The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” (Twitter), presented live by Laurent Delahousse just after the 8 p.m. news on France 2, recounts an unprecedented moment in the life of a personality, behind the scenes of an event or a place belonging to collective history. Reports that reveal the small story in the big one, to leaf through like a family album. This new issue of season 4 of “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” tells Harrison Ford before Indiana Jones and his meeting with Jacques Demy…
The day when > Jacques Demy wanted to launch the career of Harrison Ford
In 1964, Jacques Demy is a successful director. He has just offered his first major role to a promising actress, Catherine Deneuve, in Umbrellas of Cherbourg who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes before being nominated for the Oscars! Jacques Demy settles in Los Angeles with his wife Agnès Varda and his daughter. He soon meets a former carpenter who dreams of a career, a certain Harrison Ford. Nobody really believes in its potential, except Jacques Demy who will want to play it in his next American film, Model Shop. “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” recounts the day when Jacques Demy wanted to give Harrison Ford a chance, long before Star Wars…
And also, a character, a soundtrack…
News > The inspirations of Indiana Jones
The successful roles played by Harrison Ford are countless… There is of course the fugitive Han Solo in the saga Star Wars, but it is above all the character of Indiana Jones, this professor of archeology and adventurer, which allowed him to reach the rank of international star in the 1980s. How did George Lucas and Steven Spielberg get the idea? to create this wacky character? What are the real influences? Is there Belmondo in Indiana? Back to the genesis of this character.
Bonuses > The John Williams blind test
One of the ingredients of the “Indiana” saga is also… its music! Behind the theme of the soundtrack, world famous, John Williams, genius composer of many great melodies…
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– Harrison Ford, the actor who didn’t want to be a starby Alexis Orsini (ed. Dunod).
– The enchanted cinema of Jacques Demyby Camille Taboulay (Les Cahiers du Cinéma).
– Once Upon a Time Donkey Skinby Rosalie Varda-Demy and Emmanuel Pierrat (ed. de la Martinière)
– Umbrellas of Cherbourgby Jacques Demy (1964).
– Model Shopby Jacques Demy (1968).
– The Universe of Jacques Demyby Agnes Varda (1995).
– Mad Movies: Indiana Jonesby Alexandre Poncet (ed. Custom Publishing France).
– Indiana Jones, the historical guideby Jerome Verne.
Non-exhaustive list.
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