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Of course I don't think a 20 year old would be good for this, as Play said Quaid isn't younger either and I knew that. Quaid is like Ford when he filmed Lost Ark, even older maybe dunno. Of course Indy should be someone around 40 and not younger, he's supposed to be a doctor and a professor. But I don't think he should be much older either. Would it have been credible or cool in Last Crusade that Indy's dad did the same things as Indy, jumping, punching, running, climbing etc.? No Indy did Indy's stuff and Indy's dad did fogeyish stuff, that's what makes Connery's character and his tandem with Ford memorable. Anyway I'm talking about the character's age, the actor can be as old as he wants if he manages to look like 40. Ford is starting to look quite venerable, but I guess that he can do at least for this fourth installment.

Anyway I don't like this sidekick idea. Now this LaBeouff will be characterized as someone just as kickass as Indy only younger. It's much better the classical tandem hero + girl, hero + father, there's dialogue between the characters, not just the "now it's my turn to be 133t and impress you" that will surely LaBeouff be about.

About Willis, I think the first movie is very good and better than the third one IMO, I haven't seen the fourth yet. One of the things that differentiate Die Hard from other action movies, the key thing I'd say that sets it apart and makes it better, is that Willis plays an ordinary man forced to be a hero, he's in pain all the time, he's not Schwarzenegger. In the third one they fell somewhat for Willis's fame and it was more like "the bad guys can't touch me I'm level 20", not cool. Willis was awesome in the first movies, he doesn't grin like that any more and that grin was McLane's main trait.