History Awesome / TheFugitive

* Meta: Due to the extremely tight schedule, the film's editors got only ten weeks to edit and finish the film, in the age of analog editing where it would usually take six months to a year. To accomplish this, they assembled a team of 6 editors and 16 assistants working round the clock, shaving down scenes, turning the attack on Kimble's home into flashbacks interspersed throughout the film, and using all the tools at their disposal to not only finish on time but to make the cuts work in the movie's favor. The result was the tightly-paced, character focused editing that made the movie famous, and a well-earned Academy Award nomination.

* Meta: Due to the extremely tight schedule, the film's editors got only ten weeks to edit and finish the film, in the age of analog editing where it would ideally take the better part of a year. To accomplish this, they assembled a team of 6 editors and 16 assistants working round the clock, shaving down scenes, turning the attack on Kimble's home into flashbacks interspersed throughout the film, and using all the tools at their disposal to not only finish on time but to make the cuts work in the movie's favor. The result was the tightly-paced, character focused editing that made the movie famous, and a well-earned Academy Award nomination.

** Keep in mind that Kimble is, for all his acumen, a doctor, while Sykes, despite the one arm, is a head of security and contract killer. And Kimble still manages to overpower him with the help of a fortunate distraction, slamming the train to a stop to throw Sykes off his feet, and then just [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge whaling on him until he goes down]].

* The entire hotel sequence, from start to finish.

** Taft's wife giving him an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech when he claims that he was trying to protect her (from people gossiping about him being over at Helen's house and/or suspecting that ''he'' was the killer) by not confessing that he witnessed Helen's murder and has known all along that Richard was innocent, blasting him for both his failure to help Helen and in allowing Richard to suffer for the past 4 years, bluntly telling him that it was ''himself'' he was trying to protect because he couldn't bear for people to know he'd been such a coward and further blasting him for trying to use her as an excuse.

* The pilot episode of TheRemake garnered a ''six minute'' standing ovation when shown to test audiences.

* When Kimble [[spoiler:calls out his so-called friend Nichols for setting in motion everything bad that has happened in the movie]], then capping it off by [[https://youtu.be/bhemEIjkX64 opening a can]] of '''WHUP-ASS''' on ''him''.

* The [[https://youtu.be/ZhsIj57aPYE pilot episode]] of TheRemake garnered a ''six minute'' standing ovation when shown to test audiences.

** The finale is one in and of itself. When it was announced the show was going to end production, the producers decided that the fans deserved a resolution to the SeriesGoal, but the network balked and refused to pay for it, as providing a definitive ending would have no syndication potential. So the producers paid for it anyway, ''out-of-pocket'', because they were convinced that it was the right thing to do. The network had so little faith in it that they aired it in the [[DumpMonths dump month]] of August, when hardly any new primetime television is produced, but it was a ''monster'' hit, the highest rated episode in television history for almost 15 years until [[Series/{{Dallas}} "Who Shot J.R.?"]] Their decision was totally vindicated and (although it took the industry a while to catch on) we owe them for the entire concept of the GrandFinale in series television. To this day, the finale is fondly remembered as one of the greatest ever.

** The finale was the highest rated episode in television history for almost 15 years, until [[Series/{{Dallas}} "Who Shot J.R.?"]]

* The pilot episode of TheRemake garnered a ''six minute'' standing ovation when shown to test audiences.

* The first Kimble/Gerard standoff.

* Kimble giving an epic DeathGlare to Sykes, the man who killed his wife, and proceeding to open up a can of '''WHUP-ASS''' on him.

* When Kimble [[spoiler:calls out his so-called friend Nichols for setting in motion everything bad that has happened in the movie]], then capping it off by opening a can of '''WHUP-ASS''' on ''him''.
* At the county jail, Kimble goes down the stairs just as Gerard is going up some across the room, and Gerard sees him out of the corner of his eye. Gerard runs to the stairs that Kimble is descending and, to test him, shouts "RICHARD!" Kimble takes the bait and looks up. After a brief "I gotcha" look from Gerard, a chase ensues.

* The train wreck sequence. Audiences went to see the film just for ''that scene''.

* When Kimble is trapped by Gerard at the edge of the dam. His choices are to 1) get arrested yet again to sit on death row or 2) jump. He jumps.

* Kimble shows how seriously he takes his Hippocratic Oath when he runs into a boy with a fractured sternum. After asking a few questions and determining the boy will die under his current treatment, Kimble [[EstablishingCharacterMoment changes his orders to the correct ones with no hesitation]], knowing full well the attention it will draw.

* When Kimble [[spoiler:calls out Nichols for everything bad that has happened in the movie in front of a convention made was fist-pumpingly awesome.]]
** And then caps it off by opening a can of '''WHUP-ASS''' on him.

* When Kimble beats the crap out of Sykes, the man who killed his wife, and [[spoiler:his so-called friend Charles Nichols, who set the whole thing in motion.]]
--> '''Kimble''': [[BondOneLiner You missed your stop!]]

** Simply put, the train is REAL. They did not use a model. The wreck, which was filmed on the Great Smokey Mountain Railroad in North Carolina, has never been cleaned up and is a highlight of eastbound Tuckasegee River Excursions.

* When Kimble beats the crap out of Sykes, the man who killed his wife, and [[spoiler:his so called friend Nichols who set the whole thing in motion.]]

** The finale was the highest rated episode in television history for more than ten years, until [[Series/{{Dallas}} "Who shot JR?"]]

* The first Kimble Gerard standoff.

** And then caps it off by opening a can of WHUPASS on him.

'''Gerard''': I remember you were pointing my gun at me.\\

* When Kimble is trapped by Gerard at the edge of the dam. His choices are to 1) get handcuffed and dragged to jail to sit on death row or 2) jump. He jumps.

* Kimble shows how seriously he takes his Hippocratic Oath when he runs into a boy with a fractured sternum. After asking a few questions and determining the boy will die under his current treatment, Kimble changes his orders to the correct ones with no hesitation, knowing full well the attention it will draw.

** "There's a man back there in a blue coat waving a gun and screaming. ...At a woman." Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny in the midst of all this nail-biting tension when Gerard comes running around the corner, screaming "STOP THAT MAN!", and the officers, thanks to what Kimble has told them, do exactly what they're trained to do and restrain ''Gerard''.

** Simply put, the train is REAL. They did not use a model.

* Gerard's {{Establishing Character Moment}}, getting the guard on the bus to admit that Kimble might have survived just minutes after his arrival.

'''Kimble''': Well, I ''am'' trying to solve a puzzle. And I just found a big piece. ''(puts the phone down and leaves)''

* It's a little behind the scenes, but the fact that, in real life, HarrisonFord got a painful bone spur early in filming but held off getting it fixed so he'd have an authentic limp as Richard Kimble is a CMOA for him.

* At the county jail, Kimble goes down the stairs just as Gerard is going up some across the room, and Gerard sees him out of the corner of his eye. Gerard runs to the stairs that Kimble is descending and, to test him, shouts "RICHARD!" Richard takes the bait and looks up. After a brief "I gotcha" look from Gerard, a chase ensues.