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This is the football equivalent of Indiana Jones’ ‘sword vs gun’ fight and it’s just as perfect

John Plunkett. Updated September 24th, 2018

You’ll remember that fabulous Raiders of the Lost Ark scene where Indiana Jones is confronted on the streets of Cairo by a scary swordsman who does all sorts of crazy trickery – only for Indy to shoot him dead.

Well here’s the same scene again – except done on a football pitch.

Beautiful.

Here’s Harrison Ford talking about the scene a while back.

We were shooting in Tunisia, and the script had a scene in which I fight a swordsman, an expert swordsman, it was meant to be the ultimate duel between sword and whip. And I was suffering from dysentery, really, found it inconvenient to be out of my trailer for more than 10 minutes at a time. We’d done a brief rehearsal of the scene the night before we were meant to shoot it, and both Steve and I realized it would take 2 or 3 days to shoot this. And it was the last thing we were meant to shoot in Tunisia before we left to shoot in England. And the scene before this in the film included a whip fight against 5 bad guys that were trying to kidnap Marian, so I thought it was a bit redundant. I was puzzling how to get out of this 3 days of shooting, so when I got to set I proposed to Steven that we just shoot the son a bitch and Steve said “I was thinking that as well.” So he drew his sword, the poor guy was a wonderful British stuntman who had practiced his sword skills for months in order to do this job, and was quite surprised by the idea that we would dispatch him in 5 minutes. But he flourished his sword, I pulled out my gun and shot him, and then we went back to England.

And here’s the scene again. Never gets old.

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