The influence of Hong Kong action would not be felt clearly in Hollywood until the '90s, with the crossover success of directors like John Woo and the emergence of genre fan boys like Quentin Tarantino. Even as action set pieces started to get bigger and more involved in the '80s, American fight scenes mostly adhered to a principle of brute functionality: Grace and precision were seldom the point. Toward the end of John McTiernan's Die Hard (1998), Bruce Willis faces off with a hulking Euro-villain. The fight, which starts about four minutes into this clip, is savage, even animalistic—there's nothing elegant or economical about the desperate lunging motions, and the scene's intensity derives largely from the obvious exertion on the part of the combatants.