From the Bookshelf: The Complete Making of Indiana Jones

On the weekend, I took the train into the big city and went on a bit of a spending spree. When I spotted a copy of "The Complete Making of Indiana Jones" for a slight discount off the cover price, I decided to add it to the haul, for all that it meant carrying a great slab of a book around in a somewhat flimsy plastic bag for the rest of the trip... I was familar with its size and heft from having a copy of "The Making of Star Wars," though, although one thing I did wonder about was how much detail this new book could go into about any one film, covering four in the space the previous book gave to one... I also eventually noticed that the new book is just a few pages shorter than the previous, and its typeface seemed just a little larger. However, the coverage generally seemed detailed enough to me, particularly for Raiders of the Lost Ark, which seems obvious enough. It's possible that the section for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade left me wishing for just a little more information, in contrast to how the section for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, ten pages longer, was quite satisfying (and left me with the vague thought that one of these days, it surely wouldn't hurt me to watch the whole movie.)
( In some ways, early ideas left by the wayside interest me as much as anything else... )

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