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”
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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!!
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.
Ellis doesn’t know that. That’s why McClane says “he doesn’t know what kind of man you are but I do” to Hans. Ellis being niave to hans got him killed.
The guy on the right, is the exact guy who played in DIE HARD the first movie. As I remember the scene,tell me if I am wrong. This guy ( Ellis) was talking to Hahns Gruber. where he is talking to the Bruce Willis character. Ellis runs his mouth, can't convince Bruce Willis to give up the detonators. Ellis gets dead by Hahns big weapon. Oppps.
He was a hero in a way. Sure, he didn't set out to get killed and was a complete sleezy a-hole BUT, Hans kinda needed to kill a hostage to prove how dangerous and serious he was during negotiations with the police in order for them to take him seriously and not mess around with him, so chalk dust addict Harry inadvertently filled that role, took one for team, and in dying ensured some other hostage didn't need to be that sacrificial lamb. So without trying, he kinda was a hero 🤣🤣
@@paulkirby2761 He has already killed Takagi. Is that not ruthless enough? I would have thought someone like Ellis would be more likely to be cowardly, but he somehow seems to have a need to be centre-stage, perhaps fuelled by cocaine. So he tries to "play" Gruber, gives up info on John and gets killed for his trouble.
2:22 "I must have missed 60 Minutes, what are you saying?"
He died doing what he loved most - Coke.
I also like coke. Especially with Fanta and a Royal Burger Menu
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
Heh heh, he snorts coke and he drinks Coke.
Fun fact, he asked for Coke, but they thought he meant the soft drink😂.
Hart Bochner kids. This is how you steal the show with a minor role.
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.
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.” 😂
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
Better look out, he uses a fountain pen
"That's a very ugly suit, Mr. Ellis. It would be a public service to ruin it."
Donald Trump Jr is basically a modern day Ellis.
nah, Ellis is smarter
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!
You've missed sprechen sie talk which is unforgivable
Agreed 😂
@@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 😊
Live by the Snort, Die by the Coke.
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.
3:58 the way he maintains eye contact with Hans is genius acting. He sees what is about to happen
*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 😢
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
He asked for some coke (meaning cocaine), and they brought him a Coca-Cola. Love it!!
😂😂 lmao
''Hans, bubby'', wow what a line man.
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.
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.
Ellis would have been governor by 2020.
Ellis drank the Coke at room temperature. He gets shot. God dam you, Ellis! Ice next time!
For a few seconds, Hans was the good guy in this scene.
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.
00:20 Ellis’ laugh is life 😄
The part where he gives the thumbs up is hilarious
I wonder which Tech Startup Ellis would be running nowadays?
FTX
😆
Enron
Jake Paul manager
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.
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
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
Hans patronizing 2:14 “you figured this all out on your own”
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
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
Isnt Holly, the actress in the movie Macaulay Culkin's aunt or something?
Sprechen Sie Talk?
Ja! 🇩🇪
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.
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
Looks like a young Bruce Dern.
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!!
“Tell them you don’t know me!” Yeah, that would work
His brain had begun to decay even back then.
@@antoniastaats1939damn that’s cold
They’re still out there.
I can gibbimtooya 😁
I loved Ellis as the cop in Wild Life 1984 and as an Indiana Hoosier cyclist in Breaking Away 1978.
To think that this is the same guy who gets infected with Joker's laugh gas in Mask of the Phantasm....
Awesome film.
Hans was a great bad guy .
2:01.
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.
where the hell did he get, "Buhbee" ?
3:05 Soft drink of choice! Oh no!
Did Ellis learn *nothing* from watching "The Sopranos"?
To this day I don't get why John told Ellis to tell Hans that he doesn't know him? How does that change anything? Hans was going to kill Ellis anyway?
Because Hans can then force Ellis to give up Holly. John gets Ellis killed in effect.
@@Sincopare No, John doesn't. It was ellis own stupid decisions that got him killed (and Hans doesn't know about Holly at this part of the film)
Ellis doesn’t know that. That’s why McClane says “he doesn’t know what kind of man you are but I do” to Hans. Ellis being niave to hans got him killed.
How did the death of this guy make it on RUclips?
This guy was a great tool!
My dog is named bubby
Hart Bochner very underrated actor.
This guy was in the Supergirl movie.
At least they gave Ellis his free drink of choice.
They missed a sliced of pepperoni
john boy
80's Supergirl's boyfriend
You excluded the part with his shot-through head from behind.
would youtube even allow it?
I love Ellis in this scene
4:05 - [Applause], according to the generated subtitles.
I wouldn't exactly "applaud" Ellis's death (even though he was a bit of an arsehole).
Rick james has said that cocaine is 1 hell of a drug 😂😂😂
Ellis probably agrees🤣😂😂
The difference between a gun and fountain pen in business.
My name is Ellis and my ex is Holly lol
Great hair
Coke and Cola, bravo 👏
Ellis was cool
It’s a Rolex.
Hehe Ellis.
Hilarious character
I wonder what deals he closed while high on drugs. 😂
Ellis' worst drink is a Coke Zero!
He sprechen Sie quoi
Two different endorsements for Coke in one movie is a first. 😂 Yippee kiy yay.
Ellis was trying too hard.
The guy on the right, is the exact guy who played in DIE HARD the first movie. As I remember the scene,tell me if I am wrong. This guy ( Ellis) was talking to Hahns Gruber. where he is talking to the Bruce Willis character. Ellis runs his mouth, can't convince Bruce Willis to give up the detonators. Ellis gets dead by Hahns big weapon. Oppps.
what?
QUE?
@@jackolantern22 this poster must've done Ellis' leftover coke
Don Jr.
This movie would have been way better if Ellis was the hero.
And Dick Thornberge would be his eyes on the outside.
😂
He was a hero in a way. Sure, he didn't set out to get killed and was a complete sleezy a-hole BUT, Hans kinda needed to kill a hostage to prove how dangerous and serious he was during negotiations with the police in order for them to take him seriously and not mess around with him, so chalk dust addict Harry inadvertently filled that role, took one for team, and in dying ensured some other hostage didn't need to be that sacrificial lamb. So without trying, he kinda was a hero 🤣🤣
@@paulkirby2761 He has already killed Takagi. Is that not ruthless enough? I would have thought someone like Ellis would be more likely to be cowardly, but he somehow seems to have a need to be centre-stage, perhaps fuelled by cocaine. So he tries to "play" Gruber, gives up info on John and gets killed for his trouble.
I TOTALLY agree!!!!!!!!!
Worst set in the movie, that fake LA backdrop through those blinds 😂😂😂😂😂and😂😂😂