Roof Stunt Die Hard

Die hard is a 1988 american action thriller film directed by john mctiernan and written by steven e.

Roof stunt die hard.

As a police helicopter tries to take him out and knowing that the roof is rigged to explode mcclane ties a fire hose around his waist and jumps just as the roof blows. It was a quickly. Die hard s stunts and special effects driven set pieces are especially iconic thanks to mctiernan and his collaborators dedication to realism. Towards the end of die hard mcclane is caught on the roof by the fbi and is thought to be a terrorist.

Hans gruber was an internationally feared german terrorist the main antagonist in die hard and a posthumous antagonist in die hard with a vengeance. The stunt of the movie has john leaping off the nakatomi tower strapped to a fire hose as the top of the building explodes. 1 christmas greeting die hard. Of course this isn t reality but the culminating scene in the 1988 christmas action die hard.

De souza and jeb stuart based on roderick thorp s 1979 novel nothing lasts forever it was produced by the gordon company and silver pictures and distributed by 20th century fox the film follows off duty new york city police department officer john mcclane bruce willis who is caught in a los. Director john mctiernan recalled the first time we got to the point in a scene where you would insert a stuntman i told bruce he would only have to take it up to here and he then could go sit down. Like the fact that hans gruber s fall from the nakatomi building was actually done for. In terms of the original die hard says mottram the most mind blowing thing was probably the stunt work.

While die hard is a total one man army. As he tries to hide viewers can catch willis wearing the foot covers. They shot most of the film on existing locations. He was the mastermind behind the nakatomi plaza heist where he used a gang of heavily armed terrorists to take over the company s christmas party and attempt to steal 640 million in negotiable bearer bank bonds inside the building s vault.

The stunt is impressive but it s most memorable because of how scared mcclane is the whole time.