5 million).It was nominated for a total of eight Academy Awards, and its sole Oscar was for Best Picture.It was very unusual that he profitable film received no other Oscars than Best Picture (two other earlier MGM productions had done the same thing -The Broadway Melody (1928-29)andGrand Hotel (1932)).Its most memorable scene, now considered tame when compared toDumb and Dumber (1994), was the bean-eating scene around the campfire.It was filled with sexual metaphors, including semi-incestuous desire, jealousy, seduction, frigidity, virginity, off-screen rape by a brutal male attacker, insanity and sexual aversion leading to homicide - a predecessor to Roman Polanski""sRepulsion (1965), and sharing many similarities with Hitchcock""sRebecca (1940).They made their way back to the front steps of the church where he knelt down and sang: ("Here""s a ring to prove that I""m no joker").McClane was trapped in the cockpit, which became riddled by bullets.When grenades were thrown into the cockpit through smashed windows, McClane ejected himself and parachuted to safety, as fire trucks arrived.