Die Hard 2: Die Harder

Unclear and Present Danger

Jamelle Bouie

History, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.7 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 22 of Unclear and Present Danger. This week, we watched “Die Hard 2: Die Harder,” the sequel — of course — to “Die Hard.” In this conversation, Jamelle and John talk the 1990s panic over violence in pop culture, the working-class qualities of John McClane, and the lost days of American suspicion of, even hostility to, the military.

Connor Lynch produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck.

John Ganz

Jamelle Bouie

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0:00.0	I've seen about a half an hour.
0:05.0	Jingle bow, jingle bell, jingle bell rock.
0:10.0	Christmas Eve.
0:11.0	There a cop on duty around here?
0:13.0	Airport, believe.
0:14.0	Go get them.
0:15.0	Washington, D.C. International Airport.
0:18.0	What's this about?
0:19.0	Oh, just a feeling I have.
0:20.0	Ouch. The towers lost control.
0:23.7	Instrument landing system is down. Backup systems won't come up. We've got blizzard conditions. Zero visibility.
0:29.3	General controller. We have a code red alert. There's panic in the air. This is a professional mercenary. You got the
0:35.8	world's biggest drug dealer on his way here now.
0:37.6	What do you need a slide rule to figure this out? You get the hell out of my office before I throw you out of my damn airport.
0:43.0	And terror on the ground.
0:47.1	We are just up to our neck and terrorists again, John.
0:50.4	But for police officer John McLean,
0:53.0	it's just another Christmas. It's just another Christmas.
0:56.9	You're the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.
1:04.6	Story my life.
1:08.6	It's what you expected?
1:10.6	No.
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