Die hard 2
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| German title | Die Hard 2 | ||
| Original title | Die Hard 2: Die Harder | ||
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| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English , Spanish | ||
| Publishing year | 1990 | ||
| length | 124 minutes | ||
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FSK 16 JMK 14 |
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| Director | Renny Harlin | ||
| script |
Steven E. de Souza , Doug Richardson |
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| production |
Charles Gordon , Lawrence Gordon , Joel Silver |
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| music | Michael Kamen | ||
| camera | Oliver Wood | ||
| cut | Robert A. Ferretti | ||
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Die Harder 2 (Alternative title: Die Harder 2 - Die Harder ; original title Die Hard 2: Die Harder ) is an American action film from 1990 . It is the sequel to Die Hard and the second of five films in the Die Hard series starring Bruce Willis in the role of police officer John McClane. The film is based on the novel 58 minutes of fear by Walter Wager .
action
During a snowstorm, police officer John McClane goes to Washington's Dulles Airport to pick up his wife Holly and spend Christmas Eve with her .
At the same time, the corrupt officer Colonel Stuart , who has since been deposed, arrives at the airport with an armed mercenary troop and occupies an old church as a command post. He has the power and communication lines tapped and takes control of the airport from the church. He demands that the former South American dictator General Ramon Esperanza be released. This is currently in a transport plane approaching Washington because it is to be delivered. Should the requirements not be met, Stuart would crash the liner planes circling over the airport.
McClane, whose wife Holly is in one of the threatened planes , offers to help those responsible. After initial cooperation, they deny him any access to the control tower. With the help of Marvin, the airport caretaker, he single-handedly tries to prevent the disaster. After McClane shot three henchmen disguised as painters in the “new terminal”, Stuart demonstrated his power by crashing a machine with 230 people through the incorrectly programmed ground level of the instrument landing system. All attempts to regain control fail, which is why the airport is now receiving support from Stuart's former instructor Major Grant and his anti-terrorist unit. McClane manages to intercept Esperanza at the transport machine and shoot another terrorist. Esperanza is immediately freed by Stuart and his people.
McClane and the airport employee Barnes can find Stuart in his headquarters and storm the church with the help of the task force of Major Grant. It turns out, however, that Grant is in cahoots with Stuart and Esperanza and the men plan to take a jumbo jet to Esperanza's homeland. To deceive the other participants, they simply shot at each other with blank cartridges.
Since Holly's machine and the other circling planes are forced to make an emergency landing due to a lack of fuel, McClane goes onto a wing of the terrorists' Boeing 747, where it comes to scuffle with Major Grant and finally with Colonel Stuart. After he pushed Major Grant into a running engine, Stuart knocked him off the wing, but before that he was able to open a fuel tank and detonate the aircraft by igniting the leaking kerosene while it was taking off . Stuart, Esperanza and all the other terrorists die on the plane. The burning debris and the ignited kerosene serve as a beacon for the emergency landing machines.
John and his wife celebrate Christmas together again.
background
The shooting took place in Alpena , Michigan , at Stapleton Airport in Denver and on Highland Lake north of Denver. Since there was no snow there at the time of shooting, artificial snow was used. The interior shots were taken at Los Angeles Airport . Eight different locations were used for the scene in which Esperanza's plane lands: Granada Hills , San Francisco , Los Angeles, Lake Tahoe and the Mojave Desert (all California), Alpena and Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan and Denver.
Originally, John McTiernan , the director of the first part , should also make Die 2 slowly . But since he directed Hunt for Red October , Renny Harlin took over his position.
With a production cost of 70 million US dollars , about 240 million US dollars were made worldwide, of which about 117.5 million dollars in the USA.
The tool company Black & Decker contributed to the production costs, because lead actor Bruce Willis used a cordless drill from the company as part of his role . After the scene was cut from the final version, Black & Decker sued the production company 20th Century Fox for failing to place products . The case was eventually settled out of court with a payment of $ 150,000. In the film, one is also prominently Stihl - saw shown. It is not known whether this company also participated in the production.
General Ramon Esperanza is from Valverde , according to the script . The fictional state was also used in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film The Phantom Command .
Like the first part, the film originally received an FSK -18 rating in Germany , but both were soon downgraded to FSK 16. Some scenes have been removed from the final version of the film and are included on the special edition DVD. Among other things, a children's choir, another terrorist murder in preparation for their action, and McClane balancing over a steel beam can be seen. The VHS versions were cut into five scenes with an FSK-16 approval. The film was officially unabridged on DVD. To date, the film has only been broadcast twice on Sat.1 , and other broadcasts have always been cut equally.
Since digital trick technology was still in its infancy in the early 1990s, many miniature effects were used in the film. The tower of Dulles Airport was built as a 1: 1 backdrop and placed in a large studio in which a complete miniature airport including illuminated runways and taxiways had been built. For the flight recordings of the passenger jets, large models, some several meters long, were filmed in a studio with artificial fog. Models also had to be used for the crash of the British passenger plane.
While waiting on Holly McClane's plane, passengers were shown television. Since it is a 20th Century Fox production, the FOX television station is shown, which is currently showing one of the first Simpsons episodes, the season one episode A Very Ordinary Family . When John calls his wife Holly on their flight, a scene in the machine briefly shows part of a magazine with an advertisement for the action film Lethal Weapon 2 - Hot Spot LA .
In his film music, the composer Michael Kamen referred very clearly to the music of the symphonic poem Finlandia by Jean Sibelius , the chorale part of which is sung as a hymn in America. The dynamic force of the original and its sharp accents give the film a considerable tension. When John McClane enters the airport terminal, the children's choir can be heard in the background. The song Carol of the Bells is also used in the movie Kevin - Home Alone . Based on the first film, the song Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow , sung by Vaughn Monroe , is played during the credits . However, the original recording from 1945 was not used here either, but Monroe's new version from 1963.
Several fictional airlines appear in the film. Holly McClane is in a Lockheed Tristar the North Eastern Airlines (NEA) go. Up until the early 1970s there was an airline called Northeast Airlines , but this has nothing to do with the one in the film. Machines of the fictional Japanese airline Fuji can also be seen. In addition, numerous details in the film, from advertising signs and container labels to the abbreviations on the departure screens, refer to these fictitious airlines. On the other hand, you can see a Boeing 727 from American Trans Air , although this airline actually existed. The plane that the terrorists brought down is a DC-8 of the also fictional English airline Windsor . The cargo plane requested by Colonel Stuart is a Boeing 747-100F from Evergreen International Airlines . Although the paintwork has been completely neutralized apart from the two characteristic green stripes and the American flag, the original registration N473EV has been retained and can be clearly seen in the film.
The Glock 7 pistol , which is said to be made entirely of porcelain and therefore cannot be found with metal detectors , is a fictional weapon. There is a Glock 17 , but this weapon is not made of ceramic and is also an Austrian production. In the film she is shown as a German production. The concept, which was revolutionary at the time, comprised a number of plastic components , although the barrel, for example, was made of metal. The Glock 17 can therefore be tracked down using a metal detector.
While the SWAT unit of the airport police and Major Grant's reaction force are equipped with American M16 type assault rifles , the terrorists mainly use the German Heckler & Koch MP5K submachine gun , which can be recognized by the characteristic front handle. Colonel Stuart also uses an MP5, the variant MP5A2.
German dubbed version
The German dubbing was done at Deutsche Synchron in Berlin . Synchronous Director led Michael Richter .
Detlef Bierstedt synchronized several roles.
criticism
The film was received positively by the majority of the critics and achieved a rating of 68 percent on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 68 reviews, and received an average rating of 6.2 out of a possible 10 points.
"The exciting battle with the pitfalls of modern technology, which made the appeal of Die Hard (1988), gives way to superficially constructed, loud action riches with only slight signs of irony, but all the more hardship customary in the genre."
Awards
In 1990 the film was awarded the Jupiter for Best Camera and Best Stunts . In 1991 the film received a nomination for "Best Foreign Film" at the Japan Academy Prize , the most important Japanese film award. In the same year the film won the “BMI Film Music Awards” in the category “Best Music” (Michael Kamen) at the BMI Film & TV Awards .
Web links
- Die Hard 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Die Hard 2 at Metacritic (English)
- Die Hard 2 at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Die Hard 2 in the online movie database
- Die slow 2 in the German dubbing record
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release Certificate for Die Hard 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2001 (PDF; test number: 64 567 V / DVD).
- ↑ Age rating for Die Hard 2 . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
- ↑ Die Hard 2: Die Harder on boxofficemojo
- ↑ cuts to the VHS version
- ↑ Making-of the Special Edition of the DVD edition
- ↑ Die hard 2. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 28, 2014 .
- ↑ Die Hard 2. In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved December 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Die hard 2. In: Lexicon of the international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Internet Movie Database : Nominations and Awards