Apparently, one of the people living in my house has not seen Raiders of the Lost Ark, so we are absolutely watching it this evening.
It's funny, as I think about this movie, it really creeped me out as a kid. Remember that Nazi-face-melting part at the end of the movie (who knew you can't stare directly at really old dust), that used to give me nightmares.
My absolute favorite part of that movie, though, has to be when good ole Indian Jones shoots that guy after he displays all those sweet sword moves. I didn't realize, though, that that move was not in the script.
According to imdb:
The infamous scene in which Indy shoots a marauding and flamboyant swordsman was not in the original script. Harrison Ford was supposed to use his whip to get the swords out of his attacker's hands, but the food poisoning he and the rest of the crew had gotten made him too sick to perform the stunt. After several unsuccessful tries, someone made the off-handed remark, "Why doesn't he just shoot him and get it done and over with?" Steven Spielberg immediately took up the idea and the scene was successfully filmed.
I have but one thing left to say, "Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?"
