Die Hard facts

[Spartan Rex]

I know, I know. The movie has been covered ad nauseum in these forums and some of the facts covered are well known to fans of the movie but I’d say about half of these were new to me.
Never heard the Sam Neill one before, he would’ve worked as Hans.

 

[xipotec]

Fact: the first 20 minutes of this film are super boring.


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[a-dev]

Fact: the first 20 minutes of this film are super boring.


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[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I appreciate this film more now than when I was a kid. When I was a kid, the film was relatively new and I just didn't like Willis as an action hero, but watching it now I can appreciate all the little things the script sets up early in the story and payoff later. I even appreciate the villain more now than when I was younger.

Having said that, the film is really about "erectile dysfunction"...metaphorically speaking of course. It's about two men (Willis and the black cop) getting their manhood back through violence. The black cop literally can't use his weapon, he's sad, pathetic, just eating donuts driving around at night, until the end when he saves the day by killing the bad guy using his weapon again. He becomes a man again. That's what Die HARD (not softly) is truly about. It even takes place in a p h a l i c location. John McClane at the start of the film is without a woman. She's not even using his name and she's wearing a watch given to her by Harry Ellis, who looks like Hans Grubber on purpose. By the end of the film, John has proven himself to Holly using violence and being "manly" and he uses his gun to shoot Hans who was literally grabbing Holly, and when they fall out the window, Hans is holding on to the watch that was given to Holly by by Harry. Holly lets go of the watch, thus letting go of Hans, but really, letting go of Harry. John gets her back and becomes a man again.

 

[Spartan Rex]

 

[TaliBane]

The bad guys in the book are actual far-left terrorists (modeled on the German far-left group Red Brigade,) and Gruber was known as "the red" (as in socialist.)

Surprisingly... leftie Hollywood instead turned them into a bunch of greedy euro-yuppie "pretend terrorists" battling a great American working class hero who channels Americana tropes in a film released the same year the Savings and Loan Crisis really got going - Americans screwing over Americans.

All produced by one of the most repugnant human beings this side of Harvey Weinstein, Joel Silver (whose exec ranks also featured some total low-lifes, though an exec there who later became Mrs RDJ was not) and directed by a guy who did prison time for wiretapping his ex-wife - take that, Mrs McClane!

Bankrolled and released by a studio - Fox - that at the time the movie was developed was co-owned by a guy who became a fugitive for tax evasion and illegal trading with (financier of terrorism) Iran during the Iran hostage crisis - Gruber would be proud - and was later sold to Rupert Murdoch, who pioneered the very type of scumbag tabloid reporting seen in the movie in precisely that era.

Those factoids never seem to make it onto these types of "did you know?" YT videos.

**** Die Hard.