{"id":24133,"date":"2026-04-09T11:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24133"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:03:12","slug":"tired-discourse-is-die-hard-a-christmas-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/tired-discourse-is-die-hard-a-christmas-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired Discourse &#8211; Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24134\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/question.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/question.jpg 250w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/question-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>In January of 2025, the good folks at Defector.com <a href=\"https:\/\/defector.com\/discourses-we-can-stop-having-ranked\">published<\/a> a list of 35 topics that have been discussed to within an inch of their life here on the internet.\u00a0 Lucky for me, I haven&#8217;t publicly commented on most, if not all, of these topics, so I figured why not dip my toes into the fray on occasion.\u00a0 We will start today with the first question on their list:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Is <em>Die Hard<\/em> a Christmas Movie?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/die-hard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1325 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/die-hard-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/die-hard-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/die-hard.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><em>Die Hard<\/em>, the now-classic action movie released in July of 1988, stars Bruce Willis as a New York city police officer who travels to Los Angeles to see his estranged wife and kids and ends up interrupting a terrorist attack, saving his wife and (most of) her co-workers from a certain death.\u00a0 At first glance, nothing about this screams Christmas movie.\u00a0 But, the movie&#8217;s setup only works because the action takes place on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Why is Willis&#8217;s Det. John McClane in Los Angeles?\u00a0 To see his family for Christmas.\u00a0 Why is he meeting his wife at her office?\u00a0 It&#8217;s their Christmas party.\u00a0 Why are the terrorists attacking now?\u00a0 It is Christmas Eve and, aside from the people at the party, who are needed to give the terrorists the access they need, the building is deserted.<\/p>\n<p>Now, detractors will say that you can strip out the Christmas trappings and have basically the same movie.\u00a0 Which, for the most part, is probably true.\u00a0 That said, those trappings are not stripped out and very much exist in the film, tying it directly to the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5292\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/die-hard-1988-01-630-75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/die-hard-1988-01-630-75.jpg 467w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/die-hard-1988-01-630-75-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/>So, bottom line, is <em>Die Hard<\/em> a Christmas movie?\u00a0 Of course it is.\u00a0 Is it a traditional Christmas movie.\u00a0 No, I will concede that point.\u00a0 But Christmas drives the plot, in the movie as it actually exists versus some make-believe alternate version.\u00a0 And what embodies the spirit of Christmas more than overcoming obstacles of circumstance to reunite with your loved ones for the holiday?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January of 2025, the good folks at Defector.com published a list of 35 topics that have been discussed to within an inch of their life here on the internet.\u00a0 Lucky for me, I haven&#8217;t publicly commented on most, if not all, of these topics, so I figured why not dip my toes into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,3],"tags":[358,1530,9956,1786],"class_list":["post-24133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-turkeytalk","tag-bruce-willis","tag-christmas","tag-defector","tag-die-hard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24135,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24133\/revisions\/24135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}