Die Hard: With a Vengeance
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Zeus: He said, "how many were going to St. Ives, " right? The riddle begins, "As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives!" The guy and his wives aren't going anywhere.
John McClane: What are they doing?
Zeus: Sitting in the fucking road! Waiting on the moor! How the hell should I know?

Zeus: Didn't I hear you say you didn't even like your brother?
Simon: There's a difference, you know, between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window.

McClane: You can shoot a gun, can't you?
Zeus: Not every black man can shoot a gun, you racist motherfucker.

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Zeus: I told you 9th Avenue is the quickest way south.
John McClane: Stop all the goddamn yellin'! I know what I'm doing.
Zeus: Not even God knows what you're doing!

Zeus: So what's up with this L.A. Thing? You famous or something?
John McClane: Yeah, for about five minutes.
Zeus: Don't tell me. Rodney King, right?
John McClane: Fuck you.

John McClane: I'll tell you what your problem is, you don't like me 'cause you're a racist!
Zeus: What?
John McClane: You're a racist! You don't like me 'cause I'm white!
Zeus: I don't like you because you're gonna get me killed!

John McClane: Listen, you fail I cover your ass. I fail you cover my ass!
Zeus: And if we both fail?
John McClane: Then we're both fucked!

Zeus: Why do you keep calling me Jesus? Do I look Puerto Rican to you?
John: That guy back there called you Jesus.
Zeus: He didn't say Jesus. He said hey, Zeus. My name's Zeus.
John: Zeus?
Zeus: Yeah, Zeus! As in Father of Apollo? Mount Olympus? Don't fuck with me or I'll shove a lightning bolt up your ass?

[John shoots one of the mercs in the ship's cargo hold.]
John McClane: What was that?
[He turns around and gets kicked by Targo.]
Targo: He said don't shoot.

John McClane: Yeah, I'll cut you a deal. Crawl out from that rock you're hiding under and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
Simon: How colorful.

Zeus: Watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it! Are you aiming for these people?
John: No. Well, maybe that mime.

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Simon: Why was the phone busy? Who were you calling?
John McClane: The Psychic Hotline!

John McClane: You know this guy Simon we're talking to?
Zeus: Yeah.
John McClane: I threw his little brother off the thirty-second floor of Nakatomi Towers out in L.A. I guess he's a little pissed off about it.
Zeus: Wait a minute. You mean to tell me I'm in this shit 'cause some white cop threw some white asshole's brother off a roof?

Simon: I'm a soldier, not a monster. Even though I sometimes work for monsters.

John McClane: Yo, partner! Wait up.
Zeus: Hey, hey, hey, hey, I ain't your partner. I ain't your neighbor, your brother, or your friend. I'm your total stranger.

Zeus: What the fuck are you doin'?
John McClane: Interrogatin' him.
Zeus: Well, what's he gonna tell you, "I'm dead"?
John McClane: Well, I ain't gonna know 'til I ask him, am I?

Joe Lambert: Bonwit Teller. Who the hell would wanna blow up a department store?
Connie Kowalski: Did ya ever seen a woman miss a shoe sale?

Zeus: Now, you got about ten seconds before those guys see you. And when they do, they will kill you! You understand? You are about to have a very bad day.

John McClane: Hey, guys. Vicky O'Brien. Aqueduct security. We had a report of a guy coming through here with eight reindeer. Yeah, they say he was a jolly old fat guy with a snowy white beard, cute little red and white suit. I'm surprised you didn't see him.

Simon: Holy toledo, somebody had fun.

Factual error: When McClane and Zeus take the little hatchback from the bank location, they run up the ramp by the Brooklyn Bridge and McClane looks to see the dump trucks aren't on the bridge. Zeus then spots them on FDR Drive and they speed off down the ramp to FDR Drive. The ramp they were on doesn't connect to the ramp they took to give chase. It only heads towards City Hall or over the bridge. They'd have to take the Civic Center ramp, do a u-turn under the Brooklyn Bridge approach then head back up the ramp to FDR Drive.

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Trivia: In the German version of the first 'Die Hard' movie, the terrorists were changed into radical Irish because the dubbing producers didn't want to have German terrorists (see 'Die Hard' Trivia). In the German dubbing of this movie, however, they have decided to adapt the original background after all, and the late terrorist leader is called by his original name, Hans Gruber.

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Question: I always wondered about this. As a cop, McClane knew about weapons. While handing over the machine gun to Zeus, he explained how it worked. But he did not tell Zeus to switch the safety catch off. How on earth could McClane forget to tell something crucial like that? Zeus isn't even pissed about it later on, while it could have cost him his life.

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Answer: And Zeus mentions about brothers knowing how to shoot guns.

Chosen answer: A simple omission, in the heat of the moment he forgot to mention it. He may have thought, since he just took the gun off an enemy, that the safety was already off.

McClane probably did that intentionally as Zeus didn't know much about guns. In fact, you hear McClane say "Don't be a hero, you find him, you come get me."

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