20 Things You Didn't Know About Die Hard 2

5. The Same Shot Gets Blatantly Re-Used In One Scene

Die Hard 2 Bruce Willis
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There's perhaps no better proof of the art of editing than the sheer number of "mistakes" filmmakers can sneak past the vast majority of viewers.

Die Hard 2 has a particularly strange one in an establishing scene, when Stuart's mooks synchronise their watches and Miller (Vondie Curtis Hall) grabs a package underneath the table.

The close-up very clearly shows a white man's hand grabbing the package, despite Miller himself being black.

As if that's not odd enough, the close-up of the hand is used again barely 30 seconds later, when one of the other henchmen apparently picks up another package. How bizarre.

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