Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Who cares
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Apparently, we just can’t get enough of arguing over whether Die Hard is or isn’t a Christmas film. To count Die Hard as a holiday classic would require us to do the same of LA Confidential and The Thin Man, alongside almost every Shane Black-penned action film ever – from 2005’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang to 2013’s Iron Man 3. At his own Comedy Central Roast, he made the defiant declaration: “Die Hard is not a Christmas movie.” All that this nitpicking does, however, is feed into our dire culture of constant categorisation, as we’re compelled to shove every single piece of art in existence into a neat little box. According to de Souza, the film only happens to be set during the holiday period because, firstly, it stems from the source novel, Roderick Thorpe’s Nothing Lasts Forever, and, secondly, producer Joel Silver reckoned he could make extra cash if TV channels started showing Die Hard every December.