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Originally Posted by epbrown
The weird part for me is NO ONE called the character Indiana or Indy - it was Henry, Jonesy, or Jones. Ford once nearly introduced himself as Indiana, then paused and said his given name. It felt like some backstory was left on the cutting room floor.
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This was a subtle plot point, but very intentional. Throughout the whole movie, Indy's behavior suggests/implies that he is basically turning into his father. Remember the Ford/Connery relationship in LAST CRUSADE? A lot of those moments are revisited in CRYSTAL SKULL, but with "Mutt" in the Ford role and Indy in the Connery role. He is, basically, turning into his father... so it makes sense that he would prefer to go by the more mature and "responsible" Dr. Henry Jones, Jr., than the adventuring, womanizing "Indiana Jones."
In the professional world in which Jones occupies, he is no longer Indiana; the only one who calls him by that name is Marion, who doesn't know the "new" (ie OLD) Jones, a man who frowns at his son's exploits in the same way that his father frowned upon his.