- #JURASSIC OLD HABITS DIE HARD MOVIE#
- #JURASSIC OLD HABITS DIE HARD PRO#
- #JURASSIC OLD HABITS DIE HARD TV#
- #JURASSIC OLD HABITS DIE HARD WINDOWS#
#JURASSIC OLD HABITS DIE HARD TV#
He thinks it makes him look more fearsome, but then when he sees himself on TV he worries that it just makes him look pathetic. In the book he becomes completely stained, covered in black filth, which helps him to hide in the shadows. In the movie, McClane gets dirty from climbing through vents and elevator shafts. The limo driver, who isn’t named Argyle and who is never seen again after he drops him off, is older. And he’s going to visit his daughter, not his wife, so she’s younger. In the book, Leland/McClane is much older and retired. Also, the ages of most of the characters have been switched around at random for the movie.
In the book the heavy isn’t called Hans Grueber, he’s Anton “Red Tony” Grueber, a terrorist who enjoys sitting people down and shooting them in the lapel. But in the book it’s his daughter’s co-worker, so it’s more of a fatherly “I can’t believe my daughter is fucking this asshole” kind of pain.
#JURASSIC OLD HABITS DIE HARD MOVIE#
In the movie there’s a vague hint that Hollie could be having an affair with this guy, or at least that McClane’s jealous mind could be worried about that. Even the treacherous yuppie cokehead Ellis comes from the book. Robinson, blonde beast Karl and his dead brother. Most of the characters in the movie are from the book, give or take: trusty Al Powell, bureaucratic Dwayne T. taping a gun to his back for the final showdown.rapelling down the side of the building strapped to a firehose and shooting out a window to get back inside.
#JURASSIC OLD HABITS DIE HARD WINDOWS#
dropping a C4 bomb strapped to a chair down the shaft and blowing out all the windows.
putting a dead terrorist in the elevator with “NOW WE HAVE A MACHINE GUN” written on his sweatshirt (the movie changed it to “I” and had the welcome addition of “HO HO HO”).throwing a dead terrorist out the window to attract cops (doesn’t hit the car, though).hanging into the elevator shaft by his gun strap.What really surprised me is most of the memorable action scenes in the movie are taken from the book: So unless he’s spying on them, we don’t know what the terrorists are up to.Īnd of course there are some different subplots (a budding relationship with a stewardess he met on the plane, a survivalist type named Taco Bill who talks to him over the CB) and many of the details are changed, but the basic structure is pretty much the same. One major difference is that the book always follows Leland, it doesn’t cut away for scenes on other floors of the building. Like in the movie, the terrorists are German, and sometimes talk in German so he won’t understand. He spends the rest of the book as a fly in the terrorist’s ointment, picking them off one by one, blowing shit up, communicating with them and police on the outside using a CB. Like in the movie, Leland is on the outskirts of an office party with his shoes off (washing his feet though, because he was told it keeps you from being tired at the end of a day) when he hears gun shots, because terrorists have taken the office hostage. His daughter used to be married to a chump he didn’t like and has taken his name, Generro (in the movie that’s his wife’s maiden name that she uses at work). In the movie he’s estranged from his wife, in the book he was divorced from his wife and she later died. The book is about Joe Leland, not John McClane, a retired (not vacationing) cop going to visit his daughter (not wife) in L.A. So I guarantee this will be the #1 DIE HARD/ NOTHING LASTS FOREVER comparison on the internet. I done this for myself with MILLION DOLLAR BABY, POINT BLANK/ PAYBACK, THE OUTFIT, two Seagal movies, and others.
#JURASSIC OLD HABITS DIE HARD PRO#
Fortunately, I am a fuckin pro at this shit. But I’m sure there must be one out there somewhere. And a quick internet search (a research technique I expect to see in DIE HARD 4.0 if they ever really make it) brings up no detailed comparisons between the movie and the bool. The “ultimate Die Hard dvd” has little mention of the original novel, other than director John McTiernan admitting he never read it. Me and you, we’re in this together, like Bruce and Sam in part 3. But now you finally read the whole thing, rewatched DIE HARD and are ready to share with the world a comparison of the movie to the novel. And then you bought the book on e-bay but didn’t get around to reading it for a while because of an addiction to Richard Stark novels. If you’re like me, you’ve wondered for years how much Bruce Willis’s DIE HARD (1988) owes to the book it was based on, NOTHING LASTS FOREVER by Roderick Thorp.
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