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On New Year's Eve we watched Die Hard, having bought the DVD in the summer but I of course refused to watch it until the festive season because as every sensible person knows, Die Hard is a Christmas film. You wouldn't watch Elf in the summer so you shouldn't watch Die Hard. It annoys me when you get a Christmas episode of The Simpsons or Family Guy during the year, or on either Easter Sunday or May Bank Holiday some twit decides that television is missing White Christmas. Actually, it isn't some twit at all, it's a fresh from Media Studies young whipper-snapper who knows that social media will kick up an almighty stink about it and there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Before watching the film I was fairly certain that I hadn't seen the film before, but I am not too sure because I knew enough of the story and recognised enough of it to think I have seen it. The most likely answer is that I have watched it on telly in fits and starts and had done this enough times to make a jigsaw puzzle of the story in my head. Whatever the answer, on New Year's Eve we watched it from beginning to end partly because I wanted to watch it and it is still okay to watch a Christmas film at that point. The other, and indeed the main reason, was that I am writing a one man show based on Die Hard.
It isn't as easy as you would think to take a movie lasting two hours and turn it into an hour long one man show, but I am pretty confident that I can do it. Without giving too much away, it's a show that I am pitching to comedy clubs for the Christmas season, as an interesting addition to my Dickens related December (already taking bookings).
Here's to Christmas 2018, yippee ki yay motherfuckers!
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