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What makes Die Hard 4.0 different from the previous films?

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What makes Die Hard 4.0 different from the previous films?

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When we started talking about the fourth film, we were able to go through the first three and identify the things we wanted, the values and the qualities, and the things that we didn’t want. For most people, the first film has always been the best film – that was the high watermark of what all the Die Hards, and a lot of action movies, should be and aspire to. But you have to remember that the next two films were done when the sequel business was just starting out. We were flailing wildly when we did the second film. One of the first things we said about Die Hard 4.0 was that we couldn’t be self-referential to any of the other Die Hards or to any of the other action films that have come since Die Hard. [We felt] Die Hard 2 was really self-referential in an almost back-patting way. The third one, Die Hard With A Vengeance – or as I like to call it, “Thank God Sam Jackson and Jeremy Irons were in the film” – was again another Die Hard; it had John McClane and it had a lot of cool compone

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