Thursday, April 23, 2009


The movie that I chose was one of my personal favorites of the Die Hard series, the 1995 action film Die Hard with a Vengeance. This movie is the first of the Die Hard series to present more than just one hero. The story takes place with a hungover (as usual) John McClane played by Bruce Willis who is a New York city police officer taking a call from the chief about a terrorist who seems to have a personal vendetta against him. Along the way of his first of many unusual request from the terrorist John McClane is saved by an unexpected character named Zeus Carver played by Samuel L. Jackson. In a game of "Simon Says", the terrorist Simon played by Jeremy Irons, ends up sending both McClane and Zeus on a wild goose chase around New York city performing all kinds of unreasonable request with the threat of public bombings if the tasks are not completed. McClane and Zeus are the defination of heroes in this film because they are constantly risking their lives to save many in New York city. Not only did they save many lives but they figure out along the way that everything they were doing was a distraction to the real plan of stealing gold out of the Federal Reserve and stopped Simon from doing so. I think that today McClane and Zeus would be treated better as heroes because they were in a fight against terrorist and I believe that terrorist are the number one threat all over the world today.

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