Apparently the British public has come to the ludicrous conclusion that Die Hard is not a Christmas film.
Treachery!
My brother, Alfie, and I defeated our dad on this debate, leaving him speechless and us victorious.
So what makes Die Hard, the quintessential action film, so Christmassy?
Reasons why Die Hard is 100% a Christmas Movie and don’t you doubt it
- It’s set on Christmas Eve. This makes it more of a Christmas film than the Nativity movies my mum adores, which are just set sometime in December.
- The setting of the film is in a skyscraper office building, featuring the office Christmas party. And as a writer, I know settings are crucial to the story so this is worth at least 10 points in my argument.
- The party gets rudely broken up by some gun-toting-robbers-who-everyone-calls-terrorists-for-some-reason. These guys are the equivalent of the Grinch, trying to ruin Christmas for the McClane family and everyone else at that fateful and fatal soirée.
- Lots of hijinks ensues, and so many holiday-themed jokes. After all, John McClane’s infamously festive decorating of a corpse of a terrorist with “Now I have a machine gun, Ho, Ho, Ho” just wouldn’t work if it wasn’t Christmas. He’d just be a weirdo who dresses up dead bodies in a Santa hat. ‘Nuff said.
- The film ends with the old familiar tune, Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow. Ah, the sound of Christmas, punctuated by gunfire.
- The whole story is fundamentally about a dad trying to make it back to his family for Christmas. It’s got the classic ‘family’ theme a Christmas movie needs.
So it’s settled. Die Hard is a Christmas movie and don’t you doubt it.
Hope everyone’s having a wonderful Christmastime!
And if you’re still up for more reading, click the link below for a story about a goat on a rampage against Christmas decorations in an English village. I thought it was a joke and had to read it twice.
Naomi the Wordsmith 
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