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John McClane : Shut up Ellis, just shut your mouth! Put Hans back on the line. [Ellis holds the walkie talkie up] John McClane : Hans, this shit-head does not know what kind of man you are, but I do. Listen to me! Hans Gruber : Good.
- 25 "Fists with Your toes?"
- 24 "Who Said We Were Terrorists?"
- 23 "I Want blood."
- 19 "Nice Suit. John Philips, London. I Have Two myself."
- 18 "Thanks For The advice."
- 17 "I Read About Them in Time Magazine."
- 16 "Now I Know What A TV Dinner Feels like."
- 15 "Does It Sound Like I'm Ordering A pizza?"
- 14 "Only John Can Drive Somebody That crazy."
- 13 "From Up Here It Doesn't Look Like You're in Charge of Jack s***."
John McClane
The first moments of Die Hard set John McClane up as a more relatable action hero than the action heroes in the 1980s played by actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. McClane is shown to be a nervous flyer, and that is something noticed by the man sitting next to him on the plane. The man offers some advice to ease the tension after a flight by removing his shoes and socks and making fists with his toes. While that piece of advice might work for some, giving them something...
Hans Gruber
Modern movie audiences know Adam Rickman as Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potterfranchise, but before he started mixing potions and playing a double agent in the Wizarding World, he had a variety of roles under the belt of his wizard's robes. One of his most memorable is as the villain in Die Hard. Alan Rickman adds so much to the movie with his performance as Hans Gruber, including his deceptive plan. When Gruber is introduced, he seems to be a stoic and gravely serious threat. Howeve...
Karl
While Hans Gruber is the more memorable and intelligent villain in the movie, he is far from the only villain in Die Hard. After all, McClane spends most of the movie's runtime battling the people working for Gruber. Karl is a perfect action movie henchman as he presents a more physical threat to McClane than Gruber. While Gruber only really cares about taking out McClane so that his plan is not jeopardized, once McClane kills Karl’s brother, the giant killer is solely on a path of revenge.Th...
Hans Gruber
Just as John McClane was a different kind of hero for the action genre at the time, so too was Hans Gruber a fun new kind of villain who was later copied endlessly.Alan Rickman brings a brilliant sense of sophistication to the role that is in perfect contrast to McClane. If McClane is someone who will pull the cleanest t-shirt from the top of his dirty laundry pile, Gruber is someone who will make sure his outfit is perfectly tailored, matching, and pressed. After making his intimidating entr...
John McClane
There are quite a few obvious iconic action movie one-liners in Die Hard that remain unforgettable. But as evidence of the movie's quality, there are also some brilliant one-liners that often get overlookedby action movie fans. After McClane hesitates to shoot one of the villains, the bad guy overpowers him and is ready to take John out. As a way of taunting his target, the villain suggests he should never hesitate to pull the trigger. McClane then guns the man down and offers his gratitude f...
Hans Gruber
Even with all the exciting action, Die Hard knows to maintain a fun sense of humor as well, even with its villain characters. Though Hans and the others pretend to be hardened terrorists with a list of demands, they are really only interested in getting the money in their hands. Hans has little respect for the police outside, sending in his fake list of demands just to toy with them. When he mentions getting the members of a group called Asian Dawn released from prison, his henchman Karl ques...
John McClane
In a lot of crime dramas, more specifically heist movies, running around in air ducts is made to look incredibly easy. Characters just slip right through them. This is typically accomplished, at least in modern cinema, by building fake vent systems to accommodate both the actor and the camera operator on a sound stage. No one is really going to be effortlessly gliding their way through a ventilation system. Die Hardunderstands that. One of the most iconic images in Die Hard is John McClane cr...
John McClane
Something the Die Hard sequels forgot about John McClane is that he is vulnerable, and he doesn't want to be the lone hero. He wants to have help however he can get it, which leads to him calling 911 in the first place to inform them of the building's takeover. When McClane finally does reach the police department, he is warned away from using that line as it is reserved for emergencies, which leads to one of McClane's most sarcastic, expletive-laden responses in the film as he begins to reac...
Holly Gennaro McClane
McLane is only in Los Angeles at the Nakatomi Plaza's Christmas party hoping to reconnect with his wife, Holly, who had moved to the city with their children for work. Her move had only furthered the divide between husband and wife. He wants to find a way to close that gap and bring their family back together. After Gruber takes control of the party and Holly begins to see the stress develop in her captors, she realizes that it is McClane who is causing them problems, as she was all too used...
John McClane
When John McClane finally receives assistance from the police on the ground thanks to Sgt. Powell, the arrival of Deputy Chief Dwayne T. Robinson leads him to attempt to take control of the situation. He begins to bark orders at McClane through the common radio. That doesn't sit well with McClane, who has already been in the thick of it while the police are comfortably outside and out of any danger. McClane quickly puts him in his place and lets him know that he is still on the ground and rem...
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Nov 6, 2012 · There’s Alan Rickman, chewing over “now I have a machine gun”. And then there’s the slimey Ellis, the finest bearded supporting character in movie history. The man who played Ellis is Hart ...
Hans, bubbe, I'm your white knight.Ellis to Hans Gruber Harry Ellis was a sleazy businessman working for the Nakatomi Corporation. A cocaine abuser and stereotypical yuppie, Ellis arrogantly attempted to assist Hans Gruber in betraying John McClane to save his own life, only to get himself killed by Gruber in the process. You'll have to forgive Ellis, he gets very depressed this time of year ...
Actor: Die Hard. Hart Matthew Bochner was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Ruth (Roher), a concert pianist, and Lloyd Bochner, an actor. He is of Russian Jewish and Ukrainian Jewish descent. Hart made his feature film debut portraying George C. Scott's son in Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream (1977) and would go on to gain notice for ...
