Cinema Zone-Die Hard With A Vengeance(1995) 1/4

Part One Of My Review Of The Kick Ass Action Thriller Die Hard With A Vengeance(1995) Starring Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene, Colleen Camp, Larry Bryggman, And Anthony Peck. Directed By John McTiernan.

Trivia

# Originally titled "Simon Says" (where Zeus was scripted as a woman) and was considered as the third sequel to Lethal Weapon (1987).

# The 2003 R1 DVD version includes the original ending showing McClane and Simon playing a game of 'chicken' with a rocket launcher. In this original version, Simon Gruber and his crew get away with the gold and months later, McClane tracks Simon down in Eastern Europe (where in Europe is debated: McClane mentions Germany, but people in the background are heard speaking Hungarian) The number on the bottom of the aspirin bottle (at the phone booth) leads McClane to Gruber. The gold was turned into small miniatures of the Empire State building and smuggled out of the country. McClane is thrown off the force, with the police thinking that he may actually be involved in the heist. The "game" that McClane and Simon play is about riddles that McClane tells Simon, and he is supposed to figure out the answer, or McClane will force him to fire a rocket launcher with its directional arrows removed, so neither will know which direction it will fire in until it is actually fired. The scene climaxes with McClane forcing Simon at gunpoint to fire the rocket launcher, which kills Simon, and McClane is revealed to be wearing a flak-jacket, which would have saved his life if the rocket launcher had fired at him instead of Simon. The studio objected to the ending, saying that it made McClane too cruel and heartless, whereas screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh stated that that was exactly the point: to show that McClane had been pushed over the edge by the events of that day, and then subsequently losing everything as a result of Simon.

# The chase scenes in the tunnel were filmed in New York City Water Tunnel Number 3, an unfinished aqueduct connecting the city to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.

# While the highway scenes are supposed to take place on the Saw Mill Parkway in Westchester County, NY, they were actually filmed on the Merritt Parkway in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and on the Taconic Parkway in Putnam County, NY.

# Character "Dr. Fred Schiller" is a reference to the 18th century German poet 'Friedrich Schiller (I)', who wrote the lyrics used by Ludwig van Beethoven in his 9th symphony, which is used in Die Hard (1988).

# When the bomb goes off in the Bonwit Teller department store, there is an "Atlantic Courier" truck parked in front of the store that gets flipped over. In Die Hard (1988), Hans Gruber and the other terrorists arrive at Nakatomi Plaza in a "Pacific Courier" truck.

# Director John McTiernan considered either editing out the beginning bombing of the department store, or moving the release date back as they felt that the American public might still be sensitive to bombing due to closeness of dates of the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

# Simon calls a radio announcer to report that there is a bomb in a school. The name of the announcer is Elvis Duran, an actual radio announcer on the station Z100 (100.3 FM).

# The sandwich board that Bruce Willis wore while filming in Harlem said "I hate everyone" rather than the more racist version that appears in the film. The sign was changed with CGI in post-production to read "I Hate Niggers", though the "I hate everyone" version is used for some television broadcasts of the film.

# The line "Yipee-ki-yay, motherfucker!" is used in all of the Die Hard movies

# Early drafts for the screenplay were based on the novel "Troubleshooter" which involved terrorists seizing control of a Caribbean cruise ship.

# Director John McTiernan acknowledged the errors concerning the gold in the dump trucks and its respective weight. McTiernan and Samuel L. Jackson were permitted to lift a genuine bar of gold to get a feel of how heavy gold really was.

# The sex scene between Jeremy Irons and Sam Phillips was added in at the last minute because McTiernan knew that the film would get an R rating and he might as well put a sex scene in.

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[LK9Icepick]

@The1979Warriors no it didnt.

[HateFenians]

What happened to the I hate niggers clip?

[The1979Warriors]

Die Hard 3 sucked!!! Die Hard 4.0 was miles better than it!

[VitalSigns1]

Die hard 3 was by far the best of all the die hards

[Sierra12isheretostay]

Thanks bro like Matt said its no rush just get some rest and take care of those allergies bro i know they can be a real bitch to deal with man.Awesome first part of a awesome sequel that pretty munch lives up to the first flim and ''then some''. 4:13 your yelling at your pussy LOL!

[DLFproductions]

i agree, die hard 3 is a really fun sequel

[ramboraph]

That's cool man, no hurry for Yor. Just worry about getting over those allergies. I know how it goes and there's no rush. But thanks for the kind words Mike.

Die Hard 3 is a fun sequel. Great first part man.