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Here’s why it is a Christmas film

Firstly, it happens at Christmas, the set has a Christmas tree, the characters are wearing Christmas party clothes and there is a Christmas Office party happening. The soundtrack also features jingle bells and Christmas music.

B) It features a husband and father who is struggling with his own identity and how to keep his family unit together under the pressure of work

3) he will do whatever is necessary to protect those he loves and keep them safe

iv) he’s an underdog faced with an impossible task and he builds an unlikely friendship to help him survive his ordeal, the film is the classic triumph over adversity, powered by love, tale

Finally, it features the death of innocent people which echoes the Feast of the Holy Innocents celebrated by the church on the 27/28th December and mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew, Hans Gruber is an allegory for Herod.

And that is why #diehard IS A Christmas film

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