"What do you do when you hit rock bottom?" Brody mutters in one of the endless examples. But instead of bringing us closer to what it felt like to be the great Harry Houdini, we instead hear Brody adopt a tough-guy tone as he rattles off clichés that sound like anachronistic film noir parodies.
No word yet on when the miniseries will air.Whether or not you enjoy "Houdini" - the four-hour, two-night miniseries starring Oscar-winner Adrien Brody as the legendary escape artist - may depend on your tolerance for a voiceover narrative clogged with lines like, "The only thing more devastating than a punch to the gut is an arrow through the heart." The History channel two-parter seems intended to tell the true-life story of the world-famous illusionist as a sort of psychodrama. After the success of History’s similar shows, including The Bible, Vikings, and Hatfields & McCoys, Houdini has some serious potential. To portray him is beyond an honor.īasically, Houdini will have that underdog-overcomes-all thing going for it, following the eponymous man from poverty to fame, the action-hero thing with his occasional dabblings in espionage, and the general awesomeness that comes from illusions and magic. His life story appeals to the universal longing for acceptance with which we all can identify. Houdini mastered the art of escape – not only from physical chains, but from poverty and the social constraints of a humble immigrant origin.
His bravery and obsessive determination still fascinate me. Not to mention Brody himself has named Houdini as one of his heroes, adding presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin.” And the man we get to watch do this is Adrien freaking Brody, because after playing a con man in The Brothers Bloom, Salvador Dali in Midnight in Paris, and being generally huggable in The Darjeeling Limited, I have no doubts he could take on the part of illusionist-slash-magician-slash… well, you get it, and totally sell it. Houdini will reportedly “ the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S.
If you don’t know enough about him to know why to be excited, his occupation according to Wiki: Illusionist, magician, escapologist, stunt performer, actor, historian, film producer, pilot, debunker. The History Channel will air a new miniseries about Harry Houdini, starring Adrien Brody ( The Pianist ) and Kristen Connolly ( House of Cards).
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