During the holiday, I was able to watch one of my favorite Christmas movies from younger days. Die Hard. Of course, it was the edited for TV version, but it does seem that Spike TV editors had a bit too much eggnog.
Oddly enough, Die Hard does not come up on as many Christmas movie lists as say, “It’s a Wonderful Life”, but it screams Christmas.
Sometimes in German.
As the CHRISTMAS EVE partygoers at the Nakatomi building were celebrating, John McLane was desperately trying to reunite with his estranged wife HOLLY. He even brought a giant stuffed bear as a gift for one of his children. The orchestra even plays one of my favorites “Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring”. Not to be out-done, one of the dead terrorists has HO-HO-HO written on his shirt – in blood, with a Santa hat. The movie is chock full of Christmas.
Hans Gruber, the villain, gives a touching speech about needing a Christmas Miracle, and if you listen very closely during that dialogue, Hans sounds exactly like Dieter Uchtdorf. It is uncanny. I even rewound the scene, made my EC (Eternal Companion) cover her eyes and listen again. She agreed, and now we will have a harder time knowing just when to trust Severus Snape.
Along with my wishes for a happy new year, I leave you with one last Christmas thought: Didn’t Hans Gruber write “Silent Night?”
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That is awesome!! I tear up every time the terrorist shows up with “Ho HO HO” written on his shirt in his own blood. Total tender moment!
One edited version has Bruce saying, “Yippee Kai Yay, Mr Falcony!” I don’t even remember a Mr Falcony in the movie!
Lastly, have you noticed that Elder Christopherson sounds just like the Agent Smith in the Matrix? And if he talks about Elder Anderson I keep thinking he’s talking about Keanu Reeves…makes General Conference much more entertaining!