I might add that the scene is played to be intense and thrilling, but its played for comedy and irony as well to a fairly large extent.
The way Indy turns around to see the mechanic, you can see he's not sure this is actually happening to him. How can anybody be this unlucky? And the way he sighs with exhaustion when he accepts that it actually is happening, and lazily gets ready to fight, all of thats clearly played for humour.
And thats all made funnier by the fact that the mechanic is only there for the fun of it, rather than a sense of duty.
The way Indy turns around to see the mechanic, you can see he's not sure this is actually happening to him. How can anybody be this unlucky? And the way he sighs with exhaustion when he accepts that it actually is happening, and lazily gets ready to fight, all of thats clearly played for humour.
And thats all made funnier by the fact that the mechanic is only there for the fun of it, rather than a sense of duty.