04.19.08
Bad guys never get their hats back
I have a theory — probably incorrect, but that’s never stopped me before — that Steven Spielberg regarded this character as the bad-guy equivalent of Indiana Jones. A ballsy, resourceful hero who just happens to be working for the wrong side…as he crawls across the roof of the caboose, Spielberg lingers on a shot in which the officer’s hat gets blown off by the wind. Of course, a frequent motif throughout the whole series is Indy losing his fedora during action scenes, then triumphantly regaining it.
In an entirely unrelated matter, I have come to the conclusion that watching someone play a 2D Mario platform game without using the dash button is possibly the most frustrating experience in all existence.