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Ep. 198. Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie? · Vigilante Vibes Podcast

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  Hello Marvel fans, comic geeks, and all the nerds in between.
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  My name is Megan with Vigilancy vibes where I talk about Marvel
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  Comics, MCU, Marvel Studios, all that Marvel goodness.
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  But sometimes I talk about other things and today I want to talk
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  about something that's very important to me.
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  That's very, very important. And I think we've all seen the
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  argument go around this holiday season and I'm here to tell you
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  the truth about it. The thing that bothers me is
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  when people do not think Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
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  Die Hard is a Christmas movie. I don't care what you say it is.
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  I know a lot of people will say it can be any holiday, it can be
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  anything. Any other day you can put it at
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  a different holiday party and it would happen the exact same.
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  But you're wrong and I'm here to tell you why.
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  So starting with this could have been any kind of holiday party.
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  The movie happened because it was a Christmas party.
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  So to say it's not integral to the movie would be very, very
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  incorrect. Even like he comes into town
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  because of it's Christmas, he's coming in on Christmas Eve, his
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  daughter is there, he wants to see her for Christmas.
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  He goes to his wife's work because it's a holiday party.
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  It's a Christmas party. Like he doesn't just fly in on a
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  whim. It's because it's a Christmas
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  party. The robbery happens because it's
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  a Christmas party and the ability to take hostages and the
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  police would be less active because it's a it's Christmas
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  Eve. To say this movie would have
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  happened on any other day. I doubt he would fly in for an
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  Easter party or a Halloween party.
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  Like come on, that's just not true.
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  And it's like even the movie opens up with Christmas themes,
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  music. So it's like the soundtrack is
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  even Christmas theme. And then you there's Christmas
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  themes that like like a child waiting to be born, like
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  Powell's wife or a hunt for a lone survivor, which is more
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  religious theme. I'll give you that.
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  But it's still there. But also adding to that
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  Christmas religious theme, John's role is kind of like a
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  Christ like Figure 1, who's put under trial by forces of evil in
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  his attempts to redeem everyone. He's barefoot.
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  He's cut with glass. These marks correspond to the
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  marks on Christ during the crucifixion.
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  You know, the hands, the feet. John also complaints often of a
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  headache, the pain in his head like Christ's crown of thorns.
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  I know that's a lot more religious than I meant to go,
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  but I am telling you at all, I need you to know it is a
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  Christmas movie. This whole story wouldn't have
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  happened if it wasn't Christmas. And you can say, oh, it's just a
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  a movie that plays around Christmas.
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  This movie came out like in the spring, I think like, come on.
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  And so do many, many bigger movies did that were Christmas
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  themed movies. So that doesn't really have
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  anything to do with anything. But let's be honest there.
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  There's I think people who want to say it's not a Christmas
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  movie. It's not.
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  You can think what you like, but it is like the whole point of
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  the movie is he travelled to see his family for Christmas.
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  Many people will say he could travel to see his family for any
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  reason. That's perfectly fine and true.
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  But he didn't. He travelled for Christmas.
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  He arrived on Christmas Eve to be there Christmas morning.
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  He brings a giant stuffed animal with him for Christmas.
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  A lot of people say this movie could have taken place any time
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  of the year and it would be the exact same movie and that's just
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  not true. But also I feel like if you have
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  to change details to fit your narrative then you don't have an
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  actual argument. Like I you could say that about
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  so many movies and it still would not change the movie.
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  Sure you could change it to happen around Easter.
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  Then it would be an Easter movie instead of a Christmas movie.
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  So yeah. Also, even if it wasn't about
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  Christmas, there's a really big Christmas theme here.
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  It isn't just a Christmas movie because it occurs on Christmas.
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  It's also a Christmas movie because it has a social
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  obligation with a family member that you didn't want to
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  participate in, but spirals into this never ending nightmare that
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  you just cannot get yourself out of because it is the holidays.
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  This whole argument came up with a vengeance as it does every
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  year, but this year it came up super hard because Macaulay
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  Culkin said it is not a Christmas movie.
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  And it's like he's not the king of Christmas.
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  Why are we believing anything anyone says?
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  I know Bruce Willis says it's not a Christmas movie, but the
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  director says it's a Christmas movie.
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  He said he didn't intend on it being a Christmas movie, but it
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  actually is 1 now. So are we really going to say
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  that we know more than the director of Die Hard?
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  It's a Christmas movie. John Mcclane is a Christmas
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  character now because of this movie.
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  Well, not because of the other Die Hards, but this one in
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  particular 100% is a Christmas movie.
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  And if anyone disagrees, that is perfectly fine.
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  I really don't care that much. I just wanted to, I guess,
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  insert myself into this argument because I love to argue.
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  So yeah, if you also love to argue about if Die Hard is a
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  Christmas movie, just let me know in the comments so we can
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  argue about it. But other than that, no hard
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  feelings and I hope you all have a lovely holiday.
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  With that being said, have a marvelous day.