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We all have our favorite movies to cuddle up with at Christmas time from It's a Wonderful

Life, a Miracle on 34th Street.

But for many people, die hard.

There's one such film that makes the festive playlist.

But is it actually a Christmas movie?

Here to settle this question once and for

all is Stephen Follows. Stephen is an established data researcher in the film industry and wrote

the widely circulated answer to this hotly debated question on his website, stephenfollows.com.

Here's Stephen with the story of how he came up with a definitive

answer. Hi, my name is Stephen follows and I am a film data analyst. Every week I do a new

bit of research into the film industry and sometimes it's sort of very crunchy and other times it's

kind of lighter and fun and you know we've

tested different types of popcorn in different theatre chains and discovered who's got the same

supplier and you know all sorts of fun interesting strange things and so a few years ago I was

talking to some students and I was trying to get them to engage with the idea of what a movie is.

And in doing so, I stumbled upon an argument that I did not expect to be quite as visceral as it turned out to be.

I asked them whether they thought Die hard was a Christmas movie or not.

That's it. That's the question. That was the simple question that I asked them. And I thought

it would be a quick entry point. And honestly, it took the entire day because there was about 30 students and they all

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