like with their shirt off. can you close your eyes and imagine jimmy stewart or montgomery cliff or even john wayne with their shirt off? >> it would be ridiculous for me to play outside of it and it would be crazy for dustin hoffman to try to be commando or to be conan or the terminator or to be rambo. it doesn't work, you know? people only accept you for certain things. >> there were a lot of ideas of returning to traditional notions of masculinity after the sensitive '70s. but these thing goes in cycles. and i think that by the late '80s we were ready for an action hero that was a little more sensitive. >> do you think you have a chance against us, mr. cowboy? >> yippie ka-yay [ bleep ]. >> "die hard" is as perfect in its own way as "casablanca." it is an action move where the action is great. it is a heist movie where the heist makes sense. you have john mclean who is not a superhero and a regular new