Old Habits.mp3

00:00:02 Over the Christmas weekend I did what many people have begun to do, and that is watch a movie that the popular culture has been recently promoting as a nostalgic Christmas film.
00:00:15 The nostalgic Christmas film.
00:00:18 That is.
00:00:19 Die hard. Ah, yes. Nothing says Christmas.
00:00:24 Like die Hard, the first installment of the Die Hard series came out in 1988, and it begins with Bruce Willis playing the protagonist, John MacLean, Landing in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve.
00:00:39 He's flown in from New York, where he works as a police officer. It will soon be revealed, and the reason that he's there is to see his wife in LA, his wife, who is a.
00:00:49 Strong, independent woman.
00:00:52 She has found a way to satisfy her ambitions in a way that being a cop's wife or a mother to her children could never accomplish.
00:01:00 She has found a high paying desk job at a globalist corporation. Every little girl's dream.
00:01:07 John McClain, unable to handle or compete with the success of his strong independent wife, was left behind in New York.
00:01:16 But has decided to see if he can patch things up and has come to see his wife and children for Christmas. One of the first jarring signs that we are in a different time period.
00:01:27 Is that we see John McClain as carrying a gun on an airplane. This is well before 911 back when air travel was a lot simpler. John McClain also lights up a cigarette.
00:01:41 While he's inside the airport near baggage claim.
00:01:45 Another sign that 1988.
00:01:48 Was a little bit different from the America that we live in today.
00:01:52 And you might say to yourself, well, it's.
00:01:54 It's better now.
00:01:55 That smoking is banned indoors. I don't want the smoke from other people to affect me and many people will say that without understanding that that's precisely the same logic the left has used to whittle away at your freedoms.
00:02:09 1 by 1.
00:02:12 Well, your smoke is affecting me.
00:02:15 Well, your speech is affecting me. We see another sign of the times when the film takes us to the office where John's wife works.
00:02:25 It's a Japanese multinational company.
00:02:28 Yeah. Remember by the late 80s, the Japanese had begun to dominate and even decimate many American industries. And you can see this reflected in many movies of the late 80s. No longer were televisions, radios or even cars.
00:02:44 Designed and built only in America, they were made in Japan, sometimes exclusively in Japan.
00:02:52 Japan, having been rebuilt by America after World War 2 and then used for high IQ cheap labor by American capitalists. Shortly after the Japanese learned quickly that they could easily outcompete.
00:03:07 Their American boomer counterparts.
00:03:10 And it was only a matter of time before they dominated many of the industries that America had pioneered.
00:03:16 In fact, later in the film, the head of the company even jokes Pearl Harbor didn't work out, so we got you with tape decks.
00:03:26 We now meet John's wife Holly, as well as an argument for married women to not be in the workplace as the first look at what her time is like here in LA, in her big office, an exchange between her and a man she works with.
00:03:42 Hitting on her. But of course Holly is all work and no play. She doesn't have time for his nonsense. She tells her pregnant secretary to go have fun at the party and for reasons I I really can't imagine at all, the writers included.
00:03:55 In the dialogue.
00:03:56 The pregnant woman asking Holly if she thought it was OK for her to drink even though she was very pregnant, and holly not only.
00:04:03 Encourages her to do exactly that, but Holly almost sounds as if she wants her.
00:04:07 To get drunk.
00:04:08 Or do you think the?
00:04:08 Baby can handle a little sip.
00:04:10 That baby's ready to tend bar.
00:04:13 Speaking of children next, Holly calls up her children, who are very excited to hear from the mother, who thought the very important office job was more deserving of her attention on Christmas Eve than they were. But don't worry, Holly's not a monster. She didn't leave them home alone. That's an entirely different movie. No, she's she's done the responsible.
00:04:33 Thing and she's.
00:04:34 Hired an illegal immigrant to raise them while she pursues her real passion.
00:04:39 Working for a Japanese global conglomerate.
00:04:42 You see, in the 1980s, the boomers.
00:04:43 Meant it when they said that there were just simply some jobs Americans wouldn't do.
00:04:50 These jobs were beneath them.
00:04:52 If we didn't allow illegal immigrants into the country who would abandon their dreams and lower themselves so low that they would pick tomatoes or or mow lawns?
00:05:03 Or raise these inconvenient children.
00:05:06 What would I do without you, Paulina?
00:05:10 Meanwhile, John is leaving the airport. He is stunned to see the degenerate LA style on display that would, quite frankly be considered modest by today's standards, and he meets the first of, well, many nearly identical black characters that all serve kind of the same purpose in this film. The wise black man.
00:05:31 Always there to counsel and guide the lost and neurotic white men struggling to find solid ground to stand on in this.
00:05:38 Ever changing world. This is a repeated theme and not just the first die hard, but the first three die hard movies by the 4th movie it became a little stale and predictable, so instead they replaced the kind hearted helpful black man with the strong independent woman.
00:05:56 As well as the 90 pound ethnic woman that can inexplicably beat everyone up even if they are several times her body mass. But again.
00:06:04 That's a different movie.
00:06:06 Argyle is John's limo driver. The company has sent a limo to pick him up and take.
00:06:11 Him to the Christmas party.
00:06:13 Argyle is cool and perceptive. He knows and understands instantly John's dilemma with his wife. He introduces John to the new cutting edge cultural offerings of the trend, setting African American community and Argyle the eager to please humble, always helpful man that he is, offers to drop John off.
00:06:34 And wait for him in the parking garage in case things with his wife go South at the party. Once inside the building.
00:06:42 John is devastated to find out that his wife is using her maiden name.
00:06:47 How can she be expected?
00:06:49 To keep the name of a New York cop.
00:06:51 Now that she is so important.
00:06:54 When John goes to wait for Holly in her office.
00:06:57 He also discovers the man who was hitting on his wife just moments prior to his arrival, doing a line of coke at her desk.
00:07:05 No wonder she doesn't want to be at home.
00:07:06 With her children on.
00:07:07 Christmas Eve can.
00:07:09 You blame her. This party is amazing. The contrast between the stoic John McLean and the ********* cokeheads at Halley's office.
00:07:18 Is painfully obvious. However, the film seems to frame these differences as just minor inconveniences, minor cultural differences that John must.
00:07:27 Endure in order to support his wife's dream of making money for Japanese businessmen, the feminist sells pitch that has scammed millions of Western women out of having families was just entering the mainstream.
00:07:41 At this time.
00:07:42 And all the every man, John Mcleans of the world just had to get used to it.
00:07:47 Next up, we meet another Hollywood favorite fictional character.
00:07:52 The black computer hacker genius you see in die hard. All the bad guys, they're evil white Germans, many of which have blonde hair and very strong Aryan features, all of them, that is, except one. It would seem that these Germans, while complete sociopaths capable of plotting an evil heist.
00:08:12 They're not smart enough.
00:08:13 To operate computers, so of course.
00:08:15 They did as as one does.
00:08:17 And they hired a.
00:08:19 Computer genius black guy, just like the computer genius black guy and die hard too.
00:08:26 Or the computer genius black guy in Terminator two. Or the computer genius black guy.
00:08:31 In really every movie.
00:08:32 In the 80s and 90s, so with the help of the Genius hacker black guy, the Germans soon have control of the building and Storm, Halley's company Christmas.
00:08:40 Party while the Germans round up all the degenerate boomers, McClain grabs his gun and escapes.
00:08:47 Through the stairwell, we find out that the evil Germans have taken over the building because they want to rob a vault where the Japanese company holds 10s of 1,000,000.
00:08:57 In bearer bonds when?
00:08:59 The Japanese CEO won't give them the code to.
00:09:01 Open the vault. The evil.
00:09:02 White guy executes him and now.
00:09:04 Requires the help of the.
00:09:06 Genius black guy to start cracking the vault.
00:09:09 He didn't bring me along for my charming personality.
00:09:12 Meanwhile, John McClain takes on the persona of John Rambo and begins killing the evil Germans 1 by 1 after killing one of the Germans, McClain gets their radio, which apparently was just a regular handheld CB. And so he goes to the roof and tries to contact police on channel 9. That's something you could.
00:09:32 Do to win.
00:09:32 In 1988, they no longer monitor.
00:09:36 Any of the CB channels the call is picked up by two female police officers, who, instead of being at home watching their children, are at the police station ******* things up for John McLean and not believing his calls for help. Luckily for John, though, they finally decide to send over a cop when they hear what sounds like.
00:09:55 Gunshots coming across the radio. The cop, they decide.
00:09:58 To send over.
00:09:59 Is another wise friendly down to earth black guy. At first he doesn't see anything amiss, but John drops the body of 1 of.
00:10:06 The Germans on his car.
00:10:08 To get his attention, the Germans opened fire, but he escapes and he calls the police station to let them know what's going on. Sadly, all that happens is a bunch of incompetent, argumentative white cops show up, who of course proceed to just **** everything up if only they would just listen and take seriously the smart, wise black cop.
00:10:28 Meanwhile, John's wife Holly flexes her big girl muscles and gets the Germans to give the hostages bathroom breaks. This scene, which really has nothing to do at all with the plot, exists only to showcase how strong and capable.
00:10:43 This woman is.
00:10:44 In the face of the evil Germans and to serve as a contrast to her weak and competent male coworker who also tries to deal with the evil Germans in his own way.
00:10:55 But is disposed of later in the film, outside the stupid white cops continued to screw things up and won't listen to the genius black cop, which leads to getting many members of the SWAT team killed. We also see a minor beast story develop about a ******* if it bleeds, it leads kind of journalist being on the scene and taking advantage of the.
00:11:15 Image this B story isn't all that important to the film, but it it does underline the fact that journalists have always been self-centered scumbags, and it's difficult for movies to show them in really any other light, no matter how far you go back. Another reason this movie specifically goes after the media is you have to remember who the target audience was.
00:11:36 For this film, the target audience for this film.
00:11:40 Was working class, conservative white boomers and believe it or not, the conservative white working class has never trusted the media because, quite frankly, the media has always tried to destroy them. So portraying the media as scumbags wasn't just an easy thing to do.
00:12:01 It was a necessary and effective way for the film.
00:12:04 To get on its target Audiences's good side, the working class white guy, boomer. That's why in this film and in so many movies like.
00:12:12 It you see this repeated theme.
00:12:15 Over and over and over again.
00:12:17 We're all in this together. We're all on the same team, the working class, white guys and the working class black guys.
00:12:23 Our differences are just superficial. At the end of the day, we're actually the same. We're all here to fight the power and of course, the evil Germans.
00:12:34 Hello John like today.
00:12:36 Countless black and white buddy films using this exact same format. If you want to know how successful this propaganda was on the white working class boomers.
00:12:45 All you have to do is talk to a boomer today about race.
00:12:51 You'll know exactly how successful this propaganda was, and now back to the movie. Eventually the FBI shows up and takes over the situation.
00:13:01 The two agents in control are a douchey, stupid white guy, and, you guessed it, a calm, cool, collected black guy. But the evil Germans aren't phased one bit. The FBI showing up was part of their plan. The Genius computer hacker black guy needs them to cut the emergency power to the building to disable part of the vault. And they know that. That's.
00:13:21 Part of the FBI protocol.
00:13:24 In hostage situations, so the FBI shuts off the power. The vault.
00:13:30 And the Germans that John McClain hasn't killed yet, gather up all the bearer bonds while that's going on. The evil white ******* journalist finds out where John Mcclain's kids live and threatens the good illegal immigrant with a call to immigration if she doesn't let him interview the children.
00:13:49 Whose mother decided to leave them with an illegal immigrant on Christmas Eve so that she could feel important at her company Christmas party. The interview airs and the evil Germans see it on TV. They put together that the guy that's been.
00:14:01 Killing them all night.
00:14:03 Is the father.
00:14:05 And that ****, with the poofy hair?
00:14:08 Is their mother.
00:14:10 So now.
00:14:11 They have a hostage.
00:14:13 And of course.
00:14:13 Because this is an action movie and there's a ton of **** going on and and lots of stuff that I'm skipping over but the.
00:14:20 Short version is.
00:14:22 The white FBI guy is a massive.
00:14:25 And wants to go in, guns blazing, just like when he was in Nam with a helicopter. And he gets everyone killed because it was all part of a trap that the Germans had set. While that's going on, John McClain kills most of the remaining Germans and the genius black guy who is trying to escape using a fake.
00:14:46 Ambulance so that he can escape in the chaos, is stopped by the only man smart enough to stop him. The wise limo driver. Black guy.
00:14:54 After that, John McClain then continues to kill the bad guys until eventually he saves his wife.
00:15:01 But the real.
00:15:01 Hero, of course, is the black super cop who, at the last second saves the day by killing the last German that John McClain neglected to kill all the way. So that's basically die hard won.
00:15:14 Subtle and sometimes not too subtle. Subversion stitched between shots of explosions, heroic feats, and fights to the death. In the end, our hero gets the gig.
00:15:27 Girl that chose a career over being his wife and mother to his children. But right now, in this moment, she feels safe in his arms.
00:15:39 And she won't divorce him until die hard, part 4 after he saves her life again and die hard Part 2 and thousands of other lives and die hard Part 3. But in this moment she feels safe with him, and he's bought himself a little bit of time before. Once again, she stops feeling satisfied.
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