tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924468951154826009.post5524843417578151958..comments2023-07-14T09:06:23.024-04:00Comments on Wordshed: And another thing ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924468951154826009.post-89884096770437885862008-06-04T19:46:00.000-04:002008-06-04T19:46:00.000-04:00Having watched the first film recently--and not ha...Having watched the first film recently--and not having seen it in probably 20 years beforehand--I was especially interested in Indiana-Jones-as-academic this time around. <BR/><BR/>From the previous viewing, I'd remembered the student with "I love you" painted on her eyelids--though on this occasion, I read Jones' puzzled look less as an indication of his "absent-minded professor"-ness and more as a question of why the hell he'd settle for some undergrad tail when he could pretty much have any woman in the world.<BR/><BR/>I like that reading, since bedding undergrads seems to be a time-honored proof of male academics' hotness. For Indy, sleeping with a student would just be an act of desperation, which--if we were all more honest--is probably the case in most of the other situations, as well. <BR/><BR/>As for Indy's becoming an associate dean...well, that's the worst punishment that could be meted out to a scholar whose "research agenda" has been so inherently exciting and sexy. <BR/><BR/>Imagine the possibilities for a fifth installment, though--Indy taking on the faculty senate! Indy battling the dean over some kind of intellectual property! <BR/><BR/>I actually like the idea of an "indy" film about Indy's life as an administrator--lots of possibilities there for angst and absurdity, in the way that such tales are so repulsively fashionable these days.Rosemaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10223441754197927551noreply@blogger.com