“Yippee ki-yay, motherfucker.” - Job apparently
If taken in its totality consumed through post-modern deistic Western milieu the DIE HARD series is *Book of Job* retold.
Submitted 1 month ago by TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Trex202@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Who shot who in the what now?
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 month ago
You’ll have to explain that. Where Job refuses to have a character arc, staying completely passive, watching people around him die, until the very end (and even then only goes whining to his god), Die Hard dude is everything but passive and even willing to risk his own life for others. What do they have in common?
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 month ago
The people that sit around telling Job that his misfortunes are because his god hates him are recast as the villains that walk around and tell DIE HARD that he brought these problems on himself.
He loses his family repeatedly and yet at the end they are their. Every thing he could lose is eventually returned on their end of the movie.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 month ago
And the combination of events that one human being suffered repeatedly has to speak at some point what did this man do to deserve all that danger and torment ?