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🗓️ 24 December 2021
⏱️ 88 minutes
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The BTS team discusses how Die Hard changed action movies, why Hans Gruber is such a compelling antagonist, and what has cemented the film's status as a holiday classic.
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0:00.0 | Hey guys, before we jump into this episode, I just wanted to let everybody know that our episode on The Matrix Resurrections is now available to Beyond the Screenplay patrons. |
0:10.5 | So just head to the link in the show notes, or if you're watching on YouTube, just click the little pop-up in the top right corner to go straight to that episode on Patreon. |
0:20.7 | Now, let's jump into our conversation about Die Hard. |
0:29.7 | Hi, I'm Michael, and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast for each week we do a conversational |
0:35.7 | deep dive analysis into a film. |
0:38.4 | Today we are talking about the 1988 film Die Hard, also known as Home Alone for grownups, |
0:45.3 | screenplay by Jeb Stewart and Stephen E. Desuza, based on the novel by Roderick Thorpe and directed by John McTiernet. |
0:53.1 | I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, |
0:55.1 | Tricia Rand. Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner. Yep, I'm Michael Tucker. And Alex Cajeros. |
1:03.7 | Hi. How did I not see that coming? it's right there excellent |
1:13.9 | so here we are |
1:15.1 | we're going to talk about die hard |
1:16.3 | first couple updates |
1:18.1 | so this is the last |
1:21.1 | fresh podcast |
1:22.4 | that we are recording this year |
1:24.4 | so this |
1:26.4 | you're listening to this listener on December 24th or afterward. And next week, |
1:33.7 | for the New Year's Eve release, we're going to be pulling one of our episodes from our |
1:38.8 | Patreon vault. So our episode on Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse will be available for everyone to hear. |
1:46.3 | Just one of many excellent films and hopefully excellent episodes that are available to patrons. |
1:53.1 | So you can look for that next week. |
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