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Matt Farrell: Have you done stuff like that before?
John McClane: Stuff like what?
Matt Farrell: Like killing people?
John McClane: Yeah. But not for a long time.
Matt Farrell: [upset] So, who were those guys? Huh? Why were they trying to kill you? Why`d they blow up my goddamn apartment?
John McClane: They were there to kill you.
Matt Farrell: Why would they wanna kill me?
John McClane: You tell me, kid. You`re the criminal.
Thomas Gabriel: You know, John, I feel like we`ve gotten off on the wrong foot. And because of that, you think I`m the bad guy. Nothing could be further from the truth. I`m the good guy here. I told them this could happen if they didn`t prepare. Did I get a "Thank you"? No, I got crucified. But, they wouldn`t listen.
John McClane: You got their attention now, don`t you?
Thomas Gabriel: That`s right. I am doing the country a favor.
John McClane: By tearing it apart?
Thomas Gabriel: Better me than some outsider. Some religious nut job bent on Armageddon. Nobody wants to see that happen. Everything I`ve broken can be fixed if the country is willing to pay for it.
John McClane: Ah, bullshit. It`s always been about the money.
Thomas Gabriel: What, I shouldn`t get paid for my work? I`m working my ass off here, John.
John McClane: Well, just sit tight, asshole. I gotta check for you.
[from trailer]
Matt Farrell: Shouldn`t we call for backup or something?
John McClane: Makes too much sense.
[from trailer]
Matt Farrell: [running to a bleeding John McClane] You okay?
John McClane: [pause, panting] I`ll let you know in a minute.
[after McClane flings Rand from his car]
Matt Farrell: Did you see that?
John McClane: Yeah I saw it, I did it!
[first lines]
Mai Lihn: Well?
Clay: I`m sending you the code.
Mai Lihn: Yes, I see that. Thank you.
[last lines]
Lucy McClane: [referring to Farrell] So, um, did he say anything about me?
John McClane: Jesus, Lucy.
Lucy McClane: What? I-I`m so- I`m sorry. I`m just asking.
John McClane: I`m in enough pain already.
[to medic]
John McClane: Hospital.
John McClane: [about to jump out of a speeding car] This is not a good idea!
[from trailer]
The Warlock: [to Matt] Why did you bring a cop to my command center?
John McClane: [laughs] Command center? It`s a basement.
The Warlock: [angrily] Who is this man?
John McClane: Damn hamster!
Matt Farrell: [to Lucy] Wow, I know that tone. It`s just weird hearing it come from someone... with hair.
Matt Farrell: Awww, great! There goes the cell phone.
John McClane: They knocked the satellites out of the skies, now?
Matt Farrell: No, your battery ran out.
Slacker Kid: Hey, Farrell. Sully just P.D.L.`d a new copy of the, uh, Kill Zone 9, the one that ain`t out yet. You wanna come check it out?
Matt Farrell: No, thanks though, man. And good luck at the bad timing awards.
Thomas Gabriel: On your tombstone it should read, "Always in the wrong place at the wrong time".
John McClane: How about, "Yippi-kay-ay, motherfu - "
[gunshot]
Thomas Gabriel: You`re very impressed with yourself, aren`t you?
John McClane: I have my moments.
Lucy McClane: Daddy, you`re out of your mind.
John McClane: What`re you talkin` about?
Lucy McClane: You shot yourself!
John McClane: [groaning] It seemed like a good idea at the time.
[from trailer]
Thomas Gabriel: Officer McClane, you have no idea what I`m capable of!
John McClane: You sound like a very scary guy.
John McClane: [pissed off] All you gotta do is go pick up a kid down in New Jersey, and drive him down to D.C. How hard can that be, huh? Can`t be that hard, no, can it? No, gotta be a senior detective. A thing like a traffic jam, throwing a car at me`s gonna stop me?
John McClane: [acrobatic mercenaries attack John and Matt] Jesus, is the circus in town?
John McClane: [covering the webcam] You think you can, uh, find a track where he is?
Thomas Gabriel: Detective, covering the camera with your hand does not turn off the microphone.
John McClane: Mai? Oh, yeah. Little Asian chick, likes to kick people? I don`t think she`s gonna be talkin` to anybody for a really long time. Last time I saw her she was at the bottom of a elevator shaft with an SUV rammed up her ass.
Lucy McClane: Who are you?
Matt Farrell: Matt Farrell.
Lucy McClane: Lucy McClane.
Matt Farrell: I thought your name was Gennero. Lucy Gennero?
Lucy McClane: Not today.
Thomas Gabriel: I can`t talk this guy. You talk to him. See if you can get him to focus.
[hands cell phone to Lucy]
Lucy McClane: Dad?
John McClane: Hi, baby.
Lucy McClane: Now there are only five of them.
Matt Farrell: When was the last time you remember turning on the radio and listening to popular music? Or, just give me a decade. The 70`s? I`m guessing - was, was Michael Jackson still black? Pearl Jam - I`ll go back ten years with you. Ten years - 20 years, The Cure? Nothing?
[Matt is cringing while listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival on the radio]
John McClane: You don`t like Creedence?
Matt Farrell: This is like having a pine cone shoved in my ass.
[John turns the volume up louder]
John McClane: That`s enough of this Kung-Fu shit.
The Warlock: What, like, you a big fan of the Fett?
John McClane: [standing next to a stand-up cardboard cut-out of Boba Fett] No. I was always more of a Star Wars guy.
John McClane: [Matt`s showing interest in Lucy] After all we`ve been through, I`d *hate* to have to beat you to death.
Matt Farrell: Seriously, uh, you probably shouldn`t antagonize them, since they have all the loaded guns, and whatnot.
Lucy McClane: Listen, will you just take a minute and dig deep for a bigger set of balls, `cause you`re gonna need `em before we`re through
[recognizing female terrorist`s voice over the police radio]
Matt Farrell: That`s her!
John McClane: "Her" who?
Agent Johnson: What`re you talking about?
Matt Farrell: It`s them.
John McClane: Are you saying it`s "them" them?
Matt Farrell: I *swear* to you, I know her! I would know her voice anywhere!
[McClane picks up handset]
Matt Farrell: Don`t say anything! Don`t...
John McClane: Just keep your mouth shut for a minute.
[to terrorists over radio]
John McClane: Hey, Metro, how`s your day goin` over there? Yeah, you gotta be pretty, uh, crazy over there, what with all those 5-87`s, huh?
Mai Lihn: Yes, sir, we`ve had to dispatch all units.
John McClane: Yeah, you had to dispatch all units for all the naked people walkin` around?
[after the presidential montage]
Casper: That was creepy.
Trey: I tried to find more Nixon.
Agent Johnson: Special Agent Johnson. I`ll take the sedan
John McClane: Agent Johnson?
Agent Johnson: That`s right.
Thomas Gabriel: [whispering, after discovering that the Warlock was hacking into his network] Fat bastard.
John McClane: I`m gettin` too old to jump out of cars.
John McClane: Another day in paradise.
Matt Farrell: I`m not a doctor but-but you look like you`re hurt.
John McClane: Sexy, right?
Matt Farrell: No.
John McClane: Are you Matt Farrell? Matthew Farrell?
Matt Farrell: No, he, uh, actually does not live here anymore.
John McClane: Of course not. Who are you?
Matt Farrell: My name is Daisy Duke. Got a lot of shit for it when I was a kid. Please don`t add to it.
[choking Mai with cables]
John McClane: [sarcastic] That`s not too tight, is it?
John McClane: You know what you get for being a hero? Nothin`. You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah, blah, blah, attaboy. You get divorced. Your wife can`t remember your last name. Your kids don`t want to talk to you. You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me, kid, nobody wants to be that guy.
The Warlock: Thomas Gabriel`s the guy who shut down NORAD with a laptop just to prove a point, and you think I`m scared of you?
Thomas Gabriel: [about McClane] You`re a Timex watch in a digital age.
John McClane: You`re shooting at the wrong guy!
John McClane: Hey, hey, hey. Calm down. Just calm down, big boy!
The Warlock: You calm down! This is MY house!
John McClane: You`re gonna tell me what I wanna know, or I`m gonna beat you to death in your own house.
Thomas Gabriel: McClane? I thought I killed you already.
John McClane: I get that sometimes.
John McClane: I know I`m not as smart as you guys with all this computer shit. But, hey... I`m still alive, ain`t I? I mean, you`ve *got* to be running out of bad guys by now, right? Huh? Gabriel? Honestly, you can tell me. I mean, how does that work? Got some kind of service or something? Some kind of 800 number? 1-800-HENCHMEN? Oh, you know what? I bet you`re still on hold with, "Can I get another dead Asian hooker bitch over here right away?"
[from the unrated version]
Matt Farrell: You just killed a helicopter with a car!
John McClane: Hundreds of thousands of people get killed by cars every year. That`s just like four more.
[Farrell is trying to lock his door to prevent terrorists from entering]
John McClane: Are you nuts?
Matt Farrell: Jesus Christ. It`s a fire sale.
John McClane: What?
Matt Farrell: It`s a fire sale.
Deputy Director Miguel Bowman: Hey! We don`t know that yet.
Taylor: Yeah, it`s a myth anyway. It can`t be done.
Matt Farrell: Oh, it`s a myth? Really? Please tell me she`s only here for show and she`s actually not in charge of anything.
John McClane: Hey, what`s a fire sale?
Matt Farrell: It`s a three-step... it`s a three-step systematic attack on the entire national infrastructure. Okay, step one: take out all the transportation. Step two: the financial base and telecoms. Step three: You get rid of all the utilities. Gas, water, electric, nuclear. Pretty much anything that`s run by computers which... which today is almost everything. So that`s why they call it a fire sale, because everything must go.
[after Lucy struggles and shoots Emerson in the foot]
Thomas Gabriel: Jesus Christ. You got her?
[Emerson nods]
Thomas Gabriel: You`re sure? It`s a nice effort, though.
Robert Russo: [referring to Lucy] This bitch is a handful.
[Lucy punches Russo, and he slaps her back]
Thomas Gabriel: [sarcastically to Russo] Are you gonna be all right?
[to Lucy]
Thomas Gabriel: Hey, behave, or I will hurt you.
Lucy McClane: Oh, yeah? Let`s step outside, just you and me. We`ll see who hurts who.
Thomas Gabriel: [smiling] You really are his daughter.
John McClane: [in unrated version] Yippie-kai-yay, motherfucker!
Lucy McClane: Dad! Stop it! I mean it!
Jim: Dad? You said your dad was dead!
John McClane: What? You told this jerk-off I was dead? You actually said that?
Lucy McClane: I may have exaggerated a little bit.
John McClane: I could come and find you, kick your ass and throw you out of your own party. What do you think about that, dickhead?
John McClane: [after being in a car accident] You alright?
Matt Farrell: No, I`m not alright!
John McClane: [gets out of the car amused] Just stay in the car. You`ll be alright.
Matt Farrell: What are we doing?
John McClane: It`s a little thing they invented back in the sixties called `jogging`. You`re gonna love it. Come on.
Matt Farrell: Do we have anything, like, resembling a plan, or anything?
John McClane: Find Lucy, kill everybody else.
Matt Farrell: I mean, more like a plan, like, a way to do that.
Matt Farrell: [to McClane] If that guy knew half the shit that I know, his fuzzy little head would explode.
Thomas Gabriel: Launch the downloads!
John McClane: You know, chicks dig scars.
Matt Farrell: [looks at Lucy] Really?
John McClane: Not that one.
John McClane: It`s not a system, it`s a country!
John McClane: Hey, thanks for saving my daughter`s life.
Matt Farrell: [shrugs] What was I going to do?
John McClane: That`s what makes you "that guy."
Matt Farrell: [smiles] Yeah.
Mai Lihn: [twisting Matt`s right hand up his back] Undo everything you just did!
Matt Farrell: [panicking] Ok. Ok.
[after a moment`s beat]
Matt Farrell: You know I could do it a lot faster if I have my right hand... I`m a righty! I need my right hand!
John McClane: But seriously, all that kicking aside, that skinny little ninja chick... she was smoking hot. A new one of those is going to be real hard to come by... right?
Trivia
While in early development with a script that was eventually discarded, the movie had been given the subtitle "Tears of the Sun". Bruce Willis told the studio he would commit to a Die Hard 4 if he could use the title for Tears of the Sun (2003).
The French title translates as "Die Hard 4.0: Return to Hell".
Prints were sent out to UK cinemas under the fake name "New Hampshire" - a reference to the state`s "Live Free or Die" motto and the movie`s original title - in spite of the title being changed to "Die Hard 4.0" in European territories.
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* This film addresses the apparent continuity error in earlier installments - McClane is afraid of flying in the first two films, but not the third. Here, he explains that he took flying lessons in order to "face his fears."
The movie`s title, "Live Free or Die Hard", is a reference to New Hampshire`s State Motto "Live Free or Die". Consequently, the New Hampshire state film office received several phone calls asking where in the state the movie was filmed.
Justin Timberlake was in talks to play John McClane`s son.
According to Bruce Willis and Director Len Wiseman in the DVD Commentary, the story originally involved McClane`s son, Jack. Originally, he was supposed to be the computer hacker John has to deliver to the FBI. Eventually that idea was dropped and the hacker became the Matt Ferrell character. It was then decided to bring in his daughter Lucy to keep up the series continuity of McLane always having a personal stake in what happens in the story.
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# When filming the scenes of John walking through the corridors talking to Gabriel on the two-way, there were no written lines of dialog for Bruce Willis, according to Len Wiseman on the DVD Commentary. So what they did on set was have Willis hold the two-way up to his mouth and speak gibberish so it looks like he`s talking to Gabriel. If you`ll notice, there are a couple of times where the two-way isn`t all the way up to Willis`s face and you can see his mouth doesn`t match the dialog being spoken.
In the elevator shaft scene where Mai Lihn swings on the wire and flies into the truck and hits McClane, the stunt double accidentally cut Willis`s eyebrow with her spiked heel and according to Len Wiseman in the DVD Commentary, she jabbed Willis hard enough that when medics examined the injury, the brow bone was exposed.
# The film was edited down to a PG-13 rating for commercial reasons, thus making it the first film in the series not rated R. The DVD version restores much of the profanity and violence that was trimmed for this purpose, making the film an equivalent of an R rating.
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# In the beginning credits when Kevin Smith`s name comes on the screen. The "m" in smith disappears and you see "Sith" for a few seconds paying homage to Kevin Smith`s love of all things `Star Wars` which also reflects in his character in the movie.
When introduced to an agent Johnson, McClane says: "Johnson, again?", a nod to the two agents Johnson in Die Hard (1988), despite the fact that McClane and the two agents Johnson never spoke or met face to face.
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# In the beginning of the film, John McClane and Lucy have an argument that eventually leads to them discussing her use of her mother`s last name, "Gennaro." A similar argument takes place in Die Hard (1988), when McClane is searching for the location of his wife, Holly, in the Nakatomi building. He does not find her under "McClane," but does find her under her maiden name "Gennaro."
The Terminator action figure in Matt`s apartment is a nod to executive producer William Wisher Jr. and composer Marco Beltrami. Wisher co-wrote and appeared in The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), and Beltrami composed the score for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).
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# The first film in the Die Hard series not to be shot in the anamorphic Panavision process. This film was shot with 3-Perf Super35 process to save money with visual effects.
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# When McClane is driving in Jersey and talking to the chief captain of Camden, the guy`s name is Wiseman, same name as the director, Len Wiseman, although pronounced `Wheezeman`, as this was how most crew-members thought his name should be pronounced. The voice is that of the director himself.
The screen to the far left of all of Warlock`s hacking screens has the auction website eBay open with a Boba Fett action figure being watched.
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# In addition to the `Agent Johnson` reference, several other elements from the first film are revisited as series trademarks. Among them are: crawling on broken glass, use of air-ducts, elevator shafts, and maintenance areas in corporate buildings, a henchman falling down stairs, an inquiry on the E.T.A. of a helicopter, and McClane`s "Yippie Ki Yay` catchphrase.
When Gabriel is talking to McClane over the phone and pulling up his information on the computer, Bonnie Bedelia makes a cameo appearance in the form of her character Holly McClane`s driver`s license photo. The photo appears as though it may be either a publicity shot from a prior "Die Hard" film or a still photo (i.e. family portrait) from one of the movies.
All the IP-addresses shown in the movie are legal ones. However, most start with either 10, 172.16 or 192.168. Those numbers are reserved for local traffic only. Matt transfers the data with scp to 202.218.154.52, which is owned by a Japanese company.
# On the traffic monitoring screens showing the created traffic jam ups, some reused footage (armored car turning) from the The Italian Job (2003) can be seen.
The video game Gears of War (2006) (VG) for the Xbox 360 is featured twice in the film: on televisions in the first hacker`s apartment and in the Warlock`s basement.
The name "Tovarek", which Mai Lihn uses as an FBI agent, is a Polish word and one of it meanings is "hot chick" (the correct Polish word is "towarek", but it`s pronounced like this).
The car that is stolen in the film by McClane and Farrell is a 2006 E60 BMW 5 series, which was chosen due to a poll that found that people wanted films that had more BMWs in it. The main reason given was that the alternatives (Audis and Mercedes-Benzes) were too common and not bold and imposing enough to go with the characters in the film. The particular BMW model (5 series) was chosen because the director, Len Wiseman, found "the 3 series too common, the 7 series too uptight and every other car either too feminine or compensating for a midlife crisis... Everything McClane isn`t, yet".
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# The bad guy Thomas Gabriel points a gun at McClane and declares "On your tombstone it will say `Always in the wrong place at the wrong time`." "John McClane is back in the wrong place at the wrong time!" was a tagline used for Die Hard 2 (1990).
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# Jessica Simpson auditioned unsuccessfully for the role of Bruce Willis` daughter. She can be seen on the way to the audition and coming out of the audition in "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica" (2003) episode "Mismatched Threesome".
Bruce Willis` stunt double, Larry Rippenkroeger, was seriously injured when he fell 25 feet to the pavement. He suffered broken bones in his face and fractures in both wrists. Production was temporarily shut down. Willis picked up the tab at area hotels for Larry`s parents and visited him a number of times at the hospital. Larry also doubles for `James Caan (I)` in his TV series, "Las Vegas" (2003). Caan came and visited Larry in the hospital and joked around for over an hour. Larry told his parents he was glad when Caan left because he hurt so bad laughing at Caan`s jokes.
John McClane`s date of birth is revealed as May 23, 1955 when Thomas Gabriel looks at his dossier.
When McClane throws Russo down the stairs, the stuntman landed so hard that his impact dented one of the thick metal steps.
The stunt featuring McClane driving a police car into a helicopter took three weeks to rehearse. The shot was accomplished by suspending the helicopter in the air with cables and combining two separate shots; one of the stuntman leaping from the helicopter and one of the car colliding with it. Computer animation was then used to delete the support cables and add rotor blades.
A water treatment facility near Los Angeles doubled as the film`s Woodlawn Social Security Administration building. The facility has miles of underground tunnels, and was also used in Die Hard 2 (1990) when Bruce Willis runs through tunnels under the airport.
It took four months to assemble and complete the video montage of speeches from United States presidents. The goal was to create a video representation of a ransom note.
When McClane is driving toward the helicopter, he says, "You think a traffic jam, throwing a car at me is gonna stop me, huh?" Director Len Wiseman dubbed the last part of this line ("Gonna stop me"), imitating the voice of Bruce Willis.
Director Cameo: [Len Wiseman] Pilot of the F35 jet.
On the DVD commentary, director Len Wiseman discusses the "back yard Die Hard (1988)" he shot when he was younger. At least one of the shots from it was used in this film, and Wiseman acted it out for Bruce Willis during filming so that Willis could duplicate it.
The elevator shaft sequence was not in the film`s script when Len Wiseman was hired as director. Wiseman added it because he associated elevator shafts and claustrophobic spaces with Die Hard (1988).
The script was not originally written to be a `Die Hard` sequel.
Scott Speedman was Len Wiseman`s first choice for the role of Matt Farell whereas Ben Affleck was Bruce Willis` first choice for the role. Willis wanted Affleck in order to recreate the chemistry between two characters previously accomplished in Armageddon (1998/I)
This is the first Die Hard film without the music of film composer Michael Kamen. Kamen died in 2003. Portions of Kamen`s previous "Die Hard" scores, however, were incorporated into the score by Marco Beltrami.
Kal Penn and `Brad Renfro` both auditioned for the role of Matt before it went to `Justin Long (I)`.
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# Kevin Smith rewrote the lines for his Warlock character. Bruce Willis thought the rewrite was too funny and did not follow the serious mood of the movie. Smith then rewrote the part to what Willis requested.
The phrase "Live free or die" is from a toast written by the revolutionary soldier General John Stark. The full phrase is "Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils".
SPOILER: The film`s climax originally involved McClane racing alongside an exploding gas pipeline on a motorcycle with Matt in a sidecar. The idea evolved into Gabriel trying to kill McClane and Matt by routing gas to their location through the pipelines.
SPOILER: Director Len Wiseman credits actor Timothy Olyphant (Thomas Gabriel) with coming up with the idea of how McClane kills Gabriel. In order to keep it a secret, the scene was not included in the film`s shooting script.
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