8 More Moments That Literally Stopped Movies

7. Robin Checks The Script (Robin Hood: Men In Tights)

Robin Hood: Men In Tights script
20th Century Studios

Mel Brooks movies are famous for getting all crazy with their fourth wall breaks, and as such, this won't be the last time his name pops up on this list.

For now though, his brilliant 1993 comedy Robin Hood: Men In Tights contains a moment that doesn't just break the fourth wall, it raises a middle finger at it, going so far as to stop the movie while the lead character pulls out the script. Seriously.

During the archery scene in the latter half of the film, Robin is left gobsmacked when his opponent splits his arrow in two, winning the contest as a result. At this point, audiences were probably left thinking "the legendary Robin Hood being beaten in an archery contest? Preposterous!" and as it happens, they weren't the only ones - because Robin himself also agrees with that assessment.

In fact, he's so shook by this sequence of events that he decides to pull out the script for Robin Hood: Men In Tights, confident that the writers must've made a mistake somewhere. The movie stops while he flips through the pages, until, to his delight, he discovers that he gets to fire another arrow, allowing him to emerge victorious.

And just when it looks like things can't possibly get crazier, the arrow flies through the air like a curved bullet from Wanted, demolishing the bullseye from the rear of the target. Because... why not?

Contributor
Contributor

Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!