..they""re not good enough for him.Every Jane in the room is giving him the thermometer and he feels hey""re just a waste of time.He""s returning to his book, he""s deeply immersed in it.He sees no one except - watch his head turn when that kid goes by.It won""t do you any good, dear, he""s a bookworm, but swing ""em anyway.Oh, now how about this one.How would you like that hanging on your Christmas tree? Oh you wouldn""t? Well, what is your weakness, brother? Holy smoke, the dropped kerchief! That hasn""t been used since Lily Langtry.A shark fin-like object, Freddy""s four-bladed gloved hand that was slightly on fire, sliced through the surface of the water, headed for shore, and cut through the sand toward the castle...Freddy!" She hen realized from the shocked look on the nurses"" faces that she had fallen asleep, and they thought she was crazy.The film used a number of innovative techniques, many of them for the first time, including parallel editing, minor camera movement, location shooting and less stage-bound camera placement.McClane confronted Mai Linh in the control room, and engaged in an extended martial-arts fight and life-and-death struggle with her ("That""s enough of this kung-fu shit") - he eventually killed her when she was trapped in a vehicle that crashed in a fireball down an elevator shaft, after he had eliminated the remainder of her henchmen.