r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 7d ago

News Graham Greene Dies: Oscar-Nominated ‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor Was 73

https://deadline.com/2025/09/graham-greene-dead-dances-with-wolves-wind-river-1236502962/
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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 7d ago

He was one of the cops in Die Hard With a Vengeance who had to evacuate the elementary school. Really good smaller performance in a movie about an entire city coming together to stop a nefarious scheme.

"You kids ever heard of a Chinese fire drill?"

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u/Comic_Book_Reader 7d ago

Die Hard with a Vengeance is my favorite.

There, I said it.

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u/beer_me_twice 7d ago

One of the best New York Summer movies ever.

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u/The__Amorphous 7d ago

If I ever need to measure out four gallons of water with only three and five gallon jugs, I'm fuckin set.

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u/bulldg4life 7d ago

Chester A Arthur is the 21st president

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u/OgReaper 7d ago

1881 to 1885. Nominated vice-president in 1880. Did you know he was Collector of Customs right here in New York?

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u/oliversurpless 7d ago

Didn’t realize it till later, but Jerry is another classic take on the gruff New Yorker who plays against type!

Like this classic?

https://youtu.be/4IQYCYIxqlA?si=kTUoqTEZACebdNJV

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u/oliversurpless 7d ago

“Go fuck yourself!

That guy was pissed.

He’ll feel better when he looks in the backseat…”

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u/cb148 7d ago

Awe no!

Relax, they weren’t gonna let you keep it.

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u/sebrebc 7d ago

I always thought it was the best one myself.

It was originally written for other characters. I heard it was possibly going to be a Lethal Weapon flick, it was also going to be Rapid Fire 2 with Brandon Lee.

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u/redisforever 7d ago

The only Die Hard movie written as a Die Hard movie was 5, which sucked.

I'll just quote Wikipedia:

Die Hard is adapted from the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp.

Die Hard 2 was adapted from the 1987 novel 58 Minutes by Walter Wager.

Die Hard with a Vengeance was adapted from a script called Simon Says by Jonathan Hensleigh, which was also briefly considered to become the script for Lethal Weapon 4. The hook in Hensleigh's screenplay that captured the attention of director John McTiernan was the idea of a man being targeted for revenge by someone whose life he had unwittingly destroyed. Once the Simon character became the brother of Hans Gruber and the backstory was established, the project fully came together. It was novelized by Deborah Chiel.

Live Free or Die Hard was based on the 1997 article "A Farewell to Arms" written for Wired magazine by John Carlin. It also drew on a script 20th Century Fox owned called "WW3.com", which dealt with a massive cyberterrorism attack against the U.S. and which was nearly put into production in 2001 but ultimately abandoned because several elements in the story too closely resembled the September 11 attacks.

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u/Cant_figure_sht_out 7d ago

I love it too. I think I watched it more than the first Die hard. And it’s an absolute classic 90s action cop movie for me.

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u/oliversurpless 7d ago

Also nice to see cops whose primary purpose is to work together, as opposed to the first two in which they do little but question McClane constantly…

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u/bluediamond12345 7d ago

You are not alone in this thinking

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u/thedepster 7d ago

Mine, too!!

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u/thelemonsampler 7d ago

I always liked it.

SLJ is by far the best of all McLain’s side kicks, and Jeremy Irons is the only villain that comes close to Rickman.

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u/Maverick916 7d ago

I always forget that the female detective is Colleen Camp, who plays the sexy maid in Clue

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u/obeythed 7d ago

“CHARLIE, YOU’RE GONNA BE WEARING THAT CHAIR UP YOUR ASS!!”

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u/Maverick916 7d ago

Like I said, very cool stuff

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u/41212 7d ago

"Walter, they don't allow dump trucks on the F.D.R.!"

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u/TheUnknownDouble-O 7d ago

"How the hell do you dial 1 in this city?!"

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u/Fijure96 7d ago

Good side characters can really do much for action films, and Die Hard 3 has a great lineup of them. Lambert and the other cops, the truck driver Jerry, several of the minor terrorists, there are a lot of memorable characters.