Karen Allen. Kate Capshaw. Alison (heh heh) Doody.
What do these women have in common? They’ve all played the female lead in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones movies, and faded promptly into obscurity (with the minor exception of Capshaw, who smartly married her director and has settled into a long career of red-carpet arm candy).
So now that Spielberg, possibly seeking to shake off the grimness of Munich, is resurrecting Indy and its paleolithic star, Harrison Ford, which doomed starlet has he selected to follow, lemminglike, off the cliff of Indy-babedom?
Uh, Cate Blanchett. That’s right. The brilliant, chameleonic Oscar winner, last seen fending off Judi Dench’s lady-advances in Notes on a Scandal and pissing herself in Babel, has been chosen for an unspecified role in the next Indiana Jones film. This is also the same Blanchett who’s been talking about eschewing films in order to focus on her role as Artistic Director of the Sydney Theatre Company.
Way to blend art and commerce, Cate. Just beware the Doody curse.
Blanchett on crusade to ‘Indiana Jones 4′ [Hollywood Reporter]
I see your point, but let’s face it–Cate has more credibility and talent in her little finger than those three put together. I, for one, would probably pay money to see a movie with her watching paint dry. And it’s not as if she hasn’t done big commercial movies before with great success–Lord of the Rings, anyone? We all know what a huge failure that was.
You committed a classic logical fallacy of confusing cause and effect.
Your mistake is this:
A) Karen Allen, Kate Capshaw and Allison Doody all starred in an Indiana Jones film.
B) Karen Allen, Kate Capshaw and Allison Doody went on have less than steller careers after appearing in an Indiana Jones film.
Then you make the leap to imply that therefore C)
appearing in an Indiana Jones film caused their careers to decline.
The mistake being made is that the causal conclusion is being drawn without adequate justification.
Either that or you had nothing to say so you just wrote a bunch of nonsense to fill up a blog page.
Wait! Or D) Rob has a sense of humor and is simply making an observation, not forming a socratic conclusion. Christ, loosen up.