5 Escape Tips for Convicted Die Hard Director John McTiernan
4. Elevator Bomb: If McTiernan can get ahold of some C4 and an old cathode ray tube computer monitor (I feel the cathode ray tube monitor may be more difficult, these days) this can be combined with an office chair to make one nifty little bomb to be sent down an elevator shaft.
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What, no Medicine Man tree zip-line? Or Rollerball desert escape? (In Complete NightVision!)
The Medicine Man tree zip-line would be a lot more pratical than the fire hose jump. Unfortunately, Medicine Man clips aren't abudant on YouTube. Alas.
How about run on a silent propulsion system to avoid being detected, a la "The Hunt For Red October"?
This is both a good and a bad thing.
Now McTiernan will know what a TV dinner feels like.
That got me to thinking: This is the guy who directed Predator and Die Hard! If anyone knows tricks on how to escape an impossible situation, it’s him.
Who says screen-writers don't matter?
Yeah, but the elevator shaft bomb would then require a paint job and a shitload of screen doors...