'Impossible' survival may have been intentional.

Posted by Dr. Schwing from 203.101.14.145 on January 15, 2000 at 05:00:19:

In Reply to: How Indy survived the submarine trip to the island in Raiders posted by California Jones on January 14, 2000 at 12:08:51:

On the serials of the 30's and 40's that Raiders was based on, the hero would often survive a cliffhanger ending in the next reel that was patently impossible, ie: a car went over the cliff and the audience saw it happen without anybody getting out. But in the next episode, you would see the hero roll out of the car and escape when he clearly had not done so. For the writers of that time, that was a blatant cheat. But the writer of Indy, Kasdan, Lucas, or Spielberg, or whoever may have intentionally made the scene as a 'homage' to those bygone days.

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