Marcia Lucas (née Griffin) is a twice Oscar-nominated American film editor.
Although her official credits on the Indiana Jones franchise are few, Lucas has been noted as a voice against the consideration of the Indiana Jones character being an alchoholic in Raiders of the Lost Ark, arguing that if he was it wouldn't make storytelling sense for Washington to hire him.[1]
She has also claimed responsibility for ensuring that the closing scene in Raiders where Marion Ravenwood consoles a frustrated Jones on the steps of Washington DC was filmed. After viewing a cut of the movie in which the scene was missing despite being scripted, Lucas asked what had happened to it only to be told by her husband, producer George Lucas, and the film's director Steven Spielberg that it wasn't necessary. Marcia Lucas insisted that the scene was important for emotional closure otherwise as far as the story was concerned, Marion was still tied up where the Ark of the Covenant was opened. Convinced, her husband went and shot the scene on location in San Francisco.[1]
George Lucas partly attributes the divorce he was going through during the development of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as one of the reasons for the film's darker tone compared to Raiders.[2]
Indiana Jones work[]
- The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark (Special Thanks)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Howard Kazanjian: A Producer's Life
- ↑ Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
