Indy Press Kit

[patrickdonohue]

So I arrived back to the newsroom today after covering a thrilling meeting about the start of spring break and what should I find but the press kit for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Inside was a CD-Rom full of stills and other production goodies but what I didn't expect to find was A WHIP! You heard me right, LucasFilms is arming movie reviewers and other press folks with facsimile whips. Of course I was eager to test out the aforementioned whip so I cheerily went into the morgue (the place where one can find back issues of newspapers) and cracked it around a bit. I've come to the conclusion that the whip is far too long and not wound tight enough to actually give that trademark Indy crack but it was pretty cool nonetheless. I know that some of you are way excited about the release of this flick so I thought I'd pass this anecdote along.

[heyseuss]

A facsimilie whip ???? Um, made of paper?

Have you ever tried cracking a real whip ??

[patrickdonohue]

Yeah I have cracked an actual whip. And it's not made of paper, it's made of what appears to look like leather, though it surely isn't made of real hide. It's like that super cheap material they make like $9 baseball gloves out of. Facsimile may have been the wrong word. It's more of a replica.