Die Hard

When the boss discovers the first bad guy lying dead in the lift ("Now I have a gun - HO HO HO!") and slaps him over the cheek, the corpse is moving its head before it is hit (watch carefully!) He also blinks.

Shortly after the terrorist shoots at the police car, you see the cop with a wound in the forehead. In the next shot, the wound is gone - there isn't even a scar.

Willis' T-shirt changes colour when he comes out of the ventilation tubes (dirty then white).

McClane uses the terrorist's radio to talk to the police. It's very unlikely that they would all be using radios that could transmit on the same frequencies.

When the terrorist launch the rocket at the RV, they break the same window of the building twice.

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The payphone McClane uses in Dulles airport has the "Pacific Bell" logo. Pacific Bell is a West Coast phone company.

The scene where Richard Thornberg is in the airplane bathroom giving his live report, in a number of the shots he is holding the phone upside down.

Look at the people carefully when they run out of the airport. They don't seem to have any hurry or rush. You have to watch single people to see it.

John McClane and Major Grant are fighting on the wing of the airplane, and Major Grant's mouth gets extremely bloody. The shot switches to McClane and then back to Grant, whose mouth is still bloody. However, after the shot switches back from McClane to Grant, Grant's mouth is no longer bloody.

Washington has TWO airports - Dulles, where the movie takes place, and BWI (Baltimore-Washington International) which is in Baltimore. They could have landed those circling planes at BWI easily, but BWI is never mentioned.

There's also Washington National Airport in Alexandria, Virginia, which is even closer to Dulles than BWI.

The plane crashes into the runway because they think they are higher than they really are, but the runway lights are never turned on. I'm no pilot, but I don't think a pilot would try to land a plane on an unlit runway.

A pilot got in touch with me about this: If necessary we will land a plane without runway lights - there is this thing called an ILS (instument landing system) which they used to land the plane. If not tampered with you would be able to land the plane safely. On the other hand with that much snow on the runway, no plane would be able to land, not enough space to stop the planes. Another thing there is is a safe altitude and approach slope warning that would have went off no matter what the ILS was telling them.

The terrorists are using Kenwood 46AT Handheld Radios that operate on 440Mhz. The Army moves in with a Kenwood TS-850 Radio that operates on 30Mhz-3Mhz. Nowhere's close to the frequency the terrorists are using.

Forget BWI, why couldn't they just light up the runway with gasoline in the beginning?

The noise of the big English aircraft exploding should be heard far from the point of its explosion. But why didn't the waiting passengers in the hall hear it and panic? If it was too far, how McClane can arrive to Esperanza's aeroplane so quickly?

Bruce Willis, on the wing of the terrorists' getaway plane, unscrews the gas cap. The gas cap cannot be unscrewed on a plane unless a lever is pulled in the cockpit.

When they tell the English plane that it can land, the pilot clearly says that they are out of fuel and are flying on fumes. However, when they hit the runway, the plane explodes in spite of the fact that it's fuel tanks are completely empty.

Die Hard with a Vengeance

When Willis is driving through the park, you can see the tyre marks and lines where they had driven there on other takes.

There is a scene where Samuel L Jackson and Bruce Willis are in a crowded park, and they have to defuse a bomb by measuring out water. Before they do that, he picks up a cell phone and calls a bad guy with it. When he is beginning the conversation, the cell phone antenna is down. They change to a different angle, and the antenna is up.

In this movie, a killer is seeking vengeance for the death of Hans Gruber. If you remember from back in the first movie, Hans Gruber was an assumed identity, and never really existed. Why seek vengeance for a fake name? Wouldn't it make sense to use his real name seeing how he is dead and his identity no longer matters?

My sister's German exchange partner said that towards the end, when we see all the subtitled German being spoken, the subtitles are nothing like what they're actually saying. Can any Germans give me a translation?

In the bridge scene where Willis & Jackson jump down to the passing ship, check out the background landscape- it is marshy with NO evidence of ANY tall buildings. Since this movie was supposed to take place in NY city, there should be a building somewhere. That scene was shot in Charleston, South Carolina; they chose SC because there are 2 suspension bridges right next to one another. Action can occur on one bridge, while they film it from the other bridge.

Updated 29/5/98 by JWES