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FAdmiral · 06-20-07, 02:55 PM

"Life Lesson #10 - It never hurts to engage your enemy in pleasant conversation.
This is a classic McClane-ism. At the end of Die Hard, while Hans Gruber presses a gun into Holly McClane's temple, John had the foresight to try and make small talk with Hans, pleasantly noting that the terrorist would've made a good cowboy. This engaged Hans in the conversation, his guard went down, and BOOM! Shot through the head, falls out the window, and the FX guys win an Oscar. McClane used this same tactic at the end of Die Hard with a Vengeance, offering uber-baddie Simon a quick smile and quipping about his bad headache. He drew Simon into the conversation with a universal observation, Simon responded, offering McClane some aspirin, and BOOM! The aspirin led them right to Simon's secret lair and he gets blown up in a helicopter. Leave it to John McClane to turn small talk into a deadly weapon."

Neal, you forgot the small-talk in DH2 where John engages the talk in the
elevator about who won the lottery, knowing fairly well the big guy had the
badge of one of his friends who always bet his badge # on the lottery....

JIM

EDIT: Correction, it was DH3 and not DH2 that I was refering too !!

06-20-07, 02:55 PM	#14
FAdmiral Pacific Aces Dev Team Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA Posts: 1,079 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	"Life Lesson #10 - It never hurts to engage your enemy in pleasant conversation. This is a classic McClane-ism. At the end of Die Hard, while Hans Gruber presses a gun into Holly McClane's temple, John had the foresight to try and make small talk with Hans, pleasantly noting that the terrorist would've made a good cowboy. This engaged Hans in the conversation, his guard went down, and BOOM! Shot through the head, falls out the window, and the FX guys win an Oscar. McClane used this same tactic at the end of Die Hard with a Vengeance, offering uber-baddie Simon a quick smile and quipping about his bad headache. He drew Simon into the conversation with a universal observation, Simon responded, offering McClane some aspirin, and BOOM! The aspirin led them right to Simon's secret lair and he gets blown up in a helicopter. Leave it to John McClane to turn small talk into a deadly weapon." Neal, you forgot the small-talk in DH2 where John engages the talk in the elevator about who won the lottery, knowing fairly well the big guy had the badge of one of his friends who always bet his badge # on the lottery.... JIM EDIT: Correction, it was DH3 and not DH2 that I was refering too !! __________________ If you\'re not taking losses, you\'re not doing enough. RAdm. Kelly Turner, USN ********************************** www.fairtax.org Last edited by FAdmiral; 06-24-07 at 02:52 PM.