A Good Day To Die Hard: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Die Hard

9. Gibberish German?

SimonGruber The seminal Die Hard film and the sequel Die Hard With a Vengeance sees Hans Gruber and his brother Simon lead a merry band of German terrorists hell-bent on causing as much destruction as possible. In Die Hard, we can hear German being spoken, though much of it is incorrect or even absolutely meaningless. In the German version of Die Hard, the terrorists weren't from Germany but vaguely characterised as "European". Alan Rickman (Hans Gruber) is the only case in the film where the German language is rendered complete gibberish, though it was later rectified in the Special Edition VHS and later home video releases. The only German I know is "Sie macht keinen Sinn."
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