Believe it or not, Die Hard is a love story first ... an action thriller second ...
Little peripheral things that you notice ... (the camera acting as an omniscient guide ... pointing out things to the viewer that even the characters may not notice) ... the significane of the tower ... the camera is very observational ...
Little things during the set-up to familiarize us with the setting ... the weird, kind of off-key sound of the elevator chime, the lobby and first floor, the way we all survey it all, with John McClane ...
Shigeta:
His eye contact is a little weird during that initial dialogue with John MCClane ... I wonder if that was intentional ...
That truck looks pretty ominous ...
Alan Rickman was cool in this long, LONG before he was cool in Harry Potter.
The way Hans surveys the outside xxxxxxxxx, like a cat ...
<<commercial break>>
When the action breaks, all rationale goes out the window ... literally, in terms of the writing.
It seemed a little counter-intuitive to kill Takagi ... they could've used him for something else ...
"Why didn't you stop him, John? because then you'd be dead too asshole ..."
This thought made no sense.
Actually, he'd have the element of surprise ... no other civilians ... he could've taken three three of them out right then and there ...
he's simply thinking as the protagonist, with the self-preservation mechanism turned on ... it's designed to get the audience in the survival mindset with John ...
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The fighting between JOhn and the guy with glasses could've been done a *little* better ... but for 1988, this was awesome ...
Little inexplicable things John looks at, or smiles at ... as Steven Spielberg says, 'what i miss most in movies is showing people thinking ...'
'Now I have a machine gun ho ho ho' - John McClain is now terrorizing the terrorists ... turns the tables on the simple protagonist vs. the bad guys ... in a very subtle way, this is brilliant / clever ...
"What do you think?" "Something's wrong ..." this is where the movie gets interesting ...
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