> Remember Die Hard? I don’t. I saw it right around the time it came out, and all I remember is Bruce Willis, barefoot, running through broken glass. That, for

> Remember Die Hard? I don’t. I saw it right around the time it came out, and all I remember is Bruce Willis, barefoot, running through broken glass. That, for me, was a metaphor for watching the movie. I'm not sure one should advertise their poor taste in movies. As action flicks go, Die Hard is one of the best, if not the best. > Fans of the film, however, will recall its dapper German villain, Hans Gruber, smacking his silly lips and gloating at some private victory. He puts his fingertips together and says in facetiously tragic tones (clearly quoting something from High Culture and referring with cozy irony to himself): “And Alexander wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer.” This is incorrect. Hans doesn't refer to one of his own victories; he contemplates with irony a model of a future project of the Nakatomi Corporation, and comments the extent of their conquests. The point of this is to make us understand Nakatomi is a formidable company, and that Hans, who's attacking them, is even more formidable. The exact quote from the movie is also not that; it is "When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer". (I do find it interesting though, that the origin of the quote is in fact Alexander before conquering anything and wondering why, since there are so many worlds available to him, he has not yet mastered any.)