Sunday, January 13, 2008

Assignment 1-4 Weekly Analyses

Between the time that I had this week from doing homework, I was able to watch the movie Live Free or Die Hard with Bruce Willis. This movie is the fourth of the old but popular movie of Die Hard. In this movie Bruce Willis is detective John McClane is stationed to look after a convicted computer hacker, Matt Ferrall played by Justin Long. Whose life is on the line because he is one of the only hackers left who is able to prevent Thomas Gabriel, played by Timothy Olyphant, from hacking into the pentagon and crashing the stock market for the second time in America’s History and putting America back into the stone age once again. John McClane who has a history of action packed adventures with other bad guys in the past including the following: Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons) brother to Hans who avenges his brother the third movie, and Col. Stuart (William Sadler).
As you can see John McClane can handle a little computer hacker terrorist trying to put America back into the stone-age. There was a part in the movie when John is driving a cop car and catapults it off of a toll booth aiming it at a helicopter in which one of the terrorist are trying to kill him and Matt. In the past movies the terrorist would take John’s wife, Holly Gennero McClane (Bonnie Bedelia), hostage and he would have to save her. In this movie; however, they are divorced so she does not appear in this one, but his daughter is Lucy McClane (Mary Winstead) is taken hostage in place of his wife.
As you can probably tell he gets angry and comes after the terrorist and saves the day the only way John McClane knows how to. With quick thinking and a lot of pain on his part and the terrorist.

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