History Recap / YoungIndianaJonesAndTheHollywoodFollies

* CastTheExpert: InUniverse; John Ford needs to film the most realistic-looking gunfight in his new movie. So he calls in Wyatt Earp -- ''the'' Wyatt Earp -- to be his technical advisor. TruthInTelevision, for in his later years Earp (who died in 1929) was often used in this capacity by {{Western}} film-makers of the early twentieth century. He was friends with William S. Hart and Tom Mix as well as John Ford.

* TheDanza: InUniverse; Kitty, the female lead in ''Six Steps to Hell'', is evidently playing a character called Kitty in the film. This was common practice at the time -- Harry Carey, for example, often played characters called Harry.

* ForegoneConclusion: Viewers familiar with the history of silent film may well be aware that the filming of ''Foolish Wives'' continued into 1921, making Indy's efforts to get the filming wrapped up in ten days in August 1920 redundant.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Indy encounters Music/GeorgeGershwin (again), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Laemmle Carl Laemmle]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Stroheim Erich Von Stroheim]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Thalberg Irving Thalberg]], Creator/JohnFord, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Carey_(actor) Harry Carey]] and an elderly [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt_Earp Wyatt Earp]]. Claire Lieberman is a fictional character but there were women working as screenwriters in Hollywood at the time.

* MrExposition: In the cinema at the start, George Gershwin briefly recaps what happened following the events of ''[[Recap/YoungIndianaJonesAndTheScandalOf1920 Scandal of 1920]]'' in order to bring viewers up to date. It's brief -- after being exposed as a three-timer, Indy got sacked from the theatre because one of the girlfriends, Gloria, is the daughter of the man who ended up bankrolling ''George White's Scandals''.

* StageName: Discussed; after learning that Indy named himself after his dog, John Ford tells him that his surname is actually O'Feeney -- his brother, who moved to the USA before he did, changed his name.

* ThrowItIn: InUniverse; done twice by John Ford. The first time is while travelling to the film location when he thinks the sunset looks so good, he stops everyone and films the final scene there and then. The second time is when a fire accidentally starts on-set with the cameras rolling -- he not only carries on filming, he gets Kitty to improvise a scene in which she laments her homestead being burned down.

** ''Six Steps to Hell'', meanwhile, sees all of the stuntmen get injured and one of the actors die after getting bitten by a snake. Indy is forced to stand in for him, and -- thanks to the lack of uninjured stuntmen -- has to perform the most dangerous stunt of them all, in which he breaks his foot.

* AwkwardSilenceEntrance: Occurs when Indy enters the back bar at the Waterhole, which -- despite it being 1920 -- is done up to look like a bar in a Western. Which is appropriate, as most of the clientele are rodeo men and old-timers who hang out there in the hope that someone from the film studios will come asking for their services. Which is why Indy's there. He's looking for Wyatt Earp -- and when he tells him that John Ford and Harry Carey sent him, Earp tells everyone that it's OK, upon which the music and hubbub of conversation resume.

* CastTheExpert: InUniverse; John Ford needs to film the most realistic-looking gunfight in his new movie. So he calls in Wyatt Earp -- ''the'' Wyatt Earp -- to be his technical advisor. TruthInTelevision, for Earp was often used in this capacity by film-makers of the early twentieth century, and was friends with William S. Hart and Tom Mix as well as John Ford.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: At the studio, they're using asbestos for snow scenes -- stagehands are literally picking the stuff up in with their hands and throwing it in front of fans so it blows into the actors' faces.
* EpicMovie: ''Foolish Wives'' was at the time the most expensive movie ever made. Universal Studios turned von Stroheim's extravagance into a virtue for advertising purposes, billing it as the "first million-dollar movie". Von Stroheim intended for the film to run for anywhere between six and ten hours, and to be shown over two evenings. Universal refused, and cut the film to a mere three-and-a-half hours for its premiere, and then cut it further (to just under two hours) for general release.
* ExecutiveMeddling: InUniverse: Having been hired by Carl Laemmle to bring the filming of ''Foolish Wives'' under control, Indy attempts this with Irving Thalberg. Von Stroheim, the director, resists them. Indy and Irving resort to ''getting one of the actors drunk and dumping him in Mexico'' in order to hurry up the filming process by forcing von Stroheim to drop plans for superfluous scenes. Later, they try to actively sabotage a scene and get John Ford to drug von Stroheim.

* {{Homage}}: The whole episode is basically one of these to SilentMovie-era Hollywood.
* IndyPloy: Von Stroheim's film-making is basically this, as he has various ideas for (expensive) new scenes which he just adds to his already-overblown movie. Since he's in charge (and, as stated above, at total megalomaniac), everyone does his bidding, and quite a few people, including Claire, think he's a genius.

* MrExposition: In the cinema at the start, George Gershwin briefly recaps what happened following the events of ''[[Recap/YoungIndianaJonesAndTheScandalOf1920 Scandal of 1920]]'' in order to bring viewers up to date. It's brief -- after being exposed as a three-timer, Indy got sacked from the theatre because one of the girlfriends, Gloria, is the daughter of the man who ended up bankrolling ''George White's Scandals.

* ThrowItIn: InUniverse; when a fire accidentally starts on-set with the cameras rolling, John Ford not only carries on filming, he gets Kitty to improvise a scene in which she laments her homestead being burned down.
* TroubledProduction: InUniverse, ''Foolish Wives'' has this in spades thanks to von Stroheim's extravagance. Carl Laemmle of Universal Pictures really did get the studio's advertising department to present his foibles as virtues in order to publicise the film (as evidenced by the poster he shows Indy) while also promoting Irving Thalberg (then aged 20) to Head of Productions with the task of bringing von Stroheim into line.

-->'''John Ford''': Well, I can't have Harry shoot somebody in the back

* ThrowItIn: When a fire accidentally starts on-set with the cameras rolling, John Ford decides on the spot to film it, and hastily has Kitty improvise a scene in which she laments her homestead being burned down.

* CallBack: Four years after [[Recap/YoungIndianaJonesSpringBreakAdventure his last visit]], Indy goes to Mexico; this time, it's a quick visit in order to leave a drunk Prince Massimo south of the border, scuppering von Stroheim's plan to film several (evidently superfluous) scenes with him. Later, Indy mentions to John Ford that [[Recap/YoungIndianaJonesLovesSweetSong he visited Ireland at the time of the Easter Rising]].

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Discussed between John Ford, Harry Carey and Wyatt Earp. Ford and Carey want an authentic gunfight for ''Six Steps to Hell'', but realise that filming a ''truly'' authentic one, as described by Earp, would be verging onto this territory.
-->'''John Ford''': I need a good gunfight. Something ''real''.
-->'''Harry Carey''': Like it was.
-->'''Wyatt Earp''': Well, for an ambush to work...
-->'''John Ford''': ''[interrupting]'' You mean a gunfight.
-->'''Wyatt Earp''': I mean an ambush.
-->'''John Ford''': Alright, an ambush. How'd it work?

August 1920. Indy gets a job with a film studio and is sent to Hollywood with the task of shutting down an over-budget production directed by Erich Von Stroheim. Indy appears to be no match for the hot-tempered and stubborn director, but is able to join forces with studio executive Irving Thalberg to get the film taken away from him. Indy then misses his return trip to Chicago, and with no money he joins the production crew of a John Ford western. When one of the stars accidentally dies, Indy fills in, getting some acting lessons from Harry Carey and tips on authenticity from legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. Ford's film features a show-topping stunt -- a jump from horse to a carriage including a hair-raising turn being dragged from behind the carriage, a trick that will serve Indy well in the future.

* TroubledProduction: InUniverse, ''Foolish Wives'' has this in spades thanks to von Stroheim's extravagance. Carl Laemmle of Universal Pictures really did get the studio's advertising department to present his foibles as virtues in order to publicise the film (as evidenced by the poster he shows Indy) while also promoting Irving Thalberg (then aged 20) to head of production with the task of bringing von Stroheim into line.

* YouAreInChargeNow: When Indy fails to bring von Stroheim to heel, Laemmle fires him and promotes Irving to Head of Productions, with his immediate priority being, you guessed it, to bring von Stroheim to heel.

-->'''Wyatt Earp: Well, for an ambush to work...

* CastTheExpert: John Ford needs to film the most realistic-looking gunfight in his new movie. So he calls in Wyatt Earp -- ''the'' Wyatt Earp -- to be his technical advisor. TruthInTelevision, for Earp was often used in this capacity by film-makers of the early twentieth century, and was friends with William S. Hart and Tom Mix as well as John Ford.

* CallBack: Four years after [[Recap/YoungIndianaJonesSpringBreakAdventure his last visit]], Indy goes to Mexico; this time, it's a quick visit in order to leave a drunk Prince Massimo south of the border, scuppering von Stroheim's plan to film several (evidently superfluous) scenes with him.
-->'''George Gershwin''': I had a feeling having three girlfriends was going to be trouble. Especially when one of them was the boss's daughter. Tough luck it got you fired.

** The filming of ''Foolish Wives'' actually continued into 1921, with the film eventually being released in 1922.

* ShoutOut: The movie premiere Indy and Claire go to is for is ''Under Crimson Skies'', which is nowadays considered a "lost film" as there is no known surviving footage of it.

* WorthyOpponent: Von Stroheim even uses these exact words to describe Indy.

* ExecutiveMeddling: InUniverse: Having been hired by Carl Laemmle to bring the filming of ''Foolish Wives'' under control, Indy attempts this with Irving Thalberg. Von Stroheim, the director, resists them. Indy and Irving even resort to ''getting one of the actors drunk and dumping him in Mexico'' in order to hurry up the filming process by forcing von Stroheim to drop plans for superfluous scenes. Later, they try to actively sabotage a scene by throwing marbles on the floor, causing several extras to fall over, ruining the shot.

* ExecutiveMeddling: InUniverse: Having been hired by Carl Laemmle to bring the filming of ''Foolish Wives'' under control, Indy attempts this with Irving Thalberg. Von Stroheim, the director, resists them. Indy and Irving even resort to ''getting one of the actors drunk and dumping him in Mexico'' in order to hurry up the filming process by forcing von Stroheim to drop plans for superfluous scenes.

* ExecutiveMeddling: InUniverse: Having been hired by Carl Laemmle to bring the filming of ''Foolish Wives'' under control, Indy attempts this with Irving Thalberg. Von Stroheim, the director, resists them.

* CallBack: Four years after [[Recap/YoungIndianaJonesSpringBreakAdventure his last visit]], Indy goes to Mexico.