Knife fights, as well as knife-throwing stunts, are staged for dramatic effect in action films. In "Under Siege", "Commando", "Gangs of New York", "Machete", and "Machete Kills", knife fights are shown as climactic battles. A common theme in such films is for the hero to discard a gun or similarly superior weapon, in order to engage the otherwise unarmed villain in "fair" knife-to-knife combat. In the 2002 film version of "The Count of Monte Cristo", the main character, Dantes, agrees to engage in a knife fight against Jacopo, a member of a smuggler's crew (the captain of which calls Jacopo "the best knife fighter I have ever seen"). Dantes defeats Jacopo but spares his life, gaining a pivotal ally in his future endeavors. In the 2012 A.J. Shapiro film The Death of a Rose-White Prussian, Captain Tom Goldman, a U.S. Special Forces operative, runs out of ammo for his guns and resorts to a knife fight in which he is bayoneted through the stomach by German henchman Kassel, but stabs Kassel through the throat with his own knife.