Christmas Movie Winner 2016: Die Hard (1988)
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Thinking of a festive Christmas movie, Die Hard was not the first thing that sprang to my mind. However, the lack of snow, elves, or Santa did not dampen our appetite for Bruce Willis in his prime, even though he didn't even wear a Christmas vest.
John McClane is not a muscle-bound action hero or a lycra-clad superhero, he's just an everyday New York City cop, on his way to Los Angeles to see his kids and make peace with his estranged wife on Christmas eve. John meets his wife Holly at her office Christmas party at their multi-national Nakatomi Corporation's new building. Unwittingly, John gets embroiled in a tower heist where thirteen armed terrorists led by Hans Gruber seize control of the building and take the occupants of the 30th-floor hostage. John ultimately, against all odds, saves the day by using his street smarts, inventiveness, and determination, which flys-in-the-face of the L.A. police dept. regulations and the F.B.I's by-the-book procedures. John is the archetypal wise-cracking maverick, who bloodied and bruised survives by the skin-of-his-teeth.
In the same way, the first Christmas was a celebration of victory against all the odds: the humble son of a carpenter and a peasant girl, was born into poverty and adversity, but by the grace of God manages to survive against King Herod's murderous and despotic schemes. He grows to become a man who speaks and acts against the restrictive religious regulations of the Scribes and the Pharisees and offers hope in a time of the military occupation by Rome. Bloodied, bruised and crucified, he defeats the status quo and is victorious, even over death. Jesus was branded a maverick by some, and a messiah by others. Who do you say he is?
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