Yippee - ki … what ?
WhenDie Hardwas free in the summertime of 1988 , it ignited what would become one of Hollywood ’s most lasting and controversial debates : IsDie Harda Christmas movie ?
Sure , it was bring out in July , but John McClane saves the day and Charles Herbert Best Hans Gruber and his merry band of terrorist on Christmas Eve . It lead place at an position vacation party . Santa hat are worn . " Christmas in Hollis " is played . Gruberdeliversa cool down " ho , ho , ho . " Should the reply really be that complicated ?
For Steven E. de Souza , the pic ’s screenwriter , it’ssimple :
For Bruce Willis , however , it ’s a resonating no . During a Comedy Central knock of the actor , hedeclared , " choke Hardis not a Christmas motion picture ! It is a g**damn Bruce Willis movie . "
As a holiday giving to movie fan everywhere , The Hollywood Reporterand Morning Consult take it upon themselves to amount up with adefinitive solution — or at least a absolute majority one . They surveyed 2200 people and came back with some surprising effect : 62 percent of those go over say that no , Die Hardis not a Christmas flick .
Only 25 pct of respondents said they would classifyDie Hardas a Christmas moving picture , while 13 percent enjoin they did n’t know or did n’t have an opinion . humanity were slightly more likely to deem it a vacation movie than women ( 32 percent versus 20 percent ) , and those Man were even more likely to say so if they were between the age of 30 and 44 ( 37 percent of male responder in that historic period group said it was a holiday moving picture ) .
While the survey is surely thorough , it ’s not likely to silence theDie Hardtruthers . ' Tis the season , after all .
