Why did death have powers in real world? - Last Action Hero (1993) Discussion

[–] virgiltx 9 years ago

Did Death actually have his powers? He only came up to Jack and Danny out of curiosity. He gave some advice to Danny and left. Nobody died in his presence, as I recall.

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[–] zavant5303 9 years ago

When he came out of the movie theatre he touched that guy on the sidewalk and killed him

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[–] virgiltx 9 years ago

I just noticed that on last watching. There's still a question of powers. The character was dying anyway, Death shows up as symbolism. And that's all it ever is. Death is still acting consistently, just like Slater, Benedict, and the Ripper.

Death encountering the dying smoker is similar to Jack's luckily encountering Benedict in crowded Manhattan, and more than once.

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[–] MisterCard 9 years ago

Death is Death in all realities. at least that's my take on it.

-Ah, here it is. "Breach Hull - All Die." Even had it underlined.

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[–] doughboyjonesmkii 8 years ago

Possibly because at the end of the day (movie conveniences aside)Jack Slater is still simply a human man. In the real world he doesn't have those convenient plot twists or candy glass to protect him. Death on the other hand doesn't have a power of death to lose, he friggin' IS death. Besides, that magic ticket seemed kinda fickle, maybe it just wasn't consistent in what it considered 'real' enough to exist in our world.

I'm genuinely convinced that every movie would be better with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it.

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[–] KingCobra686 8 years ago

Yeah I think thats the best interpretation. The differences in Jacks world were differences in the settings and laws of physics, not Jack himself.

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[–] Boromir (9712) 8 months ago

Nothing to add, this is the best interpretation. The villain's mistake in the movie was not summoning people with supernatural powers other than Death.

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[–] virgiltx 8 years ago

Another interpretation could be that in Slater's real world experience, danger and pain are real, and we don't escape the realities of them, because real things are real. Death is real thing also, that no one is immune to. So, to be consistent with Slater's real world experience, death must be real also, just like the pain of a head-on collision.

And Slater could have died in this world, if Danny didn't get him back to movieland.

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[–] !!!deleted!!! (49761343) 8 years ago

Why did death have powers in real world?

Because the inept screenwriters either forgot or didn't care that they had firmly established throughout the entire movie that because characters onscreen aren't real, they can't have powers in the real world.

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[–] Gourry Gabriev 7 years ago

It was the power of the magic golden ticket.

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[–] apriloish 7 years ago

No it was because jack never had powers his world just had rules but he himself never had power death though dose have powers meaning if you bring someone from the movies who in his world can punch threw a window because thats the rules of that world in reality he cant him punching threw the window isnt a power its simply the physical laws of that world were as death himself has powers

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[–] RepairedSpace06 (8) 7 years ago

I'd be more concerned with how Death has a list of people in the "real world" to kill when none of them exist in his movie.

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[–] ThrillerTalk (1118) 6 years ago

Just a thought here but maybe the person he touched was so shocked to have seen this "Death" character come out of the movie screen that when he was touched he simply fainted.

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