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5 unusual facts about Die Hard


Dark Champions

The second edition, published in 2004, emphasizes general action-adventure scenarios such as one might find in the adventures of James Bond, Lara Croft, The A-Team, the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon movies, and so forth, though costumed vigilantes are still considered a subgenre (given detail in a supplement, Dark Champions: The Animated Series).

Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza

There are five different types of firearms, as well as items such as a Zippo lighter and a Motorola radio that can be used to accomplish various tasks.

Loaded Weapon 1

The film mainly spoofs the first three Lethal Weapon films, as well as other films that include Basic Instinct, Die Hard, Dirty Harry, Rambo, The Silence of the Lambs, Wayne's World and 48 Hrs..

Nakatomi

Fox Plaza (Los Angeles), used as the fictional building Nakatomi Plaza, in the movie Die Hard

The Suckling

As stated in the copy of one release of this film, "THE SUCKLING has been compared to Alien for its claustrophobic intensity and Die Hard for its non-stop action."


Guy Whitmore

Guy Whitmore is a composer specializing in video game music, notable for creating the soundtracks to Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza, Russian Squares, Shivers, Shivers II: Harvest of Souls, Blood, Blood II: The Chosen, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division and No One Lives Forever.

Hart Bochner

Bochner appeared in such films as Islands in the Stream (1977), Breaking Away (1979), Terror Train (1980), Rich and Famous (1981), Supergirl (1984), Die Hard (1988) and Apartment Zero (also 1988).

Roderick Thorp

Nothing Lasts Forever which is the basis for the film Die Hard starring Bruce Willis.

Sebastian Koch

Koch, along with Yuliya Snigir, appeared as Russian villains in the fifth movie of the Die Hard series, A Good Day to Die Hard.

The Sheila Divine

The band has a large die hard fan base in what is often called "the three Bs": Boston, Buffalo, and Belgium.

True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet

The film makes references to several teen films, television dramas, and reality shows such as Mean Girls, Die Hard, Legally Blonde, Bring it On, Monster Garage, The Surreal Life, and Grey's Anatomy.


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Camille Davila

Camille's surrounding company has always been of interest to die-hard fans, from playing with ex-Jeff Buckley drummer Eric Eidel, to working for an organization run by Stewart Brand, Brian Eno and others at The Long Now Foundation, to debuting her residency with her opening players the Zutons!

Caustic Casanova

The band self-released their first album, entitled Old Habits Die Hard, in May 2005, after playing one show at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where the three members attended college.

David D. Halverson

LTG Halverson is a die-hard Minnesota sports fan, well known for his love of the Minnesota Vikings, Minnesota Twins and the Wild.

John McClean

John McClane, fictional protagonist of the Die Hard film series portrayed by Bruce Willis

Klown Kamp Massacre

When their die-hard instructor Sgt. Funnybone (Miguel Martinez) is found dead in a puddle of cream pie and blood, the curriculum changes from comedy to survival.

Knoxville Speed

Many die-hard fans, players and broadcasters remember the fierce bench-clearing brawl between the Speed and Asheville Smoke in January 2001.

La Tour Montparnasse Infernale

When it came out in cinemas in Canada, it was translated into Don't Die Too Hard in reference to Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis.

Old Habits Die Hard

In 2006, Ten Second Epic came out with another song titled "Old Habits Die Hard".

Politics of the Southern United States

When segregation was outlawed by court order and by the Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, a die-hard element resisted integration, led by Democratic governors Orval Faubus of Arkansas, Lester Maddox of Georgia, and especially George Wallace of Alabama.

Shadowmasters

But when the U.S. Army Captain James Richards, who oversaw the occupation of Iga Province, saved the life of Ezaki's son, the two became friends and together fought against a fanatical die-hard band of Japanese military stragglers holed up in the mountains of Iga.

Workers Solidarity Movement

The same paper subsequently made a personal charge at another WSM member, calling her an 'unreconstructed' "left-wing die-hard…" who "regularly contributes to anarchist and feminist websites and magazines" after she had appeared on The Late Late Show.