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...recall by what cracked narrative logic the SUV got into the elevator shaft, although it's perfectly clear why John McClane (Bruce Willis) and bad gal Mai (Maggie Q) are fighting to the death as they cling to the tottering vehicle-because all of us (the filmmakers, the audience) really want them to. I mean, why would you put a sexy mystery woman into Live Free or Die Hard if not bring her into conflict with its weary, but still nicely toned hero and witness the slender beauty and the rudely wise-cracking beast battle each other. It's nice...
...scheme is called a "fire sale" (as in "everything must go") and, of course, it will make him rich. But that's not the point; the point is revenge. The central joke of the movie-and its not a bad one-is that it takes a rogue cop (McClane) to catch a rogue mastermind, nevermind the fact that McClane is so obviously computer illiterate. It's hard to imagine him owning a PC, let alone cruising the Internet in search of blog tidbits or pornish delights. But if he did, we can only imagine him picking up a computer...
...that coolness that lets Willis walk away, John McClane--like, from disasters that might have destroyed other careers: Hudson Hawk. Talking-baby movies. Movies with Matthew Perry in them. Investing in Planet Hollywood. Giving his kids odd names. Endorsing George Bush. People just don't abandon Bruce Willis. Despite the cuffed Levi's 501 blues he stills wears, he somehow stays with the times--Pulp Fiction, Friends, the Beavis and Butt-head movie, Sin City. It's because he never put himself on a different level from us. "Could you ever picture yourself hanging out with Sylvester Stallone? Could...
...rewrite. "I was there when he made that call," says Smith. "He was talking to some higher-up muckity-muck at the studio. He kept saying, 'Uh-huh, uh-huh.' And then he said, 'Let me ask you this: Who is your second choice to play John McClane? Thought so.' And then he hung up. It was just as cool as that...
...McClane has softened a little, so has Willis, who once sang a song on Letterman about the thrill of killing Saddam Hussein. "My political point of view has moved more toward independent," says one of the few actors known as a Republican. "People would rather see me as a conservative than as a liberal, but I have lots of liberal notions." And he does keep turning all the desk lamps in the halls of the hotel off. He figures people like to identify him with the GOP partly because it makes him seem rebellious within Hollywood and partly because...