually living in history might be a temptation for him.

    I didn’t love all of Dial of Destiny; I thought it dragged occasionally, and didn’t feel like the action sequences, including the prologue featuring a “young” Harrison Ford, measured up to the franchise’s past highlights. But I really liked this ending for the reasons Mangold describes. It really is the perfect conclusion to this story about old Indiana Jones. And then the epilogue back in 1969 after they return to the present really got to me.

    Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is in theaters now.

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  • ‘Dial of Destiny’: Every Easter Egg and Ending Explained

    ‘Dial of Destiny’: Every Easter Egg and Ending Explained

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    The following post contains SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

    The themes of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny include time and regret. And the two go hand in hand. When we get older we have to recognize the mistakes we made in our lives, and deal with the fact that our chances to redeem ourselves are running out.

    That’s exactly where Dial of Destiny finds Indiana Jones: He’s failed Marion, he’s lost his son, and his students these days barely care about what he is teaching them. But then his goddaughter, Helena Shaw, shows up and she offers him a chance to turn back the clock — metaphorically, and maybe literally too — by getting him wrapped up in the chase for a legendary artifact that could hold the secret to time itself.

    That’s just one of the cool details, Easter eggs, and little things you might have missed in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. In our latest video, we’ll show you all the little Indy callbacks in this movie you might not have spotted, and we’ll also breakdown that wild and surprising ending, and explain why it actually is the perfect note for Dr. Jones to go out on. Watch it below:

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    If you liked that video going through all the Easter eggs and the ending of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, check out more of our videos below, including a ton of facts about three classic Indiana Jones movies: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade. Plus, there’s tons more over at ScreenCrush’s YouTube channel. Be sure to subscribe to catch all our future episodes. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is now playing in theaters everywhere.

    The Greatest Indiana Jones Movie That Was Never Made

    A few years before Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was released, Frank Darabont wrote a very similar (but vastly superior) script called Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods. Here are some of its most notable differences from the version that was made.

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