Good points, all. Especially your breakdown of how Hans fits into Die Hard -- you're dead-on about the tricks that allow him to be a character we want to watch, rather than one who needs to have died, like, eight scenes ago. (My only quibble would be in the phrasing that he only kills people who "deserve it" -- rather that he only kills people who played some part in their own deaths. Takagi didn't deserve to die; he just chose honor/loyalty over living. And even whathisface the cokehead doesn't deserve death; he just chose to risk his life, and it ended badly for him.)
Where torture is concerned . . . I dunno. I've hit a point where I'm not very willing to let the hero get away with it, either. Taken, with Liam Neeson, was the movie that made it clear to me how much my tolerance for that had dropped.
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Re: Oh yeah.
Date: 2012-05-08 05:18 pm (UTC)Where torture is concerned . . . I dunno. I've hit a point where I'm not very willing to let the hero get away with it, either. Taken, with Liam Neeson, was the movie that made it clear to me how much my tolerance for that had dropped.