Here's perhaps the most obvious reason Die Hard is definitively a Christmas film: It's set at Christmastime, and that element is integral-creatively and humorously-throughout its 132-minute runtime. Die Hard actively utilizes its Christmas setting. For a holiday double bill, you couldn't do much better. That's a big part of why both movies are so enduringly popular: We feel really good and upbeat after we watch them. Both films are about an imperfect but good-natured guy in crisis, whose experiences re-affirm his purpose and relationships.
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It's a Wonderful Lifedoesn't have as many C4 explosions as Die Hard, but Die Hard shares plenty of common ground with the OG Christmas movie where it counts.
It's a gleefully violent picture with an often hilarious, relatable emotional through-line. With Die Hard, competing experienced creatives produced a film that works on multiple levels.
Sometimes-more often than not, even- a script with many hands on it becomes a case of too many cooks.
in an attempt to reconcile with wife Holly ( Bonnie Bedelia) as an office Christmas mixer at Century City's towering Nakatomi Plaza is hijacked by European thieves spearheaded by Alan Rickman's erudite, sociopathic Hans Gruber. The writers and filmmakers created and focused on John McClane ( Bruce Willis), an NYPD Detective arriving in L.A. de Souza carry writing credits for a script that, over time, was tweaked to balance brutal action, a high body count, escalating tension and stakes, humor and appealing characters. Produced by action-savant Joel Silver (who re-titled the film), Die Hard underwent multiple rewrites and re-workings (director McTiernan, fresh off a hit with Predator, also played a part in this).
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