I thought Bruce Willis was asked this once, to which he replied:
"No, its a Bruce Willis movie."
I needs more looking into, but I think it's just set at Christmas.
When else would a cop from one city go to another city to catch up with his ex wife and kids?
Maybe a kids birthday, but it may not fall on a good date, and Christmas may be easier for him to get off.
Is Spaced Invaders a Halloween movie?
Its set at Halloween, bit it's about alien invaders. Who mistake a war of the world's replay on radio as the invasion they are supposed to attend.
The Santa Claus series with Tim Allan are Christmas movies, as it's all about him becoming Santa Claus.
Die hard just uses Christmas as a backdrop and set up for the story. But, barring major research results, its not about Christmas.
Walking barefoot, like in children of men, may mean something biblical. Like Jesus carrying the cross, the broken glass this thorny crown.
But that's Jesus's death, not his birth, which Christmas is about.
Maybe it's more that Christmas plays at the start of the film like the birth of Jesus, then the glass at the end as his death.
Hans Gruber (?) going off the building may be the fallen angel??
The fact they are up high in the building when they shoot the glass and wound John's feet, is perhaps, symbolic of Jesus up on the cross being nailed/stabbed.
He then has a resurrection, as he comes back and wins.
I'll have to watch again.
But I suspect Christmas is for his birth early on.
Remember, the kid in the car stays in the garage at the start, a modern day stable/barn.
John has bare feet, like a baby at the start.
Maybe the cops the good Samaritan. No, perhaps it's the jerk who tries to bargin with Hans and gets killed.
Interesting.
begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.
