What do you think was the true "intention" or "reasoning" behind the nuke the fridge scene in Indiana Jones 4?

Bill

It's the ultimate expression of "The Macguyver Syndrome". You place your hero at the center of a nuclear bomb test and there's only 10 seconds left, so no way can he run away from it. If he panics, he's dead. What do you do? How do you survive a nuclear blast from near ground zero. This is the only even remotely plausible option, and I'm not truly buying it would work for real, but it's better than anything else they could have come up with.

Weasel McWeasel

The intention was to show that in life or Death situations.......you need to think quick, and think OUTSIDE the BOX. Except the answer this time......was INSIDE the box.........the Icebox, that is ! Sometimes, when boxed into a situation.........the best solution, is to get in the box and close the lid.

Mike W

It could be anything. Maybe they wrote themselves into a corner, and the fridge was their only way to keep from killing off the hero.

Tatjana

People don't just survive nuke explosions, and for Indiana it seemed that there was no way for him to survive that. but he still manages to survive it. I think it means to show that after all he has been through, after all the things he made it through, he always gets to live, and that he is one tough adventurer. And I think since the filmmakers could not think of anything more challenging or hard to survive because Indiana had allready survived some nasty ****, they had to make something up which would really blow your mind and think how Indiana can survive that, to make an impact of what kind of a surviver he really is.

Eric Benjamin Horton

Mostly humor. It technically 'moved th story forward." LITERALLY, if you will. Also, it might be saying that you can't escape man's destutiv nature, but looking to science for protection is an easier answer. Keep looking for deeper meanings within film. You're on the right track already toward understanding film analysis.

Anonymous

Nuclear explosions tear open gateways between worlds allowing demonic (alien) entities to cross into our realm and hasten the demise of men. Thus it was a foreshadowing of Jones' interactions with the crystal skull aliens

Jamie

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