Hebephilia: The Indiana Jones Edition

"There’s a transcription of a pre-production story meeting for the first Indiana Jones film that is fascinating. The Raiders of the Lost Ark story meeting is between George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan and if you read it, you literally are a witness to the birth of Indiana Jones.

Not only do you get to see how they work out the story and characters, you get to see things that were nuggets that were used in Temple of Doom and there’s some shades of Last Crusade. The biggest highlight from this transcription is the weirdo request by Lucas to have Indiana Jones bang a twelve year old Marion in his past.

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George Lucas: I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.

Lawrence Kasdan: And he was forty-two.

George Lucas: He hasn’t seen her in twelve years. Now she’s twenty-two. It’s a real strange relationship.

Steven Spielberg: She had better be older than twenty-two.

George Lucas: He’s thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve. It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time.

Steven Spielberg: And promiscuous. She came onto him.

George Lucas: Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it’s an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she’s sixteen or seventeen it’s not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he…"

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