A closer look
Harrison Ford shot the legendary scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indiana Jones casually shoots a flashy sword-wielding assassin because the actor was suffering from a brutal case of dysentery and desperately needed to use the bathroom; the original script called for a three-day, highly choreographed whip versus sword duel, but Ford was losing so much fluid from both ends that he literally could not stand up for more than ten minutes at a time, so director Steven Spielberg agreed to just have the hero pull out a revolver and end the fight in three seconds, accidentally creating one of the greatest comedic moments in action cinema history, meaning we owe an undisputed masterpiece of character building entirely to a terrible case of explosive diarrhea, which is exactly the kind of unglamorous truth Hollywood usually tries to hide
