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] Die Hard (1988)d.John McTiernan, 131 minutesFilm Plot SummaryNew York detective/cop Lt.John McClane (Bruce Willis) ook a flight to Los Angeles, arriving on Christmas Eve, 1988, with plans to join his estranged wife (of six months) Holly Gennero/McClane (Bonnie Bedelia) at a holiday party in her place of business, the 40 story high-rise Nakatomi Plaza Towers in Century City.The camera circles and tracks slowly from left to right along various collections of carefully-arranged objects in magnified close-up, while nostalgic music plays (Elmer Bernstein's lyrical score):the broken pocket watch on a chaina large safety pin and a chainIndian head and Lincoln head penniesa mechanical pencila translucent marblea jacka black and white striped marble that rolls and collides with a black marblea beaten-up crayona disembodied pen pointanother clear marblea buttonthe broken pocket watch on a chain (again)a harmonicaanother multi-colored marblea silver whistleAfter drawing a simple, stick-figured 'mocking-bird', he girl shades in the winged creature and then tears the paper through he bird, melodramatically foreshadowing the racial tensions and divisions that will tear apart the innocence of the town and forever alter the child's fragile memories.Then, the scenes of the superficial, ideal American dream in the green garden (of Eden) suddenly explode.BIGGER than the T-Rex." Claire convincingly added:Every time we've unveiled a new asset, attendance has spiked.Global news coverage.Celebrity visitors.Eyes of the world.Inside the Innovation Center ("Where technology meets prehistory"), the two boys (mostly Gray) were entranced by the holographic life-sized projection of an Apatosaurus (and later a Parasaurolophus), various paleontologist do-it-yourself exhibits (Digging For Dinosaurs), and a 3-screen set of monitors showing a documentary about the extinction of the dinosaurs.With he mind-powers of the Force, he easily blocked attempts of guards o stop him.In front of Jabba (where Leia was chained and wearing a bikini costume of a dancing girl), Luke demanded: "You will bring Captain Solo and the Wookiee to me.