“I don’t know if the pants still fit, but I know the hat will”

- Harrison Ford after the announcement that Indiana Jones IV will commence shooting in June.

He also says he is excited about working with his friends again.

I’m sad about growing up. There is this part of me cringing at the idea of IV. When I was twelve I stood outside the cinema gazing up at the gigantic cut-out of Indiana Jones, hat, whip, bandaged knuckles and covered in dirt/sweat/blood/dust alongside which the words “The hero is back” were emblazoned in fire red “action” lettering. Classic hero poster.

Raiders of the Lost Ark was right up there with Star Wars for me. It offered magic and adventure and archeological wisecracks. Much better than life. Much much better than school.

I doubt Harry will be able to pull off a Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven . I watch my heroes grow old.

I wonder if it will leave me feeling awful like the Phantom Menace did. But then again I think about Revenge of the Sith and how brilliant it was and I decide to have faith. Life can be so sad that you have to really throw yourself into really loving the things you love, the people you love, the animals you love, the music you love, the pictures, the books, the films.

So now I have decided I am going to get so excited about Indiana Jones IV, by the time it comes out in the next year or so I will be so excited that when the film starts and I hear the first bars of Da Da Dum dahhh, da da Duuuum, I will pass out.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/10/10bryan.html