Fun fact: Hart Bochner was so committed to playing the obnoxious, coked-up yuppie, he was nearly fired by director John McTiernan. McTiernan did not like how Bochner was playing the character. But then he saw how hard the producers Larry Gordon and Joel Silver were laughing , he changed his mind. Bochner also ad-libbed the line "Hans, bubby, I’m your white knight”
Props to the actor for playing a perfect cokehead 80's dirtball executive. 'Robocop' also captured the sleazy, 'make money at all costs regardless of the human cost' ethic that punctuated the 80's corporate world influenced by loads of coke and reading 'The Art of War'.
Bochner played this character so on point. He also has the look for it to be fair. If you look like Bill Gates or Sheldon Cooper, it wouldn't be authentic
One of those characters that you LOVE to HATE to LOVE. And that's because you can tell the actor's just having a ball being's such a d-bag, that you almost don't want to see die, despite the fact that he deserves it.
He didn’t deserve to die. He’s an idiot and made a big miscalculation trying to negotiate. McLane is afraid for Ellis’s life as soon as he gets on the walkie talkie and is pretty upset by his murder.
I like the detail where John is terrified that Ellis told Hans about Holly being his wife...and Ellis almost in code tells him he hasn't. But Hans has figured out that John has another connection with his line to the radio after he kills him... "where are my detonators? Where are they, or shall I shoot another one? Sooner or later, I might get to someone you do care about." So damn good.
You just KNOW he LOVED playing this character! Bochner usually played jerks in films, but this time he turns it up to cocaine levels! It definitely worked because of all the background characters, both hostages and the terrorists, he really stood out.
@@michaelb2388 -He might have been talking about how he is Llyod Bochners son...He was an actor perhaps best known for the scientist in the "To Serve Man" episode of the Twilight Zone,
I actually derived pleasure of the ending. The actor playing the part of Cokehead Ellis was convincing in his role. Credit must also go to Alan Rickman for his great acting.
You could see the exit wound in the back of Harry’s head. Say what you want about harry, at least he didn’t let Hans know that the wife of his new arch nemesis is amongst the hostages. Unlike the news reporter who was letting the world know that he had a family.
@@peterp2153 Well he doesn't want people to be murdered around his wife annoying or not. He didn't have that much character development so as soon as he went up to the terrorists you knew what was coming. Just an annoying fictional character.
Hart Bochner did a fairly good line in the 80's as 'Sleaze-Ball Types'. I also remember him from Super-Girl with Helen Slater, playing a real slime-ball...
I don't know why. But this bearded guy always reminds me of Hank Scorpio. Douchebag, Nonchalant, Obnoxious, Snoblike but still somehow cool and likeable
I kind of know what you mean. But Hank Scorpio wasn't obnoxious or snobby he was perfectly pleasant. He was supposed to be the polar opposite of mr burns, the perfect boss in the perfect location.
Ellis asked, "what's the difference" and paid with his life to get the answer. If he doesn't get a sale in his job, he doesn't get paid (and can't use his pen). With Hans, he didn't make the sale, so he doesn't get to live (Hans used his gun).
As much as it was bad that Ellis was doing cocaine and even worse when Hans Gruber murdered him, what became the influence that led to all that was Ellis himself. If he hadn’t been doing cocaine, he wouldn’t have been so cocky, and if not for his cockiness being the trigger to the influence that led to all that, Ellis wouldn’t have been killed. Morally, however, Ellis was the main participant in his own death. Don’t ever do cocaine. Ellis himself was, liked even those in the real world, an example of such.
The "Hans....bubby" line was ad libbed hence why Hans Gruber's character (knowing how the lines are supposed to be) looked back at him like...."wtf...that's not in the script" so his reaction to that ad lib is real.
I didn't realize until about (2023) two years ago, Hart Bochner was also Ethan from _Supergirl_ . Minus the beard and stache. He kept getting knocked out! LOL
Why is the radio transmitting the whole time? Someone would have to be holding down the button for that to happen. Also, the radio can’t both transmit and receive at the same time. Meaning when Ellis is holding down the button, John could not talk to him. And vice versa. Die hard lied to us!!
Hart stole every scene he was in in this classic film. He was also great, a few years later, as the sleazy corporate executive in the Jim Belushi dramady “Mr. Destiny”. He looks completely different in that one though cuz his character has slicked back hair, wears glasses and has a clean shaven face.
It would go something like: has bar mitzvah prep school Ivy League legacy scholarship arranged internship at some Wall St firm, due to nepotism gets job at same/other Wall St firm, due to nepotism sleazy creep, follows Holly to Los Angeles killed by Hans
Rod had been hiding out in LA and masquerading as Ellis after he absconded on gambling debts from 1979 in Indiana after attempting to rig the Little 500 and the sharks finally put two and two together.
This is unrealistic. Hans knows the police are listening. This has now escalated to killing hostages, and Hans, a supposed ruthless business minded criminal, has now given immediate reason for the police to send in SWAT teams. In real life, Ellis would have been returned to the pen, probably with a black eye. Plus now Hans operating suite has someone’s brains all over the room and a defecating corpse in the middle. So he’d have to decamp to a new room. With the amount of nose candy ellis was chomping, he’d have probably sealed himself in a cubicle with an intern, or a 1985 copy of playboy.
Well said. Not a large flaw but still there🤔 Guess the only explanation would be the cops didn’t want to risk more lives by having Hans/his men gun every hostage they could before the SWAT teams have a chance to save anyone or shoot them. Just my thought. As for the body/brains: the corpse could be moved and the room would take minutes at most to clean. Or as you said they’d move to a new location. Good point with the police listening, if they weren’t (or were only relying on John) then it would have made more sense that they didn’t move in immediately afterwards.
His character was surprisingly and perhaps unrealistically proactive. A wealthy yuppie would be more likely to keep his head down, not least because he might feel he has something to live for. Ellis is obviously a hedonist. Maybe it was the coke making him take an unnecessary risk.
reminds me of the scene in judgment night "i'm gonna negotiate with these guys" u know that movie the OG script was suppose to be wayyyy darker than it was, with a heavier soundtrack with rage against the machine... they should make a good remake with the og script
German here: In the German dubbed version it's not clear that those terrorists are meant to be German as well. I had to laugh my a** of when I found out about it! 🤣
He is the biggest idiot in the movie, a notable feat with competition like Deputy Chief Robinson and Special Agent "Big" Johnson. Ellis would also be a worthy Darwin Award winner.
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"Hey.... John boy"
Yeah, Johnboy, time to get with the program. They’re people dying up here.😊
Little Carmine
Fun fact: Hart Bochner was so committed to playing the obnoxious, coked-up yuppie, he was nearly fired by director John McTiernan. McTiernan did not like how Bochner was playing the character. But then he saw how hard the producers Larry Gordon and Joel Silver were laughing , he changed his mind. Bochner also ad-libbed the line "Hans, bubby, I’m your white knight”
"Bubby", huh? You're one clever hombre.
Source: trust me bro?
I must have missed 60 minutes. What are saying.
Ellis - Guy who’s fking things up. I can give him to you.
I always loved the ""Hans, bubby" line
@@lard_lad_AU true or not I don't care. That story is funny. I hope it's true.
He died doing what he loved most - Coke.
I also like coke. Especially with Fanta and a Royal Burger Menu
@@DubioserAltschauerberger1510As in cocaine, he meant.
😂
Lol..😂 under appreciated joke..
I would say he died doing what he loved most: being slick 🤵
Props to the actor for playing a perfect cokehead 80's dirtball executive. 'Robocop' also captured the sleazy, 'make money at all costs regardless of the human cost' ethic that punctuated the 80's corporate world influenced by loads of coke and reading 'The Art of War'.
Hart Bochner is his name. He plays a key role in Urban Legends Final Cut.
They are still here in the 2020s.
Only without the style.
Bochner played this character so on point. He also has the look for it to be fair. If you look like Bill Gates or Sheldon Cooper, it wouldn't be authentic
Ha! I’m actually one of these in modern context
Great analysis
Ellis and Hans scene was one of the best in the movie. I’ll watch the movie again on Christmas Eve with the family. Christmas tradition 🎅🏼🎄
I like how Karl really wants to kill him the whole time, and most of the audience is like, “you know what. Hans? Let Karl have this one.” 😂
Such a delightfully memorably smarmy character
One of those characters that you LOVE to HATE to LOVE. And that's because you can tell the actor's just having a ball being's such a d-bag, that you almost don't want to see die, despite the fact that he deserves it.
He didn’t deserve to die. He’s an idiot and made a big miscalculation trying to negotiate. McLane is afraid for Ellis’s life as soon as he gets on the walkie talkie and is pretty upset by his murder.
The look on Hans' (a.k.a. Alan) face before he sent Ellis to his maker was priceless! I could watch this scene alone all day!
I like the detail where John is terrified that Ellis told Hans about Holly being his wife...and Ellis almost in code tells him he hasn't. But Hans has figured out that John has another connection with his line to the radio after he kills him... "where are my detonators? Where are they, or shall I shoot another one? Sooner or later, I might get to someone you do care about."
So damn good.
Good point
Heh heh, he snorts coke and he drinks Coke.
Fun fact, he asked for Coke, but they thought he meant the soft drink😂.
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Reminds me Basic Instinct :
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Fun fact : Ellis celebrated Christmas with a snow white Christmas 😂
I'm convinced he asked if they had any and they brought him soda by mistake or something
You just KNOW he LOVED playing this character! Bochner usually played jerks in films, but this time he turns it up to cocaine levels! It definitely worked because of all the background characters, both hostages and the terrorists, he really stood out.
3:58 the way he maintains eye contact with Hans is genius acting. He sees what is about to happen
He suddenly realised how far out of his depth he was.
Hart Bochner kids. This is how you steal the show with a minor role.
Hart Brochner's kids? What have they got to do with anything?
@@michaelb2388 The thicko didn't put a comma between "Bochner" and "kids", that's all. Calm down.
@@michaelb2388 -He might have been talking about how he is Llyod Bochners son...He was an actor perhaps best known for the scientist in the "To Serve Man" episode of the Twilight Zone,
He stole no show, especially Die Hard, a largely forgettable character.
You've missed sprechen sie talk which is unforgivable
@@rusamene What's the translation of that?
@@aarongreenfield9038 It's a mix of German and English. Ellis was just acknowledging that Hans was German.
Sprechen Sie = "do you speak (formal)"
@@srujan00 oh wow thx 😊
*Patrick Bateman attended Ellis's funeral wearing Ralph Lauren; and Patrick had a slightly better haircut than Ellis did in his coffin.*
Ellis had an exit wound in the back of his head, which will ruin the best of haircuts...
@@stevekaczynski3793 Touche.
He had to leave abruptly to return some video tapes 🎉
The funeral invitations were printed on bone and the lettering was something called Silian Rail.
His life was cut tragically short and he never once managed to get a table at Dorcia 😢
I actually derived pleasure of the ending. The actor playing the part of Cokehead Ellis was convincing in his role. Credit must also go to Alan Rickman for his great acting.
You could see the exit wound in the back of Harry’s head. Say what you want about harry, at least he didn’t let Hans know that the wife of his new arch nemesis is amongst the hostages. Unlike the news reporter who was letting the world know that he had a family.
He asked for some coke (meaning cocaine), and they brought him a Coca-Cola. Love it!!
😂😂 lmao
Better look out, he uses a fountain pen
'The pen is mightier than the sword', but not the gun however, in this case.
Live by the Snort, Die by the Coke.
He went out with a Coke and a smile 😃
A double entendre, he went out with a Coke and on Coke, and a smile.
Bravo. I caught that too.
Well done
When I saw this in theatre in '88 one comment I made was I loved how the Eilis character got his head blown off trying to impress Holley.
Hart Bochner deserved a bigger career. This was a seminal role, wish he had more opportunities.
One of the most satisfying deaths in all of cinema
i dunno man I'd argue he didn't really deserve to die at all, for what being a bit annoying?
@5wheels178 He was a smug cokehead trying to cuck a dude for no real reason. He earned it.
Yeah. I never got the idea it was intended to be a ‘funny’ death. McLane seems pretty crushed after he gets killed.
@@peterp2153 Well he doesn't want people to be murdered around his wife annoying or not. He didn't have that much character development so as soon as he went up to the terrorists you knew what was coming. Just an annoying fictional character.
@@5wheels178For being an idiot who would have gotten their only chance of them all getting out of their alive and taking down the bad guys.
Hart Bochner did a fairly good line in the 80's as 'Sleaze-Ball Types'. I also remember him from Super-Girl with Helen Slater, playing a real slime-ball...
"Frankly my dear I don't give a damn" and "Hans, bubbe, I'm your white knight". The 2 most iconic sentences in cinema history.
Ellis drank the Coke at room temperature. He gets shot. God dam you, Ellis! Ice next time!
Talk about a meaningful life. Ellis had a lesson for all of us
I don't know why. But this bearded guy always reminds me of Hank Scorpio. Douchebag, Nonchalant, Obnoxious, Snoblike but still somehow cool and likeable
I kind of know what you mean. But Hank Scorpio wasn't obnoxious or snobby he was perfectly pleasant. He was supposed to be the polar opposite of mr burns, the perfect boss in the perfect location.
Snobby? The man carried around unpackaged sugar in his pockets ffs
@@steveguse4481 😂😂😂 and he threw his shoes away in the middle of a fun run just in case Homer didn't like them
00:20 Ellis’ laugh is life 😄
''Hans, bubby'', wow what a line man.
Ellis asked, "what's the difference" and paid with his life to get the answer. If he doesn't get a sale in his job, he doesn't get paid (and can't use his pen). With Hans, he didn't make the sale, so he doesn't get to live (Hans used his gun).
Over 30 years later I finally understood the can of Coke
As much as it was bad that Ellis was doing cocaine and even worse when Hans Gruber murdered him, what became the influence that led to all that was Ellis himself. If he hadn’t been doing cocaine, he wouldn’t have been so cocky, and if not for his cockiness being the trigger to the influence that led to all that, Ellis wouldn’t have been killed. Morally, however, Ellis was the main participant in his own death. Don’t ever do cocaine. Ellis himself was, liked even those in the real world, an example of such.
The part where he gives the thumbs up is hilarious
At 3:56 Rickman’s sinister smile as he raises the gun! What a great screen villain 😅
main irony is hans killed takagi for not talking and killed elis for too much talking.
Die goldene Mitte..... ist immer am besten
@@faustocoppino3078 Genau.
To think that this is the same guy who gets infected with Joker's laugh gas in Mask of the Phantasm....
Great look at this character. Thank you!!
*Offers him liquid Coke*
"No thanks, I take the powdered form"
2:35 I can gibbem-duya
"Bubby"😂
Ellis is my kind of guy, mannn...!!!😃
He died hard, he died high
Hart Bochner nailed it! Such a small memorable role, I always wait for this part while watching Die Hard :D
The "Hans....bubby" line was ad libbed hence why Hans Gruber's character (knowing how the lines are supposed to be) looked back at him like...."wtf...that's not in the script" so his reaction to that ad lib is real.
Doubt as an actor Rickman would think that way
@@troylee4196 try a little google
I watched 60 Minutes. I'm thinking to myself "These guys are motivated. They're happening. I.E.: They want something."
Hans patronizing 2:14 “you figured this all out on your own”
I wonder which Tech Startup Ellis would be running nowadays?
FTX
😆
Enron
Jake Paul manager
Trump Organization if it was a tech start-up.
The difference between a gun and fountain pen in business.
True
we all grieved mightily
Not his usual fare, but Rickman NAILED this. Sometimes when we step outside our comfort zone, we are remembered forever.
One of Hart Bochner's best roles was as the cold-blooded mercenary in the 1988 film Apartment Zero with Colin Firth
Makes sense as his dad was Lloyd Bochner - the suave, good-looking and well-spoken bad guy in many a movies. Like father like son.
This is why Les Grossman said “ we don’t negotiate with terrorists” Don’t be like Ellis and remember what happens to the ones who do.
coworkers screaming, audience is thankful.
I didn't realize until about (2023) two years ago, Hart Bochner was also Ethan from _Supergirl_ . Minus the beard and stache. He kept getting knocked out! LOL
The most brutal product placement ever
"That's a very ugly suit, Mr. Ellis. It would be a public service to ruin it."
Why is the radio transmitting the whole time? Someone would have to be holding down the button for that to happen. Also, the radio can’t both transmit and receive at the same time. Meaning when Ellis is holding down the button, John could not talk to him. And vice versa. Die hard lied to us!!
3:15 : "Or they're gonna kill me" *wink wink nudge nudge*
Hans : "Um.. Yes, that's EXACTLY what we're gonna do".
lol
The greatest of all Christmas movies 🎄🎁
Honestly one of the best cast
Movies ever. From Ellis to Hans and the top tier Ahole Thornburg to the dipzhjt FBI agents
2:22 is what you came for.
my favourite line in the movie, in fact it’s my fav line in all the die hard sequels. His delivery of those two words was outstanding. pure genius
There not two way radios. You can only speak when holding down the button which cuts off the others.
What does "there not" mean? There where?
@@Cukito4they’re not, is what he meant. You know people don’t know the correct way to use there their they’re in English!
@cmehustle Not my mistake.
Ellis is one of the most satisfying deaths in Die Hard.
"Hans. BOOBIE. I'm your white knight!"
Hart Bochner very underrated actor.
2:22 "I must have missed 60 Minutes, what are you saying?"
Stop this
he was also in the movie mr destiny with james belushi and anywhere but here with natalie portman he played a dentist in anywhere but here
I loved Ellis as the cop in Wild Life 1984 and as an Indiana Hoosier cyclist in Breaking Away 1978.
Hart stole every scene he was in in this classic film. He was also great, a few years later, as the sleazy corporate executive in the Jim Belushi dramady “Mr. Destiny”. He looks completely different in that one though cuz his character has slicked back hair, wears glasses and has a clean shaven face.
4 min video on the life of Ellis. Yeah, that's about right.
It would go something like:
has bar mitzvah
prep school
Ivy League legacy scholarship
arranged internship at some Wall St firm, due to nepotism
gets job at same/other Wall St firm, due to nepotism
sleazy creep, follows Holly to Los Angeles
killed by Hans
For a few seconds, Hans was the good guy in this scene.
Takagis gaze at Ellis 0,6 min says it all😏
“Tell them you don’t know me!” Yeah, that would work
His brain had begun to decay even back then.
@@antoniastaats1939damn that’s cold
McClane is desperate. He knows Ellis’s life is in imminent danger. I mean, it’s actually the truth. Not that Hans cares.
Ellis is my main man. Fabulous. Totally real, not pretending like the others.
loved Ellis, he should have been the hero
Awesome film.
Hans was a great bad guy .
2:01.
Looks like a young Bruce Dern.
Ellis is basically Donald Trump Jr.
Cocaine addict executive ejected 😅
He has nice suits though 😊
Rod had been hiding out in LA and masquerading as Ellis after he absconded on gambling debts from 1979 in Indiana after attempting to rig the Little 500 and the sharks finally put two and two together.
This is unrealistic. Hans knows the police are listening. This has now escalated to killing hostages, and Hans, a supposed ruthless business minded criminal, has now given immediate reason for the police to send in SWAT teams.
In real life, Ellis would have been returned to the pen, probably with a black eye. Plus now Hans operating suite has someone’s brains all over the room and a defecating corpse in the middle. So he’d have to decamp to a new room.
With the amount of nose candy ellis was chomping, he’d have probably sealed himself in a cubicle with an intern, or a 1985 copy of playboy.
Well said. Not a large flaw but still there🤔
Guess the only explanation would be the cops didn’t want to risk more lives by having Hans/his men gun every hostage they could before the SWAT teams have a chance to save anyone or shoot them. Just my thought. As for the body/brains: the corpse could be moved and the room would take minutes at most to clean. Or as you said they’d move to a new location. Good point with the police listening, if they weren’t (or were only relying on John) then it would have made more sense that they didn’t move in immediately afterwards.
His character was surprisingly and perhaps unrealistically proactive. A wealthy yuppie would be more likely to keep his head down, not least because he might feel he has something to live for. Ellis is obviously a hedonist. Maybe it was the coke making him take an unnecessary risk.
Hadn't they already tried to send in SWAT and been pushed back?
correct me if I'm wrong but I remember they tried to send in swat but weren't successful
It’s a movie.
before the cell phone when you could easily take over a christamas party if you so felt like it..the good old days
The best part is how he takes his lines before attempting to negotiate million-dolla deals for breakfast.. Eh-heh-heh-heh-eeehh!!
Great hair
Alan Rickman looked calmingly vicious
" I must have missed 60 minutes" 😂😂😂
reminds me of the scene in judgment night "i'm gonna negotiate with these guys" u know that movie the OG script was suppose to be wayyyy darker than it was, with a heavier soundtrack with rage against the machine... they should make a good remake with the og script
0:07 - Not a sincere handshake.
Hart Bochner had a great role in the movie "Apartment Zero" playing Jack Carney.
All the side characters were awesome in this film
0:01
How come Takagi didn’t fire him right then and there?
This guy was a great tool!
Lesson-never negotiate with terrorists when they are holding you captive.😂😂😂😂😂😂
German here: In the German dubbed version it's not clear that those terrorists are meant to be German as well. I had to laugh my a** of when I found out about it! 🤣
He is the biggest idiot in the movie, a notable feat with competition like Deputy Chief Robinson and Special Agent "Big" Johnson. Ellis would also be a worthy Darwin Award winner.
3:05 Soft drink of choice! Oh no!
Did Ellis learn *nothing* from watching "The Sopranos"?
Yeah but it wasn’t a can of Shuggalish Muthafucka, so Ellis can be excused for his ignorance.
Hilarious character
Bochner was GREAT as Ellis
The crash of running out of blow is fatal
Ellis could have given them his wife. He didn't. He had more principles than John that let him die.
Interesting take
no, he was an idiot who got himself killed
he didn't have a chance to mention holly, Hans was too aggressive