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DIE HARD (1988)

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THE BACK OF THE BOX
WHAT THE STUDIO WANTS YOU TO KNOW

    High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages and declared war. But one man has managed to escape detection... an off duty cop. He's alone... tired... and the only chance anyone has.
    Bruce Willis stars as New York City Detective John McClane, newly arrived in Los Angeles to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia). But as McClane waits for his wife's office party to break up, terrorists take over the building. While the terrorist leader, Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and his savage henchman (Alexander Godunov) round up hostages, McClane slips away unnoticed. Armed with only a service revolver and his cunning, McClane launches his own one-man war. A crackling thriller from beginning to end, Die Hard explodes with heart-stopping suspense.

STARRING:

Bruce Willis: John McClane
Alan Rickman: Hans Gruber
Alexander Godunov: Karl
Bonnie Bedelia: Holly Gennero McClane

SCREENWRITER: Jeb Stuart and Steven E. De Souza

DIRECTOR: John McTiernan

RUNNING TIME: 132 minutes

STUDIO: 20th Century Fox

Average Hollywood Guys Rating: B +

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GIGGLES, GLOBES AND OSCARS
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

ACADEMY AWARDS
(4 nominations and 0 wins)

Best Editing - Frank J. Urioste and John F. Link
(nominated)

Best Sound - Don J. Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton, Al Overton Jr.
(nominated)

Best Sound Effects Editing- Stephen Hunter Flick and Richard Shorr
(nominated)

Best Visual Effects - Richard Edlund, Al Di Sarro, Brent Boates, Thaine Morris
(nominated)

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THE GEEK BOX
TRIVIA TO IMPRESS YOUR EASILY IMPRESSED FRIENDS

• This movie is based off of the book Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. This was actually a sequel to the book The Detective which was previously made into a movie in 1968 starring Frank Sinatra. The character names were changed for the film, for instance the main character's name was changed from Joe Leland to John McClane.
• Bruce Willis received $5 million dollars for his role in this movie, making it one of the highest salaries ever paid to an actor for a single role. Ironically the same people who approved Willis' salary for the film asked that Bruce Willis not be pictured on the movie posters fearing that people who were not fans of Willis' past work would be turned off by the movie. Shortly after the film's huge opening new posters were issued that featured the actors face on them.
• The role of John McClane role was originally offered to Arnold Schwarzenegger who was unable to take the role. The part was the offered to Sylvester Stallone, then Burt Reynolds, and even Richard Gere. Only after all of these actors were unavailable did they ask Bruce Willis.
• Nakatomi Plaza was actually the unfinished new headquarters of 20th Century Fox, the company behind Die Hard. Fox actually still charged the production for use of the property. In recent years the real building has been sealed off from tourist photography due to fear of real terrorist activity.
• Many of the German lines in this movie are spoken incorrectly or is simply gibberish, most of these errors are said by Alan Rickman who plays Hans Gruber.
• For the German release of the film the terrorists are actually Irish, because executives did not want to make waves using the still sensitive topic of German terrorism. However, later in Die Hard With A Vengeance the brother of Hans Gruber is kept as a German, and the discrepancy between the two films is never explained.

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