12 Die Hard Easter Eggs You Probably Missed

12. The Terrorists' Truck Is An Ironic Joke

The first Die Hard has a wicked sense of humour. That was mainly at the request of director John McTiernan, who turned the project down multiple times before finally accepting it, on the basis that the original screenplay was too cruel and brutal. He required some quips to make everything seem less mean and violent.

Which is how you get to “yipee-ki-yay, motherf*cker”, the John Wayne references, making fists with your toes and all that. It's also how you get the production designers getting in on the jokes, although you might not have noticed; the trucks the terrorists drive into Nakatomi Plaza are disguised as those of a shipping company called “Pacific Courier”.

As noted by production designer Jackson De Govia on the Die Hard Blu-Ray commentary, “Pacific Courier” means “Messenger Of Peace” – which the bad guys most certainly are not. The same truck gets blown up at the beginning of Die Hard With A Vengeance, only now it has an “Atlantic Courier” symbol painted on the side. Different coast, see?