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• TV Versions, including that shown on the WB Network, edit out much of the violence and much of the profane dialogue is redubbed. Willis's redubbing is quite obvious because the new voice sounds nothing like Willis. Despite the overt dubbing of Willis's dialogue by a sound-alike actor (who really doesn't sound like Willis, for that matter), this version also utilizes dialogue from other characters to replace John McClane's. As John is leaving the elevator through the roof, he tells Samantha to "Fuck off." In this TV version, the word "fuck" is dubbed over with William Sadler saying "joke" from earlier in the film.
  
  
• In Sweden the film was cut with 95 seconds when released on cinema, the scenes removed are the massacre at the sky walk, close combat fire encounters and the scene where McLane is locked into the cockpit and the terrorists shoots at the plane.
  
  
• The US broadcast version changed the famous "Yippee-kay-aye, motherfucker!" line at the end (where Bruce Willis throws the lighter onto the trail of fuel to blow up the plane) to say "Yippee-kay-aye, Mr. Falcon!" In order for this "Mr. Falcon" line to make sense, the scene with the soldiers in the plane is also changed so that one of the soldiers calls one of the two main bad guys "Mr. Falcon." [it's not clear if "Mr. Falcon" is supposed to be Col. Stuart (William Sadler) or Maj. Grant (John Amos)] Falcon was also the codename of the flight which Maj Grant was on. It's mentioned earlier in the film.
  
  
• The UK cinema and pan-and-scan video versions are both cut for a 15 certificate. These cuts to reduce violence and language are restored in the 18-rated widescreen video and laserdisc.
  
  
• The German video version (rated 16) has been cut to reduce violent content. The cinema version, also 16-rated, was uncut and is still sometimes shown on German TV.
  
  
• The new German Special Edition DVD is uncut. It has been re-rated (FSK 16).
  
  
• The shootout between the airport SWAT team and the terrorists was severely edited before the film received an "R" rating. Among the scenes trimmed down was when the first SWAT member is shot in the head by the character played by Robert Patrick. When the SWAT guy is shot in the head in the "R" rated version, it is shown from a distance. In the work print shown to exhibitors in the summer of 1990, the man is shot in the forehead but is shown in a graphic closeup. A lot of the bloodier shots were also trimmed down in this section as were a couple of extended scenes of the people on the plane that Col. Stewart crashes on purpose.
  
  

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