REWIND: Die Hard (1988)

Schedule

Fri, 20 Dec, 2024 at 10:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Tampa Theatre | Tampa, FL

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2h 12m / R / Action
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VENUE: Historic Duncan Auditorium
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Yes, it is a Christmas movie, surely we have progressed beyond having this argument every year. It’s set at Christmas and it’s about a guy trying to return to his kids and win back his estranged wife; that’s as Christmas as movies get. But even though that’s why we’re showing it in December, that’s not the interesting part of Die Hard. Die Hard establishes a template for a certain, novel kind of action movie. John McClane is witty, charismatic, cool under pressure and very vulnerable. His success is more about steely will and crazy luck than supernatural ability. The always-magnificent Alan Rickman plays the villain Hans Gruber as an effete, calculating, generically European technocrat with a staff of loyal thugs; he’s in the terrorism game to make money, not to act sadistically or advance an ideology. The cops are bureaucrats who can’t see the real hero in front of their faces. And the city is shown in rain-slick blues and chrome greys, always at night: the visual language of urban modernity at the time. The movies that copy Die Hard (including its own sequels) exaggerate everything it does to cartoonish extreme — the same way Jaws created the summer blockbuster and Halloween invented the new-breed slasher flick, Die Hard invented the action star. No movie has done it as well since.
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This screening is held in the Historic Duncan Auditorium. This space utilizes open seating for this event, seat selection is not required.
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