The fourth film in the series, Kingdom of the Lost Skull, went too far, resorting to a solution so absurd that it made the audience roll their eyes.
Having saved himself from a nuclear explosion by locking himself in a refrigerator: it can be said that, in search of the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones 4 took us all by surprise. David Koepp’s screenplay, based on a short story by George Lucas and Jeff Nathanson, went too far, coming up with an idea so bizarre that it stopped the so-called “suspension of disbelief”.
Obviously Indiana Jones it is a saga in which the fantastic is regularly present. However, the vast majority of viewers rolled their eyes at the solution they found to avoid the effects of an atomic bomb, to the point that Steven Spielberg had to explain himself.
In 2011, interviewed by Cnnthe director took responsibility: “It’s my fault, not George’s [Lucas]. It was my idea and it was stupid. People stopped saying “jump the shark” and now they say “destroyed the refrigerator.” I’m proud of it, I’m glad I was able to bring it into popular culture.”
“Jump the shark” is an expression often used in the audiovisual sector to refer to the moment in which the screenwriters have so many ideas left that they bring an element that goes into dissonance with the universe constituted There.
The expression comes from a season 5 episode of the sitcom Happy Days, in which Fonzie (Henry Winkler) jumps over a shark (literally, “jump the shark”) while water skiing.
Always humble and a good colleague, Spielberg accused himself of having had the hated idea almost unanimously…
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