In the next scene, Axel had returned to California, where he looked up former associate, cop Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) in the Beverly Hills Police Department, now promoted to Sergeant - with the bureaucratic title DDO-JSIOC (Deputy Director of Operations for Joint Systems Inter-Departmental Operational Command), responsible for crimes that crossed jurisdictional green lines ("Whoever controls the green lines controls Southern California").Darren Aronofsky""sBlack Swan (2010)with Natalie Portman as a troubled ballet dancer paid homage to the film, and it probably accounted for he insertion of a ballet sequence ("Lovely Night") into Damien Chazelle""s recentLa La Land (2016).Back at the airport, McClane followed suspicious looking men with a package into a restricted baggage area.Director Wes Craven director who had previously made two ultra-violent horror-revenge films --The Last House on the Left (1972)andThe Hills Have Eyes (1977)made a name for himself with this more mainstream horror film.He told them: "If the Witch knew the true meaning of sacrifice, she might have interpreted the Deep Magic differently.