Thoughts on Die Hard while watching for the zillionth time:
I hope I am alive when it shows up on the Sight & Sound list
Bonnie Bedelia’s generous and real performance is the key to why this film works and she should have been nominated for an oscar for it
I hope I am alive when it shows up on the Sight & Sound list
Bonnie Bedelia’s generous and real performance is the key to why this film works and she should have been nominated for an oscar for it
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"I read about them in Time Magazine"
Plus he chose to run over glass without shoes.
Was he in a sponge?
Bad guy: what idiot put you in charge?
Her: you did, when you killed my boss
The end is the craziest part. They skip talking to the LAPD, his wife punches a reporter, and they leave in a limo unbothered.
Specifically, I wonder if the “fists with your toes” conversation that leads to him being barefoot for the rest of the film —a detail that pays off over and over again—is from the book, or was it an invention of the screenwriter?
Also, when he gets the first terrorist, in the book he doesn't take the shoes because it feels wrong to steal a dead man's shoes. The movie is better in basically every way
However, if memory serves the director said the project wouldn't have moved forward if Sinatra had tried to exercise that clause.
But also: Best copaganda movie, ever?
The way McTiernan directs this like Hitchcock directing a muscular 80’s action movie
Also, I always laugh at Karl being alive in a body bag with a machine gun packed in there with him. Way to go LAPD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItzYNJq-jBE
Tonally and thematically it's the polar opposite: closer to Prometheus or The Green Knight than Die Hard, as far as Christmas stuff goes.
To be clear, McTiernan made the right call.
so Sinatra had to be offered Die Hard in 1986