Geoff Manaugh of BLDG BLOG on Bruce Willis’s John McClane in Die Hard and his exploration of Nakatomi Space:

Over the course of the film, McClane blows up whole sections of the building; he stops elevators between floors; and he otherwise explores the internal spaces of Nakatomi Plaza in acts of virtuoso navigation that were neither imagined nor physically planned for by the architects. His is an infrastructure of nearly uninhibited movement within the material structure of the building.

The spatial dynamics of films fascinate me endlessly. A few other great spatial films: The Shining, North by Northwest, and The Limey. There are surely many more. Also of interest: Steven Jacobs’s recent book The Wrong House. (via)