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Okay, so there are four Die Hard movies, yah? One, Two, Three, and Four, also known as the original, Die Harder, Die Hard With a Vengeance, and (depending on where you live) either Die Hard 4.0 or Live Free Die Hard. They're all Die Hard movies, of course, but how do they stand up next to each other?
Well, here's the metaphor that I just came up with.
The first one? That's Bruce Lee. The quintessential defines-the-genre Real Thing.
Second one? They couldn't get Bruce Lee, so they found some other Asian dude and told him to fake Bruce Lee. It's not horrible, admittedly, but it's not actually good, either.
Third? Jet Li. Inevitably (yet justly) compared to the first, but cranked up to 11 with heavy distortion on the electric guitar.
Fourth? Wesley Snipes. Looks completely out of left field, but is actually (a) very good and (b) preserving many of the essential parts of the tradition (in world of the metaphor, the martial arts prowess).
Well, here's the metaphor that I just came up with.
The first one? That's Bruce Lee. The quintessential defines-the-genre Real Thing.
Second one? They couldn't get Bruce Lee, so they found some other Asian dude and told him to fake Bruce Lee. It's not horrible, admittedly, but it's not actually good, either.
Third? Jet Li. Inevitably (yet justly) compared to the first, but cranked up to 11 with heavy distortion on the electric guitar.
Fourth? Wesley Snipes. Looks completely out of left field, but is actually (a) very good and (b) preserving many of the essential parts of the tradition (in world of the metaphor, the martial arts prowess).
