
Jesus came from Heaven to save a world in need.
John McClane, the protagonist as we see at the beginning of the movie, flies in from the sky to save those in need. Let’s allow the facts to speak for themselves. “Die Hard is not a Christmas movie! It is a… Bruce Willis movie!”īut what else do you expect him to say? It was a Roast. At his Comedy Central Roast, Bruce Willis declared,. And has anybody heard of “Christmas in July”? But is that a show stopper? “Miracle on 34th Street” was also released in July, and nobody denies that it’s a Christmas movie.
Die Hard was initially released on July 15, 1988, not exactly the Christmas season, the nay-sayers say. In a Christmas interview, Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Arden recently asserted that Die Hard is a “really cheesy Christmas film.” And she’s a Prime Minister, of a really nice country that speaks a language very similar to our own. In 2016, DISH Network reported that 1.3 million American’s watched “Die Hard” on Christmas Eve, beating “Home Alone,” “Miracle on 34th Street,” and “The Santa Clause.” The numbers don’t lie. If you can’t trust the screenwriter, who can you trust? de Souza stated on Twitter that Die Hard is a Christmas film. On December 24, 2017, screenwriter Steven E.
Not even “White Christmas” had classical music. That’s more Christmas songs than “It’s A Wonderful Life.” For extra credit, Die Hard has Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, plus Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.
There are four Christmas songs included in Die Hard, count ’em, four. “What better way to celebrate the holiday spirit on the very first Christmas than watching John McClane take out a bunch of terrorists?” The Holy Family had an arduous trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem. Babylon Bee, the satire site, (motto: “Fake News You Can Trust”) reports that “ New Evidence Suggests Mary and Joseph Watched ‘Die Hard’ On First Christmas Night.” It seems that archeologists have discovered a small, wall-mounted television set and a VHS copy of the classic Christmas film near the likely site of Jesus’ birth. There is a book that came out a couple of years ago: A Die Hard Christmas: The Illustrated Holiday Classic. The participants typically fall into two camps, the “ Duh!” and the “ Nuh-uh.” The debate has raged amongst the tragically online and is perennially in full bloom during the Christmas season on Twitter. In this article, I will assemble ancient history, linguistic legerdemain, modern science, and contemporary film criticism to address this question. This is why readers have turned to me, your friendly neighborhood historian, to wrestle with this age-old question and help them resolve this dilemma. Or at least during the last three decades since the movie was released. Scholars and historians have debated for centuries the question