 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to Happy Holidays. Today we are talking about one of my favorite Christmas movies of all time. But first, some self promo. Awesome. And yes, we're going to be doing this all throughout December because they're going to be on sale all throughout December. So the first one is Maiden, my most recent book. I wrote this one with TC Parker and I wrote it under the pen name Ward Nerdlow. We're pitching it as Deadliest Catch meets John Carpenter's The Thing with Mermaids. The ebook is only $2.99 on Amazon and the paperback is only $9.99. You can pick that one up. Next up we have War on Christmas, which I released under the Edward Bourne name. It's three short stories that connect together into a novelette. It's got Santa Claus being a badass. It has Krampus. It has a lot of surprises. The three connecting short stories are The Naughty List, Deck the Halls, and Beyond the Gates of Toyland. But let's go ahead and jump in to the review. Today we are talking about, oh, let me pause for a second. All the links will be down there in the doobly-doo for all the books that I just talked about. Also, there's two other short stories, Secret Santa that I released under the Lorne name and Oh Holy Shit, which is a dark comedy that I wrote under the Ward Nerdloan pin name. All those will be down there in the doobly-doo. But today we are talking about Die Hard, the first one. It's a Christmas movie. Any movie that opens up with Christmas in Hollis by Run DMC is by default a Christmas movie. But there's so many other reasons I'm not going to argue with you. If you don't want to watch it for Christmas, don't watch it for Christmas. But it falls into that category of things like Adam's Family. And there's numerous ones. I don't want to get into that. In fact, you know what? Before we get started, down there in the doobly-doo, I want you guys to tell me your favorite Christmas movie that is not technically a Christmas movie. It can happen on Christmas. It cannot happen on Christmas. Anything you want, just a movie that you watch every single Christmas that has very little or nothing to do with Christmas, like the Adam's Family. I think, I don't think there's Christmas in there, but I'm getting off on a tangent. Let's talk about Die Hard. Now, I'm not going to do a normal review today because I think that's boring. I think everybody and their mama has seen Die Hard. So I'm going to tell you some facts that I learned that blew my mind. I had no idea about any of this stuff up until a couple years ago when I went looking for, by the way, and this, this comes into my next point, I couldn't find the Blu-ray for the past like three years. And then all of a sudden this popped up on Target. It's the five movie collection, first three are amazing. Last two can catch these hands. But this one, it was only $20 for all five films. I mean, just the first three alone are worth that. So head on down to Target and grab it. At least they're the ones who had it when I bought it. Anyway, so here's some things about Die Hard that I didn't know that you may not know either. Die Hard is based on a book by Roderick Thorpe called Nothing Last Forever. And John McClane is nowhere to be seen. The main, the protagonist, the New York detective. Actually, Nothing Last Forever is a sequel to Thorpe's first book, I believe, or the first in the series, which is The Detective. But The Detective is not John McClane. The detective's name is Joseph Leland. But they changed it to John McClane in the movie, I don't know, because testosterone, I don't know. Did John McClane sound more manly than because this is this is definitely a dude flick, even though plenty of women like it. I'm not saying it's not for women. This ain't Dr. Pepper 10. Stop. Anyways, back to what I was saying. So they changed the name to John McClane. In the book, Holly Gennaro has been dead for eight years. So John McClane or in the movie, John McClane's wife is Holly Gennaro, and she is a big part of the movie. But in the book, she's been dead for eight years. And instead of an estranged wife in the movie, we have in the book, an estranged daughter named Stephanie Gennaro. Why they kept those names? I don't know. Hans Gruber is still Hans Gruber. Al, the cop played by, what's his name, Dill Johnson. Anyways, him, the other cop that's a dick, he's the same. Really, the only two changes are those are the main character, and instead of the wife, it's the daughter. But also, you have Hans Gruber called Hans the Red Gruber. I try to look up why, because I have not read the book. I just found it was interesting. I was looking through Wikipedia articles and all that stuff because I thought it just blew my mind. The second film is Die Hard 2 is based on a book by a completely different author. Wager, W-A-G-E-R is the author's last name. But the main character in that one is a completely different person. That one is Malone. It takes place over 58 minutes, 19 planes stuck in the air. From what I understand, neither one of these books are anything like the movie, even though Nothing Last Forever hits all of the major plot points. They change the name of the company in the first movie to the Nakatoni Corporation, and in the book, it's the Klaxon Oil Company. Very, very interesting stuff, at least to me. Now, maybe I will say a few things about this movie. It is one of those, it's a silly action movie, completely unrealistic. Dude gets blown off the top of a building. He's got a fire hose around his waist, and he's just completely fine. Backing all fucked up. Nothing about him is messed up. Well, he's messed up. Don't get me wrong, but it's not like he liquefied his internal organs like it actually would have had he been that close to the explosion. But that's these movies. Any good action movie will have you sit there shaking your head saying there ain't no way in hell. That's what makes a good action movie. Fight me down there in the comments. But anyways, so I was shocked, I was shocked to find out that it was a book first. Maybe I shouldn't have been. I was also shocked to find out that the main character's name wasn't even the same. And that they, instead of, when I read reviews for the book, every single person mentioned how much better the movie is with Holly Gennaro, instead of having Joseph Leland's daughter Stephanie Gennaro in the movie. It added more, it added a strong female character. I'm not 100% sure. I haven't read the book, so I don't know. But it's really, I don't know. It's an odd decision to change the daughter character to the wife character. And I would love, there's things like that, that I would love to be inside of the writer's head to find out why they decided to do that. And I get, I mean, there's no, there's no, oh, and she's also having Stephanie Gennaro, the daughter in the book, is also having an affair with Harry Ellis, who's the coke head, I believe. I'd have to double check. We just got through watching this. I already forgot who Ellis is. I'm pretty sure Ellis is the bad guy, not the bad guy, but the jerk who snorting the coke when the boss comes walking in and everything. I love that scene, by the way, because dude's just like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't do nothing. Anyways, love this movie. But Stephanie Gennaro is having an affair with Harry Ellis. So I'm guessing Harry Ellis is either married or she is. I don't know. I haven't read the book. But my question for you today, have you read Nothing Last Forever by Roderick Thorpe? If you have, let me know down there in the doobly-doo whether or not you loved it, you hated it, felt meh about it. Tell me the same thing about Die Hard. And again, like I asked you at the beginning of the video, tell me some movies that you watched that most people either don't have nothing to do with Christmas or have little to do with Christmas, but they give you a Christmas vibe, so you watch them anyways around Christmas time. But until next time, I have been Stephanie. You've been you. This has been another episode of 30, not 31 Days of Halloween. Boy, if you don't, happy holidays. Happy holidays. Get, whoo!