Gun Beats Sword - Raiders of the Lost Ark

When it's life or death, cheat.


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[wispofdespair]

One of the all-time classic scenes in an action movie.

[MrSimWrangler]

LOL!!! Gun beats sword everytime.

[Gravesyte]

He turned around like what you would've done the same thing lol

[MetroidJunkie2007]

Mike Huckabee said on his show that the Homeland Department of Security should use this as an instructional safety video instead of grabbing scissors.

[Amalekites]

Wait a minute.. didn't we learn this in 1981?

[lmcgregoruk]

From Wikipedia

Ford was suffering from dysentery and did not want to film a lengthy fight scene in which Indiana uses his whip to fight off a swordsman. He said to Spielberg "Let's just shoot the fucker." Spielberg agreed, scrapped the rest of the fight scene, and filmed the gag of Indiana quickly gunning down the swordsman.

[Hazem Riahi]

the shortest fight ever.

[PaulFesh]

yeah, I heard the same thing, wasn't a planned thing, but looked so good in editing that they replaced the planned fight with it...although the version I heard just has him a sick, "bowel problems" sounds much funnier.

[boffinboy100]

I was told that originally he was to fight the swordsman, but on that day, Harrison Ford had 'Bowel problems' and needed 'to go' so he just shot the swordsman. Upon review, the was kept.