A scale model was used during the filming of the explosion scene and i am happy to report that the real fox plaza roof is one hundred percent intact.
Roof explosion die hard.
John mclane at his best.
The fire from the explosion lights up the la skyline.
1 mcclane jumping from the roof of nakatomi plaza in die hard this is the action sequence that truly encapsulates the john mcclane character.
Through wacky misunderstandings and unfortunate circumstances he often finds himself in life threatening situations that he has to think on his bare feet to escape.
Mcclane placing blasting caps into a brick of c 4.
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Die hard to thwart german terrorists at nakatomi plaza mcclane swipes a block of their c 4 explosives and pulls a macgyver transforming it into a makeshift bomb by sandwiching.
The roof was rigged to explode with the detonators and gruber lured the fbi into the trap by asking for helicopter transport for him and his men to los angeles international airport in exchange for the hostages.
Gruber planned to use the roof explosion to make the authorities believe him to be dead and allow him to escape with the bonds.
And while the roof of nakatomi plaza was completely blown off at the end of die hard that of course did not take place in real life.
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And the man jumping off the building isn t.
C 4 was used by hans gruber and his men to plant it underneath the roof of the nakatomi plaza building.
They planned to use it to destroy the roof killing the hostages and fooling police into thinking that the terrorists themselves were also killed in the explosion.
Of course this isn t reality but the culminating scene in the 1988 christmas action die hard.