Die Hard

This article is about the 1988 action lm. For the lm side as hostages except for McClane who manages to slip
series it initiated, see Die Hard (lm series). For other away.
uses, see Die Hard (disambiguation).
Gruber singles out Nakatomi executive Joseph Takagi
claiming he intends to teach the Corporation a lesson for
Die Hard is a 1988 American action lm directed by John its greed. Away from the hostages, Gruber interrogates
McTiernan and written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Takagi for the code to the buildings vault. Gruber admits
Stuart, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by that they are using terrorism as a distraction while they atRoderick Thorp. Die Hard follows o-duty New York tempt to steal $640 million in bearer bonds in the vault.
City Police Department ocer John McClane (Bruce Takagi refuses to cooperate and is executed by Gruber as
Willis) as he takes on a group of highly organized crim- McClane secretly observes. McClane accidentally gives
inals led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who perform himself away and is pursued by Tony. McClane manages
a heist in a Los Angeles skyscraper under the guise of a to kill Tony, taking his weapon and radio, which he uses
terrorist attack using hostages, including McClanes wife to contact the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), to keep the police at bay.
Sgt. Al Powell is sent to investigate, while Gruber sends
Die Hard is based on Nothing Lasts Forever, the sequel to Heinrich and Marco to stop McClane but both of them
Thorps 1966 novel The Detective, which itself had been ended up getting killed by McClane. Powell, having been
adapted into a 1968 lm of the same name starring Frank greeted by Eddie, who poses as a receptionist, nds nothSinatra. Fox was contractually obliged to oer Sinatra ing strange about the building. He attempts to leave, but
the lead role in Die Hard, but he turned it down and the McClane drops Marcos corpse onto Powells car, alertlm was instead pitched as a sequel to the 1985 action ing the LAPD who surround the building. McClane takes
lm Commando starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When Heinrichs bag containing C-4 explosives and detonators.
Schwarzenegger also turned it down, the lm was pitched
to, and rejected by, a host of the eras action stars before
Willis was chosen. The studio did not have faith in Willis
action star appeal, as at the time he was known for his
comedic role on television.

A SWAT team assaults the building, but the attack is anticipated, and James and Alexander massacre the SWAT
team with rockets. McClane uses the C-4 to blow up the
building oor occupied by James and Alexander, killing
them both. Hollys coworker Harry Ellis attempts to mediate between Hans and McClane for the return of the
detonators. McClane refuses to return them, causing
Gruber to execute Ellis. While checking the explosives
attached to the roof, Gruber is confronted by McClane.
Gruber passes himself o as an escaped hostage and is
given a gun by McClane. Gruber attempts to shoot McClane but nds that the gun is unloaded. Before McClane
can act, Karl, Franco, and Fritz arrive. McClane kills
Fritz and Franco, but is forced to ee, leaving the detonators behind.

Made on a $28 million budget, Die Hard went on to

gross over $140 million theatrically worldwide, and received a positive reception from critics. The lm turned
Willis into an action star, became a frequent comparison
for other action lms featuring a lone hero ghting overwhelming odds, and is now widely considered one of the
greatest action movies ever made.[3][4][5] The lms success spawned the Die Hard franchise, which includes four
sequels, video games, and a comic book.

FBI agents arrive and take command of the police situation outside, ordering the buildings power be shut o.
The power loss disables the vaults nal lock as Gruber
had anticipated. Gruber demands that a helicopter arrive on the roof for transporthis intention is to detonate
the explosives on the roof to kill the hostages and to fake
the deaths of his men and himself. Karl nds McClane
and the two ght. Meanwhile Gruber views a news report by Richard Thornburg that features McClanes children, causing Gruber to realize that McClane is Hollys
husband. The terrorists order the hostages to the roof,
but Gruber takes Holly with him to use against McClane.
McClane seemingly kills Karl and heads to the roof. He

Plot

On Christmas Eve, New York City Police Detective Lieutenant John McClane arrives in Los Angeles to reconcile with his estranged wife, Holly. McClane is driven
to the Nakatomi Plaza building for a company Christmas
party by Argyle. While McClane changes clothes, the
party is disrupted by the arrival of Hans Gruber and his
heavily armed group: Karl, Franco, Tony, Theo, Alexander, Marco, Kristo, Eddie, Uli, Heinrich, Fritz, and
James. The group seize the tower and secure those in1

PRODUCTION

kills Uli and sends the hostages back downstairs before

the explosives detonate, destroying the roof and the FBI
helicopter.

Bruce Willis as John McClane, a streetwise New

York cop who has come to Los Angeles to reconcile with his wife

Theo goes to the parking garage to retrieve their getaway

vehicle but is knocked unconscious by Argyle who had
been trapped in the garage during the siege. A weary
McClane nds Holly with Gruber and his remaining men
and knocks Kristo unconscious. McClane surrenders
his machine gun to spare Holly, but then distracts Gruber
and Eddie by laughing, allowing him to grab a concealed
handgun (holding his last two bullets) taped to his back.
McClane shoots Gruber in the shoulder and then kills Eddie with his nal shot. Gruber is sent crashing through a
window. Gruber prevents himself from falling by holding
onto Holly by her watch. McClane manages to release the
watch and Gruber falls to his death on the street below.

Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber, a German mastermind and the leader of the terrorists

McClane and Holly are escorted from the building and

meet Powell in person. Karl emerges from the building
disguised as a hostage and attempts to shoot McClane, but
he is gunned down by Powell. Argyle crashes through the
parking garage door in the limo. Thornburg arrives and
attempts to interview McClane, but is punched by Holly.
McClane and Holly are driven away by Argyle.

Cast

Alexander Godunov as Karl, Hanss savage main

henchman
Bonnie Bedelia as Holly Gennaro-McClane, Johns
estranged wife
Reginald VelJohnson as Sgt. Al Powell
Paul Gleason as Dwayne T. Robinson, the Deputy
Chief of Police
De'voreaux White as Argyle, Johns limousine
driver
William Atherton as Richard Thornburg, an arrogant reporter
Hart Bochner as Harry Ellis, a sleazy Nakatomi executive
James Shigeta as Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi,
Nakatomis head executive
Additional cast includes Hanss henchmen: Bruno Doyon
as Franco, Andreas Wisniewski as Tony, Clarence
Gilyard as Theo, Joey Plewa as Alexander, Lorenzo Caccialanza as Marco, Gerard Bonn as Kristo, Dennis Hayden as Eddie, Al Leong as Uli, Gary Roberts as Heinrich,
Hans Buhringer as Fritz, and Wilhelm von Homburg as
James. Robert Davi and Grand L. Bush appear as FBI
agents Big Johnson and Little Johnson respectively, and
Taylor Fry and Noah Land make cameo appearances as
McClanes children Lucy McClane and John Jr.. The
casting director was Jackie Burch.

3 Production
Die Hard is based on Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel
Nothing Lasts Forever, a sequel to his 1966 novel The
Detective which had itself been turned into a 1968 lm
of the same name starring Frank Sinatra. That lm was a
box oce success, and when Thorp wrote the sequel, the
studio was contractually obliged to oer Sinatra the lead
role despite being 73 years old at the time. Sinatra turned
down the role. The story was then changed to have no
connection to The Detective and instead pursued as a sequel to the 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring action
lm Commando, but Schwarzenegger was not interested
in reprising his role. The script was oered to a variety of
Ford,
Bruce Willis in 2010 (left) and Alan Rickman in 2011 action stars including Sylvester Stallone, Harrison
[6]
and
Don
Johnson,
all
of
whom
turned
it
down.
(right). Willis and Rickman play John McClane and
Willis was paid $5 million to star in the lm, a gure virHans Gruber respectively.
tually unheard of at the time for an actor who had starred

3
did not like himself very much, but was doing the best he
could in a bad situation. In the original script, Die Hard
took place over three days, but McTiernan was inspired
to have it take place over a single night by Shakespeares
A Midsummer Nights Dream.[10]

Fox Plaza in Los Angeles, portrayed in the lm as Nakatomi

Plaza

in only one moderately successful lm, and normally paid

to the headliners of the time such as Dustin Homan
and Warren Beatty. Then-20th Century Fox president
Leonard Goldman justied the cost stating the lm was
reliant on its lead actor, while other sources within the studio would state that Fox was desperate for a star for Die
Hard, intended to be its big summer action blockbuster,
and they had already been turned down by several actors including Richard Gere, Clint Eastwood,[7] and Burt
Reynolds.[8] At the time, Willis was largely known for his
comedic role as detective David Addison on the television series Moonlighting, and the studio did not believe in
his action star appeal. The marketing campaigns initial
billboards and posters reected this, and Willis face was
not a focal point.[6] Die Hard was Rickmans rst feature
lm role.[9]

The corporate headquarters of 20th Century Fox, Fox

Plaza in Century City serves as the lms setting, providing both external and internal scenes. At the time of
lming, the building was still under construction, and a
scene of McClane exploring an unnished oor complete
with construction equipment was real. Production designer Jackson De Govia came up with the idea to use
the building. The Nakatomi buildings 34th oor where
the hostages are held was a recreation of Frank Lloyd
Wright's Fallingwater, including a large rock with water
dripping from it. Govias inspiration came from Japanese
corporations of the time buying up American products,
rationalizing that they had bought Fallingwater and reassembled it in their own building. The buildings logo
originally was too reminiscent of a Swastika for McTiernan. The nal design is closer to a Samurai warriors helmet. A 380 foot long background painting provided the
city backdrop viewed from inside the Nakatomi buildings
34th oor. It featured animated lights and other lighting techniques to present both moving trac and day and
night cycles. As of 2011, the painting is still in Foxs inventory and is sometimes used in other lms. The scene
in which the SWAT Greyhound knocks over a stair railing at the front of Fox Plaza required months of negotiations with Fox to gain approval. The end helicopter
scene took six months of preparation and the production
was given only two hours in which to lm it. It took three
attempts above Fox Plaza, nine camera crews, and everyone within 500 feet of the line of ight had to be an employee. The scene of McClane falling down a ventilation
shaft and catching onto a lower opening was the result of
an accident after Willis stunt man fell. Editor Frank J.
Urioste chose to use the unintentional scene in the nal
lm.[10]

Alan Rickman was dropped 70 feet (21 m) on a green

screen set for his death scene. The shot used was the
rst take, and the look of fear on Rickmans face was
genuine.[10] The DVD text commentary track reveals that
the shooting script did not originally feature the meeting
Director John McTiernan did not want the villains to be between McClane and Gruber pretending to be a hostage;
terrorists, considering them too mean. He chose to avoid it was only written in when it was discovered that Rickthe terrorists politics in favor of making them thieves in man could perform a rather convincing American accent.
pursuit of monetary gain, believing it would make the lm
more suitable for summer entertainment. The lms ending had not been nalized by the time lming had begun;
one result is that the truck depicted as transporting the terrorists to the building is too small to house the ambulance
that was later revealed to be inside it. Other scenes also
lacked context: De Govia had built the buildings com- 4 Release
puter room before they knew what it would be used for.
Likewise, the character of McClane had not been fully
realized until almost half way through production when The premiere of Die Hard took place on July 12, 1988,
McTiernan and Willis decided that he was a man who at the AVCO theater in Los Angeles, California.[11]

5 MUSIC

4.1

Box oce

Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing (Don J. Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton and Al Overton, Jr.) and Best Visual Eects (Richard Edlund, Al Di
Sarro, Brent Boates and Thaine Morris.)[22] Michael Kamen's score earned him a BMI TV/Film Music Award in
1989.[23]

Die Hard opened in limited release in 21 theaters on July

15, 1988, earning $601,851an average of $28,659 per
theater. The lm received a general release in North
America on July 22, 1988, earning approximately $7.1
million from 1,276 theatersan average of $5,568 per
theaternishing as the weekends number three lm.
By the time Die Hard ended its theatrical run, it had 4.4 German version
earned $83 million in North America and a further
$57.7 million from markets elsewhere, totaling $140.7 In the German dub, the names and backgrounds of the
German-born terrorists were changed into English forms.
million.[2]
Hans became Jack, Karl became Charlie, Heinrich turned
into Henry. In the scene where John is writing down the
names of the terrorists, a voiceover in the German version
4.2 Critical reception
says I'm gonna call you Hans and Karl, just like the two
Die Hard received positive reviews from critics. English evil giants in the fairy tale while referring to them as
lm critic Mark Kermode has expressed admiration for Jack and Charlie later. The new background depicts them
the lm, calling it an exciting setup of Cowboys and Indi- as some internationally organized terrorists having gone
ans in The Towering Inferno. However, Roger Ebert gave freelance and for prot rather than ideals.[24]
it a less than attering review, giving it a mere two stars
and criticizing the stupidity of the deputy police chief
character, claiming that all by himself he successfully 5 Music
undermines the last half of the movie.[12]
Contemporary analysis by review-aggregation websites
Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic provide a positive reception. The lm garnered a 92% approval rating from
53 criticsan average rating of 8.3 out of 10on Rotten
Tomatoes, which said, Its many imitators (and sequels)
have never come close to matching the taut thrills of the
denitive holiday action classic.[13] Metacritic provides
a score of 70 out of 100 from 13 critics, which indicates
generally favorable reviews.[14]
4.2.1

Critics ratings

Beethovens 9th Symphony is featured prominently in

Michael Kamen's score throughout the lm, in many
guises and variations (mostly as a leitmotif for Gruber
and the terrorists), and thematic variations on "Singin'
in the Rain" are also featured as the theme for the character Theo. McTiernan said that he incorporated those
themes into the lms soundtrack as an homage to Stanley
Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (which featured both
pieces of music). Basing his score around thematic variations on well-known pieces is a conceit that Kamen previously used in Brazil. Bachs Brandenburg Concerto No.
3 is playing during the party sequence near the lms beginning.

Critics have given the following ratings to Die Hard as the

As the lm has a Christmas setting, the score also features
Best Christmas Movie":
sleigh bells in some cues, as well as the Christmas pop
standard "Winter Wonderland". Two 1987 pop songs are
[15]
Digital Spy - #5
used as source music: near the lms beginning, limousine driver Argyle plays the rap song "Christmas in Hol[16]
Empire - #1
lis", performed by RunD.M.C., and later, while talking
on the phone in the limousine, Argyle is listening to Stevie
Entertainment Weekly - #4[17]
Wonder's "Skeletons". The end credits of the lm begin
Forbes - #1[18]
with the Christmas song "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let
It Snow!" (performed by Vaughn Monroe) and contin The Guardian - #8[19]
ues/concludes with Beethovens 9th Symphony.
The lms nal four minutes were tracked with music
from two other Twentieth Century Fox features these
were 'temp tracks which the studio ultimately decided
San Francisco Gate - #1[21]
to leave in the lm. The music heard when McClane and
Powell see each other for the rst time is from John Scott's
4.3 Accolades
score for the 1987 lm Man on Fire. When Karl appears
with his rie, McTiernan decided that he did not like KaThe lm was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best mens produced music for the scene and chose to use a
Sound Editing (Stephen Hunter Flick and Richard Shorr), piece of temporary score that the production had pur Hollywood Reporter - #4[20]

5
chased. The piece was actually unused score composed at number 12 on the same list.[39] In the June 22, 2007 isby James Horner for the 1986 science ction action lm sue of Entertainment Weekly it was named the best action
Aliens.[10]
lm of all time.[40] McClanes catchphrase Yippee-kiSimilarly to Aliens, the score by Michael Kamen was yay, motherfucker was voted as #96 of The 100 Greatheavily edited, with music samples looped over and over est Movie Lines by Premiere magazine in 2007. In 2010,
as The Greatand cues added to scenes. The most notable example Die Hard was voted by Empire magazine
[41]
est
Christmas
Film
of
All
Time.
In
2012,
IGN also
is the brass blast heard when John slams the chair at
listed
it
at
the
top
spot
on
their
list
of
the
Top
25
Action
the window as he confronts Marco then Heinrich appears
Movies.
where he murders him. and later when Hans Gruber falls
to his death.[25]
The score as heard in the lm was released by Varse
Sarabande in February 2002, but was limited to 3000
copies.[26] It was subsequently reissued by La-La Land
Records in November 2011, in a two-disc limited edition of 3500 copies.[27] In addition to the Kamen score,
this release also includes the Monroe and Beethoven end
credits pieces, Run-D.M.C.'s Christmas in Hollis, and
the John Scott track from Man on Fire.

Legacy

The lm spawned four sequels: Die Hard 2 (1990), Die

Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Live Free or Die Hard
(2007) and A Good Day to Die Hard (2013). In July
2007, Bruce Willis donated the undershirt worn in the
lm to the National Museum of American History at the
Smithsonian Institution.[28] The lms title and its story of
a lone hero battling a multitude of single-minded opponents in an isolated setting also became a common descriptor for later action lms: "Die Hard on a _____
became a simple and easy way to dene the plot of
many action lms that came in its wake. For example,
the 1992 lm Under Siege was referred to as "Die Hard
on a battleship, the 1992 lm Passenger 57 was nicknamed "Die Hard on a plane, the 1994 lm Speed was
called "Die Hard on a bus,[29] and the 1996 lm The
Rock was dubbed "Die Hard on an island.[30] The 2013
lm Olympus Has Fallen was dubbed "Die Hard in The
White House,[31] and even television shows, such as the
Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Starship Mine"
which was described as "Die Hard in space.[32]
In 2001, Die Hard was listed at #39 on AFIs 100
Years... 100 Thrills, a list Americas most heart-pounding
lms.[33] In 2003, Hans Gruber was listed at #46 on the
AFIs 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains list.[34] Additionally the lm received other nominations for AFIs 100
Years lists between 1998 and 2007, including AFIs 100
Years...100 Movies (1998),[35] John McClane in the hero
category on AFIs 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains,[36]
McClanes line Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker!" for AFIs
100 Years...100 Movie Quotes,[37] and the lm was again
nominated for the tenth anniversary edition of AFIs 100
Years...100 Movies.[38]

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