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Bruce Willis was a bartender-turned-TV star when he got the chance to shoot up Fox Plaza and in the process add "Yippee-kay-ay" to the lexicon of American action heroes. So influential was the film that for years afterward, action flicks were sold to studio execs as " 'Die Hard' on a ... "

BANG: Die Hard (1988)

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Bruce Willis was a bartender-turned-TV star when he got the chance to shoot up Fox Plaza and in the process add "Yippee-kay-ay" to the lexicon of American action heroes. So influential was the film that for years afterward, action flicks were sold to studio execs as " 'Die Hard' on a ... "

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