‘Die Hard’ Director Confirms It’s A Christmas Movie 2023

Die hard is and always will be a Christmas movie in my eyes. Bruce Willis agrees, as does screenwriter Steven deSouza. Now the debate can finally come to an end after director John McTiernan gave his two cents.

Recently interviewed by the American Film Institute, McTiernan discussed “how Die hard became a Christmas movie” in a rambling 12-minute conversation.

What is surprising is the McTiernan quote It’s a wonderful life was the inspiration for the action blockbuster that made Willis a star. “Specifically the Pottersville sequence,” McTiernan explains. “That’s what happens when the evil banker does what he wants in the community without George getting in the way. And it is the clearest demonstration and criticism of runaway, unchecked cowboy capitalism ever made in an American film.”

Although I couldn’t clearly see the similarities between Jimmy Stewart’s suicidal George Bailey and Willis’s gun-toting John McClane, McTiernan made it clear that he wanted McClane to be like Bailey. Speaking with producer Joel Siler, he recalled, “I said, ‘Okay, if you want me to do this terrorist movie, I want to do it where the hero is in the first scene, when the driver limo apologizes that he has never been in such a situation. limo before, the hero said, “It’s okay. I’ve never driven a limo before.”‘ A working-class hero. “Whatever you say, McTiernan.

Even though he didn’t intend to Die hard became the second best Christmas movie of all time (National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation won the top spot), McTiernan explains “the joy that comes from it makes it a Christmas movie. And that’s really the best I can tell you about it.”

So there you have it, Die hard To be official a Christmas movie. Discussion finished.

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