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Schau mal, was ich noch entdeckt habe über "Die Hard With A Vengeance" und die alternativen Enden:
Schau mal, was ich noch entdeckt habe über "Die Hard With A Vengeance" und die alternativen Enden:
In the original ending, found on the special edition DVD, it is presumed that the robbery succeeds, with McClane tracking Simon months later in Europe. McClane has tracked him using the batch number on the bottle of aspirins (this original ending may take place in Germany, because McClane mentions that he has traced the batch number on the bottle of aspirin to "a German pharmacy"). McClane was used as the scapegoat for everything that went wrong and has been fired from the NYPD. He is keen to take it out on Simon whom he invites to play a game called "McClane Says". This involves a form of Russian Roulette with a small Chinese rocket launcher with the sights removed, meaning it cannot be determined which end is which. McClane then asks Simon some riddles similar to the ones he played in New York. When Simon gets a riddle wrong, McClane forces him at gunpoint to fire the launcher, which fires the rocket through Simon, killing him.
In the DVD audio commentary, screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh claims that this version was dropped because it showed a more cruel and menacing side to McClane, a man who killed for revenge rather than in self-defense. Hensleigh's intention was to show that the events in New York and the subsequent repercussions had tilted him psychologically.
In this version the villain has dumped or double-crossed most of his accomplices and had the gold turned into statuettes of a famous landmark (in this case the Empire State Building) in order to smuggle it out of the country. But McClane still manages to track him down to his foreign hideaway. This is reminiscent of Alec Guiness' situation in the British heist movie The Lavender Hill Mob, made some 45 years earlier.
According to the DVD audio commentary, a second alternate ending had McClane and Carver floating back to shore on a makeshift raft after the explosion at sea. Carver says it's a shame the bad guys are going to get away; McClane tells him not to be so sure. The scene then shifts to the plane where the terrorists find the briefcase bomb they left in the park and which Carver gave back to them (in this version it was not used to blow up the dam). The movie would end on a darkly comic note as Simon asks if anyone has a 4 gallon jug. This draft of the script was rejected early on, and unlike the rocket-launcher sequence, was never actually filmed.
There was also additional footage shot for the "4 gallon jug" scene, in which a man carrying a 4 gallon jug happens to walk by the fountain. McClane and Zeus proceed to brutally beat the man and steal his jug to diffuse the bomb. The savage act tested poorly with preview audiences, and was subsequently cut from the film.
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