Die hard: now more than ever

Movie
German title	Die hard: now more than ever
Original title	Die Hard with a Vengeance
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1995
length	131 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16 ; JMK 14
Rod
Director	John McTiernan
script	Jonathan Hensleigh
production	John McTiernan, ; Michael Tadross
music	Michael Kamen
camera	Peter Menzies Jr.
cut	John Wright
occupation
	Bruce Willis : John McClane; Samuel L. Jackson : Zeus Carver; Jeremy Irons : Simon Peter Gruber; Graham Greene : Joe Lambert; Larry Bryggman : Walter Cobb; Colleen Camp : Connie Kowalski; Anthony Peck : Ricky Walsh; Kevin Chamberlin : Charles Weiss; Nicholas Wyman : Matthias Targo; Sam Phillips : Katya; Aldis Hodge : Raymond; James Saito : Korean Proprietor;
synchronization
chronology
← Predecessor ; Die Hard 2	Successor → ; Die Hard 4.0

Die Hard: Vengeance (original title: Die Hard with a Vengeance ) is an American action film from the year 1995 , in the lead roles with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson is busy. After Renny Harlin from Finland had directed Die Hard 2 , John McTiernan , who had already directed the first part , returned to the director's chair for the third part .

action

Police officer John McClane is finished: his wife has left him, he drinks too much and is suspended from duty. When the crazy terrorist Peter Krieg suddenly calls the police and only wants to talk to one man, namely McClane, the warrior is suddenly right in the middle again - at the wrong time in the wrong place. War threatens to blow up a school, but actually has completely different plans, and makes fun of sending McClane and his involuntary partner Zeus on a macabre scavenger hunt across New York City .

The FBI tells the police that behind "Peter Krieg" is Simon Peter Gruber, the brother of Hans Gruber (in the German version "Jack"), the terrorist leader from Die Hard . When Simon threatens to commit an attack on a school in the city, all officials in the city are immediately hired to search all of the 1,000+ schools in New York City for the bomb. McClane and Zeus discover, however, that this was just a diversionary maneuver in order to plunder the gold reserves of the Federal Reserve Bank undisturbed and bring it out of the country on a cargo ship.

After a long chase, McClane and Zeus get onto the cargo ship, where they find out that the gold is not on the ship, but is already on its way to Canada , distributed in several heavy dump trucks . The two are caught by Gruber and tied to each other on a bomb. Shortly before the bomb and the ship explode, the two escape.

In front of the Canadian border they confront Gruber's terrorist group with a police force. However, Gruber does not give up and chases McClane with his helicopter . But just as Simon gets McClane in his sights and wants to kill him, the helicopter comes dangerously close to a power line. McClane shoots his revolver at an isolator , causing the cable to fall down and get caught in the rotor , eventually destroying the helicopter. Gruber dies in the explosion.

At the end of the film, McClane calls his wife.

Awards

The film won the Golden Screen in 1995 . It was nominated in 1996 for the Saturn Award (for best action film ) and for the MTV Movie Award .

Michael Kamen won the BMI Film Music Award in 1996 .

synchronization

The film was set to music at Berliner Synchron . Thomas Danneberg wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue .

actor	German speaker	role
Bruce Willis	Thomas Danneberg	John McClane
Jeremy Irons	Thomas Fritsch	Simon Gruber
Samuel L. Jackson	Engelbert von Nordhausen	Zeus Carver
Larry Bryggman	Lothar Blumhagen	Walter Cobb
Graham Greene	Klaus Sunshine	Joe Lambert
Colleen Camp	Martina Treger	Connie Kowalski
Anthony Peck	Norbert Gescher	Ricky Walsh
Kevin Chamberlin	Tobias Master	Charles Weiss
Nicholas Wyman	Bernd Eichner	Mathias Targo
Aldis Hodge	Tobias Müller	Raymond
Sven Toorvald	Gerald Paradise	Karl
Robert Sedgwick	Martin Keßler	Rolf
Michael Christof	Reinhard Kuhnert	Bill Jarvis
Charles Dumas	Hans-Werner Bussinger	FBI agent Andy Cross
John C. Vennema	Till Hagen	Felix Little
Joe Zaloom	Roland Hemmo	Jerry Parks
Sharon Washington	Bettina White	Officer Jane
JR Horne	Alexander Duke	Sergeant John Turley

Reviews

“An initially ironic, but quickly one-dimensional action film that confuses tension with the accumulation of explosions and effects. The laconic play of the actors, which is intended to contrast with the drama of the action, is most appealing. "

- Lexicon of international film

“With this third part, director and producer John McTiernan [...] delivers a perfectly staged, sometimes ironic and highly exciting action film. Once again Bruce Willis convinces as McClane [...]. "

- prism

“Part three doesn't reach the tension of the predecessor, but the action leaves nothing to be desired here either. Conclusion: Fast guesswork with a cool duo. "

- Cinema

background

occupation

For the role of Simon Gruber, Sean Connery was planned at the very beginning , but he did not want to play such a diabolical terrorist. Then David Thewlis was forced , but he canceled and was eventually replaced by Jeremy Irons . Instead of Samuel L. Jackson , Laurence Fishburne was originally supposed to play the role of Zeus. He had initially refused, but later wanted to accept, but Jackson had already been selected.

The Zeus outfit created Samuel L. Jackson to studies of Malcolm X .

For the German voice of Bruce Willis, Thomas Danneberg was used and not Manfred Lehmann as in the previous (and later) films , because Manfred Lehmann was filming in Bali at the time and turned down all offers to travel to Germany for the dubbing work.

The American pop singer Sam Phillips plays the role of the silent Katya . When John McTiernan saw one of her CD covers, her photo reminded him of a German terrorist, which is why she was hired. To emphasize her role as a feline killer, it was decided to remove her lines of dialogue from the script.

The Finn Tony Halme acts as a terrorist novel . He was once a well-known wrestler with the WWE (formerly WWF) under the name Ludvig Borga .

Filming

Much of the filming took place in the area around Charleston and Mount Pleasant in South Carolina instead. The bridge from which McClane and Zeus jump onto the ship and which is supposed to be near Long Island is the Cooper River Bridge , which connects Charleston and Mount Pleasant. The subway station was built in a movie studio in Mount Pleasant.

The tunnel hunt originated in New York's Water Tunnel No. 3 , which connects the city with the Catskill Mountains .

The sign with which Bruce Willis walked through Harlem read " I hate everybody ". The inscription " I hate niggers " seen in the film was later added digitally, the actual inscription should be used for defused television versions.

So that the correct handling of the weight of gold could be represented as authentically as possible, Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson were allowed to pick up a real gold bar.

The sex scene between Gruber and Katya was added because director McTiernan decided that the film would have a high age rating anyway, and another adult scene would not bother us.

The park above the exploded Wall Street Station was vacant lot that was being turned into a park. After filming was over, it was turned back again.

Links to the previous films

In the film, the typical “Jippie-Ya-Yeah, pig cheek” from the previous films does not appear once, but the English version features the typical “Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker”. At this point, “Happy Birthday, pig nose” can be heard in the German version instead.
Unlike in the previous parts, John does not get help from the policeman Al, but from Samuel L. Jackson in the role of Zeus Carver, while the object searched for throughout the film is an aspirin tablet.
For the German viewers, the assignment of the people was a bit problematic, because in the German dubbed version the name of the terrorist was changed from Hans to Jack in the first part of the series, but in the third part he is referred to as Hans; his brother Simon is now German in the dubbed version and comes from the former GDR.
In the film, John McClane tells Zeus Carver that a few years ago he threw Hans Gruber from the 32nd floor of the Nakatomi building. In the first film, however, the scene was on the 30th floor of the building.
As in part 1, several actors of the terrorists speak German in the original version, but again very incomprehensibly.
Engelbert von Nordhausen , the German spokesman for Samuel L. Jackson, dubbed the policeman Al for the first two parts.

Others

With the tasks assigned to McClane, Simon Gruber plays the American children's game Simon Says .
One of the puzzles McClane and Zeus have to solve is the nursery rhyme As I Was Going to St Ives .
In another puzzle, McClane and Zeus have to measure four gallons of water, but only have a 3 and a 5 gallon canister available. This type of puzzle is known as the transfer puzzle .
The original script was about a New York cop named Alex Bradshaw (played by Brandon Lee ) and the African character Zeus Carver. Tragically, Lee was killed while filming The Crow in 1993. The script was thus not made into a film and went back to the available scripts owned by 20th Century Fox . When Warner Brothers and producer Joel Silver wanted to make a fourth Lethal Weapon film, they contacted 20th Century Fox and tried to buy the script to adapt it to Lethal Weapon 4 . 20th Century Fox never sold the script because it was a well respected script. Eventually, director John McTiernan discovered the script and adapted it in Die Hard: Now All the More .
Another rough version of the film script saw terrorists hijack a cruise ship in the Caribbean . However, this idea was implemented in Speed 2 - Cruise Control , which appeared two years later.
The assertion made by Simon Gruber that the Federal Reserve Bank holds more gold than Fort Knox is true. Around 4,600 tons of gold are stored in Fort Knox and just under 8,000 tons in New York.
The film has an alternate ending, which can be seen on the 2003 DVD version. In it, Simon and his people escaped with the gold that they smuggled from the USA , remelted into miniatures of the Empire State Building . Months later, McClane tracks down Simon Gruber somewhere in Eastern Europe after being fired from the police. Gruber has meanwhile also betrayed his accomplices. McClane forces him to play a mix of spin the bottle and Russian roulette with a rocket launcher , this time with McClane puzzling. In the end, Gruber shoots himself with the rocket launcher. McClane says to him “Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker” before disappearing.
The melody heard during the raid is taken from the song When Johnny Comes Marching Home , which became popular during the Civil War .
With a production budget of 90 million dollars a film played worldwide 366 million US dollars again. In Germany, 3,202,391 cinema-goers saw the film.
In 2007 the sequel Die Hard 4.0 followed (original title: Live Free or Die Hard ).
On February 14, 2013, the fifth part of Die Hard - A Good Day to Die , original title: A Good Day to Die Hard started in German cinemas.
The cargo ship seen in the film, the Forest Swan , really exists. It bears the IMO number 7915541.