The Last Action Hero is an awful movie—famously awful. It was the first bomb after a string of successes for star Arnold Schwarzenegger. However, The Last Action Hero has a Houdini reference that's integral to the plot. Luckily, you don't need to watch the movie to see it. The entire "Houdini's Magic Ticket" scene is below.
If you're curious, the theater we see here is the 1927 Orpheum in downtown Los Angeles. The exterior is the Empire Theater on 42nd Street in New York. Houdini never played either theater.
Why am I laughing at this so hard? LOL The dialogue lol I can’t lol
ReplyDeleteI love Houdini. If Houdini gave him a magic ticket, it was real. If he said the ticket had a life of its own, it did, even though Houdini never played those theatres and the story is fiction. One can neither take the magic out of Houdini, nor keep Houdini out of it. Wherever there are fans of Houdini, there his magic will be in some form. That is his everlasting gift to us all. Believe!
ReplyDeleteWell said. :)
DeleteBelieve! 😊✨
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