The film is adapted from Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel "Nothing Lasts Forever," which was a sequel to Thorp's 1966 book "The Detective." Hoboken native Frank Sinatra starred in the 1968 film version of "The Detective," and so while the character is named Joe Leland in both "The Detective" and "Nothing Last Forever," Sinatra was the first actor to play a version of the character that became John McClane.īruce Willis attends the 17th annual A Great Night In Harlem at The Apollo Theater in 2019 in New York. He graduated from high school there in 1973 before studying theater at what was then known as Montclair State College.Īnd Willis, part of the New Jersey Hall of Fame's class of 2011, isn't even the first Jersey guy to play John McClane - kind of.Īt the movies: How Steven Spielberg and Rachel Zegler made the new 'West Side Story' a NJ masterpiece Army, but he grew up in Penns Grove, Salem County. Willis was born in 1955 in West Germany, where his father was serving in the U.S. That's right, even though it's set in Los Angeles, "Die Hard" is, at its heart, a New Jersey experience. For some, it may not be instantly recognizable as part of the holiday canon - but this is a Christmas movie.īruce Willis in a scene from "Die Hard." The film is streaming on Peacock in time for the Christmas season. That exchange just about sums up the is-it-or-isn't-it debate that has raged over the film's Christmas movie status over the years. "Don't you got any Christmas music?" McClane asks, to which Argyle replies "This is Christmas music." 'This isn't just a movie': Why 'It's a Wonderful Life' lives on 75 years laterĪnd of course, there is Christmas music, including an iconic scene toward the start of the film where, en route to the Christmas party at Nakatomi Plaza, McClane's limousine driver Argyle, played by De'voreaux White, throws in a cassette of Run-D.M.C.'s 1987 single "Christmas in Hollis." Reginald VelJohnson, left, and Bruce Willis in a scene from "Die Hard." The film is streaming on Peacock in time for the Christmas season.Ĭonsistent with holiday staples from 1946's "It's a Wonderful Life" to the "Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special," also released in 1988, the film opposes capitalistic greed as Willis fights back against Rickman's thieving ne'er-do-wells in order to just spend the holidays with his family.
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