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Seems like it\u2019s hard to find a Die Hard virgin these days\u2014and yet, here I am: untouched by the most controversial Bruce Willis film of all time. I don\u2019t know how I\u2019ve managed to get through [REDACTED] years without ever seeing this film, but until yesterday, my brain was smooth and my soul at peace.<\/p>\n
I literally and truly have zero knowledge about\u00a0Die Hard\u00a0except that it stars Bruce Willis and has inspired fervent debate over whether it can be considered a Christmas movie. But, here at Jezebel, we love definitively ending an argument\u2014and since this one has been raging for decades, it felt time to put it to rest.<\/p>\n
Before pressing play, I stared out a window and wondered what this film could possibly be about. Based on the movie poster, I briefly\u2014and regrettably\u2014 thought it had something to do with September 11\u2026until I learned it was released in 1988. Moving on.<\/p>\n
I imagine this is a deadly action movie in which Willis stars as some kind of international assassin who\u2019s now being chased by other international assassins. I think it does take place during the Christmas season, but, because he\u2019s murdering people while trying not to get murdered himself, some insist that disqualifies it as a Christmas movie. I assume there\u2019s no Christmas music, no trees, and no joy of any kind. I don\u2019t fucking know.<\/p>\n
So, without further ado, let me settle this debate once and for all: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?<\/p>\n
00:59 \u2013<\/strong> The secret to surviving air travel is walking around barefoot and making fists with your toes??? Wut???<\/p>\n 01:56 <\/strong> \u2013 <\/strong>We\u2019re less than two minutes in, and a flight attendant already said, \u201cHave a very Merry Christmas,\u201d establishing that it is, indeed, Christmas. Case closed?<\/p>\n 02:44 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Our first Christmas tree spotting. Wow.<\/p>\n 03:25 \u2013<\/strong> A woman who is literally named \u201cHolly\u201d is literally listing Christmas things. Subtlety is dead.<\/p>\n 03:30 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Whoever this Harry is, though\u2014he\u2019s hot. Why is Holly blowing him off \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n 04:58 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s 1988, and your big important company is throwing a Christmas party on Christmas Eve<\/i> instead of laying off half the staff in November so it can better implement Artificial Intelligence technology. What a bygone era.<\/p>\n 06:50 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce Willis\u2019 character, John McClane, has a driver pick him up in a limo at the airport. The driver\u2019s name is Argyle, and he says he used to drive a cab and \u201cpeople would expect a little chit chat\u201d\u2014a concept I do not recognize, believe in, or support.<\/p>\n 07:10 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Ah, so Bruce Willis is getting divorced from Holly because she is a successful career woman. Incredible stuff.<\/p>\n 07:55 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce Willis asks Argyle to play Christmas music\u2026<\/p>\n 11:52 \u2013 <\/strong>Another \u201cMerry Christmas.\u201d Interesting.<\/p>\n 12:40 \u2013 <\/strong>Wow! Doing coke off the office desk! So retro.<\/p>\n 13:41 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce Willis meets Holly\u2019s boss, Mr. Takagi, who says, \u201cShe was made for the business, tough as nails.\u201d Not everyone in this relationship can say that.<\/p>\n 14:00 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0And the company gave her a Rolex\u2014OK, she is rich, rich. Bruce Willis is so dumb.<\/p>\n 15:49 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0And he\u2019s pissed that she goes by her maiden name at the company and not her married name, even though they\u2019re maybe divorced or separated? I am already bored by this dynamic.<\/p>\n 17:00 \u2013<\/strong> She\u2019s gone and now he\u2019s talking to himself in the mirror about their contentious exchange. \u201cThat\u2019s great, John, very mature,\u201d he says about getting mad over her using her maiden name. I appreciate this drop of self-awareness.<\/p>\n 17:55 \u2013 <\/strong>Security guard shot dead. We\u2019re jumping right in here.<\/p>\n 18:39 \u2013 <\/strong>This really took a sharp turn fast (or hard???). I will note that of the estimated 45 people carrying guns who just walked out of this 18-wheeler, none of them are sporting any sort of holiday wear.<\/p>\n 21:53 \u2013 <\/strong>Argyle is still just sitting in the limo waiting to see if Bruce Willis is going to stay at his (ex?) wife\u2019s house tonight or if he\u2019ll need a ride to a hotel. He\u2019s hanging with the giant bear that Bruce brought for his kids\u2026this is a pretty Christmas-y scene.<\/p>\n 23:15 \u2013<\/strong> The bad guys are either killing everyone or just shooting their guns, willy-nilly, what the fuck.<\/p>\n 23:39 \u2013<\/strong> I actually can\u2019t think of a worse thing to happen while having sex on a desk with your office crush than a couple of guys with machine guns coming in and grabbing you without even letting you put your top back on, damn.<\/p>\n 25:19 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The head guy has rounded up everyone in the office and announced to them, \u201cDue to the Nakatomi Corporation\u2019s legacy of greed around the globe, they\u2019re about to be taught a lesson in the real use of power.\u201d<\/p>\n In many ways, the commercialization of Christmas could be considered a legacy of greed around the world! This continues to be a Christmas movie.<\/p>\n 26:05 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Wait, oh my god, the head guy is Snape, aka Alan Rickman?!?!!?!<\/p>\n 27:04 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Alan Rickman is now humming a Christmas tune.<\/p>\n 28:36 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The company may be exploiting a region in Indonesia\u2014but it\u2019s unclear if the bad guys actually care about this.<\/p>\n 29:34 \u2013<\/strong> Alan Rickman wants the 640 million dollars in negotiable bearer bonds that are locked in the vault that Theo is trying to open, and I have no idea what this means, but I feel like it doesn\u2019t require 21,489 machine guns.<\/p>\n 31:44 \u2013 <\/strong>Alan Rickman killed Mr. Takagi. That was sad. However, the blood spatter is bright red\u2014and we all know what holiday bright red is associated with.<\/p>\n 32:46 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Another shot of Argyle chilling and vibing with the Christmas bear. I\u2019m starting to get nervous that this random character might not make it out of this film alive.<\/p>\n 36:55 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce sneaks up on a bad guy and whispers, \u201cDrop it dickhead, it\u2019s the police,\u201d and I can\u2019t stop laughing.<\/p>\n 37:03 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Even funnier, the bad guy says, \u201cYou won\u2019t hurt me\u2014because you\u2019re a policeman, there are rules for policemen.\u201d This one really got me.<\/p>\n 38:44 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce Willis has now murdered a bad guy simply by falling down the stairs with him. \u00a0<\/p>\n 39:05 \u2013<\/strong> There\u2019s a shot of a Santa wrapped with lights and garland, set next to a small decorated tree. This was a deliberate effort to inject more holiday cheer into this film.<\/p>\n 39:15 \u2013<\/strong> I am impressed with how much this NYPD cop knows about office building machinery, like how to fuck with and manipulate an elevator.<\/p>\n 40:27 \u2013 <\/strong>Bruce places that Santa hat on the guy who died from falling down the stairs and stuck him in the elevator to arrive on the hostage floor so that Snape can see him. He also wrote, \u201cNow I have a machine gun\u201d on the guy\u2019s shirt, and I do not know where he found the red pen.<\/p>\n 40:58 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0He also wrote \u201cHo ho ho\u201d on the dead guy\u2019s shirt. Five more points to this being a Christmas movie.<\/p>\n 42:21 \u2013 <\/strong>The dead guy\u2019s name is Karl, and his brother\u2014also a bad guy\u2014 just found out and flipped a desk. Angry elf.<\/p>\n 43:17 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Holly whispers to Harry that she suspects \u201cJohn\u201d (Bruce Willis) is behind all this. Harry seems angry. Probably all the coke.<\/p>\n 44:05 \u2013 <\/strong>Bruce found himself a police scanner walkie-talkie. But the bad guys have one too.<\/p>\n 44:15:\u00a0<\/strong>He contacts the emergency channel, and a woman answers, \u201cThis channel is reserved for emergency calls only.\u201d Bruce responds, \u201cNo fucking shit, lady, do I sound like I\u2019m orderin\u2019 a pizza?\u201d Funny.<\/p>\n 45:08 \u2013 <\/strong>Shoot out on the roof. Classic.<\/p>\n 45:27 \u2013 <\/strong>Despite hearing multiple gunshots over the scanner, the woman is still not convinced that Bruce Willis is reporting an actual emergency, and you know what, good for her for being skeptical of a man.<\/p>\n 46:47 \u2013<\/strong> There are more machine guns in this film than in\u00a0Black Hawk Down.\u00a0<\/p>\n 47:48 \u2013 <\/strong>It\u2019s wild that Bruce Willis has been shot at no less than 726 times in the last three minutes and is still alive, while the German guy died by falling down the stairs.<\/p>\n 50:49 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0He\u2019s also very strong and very in shape for a NYC cop, lol.<\/p>\n 54:24 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0I still don\u2019t actually know what these guys want and why. Also, I swear there were like 30 people who walked out of that 18-wheeler, and I have only seen about five since.<\/p>\n 56:23 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Two more \u201cMerry Christmases.\u201d<\/p>\n 56:41 \u2013<\/strong> And some Christmas caroling.<\/p>\n 57:13 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0A mention of Jesus Christ\u2014who\u2019s birth is famously the reason for the Christmas holiday, if you can believe.<\/p>\n 57:29 \u2013 <\/strong>Here\u2019s Argyle again, still no fucking clue about what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n 58:19:<\/strong> The police are finally arriving, only been an hour.<\/p>\n 58:57 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Alan Rickman on the police arriving: \u201cEveryone stay calm, this is simply beginning.\u201d I am realizing I still have an hour more of this movie to go.<\/p>\n 1:03:34 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Another mention of it being Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n 1:04:03 \u2013 <\/strong>Bruce Willis is explaining the situation over the walkie-talkie to his new LAPD cop friend, Al, and when AL asks what he can call him, Bruce says, \u201cRoy.\u201d This was a massive missed opportunity. He should have said \u201cChris Cringle,\u201d or \u201cSaint Nick,\u201d or \u201cMary Magdalene.\u201d<\/p>\n 1:05:54 \u2013 <\/strong>Holly approaches Alan Rickman with a request since\u00a0she\u2019s in charge now because he killed her boss. Her words, not mine.<\/p>\n 1:06:22 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Alan Rickman denies Holly\u2019s request to bring a pregnant hostage into an office with a sofa so she\u2019s more comfortable. This is the corporate America I recognize.<\/p>\n 1:06:38 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0But Holly did successfully negotiate a bathroom break for everyone. Girlboss.<\/p>\n 1:06:49 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Alan Rickman tells Holly that Mr. Takagi (RIP) chose his people well, saying \u201cMrs\u2026\u201d and waiting for her to finish. But she hits him with a \u201cGennaro, Miss Genaro.\u201d Is this movie turning into a feminist opus? I\u2019m sat back down.<\/p>\n 1:07:30 \u2013 <\/strong>Here\u2019s our latest three-second shot of Argyle. He\u2019s still drunk in the back of the limo, but now, he\u2019s watching the news, which is the only way he\u2019s finally learned about what is happening.<\/p>\n 1:10:35 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0One of these bad guys got distracted by a candy bar. Relatable.<\/p>\n 1:12:19 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Another Christmas tree shot. Don\u2019t know why they didn\u2019t just call this movie Die Hard at Christmas.<\/p>\n 1:13:08 \u2013<\/strong> All these guys are idiots with egos who won\u2019t listen to each other. This is actually one of my least-favorite genres of entertainment. And also the reason why our world is the way it is. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n 1:15:05 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0An LAPD R.V. just drove up the outside stairs of the building, and the bad guys launched a rocket into it and blew it up. My question, which I\u2019m assuming will never be answered, is why did the R.V. have to drive up the outside stairs of the building?<\/p>\n 1:16:17 \u2013<\/strong> For all the German being yelled in this film, there is not a single subtitle.<\/p>\n 1:17:00 \u2013<\/strong> Bruce attaches a stick of dynamite to a computer chair and throws it down the elevator shaft, bombing an entire floor\u2014which would have smart except it also exploded up the elevator shaft onto his floor. Silly.<\/p>\n 1:17:21 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0On the ground, a reporter on the scene captures the explosion and just had his career made. You love to see men have their moment.<\/p>\n 1:17:40 \u2013<\/strong> Lol, the reporter says to himself, \u201cEat your heart out, Channel Five.\u201d Move over, Tom Brokaw.<\/p>\n 1:18:00 \u2013<\/strong> Finally, some information about the Germans: Hans Gruber, aka Alan Rickman, is a member of the \u201cradical West German Volksfrei movement.\u201d Though he may have recently been kicked out for being too radical. This would be such a different film if it were released today.<\/p>\n 1:19:00 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The LAPD Deputy Chief of Police just yelled at Bruce, and now Bruce is telling Al that he is feeling unappreciated, and Al is assuring him that he loves him and \u201cso do a lot of the other guys.\u201d These men.<\/p>\n 1:19:52 \u2013<\/strong> Annnnd another Santa figurine.<\/p>\n 1:20:00 \u2013<\/strong> Harry\u2019s going to try and negotiate with the \u201ceurotrash\u201d because he negotiates \u201cmillion-dollar deals for breakfast.\u201d Rest in peace, Harry. I\u2019m glad you were able to get high and have sex on your last night on Earth.<\/p>\n 1:20:34 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Harry tells Alan Rickman that he watches 60 Minutes\u2026did he also use to subscribe to Bari Weiss\u2019 Substack???<\/p>\n 1:21:55 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce and Al are bonding over Twinkies and having kids.<\/p>\n 1:22:31 \u2013<\/strong> Harry revealed to Alan Rickman that John McClane is\u2026John McClane.<\/p>\n 1:24:56 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Rest in peace, Harry.<\/p>\n 1:26:31 \u2013 <\/strong>Alan Rickman has fooled the FBI by saying all he wants is for the State Department to release his \u201ccomrades in arms around the world languishing in prison,\u201d then he names international \u201crevolutionaries\u201d in order to buy his bad guys two more hours to get into the safe. Clever!<\/p>\n 1:28:00 \u2013<\/strong> He is now telling Theo that \u201cIt\u2019s Christmas\u201d and that Christmas is \u201ca time for miracles.\u201d This might as well be the sequel to It\u2019s a Wonderful Life.<\/p>\n 1:29:31 \u2013<\/strong> Here\u2019s a lovely shot of a Christmas poinsettia as they drag out Harry\u2019s body.<\/p>\n 1:30:00 \u2013<\/strong> The FBI has arrived and the LAPD Deputy Chief of Police is freaking out.<\/p>\n 1:31:18 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce runs into Alan Rickman, I mean Hans Gruber, on the roof\u2026and Hans is acting like he\u2019s an employee, and not the head of this international terrorist organization trying to steal billions of bonds by breaking into a building on Christmas Eve and capturing at least 30 hostages instead of breaking into the building on Christmas Day when probably no one would be there.<\/p>\n 1:35:47 \u2013<\/strong> Bruce hands Hans a loaded gun, as if he\u2019s a friend, and Hans is babbling in German sans subtitles again.<\/p>\n 1:35:50 \u2013 <\/strong>Correction! Bruce handed him an unloaded gun. Smart.<\/p>\n 1:36:00 \u2013 <\/strong>Another shootout, how could I not have seen this coming?<\/p>\n 1:36:37<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 <\/strong>More bright red blood! Merry merry!<\/p>\n 1:37:10<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 <\/strong>How have we not fucking run out of bullets yet?<\/p>\n 1:38:52<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 <\/strong>Holly is talking to the pregnant woman. They have exchanged three sentences, and this is the first time in the film that we\u2019ve seen two women talk to each other.<\/p>\n 1:38:37 <\/strong>\u2013 <\/strong>After watching one of the bad German guys return to the hostage floor and crash out, Holly tells the pregnant woman that this must mean John\u2019s still alive because, \u201cOnly John can drive somebody that crazy.\u201d Christmas movie? Yes. Film that passes the Bechdel test? No.<\/p>\n 1:39:16 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce\u2019s feet are sliced up because he hasn\u2019t been wearing shoes, and everyone\u2019s been shooting machine guns inside an office building with floor-to-ceiling windows\u2014and I know his barefeet somehow tie back to the beginning, but I have no idea how????<\/p>\n 1:40:47 \u2013<\/strong> Al\u2019s admitting to Bruce over the walkie-talkie that he has a police desk job now because he accidentally shot a 13-year-old. A cop taking accountability? I didn\u2019t know this was fantasy.<\/p>\n 1:41:47 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Ah, Hans wanted the FBI to arrive so they would cut the power that would also cut the power to the last lock that Theo needs to get into the vault. \u201cYou asked for miracles, Theo,\u201d Hans says. I am noting that he did not say \u201cChristmas miracles,\u201d despite saying it before. This subtracts two points from this being a Christmas movie. (Though we\u2019re already at like 175 points.)<\/p>\n 1:42:30 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0And not a minute later, another Christmas Eve mention! One more point added back.<\/p>\n 1:43:21 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Not the FBI running the universal terrorist playbook step by step!<\/p>\n 1:43:37 \u2013 <\/strong>Theo got the vault opened, and \u201cOde to Joy\u201d is playing\u2014not explicitly Christmas but definitely festive.<\/p>\n 1:43:52 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0And Theo says \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d to himself as he watches the vault doors slide open. Guys, this is a fucking Christmas movie.<\/p>\n 1:46:10 \u2013 <\/strong>Bruce is not doing well and can barely walk because of his cut-up feet. He tells Al he\u2019s getting a bad feeling and that he needs to tell Holly that \u201cIt took me a while to figure out what a jerk I\u2019ve been, but um, that when things started to pan out for her, I should\u2019ve been more supportive and uh\u2026I\u00a0 <\/span>just should\u2019ve been behind her more.\u201d Hm. \u201cTell her that\u2026that she\u2019s the best thing that ever happened to a bum like me, she\u2019s heard me say I love you 1,000 times, she never heard me say I\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n All it takes for a man to apologize to a woman is the fear that he\u2019s about to die.<\/p>\n 1:48:48 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Another fight scene on the roof. Sorry, but after watching Heated Rivalry, we really don\u2019t need men fighting anymore. This is not hot.<\/p>\n 1:50:11 \u2013<\/strong> That news reporter threatens Holly and John\u2019s Spanish-speaking nanny that he\u2019d call immigration if she didn\u2019t let him in, and now he\u2019s put their kids on TV to say their last words to their parents. The media is trash.<\/p>\n 1:50:29 \u2013<\/strong> Because of this dumbass reporter, Hans now knows that Holly and John are married (or separated? or divorced?), which changes everything. In a very bad way.<\/p>\n 1:51:24 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The FBI says they\u2019re fine with losing 20-25 percent of the hostages. Sick.<\/p>\n 1:53:40 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce Willis finally kills Karl\u2019s brother\u2014and way more brutally than just falling down the stairs, Jesus.<\/p>\n 1:53:39 \u2013<\/strong> The FBI agent is riding in a helicopter, screaming about Saigon. OK?<\/p>\n 1:55:45 \u2013 <\/strong>John manages to get all the hostages off the roof before the bad guys blow it up, and he says to himself, \u201cJohn, what the fuck are you doing?\u201d while wrapping a fire hose around his waist before what I assume is going to be him jumping off the building. This is the most I\u2019ve liked him in this entire film.<\/p>\n 1:57:25 \u2013 <\/strong>Yes, he did jump off the roof and then shot a window so he could jump back into the building, which was pretty cool. Also, there was a crazy angle where he looked just like Andrew Scott for three seconds<\/p>\n 1:57:47 \u2013<\/strong> That FBI dick did not make it, rest in peace.<\/p>\n 1:58:22 \u2013 <\/strong>A Christmas tree has fallen. NO.<\/p>\n 1:58:26 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Holy shit, I forgot all about Argyle again.<\/p>\n 1:59:12 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0We get a shot of a wrapped present\u00a0and some brief Christmas music playing.<\/p>\n 1:59:41 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Argyle rams into Theo\u2019s car and punches him the fuck out. But how did he know Theo was a bad guy? This guy\u2019s been sitting in his limo drinking with a teddy bear, waiting for Bruce Willis to call him and say if he needs a ride for three hours now.<\/p>\n 2:01:50 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce Willis taped a gun to his back with Christmas tape. I fear this has sealed this film\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n 2:02:05 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0It would have been cooler if Bruce shot Hans and the other final bad guy from his back gun and then didn\u2019t<\/i> blow on the tip of his gun, but sure.<\/p>\n 2:02:09:<\/strong>\u00a0 Damn, silent night forever, Hans.<\/p>\n 2:04:17 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Al and Bruce finally meeting face to face\u2026are they going to kiss???<\/p>\n 2:05:05 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce introduces his wife to Al as Holly Gennaro, and she corrects him as Holly McClane. What a note to end on. Definitely not a feminist movie\u2026but it is a Christmas movie.<\/p>\n 2:05:49 \u2013 <\/strong>Karl\u2019s brother is still alive, somehow, but Al shoots him\u2014meaning he shot the right guy this time. Hallelujah, Al.<\/p>\n 2:06:02 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Argyle is still alive and chilling. I can\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n 206:44 \u2013<\/strong> Holly punches that piece of shit reporter. You go, girl\u2014you could have gone harder, and kept your maiden name, but this is fine for 1988.<\/p>\n 2:06:55 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Some final \u201cMerry Christmases\u201d exchanged between Argyle and Bruce. Hark, the herald angels sing.<\/p>\n 2:07:08:<\/strong> The outro music is \u201cLet It Snow,\u201d which is kind of fucked up with the flames and ashes falling all around, but still, who has ever argued that this isn\u2019t a Christmas film???<\/p>\n Final verdict: Yes, this is a Christmas film. It takes place on Christmas Eve, everyone is saying Merry Christmas to each other, there\u2019s Christmas music, and there are multiple shots of Christmas paraphernalia, including wrapped presents, Christmas trees, and Santa figurines, as well as at least one reference to Christmas miracles.<\/p>\n Join us in 2026 when we explore whether or not Star Wars\u00a0is a sci-fi film.<\/p>\n Like what you just read? 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