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  • #61
    Originally posted by jon-el87
    What they should've done is have the Antikythera show Indy a glimpse of his future. Indy find himself sent to a street in the United States. He find a newspaper identifying the year as 1992. An old car pulls into the driveway of one of the houses. Out of the car steps a 93-year-old Indiana Jones with an eyepatch. Out of the house comes a large number of people in different ages, who hugs and welcomes him home. The people walk back into the house, while old Indiana Jones stays outside for a moment. 1969 Indy sneaks closer, until the 1992 Indy ackowledges his presence. When asked about the people in the house, the 1992 Indy answers: "My children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren. One of them is the child of Mutt.", to Indy's surprise (with the 1992 Indy notes that Marion is the love of his life, but there were others along the way). This and the whole conversation lifts Indy's spirit. Though, when he asks about the eyepatch, the 1992 Indy doesn't answer (as some things he needs to learn when they happen, teasing the audience that this may not be the final adventure in Indy's life, after all, we're just not going to see it/them). Upon coming back to 1969, Indy feels better and reunites with Marion, and decides to set out to find his other children and grandchildren (including the child of Mutt, who is now something that is left of him), and devote himself to them. The end. The earlier glimpse of 1992 shows him being successful, so we don't need to see him actually doing it.
    On second thoughts, it's probably for the best that this didn't happen.

    We have the bookends as a sort of epilogue, where we meet Sophie (Indy's daughter), and ackowledgement that he has more still alive children in the early 1990s (meaning that he's spawned more than two (i.e. Sophie and Mutt), but the actual number (and who they are) is left up to our imagination. Such a scene in the movie would be limited to a couple of selected characters, likely picked by marketing or something, rather than creatives), we meet one of his grown grandchildren, one of his college-aged grandchildren (and a mention of a third, younger grandchild), and a couple of great-grandchildren. Maybe Mutt isn't even dead (I've seen some theories online). We didn't see him die, we didn't see the funeral. You can easily headcanon it as Mutt ending up as a POW, who gets wrongfully registered as killed in action/presumed dead, then (after the war) is among the hundreds of American POWs who gets returned. The film doesn't give us a definitive ending to Indiana Jones, that would permit no more adventures, nor an ending that would not permit Sophie (or her hinted at siblings/half-siblings) to exist.
    Last edited by jon-el87; 01-06-2024, 12:52 PM.

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