'Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way... so he won't be joining us, for the rest of his life.'
Once again, with the benefit of cinematic hindsight, it is hard to see the role of German bad guy Hans Gruber being played by anyone other than Alan Rickman.In his mid 30s and an established theatrical actor in English stage productions, Alan Rickman had never appeared in a feature film before. His biggest acting role, to that date, had been as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont in the Royal Shakespeare Company production ofwhich was a West End and Broadway smash.
While John McClane is the hero of Die Hard, he would be nothing without the perfect, villainous foil of Hans Gruber. Rickman delivered Gruber as an acid-tongued radical who could be velvet and unflappable then flick the switch to cause death and chaos in an instant.
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