He took more photos of her standing momentarily next to a tree and low-lying bushes far away at the other end of the meadow.The building""s architecture includes pseudo-Greek statuary, a facade of Vienna""s past glory, now a city filled with corruption.Gruber""s partner Mathias Targo urged him to eliminate McClane: "Stop toying with him and kill him now.Greeted by one of the generals, Shaw feels "like Captain Idiot in Astounding Science comics." His politically-motivated, power-mad mother Mrs.Iselin (37 year old Angela Lansbury, only 3 years older than Laurence Harvey, her son in the film) and step-father Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), an aspiring, right-wing (McCarthy-ish), buffoonish Vice-Presidential candidate make a dramatic entrance - hey are introduced by a shot of an American flag and then a descent o them.