"Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)This highly-acclaimed, big-budget action film (and quintessential guy film) was the first in a series of films stretching over a period of 20 years, featuring Bruce Willis as wise-cracking, ough-guy NYC police cop John McClane with real human vulnerabilities, he protagonist in all four films.Then, Phillip experienced a troubling and deadly dream:Freddy""s face appeared on the misshapen head of one of his unfinished marionette clay puppets hanging on the wall, and then generated fingers and razor-sharp claws from its right-hand stubbly appendage.Joshua aimed and fired at Hunsaker with a sniper rifle - and killed him through a window.The next two targets of General McAllister (and Joshua) were to be the two police detectives, Riggs and Murtaugh, who had been informed of the heroin operation ("The police may know everything, the whole operation").They had known each other as schoolmates:Nora: Leopold, as far as I know, you""re capable of anything, even burning a factory.[Note: This scene paid homage to a similar scene in the conclusion of Sergio Leone""s spaghetti westernFistful of Dollars (1964, It.