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| Topic | Why are movies like Gremlins and Diehard considered Christmas movies? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/27/19 3:24:50 PM #21: | Krazy_Kirby posted... die hard could have just as easily been a normal office party on a friday night or something Yeah, but then you lose the entire subtext that he's estranged from his ex-wife, and that he doesn't really interact with her or the family much, and that she's extending an olive branch to him because "it's the holidays". You also lose some of the subtext of why he's so nervous (hence the whole subplot where he loses his shoes and is barefoot the whole movie, which Hans then exploits later). There's actually a lot of Christmas elements in the movie. They don't need to be there, no, but they're still there. And saying you can take them out and still have a movie is true of most Christmas movies as well, so it's not really a valid argument (A Christmas Carol doesn't have to be about Christmas, it could just be about any old miser being misery at any point during the year, etc). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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