I'm a little new to this subtext thing, so please forgive me if I ask a few stupid questions. When you say that there's a subtext there, do you mean that Kathleen Turner's presence is implied in the movie, or that because Karen Allen is so bad, the viewer infers KT as a superior option? Would the implied/inferred parts be reversed if the viewer were Coltrane, and was this accounted for by the movie's producers? Does KT receive any compensation for her implied/inferred appearance in Raiders?
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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
She wasn't. But maybe there's a subtext there too...
Personally I wish she was because I can't stand Karen Allen in that movie (or in any other for that matter -- she's awful in Animal House too). Maybe its the writing, but they set her up as being tough at first, then the rest of the movie is all damsel in distress, help me, help me crap. And that voice...
As bad as she is in Raiders, she is not as abysmal as the future Mrs. Spielberg in Temple of Doom.
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