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House of Joe Hallenbeck
“Mouth or belly?”
Joe Hallenbeck (Bruce Willis)
If the story of The Last Boys Scout takes place in and around Los Angeles, it is also in California that the filming took place, from March 11 to June 13, 1991. A shooting took place on Via de La Olas in Pacific Palisades where the Hollenbeck family home was found. Director Tony Scott, younger brother of Ridley Scott, shoots one of the most cult sequences of his action film in front of this beautiful Californian-style house. Having just discovered that his wife was sleeping with his best friend, Joe Hallenbeck brings the latter to the front of the house to explain himself. He then asks him a question: “The face or the belly? His friend then knows that Joe will hit him. It remains to be seen where.
If The Last Boy Scout has been a real success on video over the years, Tony Scott has kept a rather bitter memory of it. Constantly watched by his producer Joel Silver, the action man of American cinema in the 1990s, and by his star, the director could not really work as he wanted. Joel Silver said that the production of The Last Boy Scout was one of the worst of his career. Tony Scott would later draw inspiration from his producer to design the character of Lee Donowitz, one of the characters in True Romance. In Hollywood, revenge is often settled on the big screen.
Bruce Willis was not the producers’ first choice. The latter having first considered Jack Nicholson in the lead role.
15515 Via de Las Olas
Relatively unchanged since the release of The Last Boy Scout, the home of the character played by Bruce Willis tells the story of one of the most popular pages of American action cinema.
An upscale residential neighborhood located between Santa Monica and the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Palisades is notably known for Will Rogers State Beach as well as for the Getty Villa, the former residence of billionaire J. Paul Getty. The house at 15515 Via de Las Olas is a reflection of the neighborhood. A cozy home, with a comfortable wooded lot, with four bedrooms and five bathrooms. It was estimated at more than 11 million dollars and was last sold on October 19, 2021 for 10,200,000 dollars.
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