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27th December 2022
01:43pm GMT

“It’s not for us to say, it’s people. It’s for the audience to say. If the audience decides they want to make it a Christmas movie, it’s a Christmas movie. It turns out that way. “It wasn’t intended as a Christmas movie. It was deliberately built around Christmas, but not intended to be a Christmas movie. "It’s actually, from a distance... politically pretty strident, and the only reason that survived was that the people in the studio who would have stopped that were deceived because they thought it was just an action movie about a Christmas party that goes wrong."So, there you have it. While in McTiernan's eyes, Die Hard was not made to be exclusively a Christmas movie, it is perfectly acceptable to consider it as one. The director's words echo earlier comments made by the film's co-writer Steven E. de Souza to Dazed Magazine in 2017. At the time, he said: “While of course in the script I made many references to the holiday season, it wasn’t until I set foot on the set and saw the giant Christmas tree and all the decorations in the office building locations that it struck me how ‘Christmassy’ the film was, even when no one was actively mentioning it.” Meanwhile, for nine reasons why Die Hard should be considered the greatest Christmas film of all time, click right here.
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