i ve never forgotten the image of looking in the window in the christmas carol and seeing the cratchits eating christmas dinner. and i ve always felt somewhat, to my chagrin, that i was always outside the window looking in on people who knew effortlessly how to live life much better than i did. to me, danny glover is the cratchit family. come on in. come on in. having christmas inside, and the guy outside is riggs. hi, honey. danny glover offers him that gateway to something which he s been looking through the window at for so long. it s a soft kind of reminder that an unexpected redemption can be found. my favorite christmas movie? can i say die hard ? okay. so there s this perpetual question of, is die hard a christmas movie? no. is it? i don t think so. well [bleep] yes, die hard is a christmas movie.
i think if you re going to say christmas and action movies, you kind of have to say shane black because he has made an entire industry around it. hallelujah. i love putting christmas in my movies. it gives you instant context. you keep cutting to bits of christmas and it orients you back in the story. and in lethal weapon, the contrast that christmas gives us offers a lot of chances for being reminded of the potential of people. riggs, the mel gibson character, he s mourning his dead wife. in the loneliness and the hush and isolation of christmas, he hits bottom. if you re low, you re the lowest around the christmas holidays because you see the trappings everywhere. i ve never forgotten the image of looking in the window in the christmas carol and seeing the cratchits eating christmas dinner. and i ve always felt somewhat,
to my chagrin, that i was always outside the window looking in on people who knew effortlessly how to live life much better than i did. to me, danny glover is the cratchit family. come on in. come on in. having christmas inside, and the guy outside is riggs. hi, honey. danny glover offers him that gateway to something which he s been looking through the window at for so long. it s a soft kind of reminder that an unexpected redemption can be found. my favorite christmas movie? can i say die hard ? okay. so there s this perpetual question of, is die hard a christmas movie? no. is it? i don t think so. well, hell, yes, it s a christmas movie. i m on the side of not believing in die hard is a christmas movie. die hard is by far the greatest christmas movie. i ve been converted on this point. i will allow it if i will
another heart attack. thirtysomething was one of the first shows that was about a character who was wrestling with judaism and christianity being melded into the same family. i didn t grow up celebrating christmas. i grew up celebrating hanukkah. it s time to light the hanukkah candles. for me as a kid, christmas for jews was chinese food and movies. hanukkah s eight nights too long and so once adam sandler came out with eight crazy nights, it made me feel not so alone. happy hanukkah it s the story of adam sandler during hanukkah. so now when i think of hanukkah, i think of eight crazy nights. so we ve got one, everybody. we ve got one. of course, there s a lot of people out there that don t celebrate christmas or hanukkah, but they do celebrate something else, like kwanzaa. oh, you brought us christmas presents. no, i didn t. these are kwanzaa gifts, synclaire.