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The iconic 1980s action-adventure film Die Hard (John McTiernan) starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman tells the skyscraper terrorism story of a group of really bad European guys who take over a very expensive American building in LA during a lavish Christmas party and hold everyone hostage until they can break into the skyscraper's incredible vault holding incredible wealth. However, the heroic American cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) is there to stop the terrorists who turn out to be actually pirates and ex-terrorist thieves. Can he do it?
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The movie starts out with McClane being invited to the skyscraper party in LA hosted by her somewhat estranged wife's Japanese boss. John meets his wife and tries to mingle but prefers to simply wander around the building by himself and just enjoy the drinks.
When the terrorists show up and take over the skyscraper, John goes into hiding and crawls through the building's ventilation ducts seeking to eliminate the dastardly terrorists one-by-one, who incidentally, are led by a very calculating Euro-terrorist named Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman).
John's job is to stop these very intelligent, well-financed, and very daring terrorists seeking to crack the immaculate code of the skyscraper's vault-room and steal the incredible wealth stored inside and most likely use it for evil purposes. John has to be incredibly creative and insect-like in interceding on this very ugly scheme in LA during Christmas.
John has to deal with the head of the terrorists himself, Hans Gruber, who turns out to be very very cunning. Fortunately, as John deals with each of Hans' ghoulish terrorists, he tries to grab the weapons each one has on them so he can perform more and more skillful guerrilla actions against Hans' overall machinations inside the LA skyscraper.
I won't give away the ending, but it's a really terrific ending to a really terrific 1980s action-adventure film featuring excellent camera-work and a really cool cast. I like Hart Bochner's small but effective role as a tragically funny office co-worker of John's wife Holly in what is overall a really great presentation of cinematic action-adventure presented in the context of modern urban intrigue. This is skyscraper-terrorism storytelling at its finest, which is why I consider this way better than The Towering Inferno (Paul Newman).
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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)
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The movie starts out with McClane being invited to the skyscraper party in LA hosted by her somewhat estranged wife's Japanese boss. John meets his wife and tries to mingle but prefers to simply wander around the building by himself and just enjoy the drinks.
When the terrorists show up and take over the skyscraper, John goes into hiding and crawls through the building's ventilation ducts seeking to eliminate the dastardly terrorists one-by-one, who incidentally, are led by a very calculating Euro-terrorist named Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman).
John's job is to stop these very intelligent, well-financed, and very daring terrorists seeking to crack the immaculate code of the skyscraper's vault-room and steal the incredible wealth stored inside and most likely use it for evil purposes. John has to be incredibly creative and insect-like in interceding on this very ugly scheme in LA during Christmas.
John has to deal with the head of the terrorists himself, Hans Gruber, who turns out to be very very cunning. Fortunately, as John deals with each of Hans' ghoulish terrorists, he tries to grab the weapons each one has on them so he can perform more and more skillful guerrilla actions against Hans' overall machinations inside the LA skyscraper.
I won't give away the ending, but it's a really terrific ending to a really terrific 1980s action-adventure film featuring excellent camera-work and a really cool cast. I like Hart Bochner's small but effective role as a tragically funny office co-worker of John's wife Holly in what is overall a really great presentation of cinematic action-adventure presented in the context of modern urban intrigue. This is skyscraper-terrorism storytelling at its finest, which is why I consider this way better than The Towering Inferno (Paul Newman).
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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)
