Not sure that Spielberg has to agree with the novelisation. As such there's no reason to suppose that she grew up on a farm. Also just because her grandfather's career as a magician didn't work out hardly means that she grew up poor.
I'm not sure if you can grow up on a farm and yet be enormously squeamish about bugs. I'd think it rather less likely. Seems like an inconsistency in the novelist's vision rather than Spielberg's.
I think the biggest problem with Willie Scott, is not so much the character of Willie as the horrendous performance by Kate Capshaw. No doubt a better actress could have done a better job with the material.
I had no problems with Kate Capshaw's performance. I thought it was first-rate. I cannot help but wonder if too many fans wanted her to be a Marion Ravenwood 2.0., instead of a comfort-seeking gold-digger.
I cannot help but wonder if too many fans wanted her to be a Marion Ravenwood 2.0.
I don't think that was my issue at all. It was more the way she would keep on squealing "Indyyyy!" I really annoyed me. And actually Marion Ravenwood did that too to some extent, but Willie did it much much more and that whiny tone just really grated for me.
Then again, I'm not a massive fan of the film as a whole, so I'm certainly not one who'd say that she 'ruins' it. I think there are other elements in the film that I found much more problematic. Having a female character whose main function is being there to get into trouble and need bailing out is very much in line with the Marion Ravenwood character, not a massive departure.
" Having a female character whose main function is being there to get into trouble and need bailing out is very much in line with the Marion Ravenwood character, not a massive departure."
I have a problem with this comment. As I recall, Indy's leading ladies - well, I'm not so sure about Elsa Schneider - ended up saving his ass as much as he had saved theirs. And that includes Willie Scott in the last half hour of the 1984 movie.
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I'm not sure if you can grow up on a farm and yet be enormously squeamish about bugs. I'd think it rather less likely. Seems like an inconsistency in the novelist's vision rather than Spielberg's.
I think the biggest problem with Willie Scott, is not so much the character of Willie as the horrendous performance by Kate Capshaw. No doubt a better actress could have done a better job with the material.
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I don't think that was my issue at all. It was more the way she would keep on squealing "Indyyyy!" I really annoyed me. And actually Marion Ravenwood did that too to some extent, but Willie did it much much more and that whiny tone just really grated for me.
Then again, I'm not a massive fan of the film as a whole, so I'm certainly not one who'd say that she 'ruins' it. I think there are other elements in the film that I found much more problematic. Having a female character whose main function is being there to get into trouble and need bailing out is very much in line with the Marion Ravenwood character, not a massive departure.
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I have a problem with this comment. As I recall, Indy's leading ladies - well, I'm not so sure about Elsa Schneider - ended up saving his ass as much as he had saved theirs. And that includes Willie Scott in the last half hour of the 1984 movie.
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