Now That Christmas Is Over, Can We Stop Arguing Over Die Hard
You would be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn t like Die Hard. The whole series of movies is good but that first one is the best one and firmly implanted the (unscripted) line yippy ki-yay motherf into our collective conscience.
Anyway, Christmas movie or not, it s one of the greats. I recently found a few cool insider facts about the movie. Read on:
The fear in the eyes of terrorist leader Hans Gruber as John McClane drops him from the skyscraper window is real. That s because he was to be dropped, from about 40 feet or so, (onto a cushion), on the count of 3. Instead, director, John McTiernan, dropped him on 2, eliciting that truly frightened reaction.