It’s a Thursday at 7:45 a.m. Elysian Park Playground, overlooking Dodger Stadium and Downtown L.A., is still and serene, with not a soul in sight.
But a couple of minutes before 8 o’clock, a tinny voice on a loudspeaker slices through the hush in the air. It’s hard to make it all out, but one statement is unmistakably audible:
“The line is clear.”
After a short beat of dead silence, rapid live fire from the LAPD Police Academy rings out through the ravine, killing any semblance of tranquility. It’s a sobering reminder of why L.A. TACO came to the playground in the first place.
From the most prescient and heart-wrenching to the flat-out bizarre and outrageous, here’s our guide to the L.A. filming locations for ten infamous movie death scenes.
Spoilers ahead . . .