EDIT:
Old 2011 post:
Jox wrote:Was watching DIE HARD last night and had not realize until now that there were so many direct references to it in SILENT TRIGGER: the unfinished tower as setting (and filmed almost like its own character) obviously, the elevator shaft sequences, shooting the bad guy from under the table holding the gun with both hands the exact same way... and there's probably more.
The original script for SILENT TRIGGER (1987) pre-dates DIE-HARD, but the movie is definitely visually influenced by various films of the late 80's and early 90's (I always think of Sarah Connor running under fire against a wall of glass behind her while the SWAT team spray bullets at her in T2 when I see Gina Bellman do the same in a similar shot )...