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Christmas morning
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ladyofthelog 's recommendation, I am spending Christmas day watching Die Hard.
It is hilarious how dated it is. Tape deck! VHS in the limo! That computerized appointment sign-in terminal that Bruce Willis is so impressed by? My dentist has one of those.
The race dynamics are fascinating too, in the way a 500 pound anvil is fascinating. This is the era when Hollywood thought Big Japanese Corporations were the next big threat to the American way of life. The big company Christmas party scene has a Japanese executive and lots of white employees. The one black person I found in the crowd was a waiter.
Since the movie came out in 1988, there's some interesting gender dynamics going on. The wife of the protagonist is a high powered executive (hello '80s!) but we're constantly shown how her decision to move for a promotion, and the Rolex she got as a Christmas bonus, is a blow to our poor blue-collar NYC cop protagonist's little ego. Oh, hello Reactionary '90s!
Other sources of hilarity - the Big Dang Hero is smoking! At the airport! In Los Angeles!
OoooH! YOUNG ALAN RICKMAN!!!!
ladyofthelog 's recommendation, I am spending Christmas day watching Die Hard. It is hilarious how dated it is. Tape deck! VHS in the limo! That computerized appointment sign-in terminal that Bruce Willis is so impressed by? My dentist has one of those.
The race dynamics are fascinating too, in the way a 500 pound anvil is fascinating. This is the era when Hollywood thought Big Japanese Corporations were the next big threat to the American way of life. The big company Christmas party scene has a Japanese executive and lots of white employees. The one black person I found in the crowd was a waiter.
Since the movie came out in 1988, there's some interesting gender dynamics going on. The wife of the protagonist is a high powered executive (hello '80s!) but we're constantly shown how her decision to move for a promotion, and the Rolex she got as a Christmas bonus, is a blow to our poor blue-collar NYC cop protagonist's little ego. Oh, hello Reactionary '90s!
Other sources of hilarity - the Big Dang Hero is smoking! At the airport! In Los Angeles!
OoooH! YOUNG ALAN RICKMAN!!!!