Part One Of My Review Of What I Believe To Be The Greatest Action Movie Ever Made, Die Hard(1988) Starring Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason, De'voreaux White, William Atherton, Hart Bochner, And Alexander Goudonov. Directed By John McTiernan.
Trivia
# The scene in which Gruber and McClane meet was inserted in to the script after Alan Rickman (Hans Gruber) was found to be proficient at mimicking American accents. The filmmakers had been looking for a way to have the two characters meet prior to the climax and capitalized on Rickman's talent.
# The original poster for the film did not feature Bruce Willis likeness, just the building. The producers originally thought it might deter non-Willis fans from seeing the movie. Posters were later altered after the early box office success.
# Alan Rickman's feature film debut.
# The addresses and phone numbers depicted on the LAPD dispatch's computer for the Nakatomi plaza management are the actual numbers for management of Fox Plaza, where the film was shot.
# The German that the terrorists speak is sometimes grammatically incorrect and meaningless. In the German version of the film, the terrorists are not from Germany but from "Europe". This has been fixed for the Special Edition VHS and later home video releases. The only instances of incorrect use of German are Alan Rickman's (Hans Gruber) lines.
# One cop says that John McClane (Bruce Willis) "could be a fucking bartender for all we know". Prior to becoming a well-known actor, Willis was a bartender.
# In the German version, Hans Gruber's name is changed to Jack Gruber.
# In the German version the names and backgrounds of the German-born terrorists were changed into English forms (mostly into their British equivalents): Hans became Jack, Karl became Charlie, Heinrich turned into Henry etc... the new background depicted them as radical Irish activists having gone freelance and for profit rather than ideals. (This led to some odd plot holes in this movie and continuity problems with Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995); there, the villain is considered to be the brother of Hans Gruber, yet he's German.) This was because German terrorism, especially by the Rote Armee Fraktion (the Red Army Faction), was still considered a sensitive issue by the German government in the 1980s.
# The line "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!" is used in all Four Die Hard movies (this one, Die Hard 2 (1990), Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)), and Live Free or Die Hard (2007), although a gunfire masks the 'fucker' part in the latest installment). It also translates in Urdu to "here eat this"
# In this film, Hans Gruber mocks McClane, telling him that this time "John Wayne does not get to walk off into the sunset with Grace Kelly." Willis responds, "That was Gary Cooper, asshole," in an obvious reference to the western High Noon (1952).
# The terrorists arrive in a truck that is green with a white top with "Pacific Courier" on the side. In Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), the truck that gets caught in the blast outside the Bonwit Teller store is a green truck with a white top, with "Atlantic Courier" on the side. Also, in Speed (1994/I), the airplane that gets blown up at the end is green with "Pacific Courier" on the side. This is an in-joke from production designer Jackson De Govia, who was part of the crew for all three movies. Ironically, "Pacific Courier" translates to mean "Bringer of Peace".
# This was based on a book by Roderick Thorp entitled "Nothing Lasts Forever" - a sequel to another book entitled "The Detective", which in 1968 was made into a film starring Frank Sinatra. Coincidentally, Bruce Willis made his movie debut in The First Deadly Sin (1980) walking out of a bar as Sinatra walks into it.
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You know, i speak Urdu and Yippie-ky-yay" dosen't really translate to "here eat this." Yippie-ky-yay" was something that they said in old cowboy movies. maybe the Ky-yay sounds like ky-yeh, which sounds more like eat this, but yippie does not traslate to "here."
codename617 6 months ago
Shit it's what it is
SuperFerndale 9 months ago
The Movie Francise that made Bruce Willis a big star awesome review man 5.5 and your intro totally kicks ass. And I love McClaine 's saying Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker
CybrogNinja 2 years ago
Die Hard ROCKS ! I watdch the movie last night. It was Awesome !
AwsomeCuban 2 years ago
The novel was called "nothing last forever."
wildmanbeyond 2 years ago
BADDASS! Intro! 5 stars I wounder where you got the song from? LOL!
Sierra12isheretostay 2 years ago
de hard one of the best action flicks of all time, nice work mike
DLFproductions 2 years ago