"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.Water pouring out of he U-shaped 'dump tanks' was played in reverse in order to create he illusion of the sea's parting.]Dimitri Tiomkin's original musical score, including he hauntingMerry Widowwaltz, adds a degree of mystery to he tale about Uncle Charlie, a psychotic killer whose namesake niece, an adoring teenager-heroine named Charlie, is emotionally excited by the arrival of her worldly uncle, but her opinion of him slowly changes as she probes into his evil, murderous secrets - and her life becomes endangered.Nyah was instructed to acquire the memory card in the envelope when he returned, and deliver it to Ethan at betting table # 12 off the paddock...I look at you and I look at a stranger, a stranger whom I do not altogether like.Magnus: I grant you your preferences if you love me.Christina: Love you? I wonder now, Magnus, if I have ever loved you.Magnus: I am your destiny, Christina.Christina: Are you? I long to escape my destiny.Magnus: You will long to return to it.After her day's work, Christina seeks out Countess Ebba.On the stairs as she stands below, she happens to eavesdrop on a conversation between Ebba and her sweetheart Count Jacob (Edward Norris).