1988’s Die Hard beat the odds to become an action classic, a staple of 1980s cinema, and — most improbable of all — a holiday evergreen. 35 years after its release, Die Hard defines the era in which it was made and is good holiday viewing for anyone not especially fond of Christmas. None of it was planned that way, and right up until it opened, Hollywood dismissed it as an also-ran at best. Even the filmmakers just wanted to make an entertaining movie and had no idea of the legacy they created in the process.In a strange way, Die Hard parallels its hero John McClane, who wasn’t supposed to be there and who no one saw coming. Its success stems from a serendipitous convergence of elements: it was lightning in a bottle that could never truly be duplicated, no matter how often imitators may try. Action movies were never the same after Die Hard arrived and destroyed many of the genre’s tropes. The movie moved past them through a combination of bold creative decisions and a focus on the protagonist’s humanity amid all the bombast. In the process, it created the rare movie that changed the way movies were made.Schwarzenegger displayed more iconoclastic tendencies, starting with 1984’s The Terminator, and continued with 1987’s Predator as directed by Die Hard’s John McTiernan, who laid the seeds for what was to come. Even Schwarzenegger bowed to prevailing wisdom with the likes of 1985’s Commando and 1986’s Raw Deal, both of which portrayed him as a bulletproof baddie-killer. Going into the summer of 1988, Hollywood proclaimed Stallone’s Rambo III the blockbuster to beat, while Schwarzenegger hoped to compete with Red Heat about a Russian police officer fighting drug dealers in Chicago.
1988’s Die Hard beat the odds to become an action classic, a staple of 1980s cinema, and — most improbable of all — a holiday evergreen. 35 years after its release, Die Hard defines the era in which it was made and is good holiday viewing for anyone not especially fond of Christmas. None of it was planned that way, and right up until it opened, Hollywood dismissed it as an also-ran at best. Even the filmmakers just wanted to make an entertaining movie and had no idea of the legacy they created in the process.
In a strange way, Die Hard parallels its hero John McClane, who wasn’t supposed to be there and who no one saw coming. Its success stems from a serendipitous convergence of elements: it was lightning in a bottle that could never truly be duplicated, no matter how often imitators may try. Action movies were never the same after Die Hard arrived and destroyed many of the genre’s tropes. The movie moved past them through a combination of bold creative decisions and a focus on the protagonist’s humanity amid all the bombast. In the process, it created the rare movie that changed the way movies were made.
Schwarzenegger displayed more iconoclastic tendencies, starting with 1984’s The Terminator, and continued with 1987’s Predator as directed by Die Hard’s John McTiernan, who laid the seeds for what was to come. Even Schwarzenegger bowed to prevailing wisdom with the likes of 1985’s Commando and 1986’s Raw Deal, both of which portrayed him as a bulletproof baddie-killer. Going into the summer of 1988, Hollywood proclaimed Stallone’s Rambo III the blockbuster to beat, while Schwarzenegger hoped to compete with Red Heat about a Russian police officer fighting drug dealers in Chicago.
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