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What is John McClane's catchphrase? Who was the villain in Die Hard 4. Jan Gruber. Name the building the first Die Hard took place in? Fortune Plaza. Die Hard 4. New Year's Day. How is hacker Frederick Kaludis better known? San Diego. Die Hard 2 takes place how long after Die Hard? Besides being only a TV star at the time and barely being considered for the role of John McClane, Willis had one more hurdle to overcome.

He was one half of the starring duo on Moonlighting. The film shoot would have coincided with the filming schedule of the show that Willis was contracted to.

But series costar, Cybil Shepherd had gotten pregnant around the same time. Filming of the show had to be shut down for 11 weeks, which was perfect for Willis to run around the Nakatomi Plaza. At minutes this is the longest Die Hard movie.

John McTiernan turned the script down several times. He felt it was a nasty piece of work. When he was finally persuaded to take on the assignment, he was able to lighten some of the film's darker edges. The Fox building, which served as "Nakatomi Plaza" can be seen in an earlier state of construction in Bruce Willis' first movie, Blind Date It can be seen from David's office window at about In the novel which this film is based upon, 'Nothing Lasts Forever' the hero, Joe Leland, kills the first terrorist by deliberately breaking his neck.

In the movie John McClane kills the first terrorist in the same way but by accident. On the Blu-ray Disc commentary, production designer Jackson De Govia notes the company name on the truck in which the "raiders" as he calls them arrive. It says, "Pacific Courier" - a joke, since it means "Messenger of Peace". DeGovia used a similar name and graphic on the truck that gets blown up at the start of Die Hard with a Vengeance The same brand name is seen on a plane at the end of Speed, when the bus explodes on contact.

The Hungarian title is "Give your life expensive", the title of the sequel is "Your life is even more expensive", and the third part is "Life is always expensive". Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis , who are now both known as for making action movies with a dark humor, later became good friends and worked on the Expendables movies together with Sylvester Stallone , who was also considered to play John McClane along with Schwarzenegger.

This film is unusual for action movies of the period in that the hero and villain never get into a fistfight, emphasizing that this is a battle of wits between them. The shot panning down from the top of Nakatomi Plaza's destroyed roof to the action on the ground was done with split screening a model of the top of the building to the real building as it panned down.

It was believed they would need to cover up the join by matting a few drifting negotiable bond papers over it but it was so seamless that they did not need to. One of the more unusual weapons for the time that Karl uses in the film is an Austrian made Steyr AUG assault rifle chambered in 5. It was likely chosen as the writers wanted to contrast the terrorists' exotic European weapons with the more traditional American firearms used by the LAPD.

Being bullpup in design, the AUG features a decent barrel length in a compact design and is also fitted with an integrated scope. The entire Nakatomi building was supposed to be managed by a supercomputer and the scenes where McClane is trapped in an office and Gruber orders the windows to be shot out are supposed to be the computer room. The large dark object is the computer, modeled after an ETA supercomputer.

It is a model and a bit larger than the actual computer which was thought to look too small. Bruce Willis improvised the "Hi, honey" at the end of the film when Hans is holding Holly hostage. The music being played at the corporate gathering at the beginning of the film is from the first movement of Johann Sebastian Bach 's Third Brandenberg Concerto.

Sam Neill turned down the role of Hans Gruber. There are three names on it in order, "Degovia, De Souza, Debont" referring to the production designer, screenwriter and cinematographer. The opening scene is actually filmed on an airplane that is being towed around in circles. George Takei wanted to play Takagi, and John McTiernan really wanted to cast him, but Takei's agent got things mixed up. Takei was not happy. This is an in-joke aimed at co-star Reginald VelJohnson.

The Nakatomi Plaza's vault is supposed to hold, among other pieces of art, the Edgar Degas painting "Ecole de dance" as shown when the thieves finally break the last lock. Fittingly, these used to be army-issue and are known for their strong, harsh taste. Fox Plaza, the building used in the movie, was the last major project to come from the firm of noted Los Angeles architect William L. Pereira prior to his death in The building's chief designer, Scott Johnson, inherited Pereira's firm which is now known as Johnson Fain.

John Travolta was considered for the role of John McClane. But 20th Century Fox wouldn't allow it, because Travolta was considered a "has been" at that time. Although Run-D. However, it was included as a bonus track on the reissue. Before reporter Richard Thornburg hears Sergeant Powell's call for backup over the radio, he is discussing dinner reservations with a woman, saying "of course I can get a table, Wolfgang is a close personal friend of mine".

McTiernan had Grand L. It was then they figured out this was a guy who didn't like himself very much, but who's doing the best he could. The little moment of McClane banging his head against the door frame after fighting with Holly was a reshoot done after the character was figured out. To properly expose the city lights as seen through the building's windows, the lighting levels on the set were lowered and a 50mm T1. Because this wide aperture made the image rather soft, it was almost always focused on an actor rather than the background.

Donner however, declined due to prior commitments. During the scene when Sgt. While the teams do play nearly every season, they've never faced off on Christmas Eve. In the German dub for the film, the terrorists are all given English names. Eastwood was even interested in directing and starring in the film at one point, but backed out to make The Dead Pool John McTiernan had tried to previously shoot Predator in anamorphic lenses but was turned down by the studio due to costs.

He sees shooting in anamorphic as the cheapest special effect possible, because it gives any film a much more expensive look. On the director's commentary track, John McTiernan stated that Betty Carvalho was actually an Italian actress but felt that she did an excellent job portraying the Hispanic character of Paulina, the babysitter.

That's the essence of his stardom is somebody's pointing a gun right between his eyes and he goes, 'Oops. McTiernan also speculates it may have been Willis's divorce that brought out the great actor we get in The Sixth Sense The helicopter flying around the building near the end of the film took six months of preparation and they only had two hours to film it.

It took three runs and nine camera crews. Everyone within feet of the line of flight had to be an employee. The eventual design used in the film is reminiscent of a samurai warrior's helmet. Wright designed Falling Water, a property which heavily influenced the Nakatomi atrium office area where the Christmas Party was being held. The password to unlock the computer was Akagi, which was the Flagship of Adm. Nagumo during the Battle of Midway.

A painted backing wrapped around the 34th floor set to create outside L. It was feet long and featured animated lights and various lighting techniques to create day and night effects. It's still in Fox's inventory and is periodically used for other films. They are well made with HD zippers, padded shoulder straps and generous space. It appears that they all took the compartment inserts out to make room for their HK MP-5 submachine guns.

The bags are no longer made and very rare. John McTiernan was never fully satisfied with Alan Rickman's American accent in the scenes where Hans Gruber is pretending to be a party guest. The first was The Money Pit Michael Madsen was considered for the role of John McClane.

But the producer of Cheers , James Burroughs , wouldn't let her take the role. Rick Ducommun , who plays the worker in man hole who radios to shut the power down also played the man who has his pool set on fire and gets shot by Milo in The Last Boy Scout plus small roles in 'Loaded Weapon' and 'Moonlighting', also starring Bruce Willis.

According to John McTiernan, just the armored trucked knocking over the railing in front of Fox Tower took months of negotiations with Fox. Sly and Arnold appeared with Bruce Willis in the first two, but Willis was supposed to appear in the third one and didn't due to money problems. So Willis missed the opportunity to work with fellow action stars Ford and Gibson.

McTiernan wanted to give the film a European sense of camera movement and structuring. This is indicated by the many shots in the film that seem to move around a focal character, a "movement on emotion" rather than "movement on physical movement of the character. In Finnish the movie title is "Die Hard -vain kuolleen ruumini yli" literally translated: only over my dead body.

The building has ties to the nighttime plaza scene from 's Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Half of the backlot was sold off where Elizabeth Taylor nearly bankrupted 20th Century from elaborate costs of filming Cleopatra movies.

Al Pacino was considered for the role of John McClane, but turned it down. Several people involved with this movie have also worked on the Ghostbusters movies. Richard Edlund also worked on the special effects on the first Ghostbusters as well. Jackson De Govia's favorite moment is near the end when the elevator explodes for no discernible reason. Many believe Uli only said one line in the movie "Move it!!!

Come on! Al Leong claims that his lack of lines is due to him being a stuntman, not an actor. Al Leong Uli had also played another ill-fated henchman called Endo, a year earlier in another iconic action movie thriller Lethal Weapon Nick Nolte was the first one to turn down the lead.

After the release of Die Hard, movie studio executives were keen to copy the Die Hard formula of one man trapped in an enclosed location fighting off against terrorists.

These films were all the rage in the s, ironically the Die Hard sequels themselves would move away from having John McClane fighting terrorists in enclosed spaces with each subsequent film upping the stakes such as fighting terrorists in an airport and surrounding area in Die Hard 2 , saving the whole of New York in Die Hard with a Vengeance and the whole of the USA in Live Free or Die Hard Richard Gere was considered for the role of John McClane, but turned it down.

He later worked with Bruce Willis on The Jackal Also known as one of the top beloved Christmas movies of all time. There is no such thing as the "Helsinki Syndrome". What Dr. Hasseldorf describes is actually the "Stockholm Syndrome", as in the capitol of Sweden, making Harvey kinda right when he says "As in Helsinki, Sweden".

Pacific Courier, the name and logo on the side of the truck carrying the terrorists, means "messenger of peace. Die Hard ends with the song, "let it snow". The immeidate sequel takes place almost entirely in the snow. When the film was released on the big screen in New Zealand, it was given the R16 rating. The rating of the film was later changed to M. Tom Berenger turned down the role of John McClane.

He wrote the melody for a guitar arrangement at the request of the 6-stanza poem's author Fr. Joseph Mohr , a Roman Catholic priest and assistant pastor at St. Nicholas Church, who wrote it in Mohr and Gruber first sang the song "Stille Nacht" at midnight mass on December 24, , while Mohr played his guitar. The 34th floor of the Nakatomi building, the floor where the party is being held, particularly the giant rock with water dripping from it, is a recreation of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.

Ironically, "Pacific Courier" translates to mean "Bringer of Peace". It is also the name of an actual delivery company. This was based on a book by Roderick Thorp entitled " Nothing Lasts Forever " - a sequel to another book entitled "The Detective", which in was made into a film starring Frank Sinatra.

Because of a clause in Sinatra's contract for " The Detective " which gave him the right to reprise his role in a sequel, he was actually the first person offered the McClane role, even though he was 73 years old at the time. The scene where McClane falls down a shaft was a mistake by the stuntman, who was supposed to grab the first vent, as it originally was planned. He slipped and continued to fall, but the shot was used anyway; it was edited together with one where McClane grabs the next vent down as he falls.

Director John McTiernan found it necessary to smash cut away from Hans Gruber's face whenever he fired a gun, because of Alan Rickman's uncontrollable habit of flinching from the noise and muzzle flash. If you look at Rickman's face when he shoots Takagi, you can see him wincing. It is often said that Bruce Willis's lines during the scene when he pulls the glass out of his feet were ad-libbed.

Indeed it has been said that upon learning this, Terry Gilliam cast Willis as the lead in Twelve Monkeys. However, when comparing the original script, it appears that Willis only veered very slightly from the original, written dialog.

Due to the tourist interest in the Fox Plaza building in L. The building used in the movie was designed by William L. Pereira, and was one of his last projects before his death in Bruce Willis was the sixth choice for the main character. It is worth to notice, that Polish title sounds and fits to this movie very good in Poland, while original title is hard to translate correctly it would sound like: "It is hard to kill him" or "He dies slowly".

The same titles are used for the sequels although the meanings have no relation in the sequels. The Hungarian title is "Give your life expensive", the title of the sequel is "Your life is more expensive", and the third part is "The life is always expensive" There are two FBI Agents Johnson and a Harvey Johnson who were all characters in the film. This is an in-joke aimed at co-star Reginald VelJohnson.

Bush replies, "I was in junior high, dick-head. Bruce Willis personally recommended Bonnie Bedelia for the role of his estranged wife. When the bomb in the elevator shaft blows out the side of the building, the effect was accomplished by collecting virtually every camera flashbulb of a particularly powerful type in the Los Angeles area and wiring them on the outside of the actual building to simulate the flash, and b by superimposing a shot of an actual explosive blowing a hole in the wall of an all-black miniature of the building at the appropriate location.

The fireball in the elevator shaft was shot with real pyrotechnics using a miniature shaft; the camera speed had to vary over the length of the shot because otherwise the fireball would appear to change speed as it moved up the forced-perspective model.

The effects people weren't sure exactly at what rate to vary the speed, so they rigged a manual variable-speed control and did several takes changing the speed at different rates and then picked the one that looked best. Commando 2 was then transformed into this film; Schwarzenegger was the first actor offered the title role, but he again declined.

In the making-of featurette, director John McTiernan revealed that a vast majority of the exterior shots of the building showing explosions were real, full-scale explosions set off in and around the actual building. The entire Nakatomi building was supposed to be managed by a supercomputer and the scenes where McClane is trapped in an office and Gruber orders the windows to be shot out are supposed to be the computer room.

The large dark object is the computer, modeled after an ETA supercomputer. It is a model and a bit larger than the actual computer which was thought to look too small. Hart Bochner 's line "Hans Alan Rickman's quizzical reaction was genuine. The Nakatomi tower is actually the headquarters of 20th Century Fox.

The company charged itself rent for the use of the then unfinished building. A full 18 minutes elapse before the movie's first gunshot. Much of the script was improvised due to the constant screenplay tweaks that were being made during filming. Bruce Willis was also shooting Moonlighting concurrently which accounts for why nearly all of McClane's scenes take place at night. Willis would shoot his TV series during the day and then come to the Fox lot in the evening to work on this film.

John McTiernan turned the script down several times. He felt it was a nasty piece of work. When he was finally persuaded to take on the assignment, he was able to lighten some of the film's darker edges. The scene where Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman meet up was unrehearsed to create a greater feeling of spontaneity between the two actors.