Posted on 07/12/2018 7:12:04 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
All of this is mundane stuff. It’s also a prime example of why Die Hard remains the greatest American action movie since it was released 30 years ago this week.
Consider everything that the director, John McTiernan, and his screenwriters, Jeb Stuart and Steven E de Souza, set up in this brief little scene. Though Bruce Willis plays McClane as the modern American cowboy, Roy Rogers with an attitude, the film-makers choose to emphasize his vulnerability first. His fear of flying gets us primed for the bumps and bruises he will sustain all night long, when a phalanx of terrorists take over a Christmas party at Nakatomi Plaza.
McClane’s most important quality isn’t his toughness, but his flesh-and-blood humanity, which is what most of the film’s sequels get wrong. The advice he gets from his seatmate gives him a reason to be barefoot during the entire ordeal, including a sequence where henchmen deliberately shoot out the glass to shred his flat soles. The gun establishes him as one of New York’s finest, and the ring suggests a commitment to his marriage that his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), we soon learn, doesn’t share.
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Lavender casting coach ala Travolta?
No doubt. No doubt.
I loved Moonlighting, too.
Once he was a bad guy on Miami Vice, and he scared me! He had a presence, and I figured we’d be seeing a lot more of him.
I know, right? Like Harrison Ford on Quaaludes.
I saw that “Magic Mike” movie Tatum was in that had all the women filmgoers going nuts. The movie was so unbelievably boring.
That’s one of the huge problems today with Hollyweird. Countless pretty boys with zero charisma and you can’t tell one from another. I used to be able to identify virtually any star or supporting actor in films and tv. I can’t do it anymore. It also doesn’t help they’re all brain-dead Commie zombies, either.
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