John McTiernan is setting the record straight once and for all!
For years, fans of the flick have argued if the 1988 film should be considered a Christmas movie — given that it takes place on Christmas Eve – despite being released to theaters in the summer.
And according to McTiernan, it is indeed a holiday film. “We hadn’t intended it to be a Christmas movie, but the joy that came from it is what turned it into a Christmas movie,” he said.
McTiernan then explained how he and producer Joel Silver compared it to the Pottersville sequence from the 1946 film,It’s a Wonderful Life, which McTiernan said was “the clearest demonstration and criticism of runaway unregulated war capitalism.”
ComparingDie Hardand the current state of American politics, the director then added, “There are genuinely evil people out there.”
“My hope at Christmas this year is that you will all remember that authoritarians are low-status, angry men who have gone to rich people and said, ‘If you give us power, we will make sure nobody takes your stuff.’ And their obsessions with guns and boots and uniforms and squad cars and all that stuff,” he noted. “And all those things you amass with power meant to scare us, meant to shut us up so we don’t kick them to the side of the road and decent people of the world get on with building a future.”
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“I’m sure you’ve weighed in on it before, but I’ve never heard you or Jeb Stuart offer your take on whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie,” Tapper, 51,tweetedat the time.
“Yes, because the studio rejected the Purim draft,” de Souzajoked, before adding the hashtag, “#DieHardIsAChristmasMovie.”
The film’s main star, however, has expressed his views that the film is not a Christmas movie. “Die Hardis not a Christmas movie!” Willis said in 2018, perEntertainment Weekly.
source: people.com
