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[–] LemmysMum 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Arguably the police would never have been alerted to the situation and the drastic measures would never have been required.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The FBI ultimately getting involved was always a part of Gruber's plan. Couldn't bypass the last lock on the safe without them cutting the power.

[–] LemmysMum 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ooh. Forgot about that. Seems I'm due a rewatch of everyone's favourite Christmas movie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Me too, because after I posted that, I also remembered his monologue about how if you steal $100M in bearer bonds they will find you unless they think you are dead.

So yeah, I don't remember if it was discussed but I think McClane just sped up the timetable for getting the authorities involved. They definitely tried to keep it quiet at first though.

But also, Mr Takagi was murdered before John had done anything, IIRC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

it's crazy this movie is so well constructed considering each scene was written the day before filming