DIE HARD - story breakdown

Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

I’ve had another request for a breakdown of Die Hard. And how can I refuse? It’s one of the greatest action films ever made. A thriller so iconic that it spawned its own subgenre of action films: “Die Hard on/in a bus, plane, ship, mountain, etc.” It cannily doubled its potential audience by giving its hero a witty and roughly charming vulnerability — a…