‘A Christmas Story’ star Peter Billingsley settles ‘Die Hard’ holiday movie debate

“A Christmas Story” brilliant Peter Billingsley is authoritative a appealing acceptable case on the abiding agitation about whether or not “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie.
In fact, his altercation was so acceptable that he managed to argue “Die Hard” cinematographer Jan de Bont – who was additionally a agnostic on the amount – that the Bruce Willis-led activity cine is a anniversary archetypal admitting its mid-summer absolution date.

“Can we accept a advantageous debate? Can we accomplish the altercation to you of why it’s a Christmas movie?” Billingsley proposed to de Bont on a contempo adventure of his podcast “A Cinematic Christmas Journey.”

Billingsley starts off by adage the blur is bookended by two key holiday-centric songs. Run DMC’s “Christmas in Hollis” opens the film, which Billingsley labels “a abundant Christmas song,” and the end-credits song is “Let it Snow!” by Vaughn Monroe, a Christmas classic.

He goes on to altercate that “production architecture put Santas everywhere,” and that the film’s axial area is at a Christmas party. And of course, there’s the arena that Billingsley describes as the “iconic ‘ho ho ho’ moment” area Willis’s John McClane “decorates the asleep anatomy and puts it into an elevator.”

“But I’ll leave you with this,” Billingsley told de Bont. “Most importantly, I anticipate it embodies the capacity of Christmas of acceptance, forgiveness, adulation and family.”

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With a nod of approval, de Bont smiles and says, “Okay, I’m awash now.”

In a blow acquaint to Billingsley’s Instagram, he and his co-host Steve Byrne are apparent bedlam and amusement as de Bont accepts their argument.

Starring Willis, Bonnie Bedelia and the backward Alan Rickman, “Die Hard” aboriginal premiered in July 1988 and follows a New York City Policeman who, on Christmas eve, attempts to save hostages taken bound by a agitator accumulation at a anniversary party.

Willis, however, has a altered abstraction of what affectionate of cine “Die Hard” is.

“Die Hard is not a Christmas movie!” He proclaimed during his 2018 Comedy Central Roast. “It’s a Bruce Willis movie, so yippee-ki-yay… and acceptable night!”