Die Hard - FILMING LOCATIONS - Nakatomi Plaza

0:03 welcome

0:03 every there's an alarm going on welcome

0:06 everyone I'm here today in Century City

0:08 California with Donnie Spielberg and we

0:10 are going to show you the movie

0:12 locations the filming locations of the

0:14 1988 classic probably one of the

0:16 greatest action films ever made Die

0:21 Hard yippi Caye

0:28 mother

0:44 the ladies and gentlemen ladies and

0:48 gentlemen due to Adam the Woo's Legacy

0:50 of going on adventures without asking

0:52 your mom you're about to see a video of

0:55 Die Hard filming

0:56 locations you will be

0:58 Witnesses

1:06 this was a toughy to find it's actually

1:06 the international terminal here at Los

1:08 Angeles International Airport the

1:10 baggage claim area looks a little bit

1:11 different but the window across the back

1:13 and the stairway that he walked up is

1:16 still

1:27 there oh God I'm your limo

1:28 driver okay

1:30 Argy what do we do now right after John

1:33 mlan gets picked up by Argy from the

1:35 airport the very first car scene was

1:38 right behind us this is the spot wait so

1:40 you're telling me that that scene was

1:41 filmed right there very fast Donnie

1:46 relax we got everything in this mug man

1:48 had a very hard time finding this

1:50 intersection because in the film you can

1:52 actually see a street sign read the name

1:54 of it there but in the movie it's in the

1:56 background and very grainy and the way I

1:58 could tell this was a spot is because of

2:00 this wall made out of concrete that the

2:03 car is coming towards us look at this CD

2:06 CB TV telephone full bar VHS the

2:11 limousine would have been coming

2:12 directly towards us the way you can tell

2:14 this is the exact spot is because of

2:16 these rot iron fences as the limousine

2:18 passes the camera frame you can see this

2:21 Square pillar and this right here this

2:25 exact rod iron frame as well as come

2:27 with me this is in the shot when the Lim

2:29 thing passes right by here showing this

2:33 and this rock wall this brick

2:39 wall if you look straight ahead you'll

2:39 see this house that has this little Arch

2:41 frame right above that window the first

2:44 shot of nakomi Plaza in the

2:55 movie might have wear some tunes they

2:55 actually pull right off this off ramp

2:57 they go up around the corner and then

3:00 little do we know that right there

3:08 bam don't you have any Christmas music

3:08 man this is Christmas

3:15 music the really cool thing is when the

3:15 limo comes right up here you can

3:17 actually see the base of this pole and

3:19 you can actually see the street lighting

3:21 box high voltage right there then the

3:23 limo turns the corner comes around this

3:26 way and then bam the tower right there

3:29 in front of

3:31 us John

3:33 mlan he's on his

3:58 way

4:14 it's quite a place you have here it will

4:14 be if we ever get it finished there

4:16 still several flows under construction

4:18 when the terrorists first make their

4:20 appearance in the big box truck they

4:21 actually drive down this road and they

4:23 turned this corner so the truck would

4:25 have been driving this way shifted and

4:28 turned that way a lot of construction

4:30 is being done there's actually a big

4:32 McDonald's way down the road that you

4:33 can actually see in the shot as well as

4:35 a fire

4:42 hydrant let's go see if the fire hydrant

4:42 still over there come

4:45 on they drove down this way then they

4:48 turned onto another road heading towards

4:50 nakatomi

5:01 Tower

5:01 this is the McDonald's that you can

5:02 actually see in the shot however they've

5:04 actually built a little bit of a ramp

5:06 down that way and you can't really see

5:08 it from the other angle but rest assur

5:10 this is the McDonald's you want to get

5:12 something to eat I would love to let's

5:14 do

5:30 break

5:37 the box truck actually goes downward

5:37 down to the bottom and you can actually

5:39 see this in the shot this little

5:40 Greenery foliage was not there on the

5:42 back side of that is where they had the

5:44 nakatomi plaza emblem right

6:22 nice

6:22 suit John Phillips

6:26 London I have two myself

6:30 right beside us is Ralph's the grocery

6:32 store and when John mlan is on the very

6:33 tippy top of the building and he pulls

6:35 the fire

6:37 alarm we've got a fire alarm the whole

6:40 onslaught of firemen in their trucks and

6:43 vehicles are driving this

6:55 on of course all that gets distorted and

6:55 changed and they turn around and they

6:57 would have turned around right here done

6:59 a U-turn and headed back the other

7:07 way there's a lot of great lines in the

7:07 movie one of my favorite lines from John

7:08 mlan was right during the scene

7:11 something about a dalmati and kissing it

7:14 come on baby come to Papa

7:17 dation right behind me was the

7:19 convenience store Reginal V Johnson was

7:21 buying the

7:23 Twinkies you can see it's been

7:24 bulldozing now there is a Goodwill this

7:27 was where the gas station was I'm on my

7:35 way 74 cents a gallon the gas station

7:35 signed was right there and of course

7:37 there's a panning shot and we see

7:40 nakatomi Tower the terrorists who said

7:43 we were terrorists chasing John mlan

7:46 with their guns right on the tippy top

7:48 of the

7:53 building you can actually

7:53 see those stairways in the background of

7:56 the shop this is 8 L 30 come on in over

7:59 investigate a code 2 at nakomi Plaza

8:02 centur City gas station is right where I

8:04 am standing and you can see the Bellwood

8:07 Avenue sign and then it pans

8:10 up the top of the

8:18 tower welcome to the party pal look at

8:22 how grown up those trees in the

8:23 background have grown since

8:26 1988 that's where the police car came

8:28 straight toward us down this hill when

8:30 officer Al Powell is getting shot out

8:34 the window gets shot out and it's this

8:35 window right here this second window

8:38 right above the hedges this hedge area

8:41 was not here when they filmed it but

8:43 check out this shot that's the window

8:45 second window from the end firing are

8:49 you better resistance

8:55 now when the police car goes off the

8:55 ledge this was actually under

8:57 construction when the movie was being

8:58 filmed so this was empty but this little

9:00 cul toac Circle was still here the

9:03 police car went right past the sign

9:05 which is basically where that no parking

9:06 sign is now right over here is the spot

9:08 where alp's car crashed it fell down

9:11 this was a little Hill it fell right

9:13 down here and rested down here as the

9:15 other side of

9:23 this are

9:23 gu just drive the car

9:50 the FBI agents are running across the

9:50 street this actually was changed from

9:52 Fox Plaza to nakomy Tower when the FBI

9:54 agents are armed with their guns they

9:56 run up this hill and there are some

9:57 Thorn bushes and the guy trickles his

9:59 hand on the thorn bushes you can

10:01 actually see the back side of

10:12 this remember this scene right inside

10:12 there is where the guy was hungry the

10:15 terrorist wanted a candy bar right in

10:55 RV when the tank comes across the road

10:57 it crossed right there next to these

10:59 apartment

11:05 complexes and straight up right into one

11:05 of those

11:13 railings when the rocket launcher is

11:13 fired that is the window right there

11:16 that they shoot the rocket out right

11:18 down towards the

11:20 tank there's four railings left there

11:22 were five during the movie Fox Plaza

11:25 actually took one of the railings in the

11:27 center and the other Center railing and

11:29 they mashed them closer together so no

11:31 one would ever know that there were

11:32 actually five railings except you you

11:36 now know that there were five railing

11:38 the railing that used to be right there

11:39 was actually plowed down by the armored

11:42 tank this railing used to be right here

11:44 and this railing used to be right here

11:47 creating five railings across the front

11:49 now you only see four the tank right

11:52 there and the rocket coming down from

11:54 right

12:00 there the three FBI agents that were

12:00 actually shot they were trying to break

12:02 in with a blowtorch right there they

12:04 were shot through that window and they

12:05 were laying right here in pain as the

12:08 tank was on

12:15 fire oh my God the quarterback is

12:15 to see you take this under advisable

12:18 jerk

12:48 it obviously if they come for their

12:48 Dalmation they're ordering the others to

12:50 cut the building's

12:52 power regular as Clockwork so in this

12:55 shot the truck is right here to the

12:57 right the freaking building shut down

12:59 the FBI is trying to turn the power off

13:02 they actually went down into a manhole I

13:04 discovered that the manhole is actually

13:07 there on the sidewalk that's it you ask

13:12 for miracles to you I give you the

13:15 FBI I want the freaking building shut

13:18 down I got a problem I don't care what

13:19 you're I got to

13:22 Swit I want the building out you don't

13:26 understand you can't do it from here it

13:28 can't be done from here it's got to be

13:29 done from downtown lose the Grid or you

13:32 lose your

13:45 now look at that beautiful fountain that

13:45 Fountain you can see when the

13:47 helicopters fly over to go up to the top

14:04 a I don't like this

14:12 Serge BL the

14:12 roof Lo the

14:27 roof

14:35 Happy Trails

14:45 hun well I hope that's not a

14:52 hostage thanks for watching everyone

14:52 make sure you go over to Donnie's

14:53 Channel youtube/ Donny Spielberg he's

14:56 going to be putting up a little bit of

14:57 behind the scenes

14:59 of our adventure today are you tell me

15:01 we just visited all the F locations for

15:03 die

15:04 hard like I said pretty fast

Die Hard - FILMING LOCATIONS - Nakatomi Plaza

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