Homemade 'Die Hard' Scene Will Have You Saying 'Yippee Ki Yay'
Ed Mazza
It’s one of the most iconic action movie scenes of all time ― almost exactly as you remember it.
CineFix’s “Homemade Movies” series tackled the climactic moment in “Die Hard,” where John McClane (Bruce Willis) and villain Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) have their final confrontation.
While this version had pretty much no budget, CineFix managed to do a respectable job of it just the same, as you can see by watching the two versions of the scene simultaneously:
Yippee Ki Yay!
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