Screening Log: Die Hard (1988)

February 14, 2008

Despite being a fan of many of Bruce Willis’ performance, I’d never seen any of his Die Hard movies until watching this “DVD-TV” production of the first in the series– a film released the year I graduated from high school! DVD-TV is AMCs cinematic version of pop-up video– the film is shown in wide format while information about the production, trivia, and commentary from people involved in making it is displayed underneath. The commentary was a bit heavy on the Shakespeare references (director John Tiernan was apparently inspired by some of Shakespeare’s plays), but otherwise captivating, revealing much about the sets and artistic production, the choice of actors, the novel that informed the script, and the changes that were explicitly made to prevent it from being a film about terrorism…

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