#holly mcclane

[dinosaurwithablog]

Ask a stupid question and get a stupid answer. 🤣🤣🤣 I love Hans Gruber's reaction to his question 😂 You gotta respect Holly for being extremely honest and not looking afraid at all. Her 3rd request is for bathroom breaks for everyone. I'm thinking that she should go first after dealing with Hans, don't you? That took some nerve to do.

[mametupa]

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[varianwinchester]

Special Agent Johnson and Agent Johnson are a couple. You can’t change my mind.

[headlesshorsemanxiii]

"The only time you even see the people is when you look down to see what it is you're stepping on."

~ Holly McClane to Richard Thornburg, Die Hard 2.

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Die Hard

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[vertigoartgore]

Die Hard's Hans Gruber and his team of fake terrorists/bank robbers. Source

Alan Rickman, Hans Buhringer, Lorenzo Caccialanza, Bruno Doyon, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Alexander Godunov, Dennis Hayden, Al Leong, Gary Roberts, Wilhelm von Homburg, and Andreas Wisniewski in Piège de cristal (1988)

[evagelieneinthesky]

So I watched Die Hard for the first time (couldn't wait till Christmas) and that movie REALLY tested my patience. I felt John's frustration in my bones.

Hats off to Sergeant Powell. I fucking love him.

[cincinnatiwolverine]

[flock-of-cassowaries]

Every time I watch this holiday classic / period-piece, I am more on the side of Ms. Genero.

[dinosaurwithablog]

Two years in a row, Christmas is way too exciting for John McClane and his wife. Holly asks a very valid question...

[movie-characters]

Holly Gennero McClane Kimdir?

Holly Gennero McClane, Bruce Willis'in canlandırdığı John McClane'in karısıdır.

Holly Gennero McClane, Bruce Willis’in canlandırdığı John McClane’in karısıdır. Bonnie Bedelia tarafından canlandırılan Holly, “Die Hard” (1988) ve “Die Hard 2” (1990) filmlerinde yer alır. Hikaye: Holly, California’da John ile birlikte yaşayan ve iki çocuğu olan bir ev hanımıdır. “Die Hard” filminde, John, Nakatomi Plaza’daki Noel partisine katılmak için New York’a gelir. Ancak parti, Hans…

[roy-the-dork]

Die Hard December - Days 14 - 23

More Die Hard December days are under the read more with commentary, ratings, and doodles! :)

Day 14 - Richard Thornburg is awful, gotta love his determination to be the first one to break the Nakatomi Plaza story only to end up with the most garbage footage of him reporting….And of course his horrid “interview” with Lucy and John Jr….

⭐️ - 2/10 he didn’t get punched enough

Day 15 - Argyle is probably the best character in Die Hard (and you can fight me on that). I have a head canon that John and Argyle remain friends and meet every Christmas. Also Argyle deserves a djungelskog

⭐️ - 10/10 Skogs

Day 16 - More Argyle, more skogs :)

⭐️ - 11/10 I found out they sell djungelskogs in California now!!!! So Argyle and the McClanes can go get skogs!!!!

Day 17 - I only just now realized I own the same plaid shirt as John McClane

⭐️ - 8/10 solid movie watching shirt

Day 18 - Remembering that Harry Ellis is super high when he decides to be an idiot makes everything he does make so much more sense. And yet I always forget about it, despite it being 90% of his character

⭐️ - 5/10 he annoys me

Day 19 - I think Joe Takagi is the character who’s grown on me the most through watching this movie over and over? He’s witty and kind, and the more I think about it the more I realize he’s probably the bravest person in the film. I wish he got to interact with everyone more. He’s the only character who really doesn’t deserve his fate.

⭐️ - 9/10 He needs more screen time

Day 20 - The guy John talks with on the airplane who gives him the idea to take his shoes off. Been thinking about all the obscure characters with the minor/tangential interactions with the main plot. Do they realize their role in the events later? Do they get interviewed/dumped into research for books about what happened at Nakatomi Plaza? Do they have Wikipedia pages that center this extremely minor event in their lives??? Are they the Charles Allen Lechmeres and Louie Steven Witts of the Die Hard universe???? (I’m losing my mind)

⭐️ - 7/10 I can’t believe this guy has the first line in the entire movie

Day 21 - Thinking about Nakatomi Plaza after Christmas. For being the set piece of most of the movie, it almost disappears after the first movie. No one even knows what the Nakatomi Corporation does??? How did they recover from the events of the first movie? All it’s ever known as is “that thing in the building in LA,” how did the company respond, were there legal ramifications, did people quit, how did it affect the surrounding area, what did they do????

⭐️ - 5/10 I have invested too much thinking time into this fictional universe

Day 22 - Thinking about John and Hans being petty adversaries (friends) again.

⭐️ - 9/10 Friendship

Day 23 - Holly Gennero is an absolute badass and I love her

⭐️ - 12/10 Holly

Die Hard December - Days 4 - 13

I finished Die Hard December!!! :D Individual days with commentary, ratings, and doodles are under the read more line

Day 4 - Kristoff is severely underrated and I personally hope he survived getting pistol whipped in the face. Head canon that he is best friends with Theo

⭐️ - 7/10 Kristoffs

Day 5 - Fritz has Rapunzel hair, also the best blooper in the film (They’re using the elderly on us!)

⭐️ - 9/10 for the blooper alone

Day 6 - Hans and Theo are definitely dating. Like the only times Hans smiles are around Theo??? (Yeah yeah vault whatever). Also Theo’s birthday is Christmas Eve, you cannot tell me they didn’t have a party for him

⭐️ - 10/10 they are gay

Day 7 - Uli!!!!! It’s Uli!!! :DD

⭐️ - 10/10 Crunch bars

Day 8 - I think Eddie more than anyone deserves the title of cowboy. He actually has cowboy boots for goodness sake

⭐️ - 6/10 fake cowboy employees

Day 9 - Karl is so overdramatic and I love him for it. Honestly a more terrifying villain than Hans (not more competent though)

⭐️ - 9/10 dramatic head turns with equally dramatic musical stings

Day 10 - In an AU where the Die Hard villains are just petty criminals, Tony would 100% befriend John and Al. And Karl would try to kill them both for it

⭐️ - 7/10 for being a Die Hard character with a Funko Pop

Day 11 - Also in an AU where the Die Hard villains are just petty criminals (because it’s wormed its way into my brain) Hans would always call John “Mr. Cowboy” before dramatically disappearing. John thinks he’s annoying as hell

⭐️ - 10/10 I want them all to be friends

Day 12 - My guinea pig watched Die Hard with me (she’s never seen it before). She has no fear and a strange fascination with Hans Gruber. She made me pick her up so she could see him better

⭐️ - 8/10 weirdly fearless guinea pigs

Day 13 - I think Hans Gruber is very cool, but I will never understand why people think he is hot. I am in severe opposition with Die Hard TikTok about this, apparently

⭐️ - 3/10 why

[dr-futbol-blog]

The Storm/The Eye, Pt. 4

Finally, the Genii arrive at Atlantis with Acastus Kolya at the helm. With Robert Davi acting, it's rather on the nose how much the events of the story follow the plot of Die Hard with Kolya as Hans Gruber and Sheppard as John McClane. And, as I mentioned the polysemic storytelling used by the series, the role of Holly Gennero is played by both McKay and Weir.

McKay and Weir are captured by the Genii almost immediately.

They're clever enough to keep their communicators on so that Sheppard can eavesdrop on the discussion. McKay is clearly frightened, even more so than Weir because he actually has experience of these people from before, but he's not about to give them anything that would jeopardize Sheppard (not even his own name, confirmation of which Sora provides for Kolya). Rodney is a brave little toaster but he's way in over his head. You can see by the minute tilt of his chin that he just entered What Would Sheppard Do? zone, he's trying to navigate the situation the way he thinks John would.

The fact that Weir responds verbally to Kolya's inquiry about his identity and McKay does not but is recognized anyway is exactly how the entire scenario plays out main text / sub text wise. We are verbally told: Elizabeth, from contextual cues we are able to interpret: Rodney.

We actually cut from Sheppard's reaction to what he just overheard to the storm brewing outside. Because if he was frightened of the storm and what it might do to this newly found home at the beginning of the episode, he's now terrified.

In the Genii home world when they were held hostage, McKay and Sheppard both attempted to keep the other safe in their own ways, and they continue doing just that here. Sheppard is using his military training, McKay is using his brain (and Weir is using her skills as a negotiator). McKay is trying to convey information that Sheppard could use by "accidentally" leaning on the communication panel but at the same time, he's letting him know that they are both still alive and unharmed. It's notable that all of the characters are lying to keep each other safe. They are saying counterfactual things in the hopes that the others might be spared.

Also notable: Kolya is smart enough to know that they are lying.

McKay seems to realize that he has no experience in dealing with the kind of sociopath Kolya is but he tries his best. He's being careful not to antagonize them unnecessarily and is also lying about the most important things.

Kolya has figured out that McKay is too important to be there. There must be a reason why he stayed behind. The Genii clearly recognize his importance on a lot of fronts, the least of them not being that he's the one that knows how to use the C4 to build an A-bomb which is something that the Genii don't know how to do. He would go as far as to injure McKay but it's doubtful he ever had intention of killing him.

But even under physical torture, he didn't give up Sheppard. The Genii only learn that Sheppard is in fact in the city through the radio he left in the armory himself. The only reason he gives out the plan to save the city is that he has such faith in Sheppard. This is why he looks guilty when Kolya and Sheppard have this exchange:

Kolya: Your offer is very generous, Major. Sheppard: Yes, it is. Kolya: However, Doctor McKay recently shared with me there's a plan in action to save the city. Sheppard: He did?! Kolya: He did.

Like, McKay overhears this and thinks that he's disappointed Sheppard; as though Sheppard is expressing surprise that he would do such a thing. The last thing McKay wants is to let the Major down. What their exchange is actually about is Kolya letting Sheppard know that he has hurt McKay enough to get information out of him, and Sheppard gets this.

And Sheppard's plan is to rescue them. He hides the thing that he knows the Genii care most about, the thing they can't do without, it being the C4. He's holding the most important thing to the Genii ransom because he hopes that this will be enough for him to get back the most important thing to him. Everyone is attempting to find the leverage and use it.

Knowing that Sheppard has walked into an ambush, even though he is afraid McKay tries to help him the only way he can which is by pointing out that something is invaluable (reminding them that they might break the only thing that can save the city if they start shooting at him). Likewise, Sheppard only went to the grounding station with the hope that doing what the Genii asked would keep Weir and McKay safe. And boy is McKay relieved to hear the Sheppard managed to dodge the ambush:

Note that it's McKay's reaction we get to this, and his alone.

Now, Sheppard makes the mistake of mentioning McKay because he just can't keep him out of his mouth. When you're thinking about something or someone, it's going to come out of your mouth. He tells Kolya that he's going to get "an earful from McKay for" his soldiers breaking the controls to the grounding station, and then this very thing actually happens. What he actually did was to demonstrate to a really intelligent sociopath that he knows McKay pretty damn well. Too well. And that he cares about him because damn, if that didn't signal familiarity between them.

Starting to play hardball, Kolya tells Sheppard "Say good-bye to Doctor Weir". But note that he actually looks at McKay just before he says this, thinking about something. Kolya and Sheppard are playing a game with extremely high stakes.

Now, it seems like Kolya threatening Weir is too much for Sheppard. It's the mention of Weir that throws him off the edge, right? Makes him threaten to destroy to whole city if he hurts her. Weir, and not McKay. Easy, heteronormative reading. That's what they say, after all.

The thing is, we've seen before that Sheppard is both a strategic thinker and (especially in Underground, S01E08) that especially when it comes to the Genii, he thinks that the less information they have about them, the better. He lied about the number of puddle jumpers they have. He was willing to let them know that they have a ship, but not that they have many ships. He stopped McKay from spilling the beans on how much weaponry they have. Each and every one of the characters have been lying through their teeth all through the ordeal to keep each other safe.

Kolya is likewise a strategic thinker. He's trying to figure Sheppard out. He has two hostages and he's trying to find out how he can use them for leverage. He knows all of them are lying.

Some people watch the episode and come to the conclusion that Sheppard cares about Weir the most because Kolya threatens her and he loses it. And like, he doesn't mention McKay so he must not care about him as much as he does about Weir. But it is precisely because McKay is the one he cannot and will not lose that he plays it out as though Weir is the one he cares the most about here. Giving the enemy that kind of leverage like revealing the thing you actually can't live without would be stupid. And Kolya figures it out anyway.

Sheppard tells him that if he hurts Weir, he would rather blow up Atlantis with all of them in it, indicating to him that Weir is the one he cannot afford to lose. Anything you do, just please don't kill her. And yet we end the episode with Kolya telling Sheppard that he is about to kill one of the two, and he's not telling him which. Having just glanced at McKay before he decided to test Sheppard out by threatening Weir by name.

Why would he do that? If Kolya believed that Weir was the one Sheppard cared most about like he indicated to Kolya, why would he not simply use the leverage Sheppard had just (on purpose) given him? Why suddenly be vague about which it's going to be?

Because Kolya can play 4D-chess too. And it's when Kolya tells Sheppard that he is going to kill one of them and he does not know which that is going to be that Sheppard actually capitulates, not when he threatened to kill Weir a moment ago. Notice that Sheppard was still relatively cool and level-headed when Kolya was just threatening her life; when her life was on the line, he was still negotiating with Kolya. But suddenly he loses it.

Note that while he's shouting throughout this dialogue because he's outside in the storm trying to get his voice heard, his tone of voice changes throughout:

Kolya: You killed two of my men. Sheppard: I guess we're even! [flippant] Kolya: I don't like even. Sheppard: I'm not finished yet! [bravado] Kolya: Neither am I. Say goodbye to Doctor Weir. Sheppard: The city has a self-destruct button. You hurt her, I'll activate it. Nobody'll get Atlantis. [still calmly negotiating, able to formulate a plan of action] Kolya: Even if it exists, Major, you need at least two senior personnel to activate it -- and I'm about to take one of them out of the equation. Sheppard: Kolya?! Kolya?! I'll give you a ship! I'll fly it out of here for you myself! KOLYA!! [suddenly desperate]

Sheppard is willing to do anything and say anything to keep McKay safe. The man he's fallen in love with. His home. The person he cares so much for that a stranger he's known for all of five minutes was able to figure it out and use it against him. Threatening Weir wasn't the thing that pushed him over the edge, it was not knowing which one the gun was pointed at and the fear that Kolya had figured him out, had his ticket.

This is when Kolya made himself into Sheppard's mortal enemy. And it's notable that in every one of their subsequent encounters, Kolya knows to use McKay to get to Sheppard.

Continued in Pt. 5

[reiignonme]

STATISTICAL CHARACTER PARALLEL QUIZ.

take the linked quiz from the perspective of your muse(s), and share at least ten of your favorite results

PIPER HALLIWELL.

Holly Gennero-McClane (Die Hard): 91%

Lois Lane (Smallville): 89%

Nala (The Lion King): 88%

Caroline Forbes (The Vampire Diaries): 88%

Iris West (The Flash): 88%

Deanna Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation): 87%

Donna Paulsen (Suits): 87%

Bernadette Rostenkowski (The Big Bang Theory): 86%

Dr. Claire Browne (The Good Doctor): 86%

Kara Danvers (Supergirl): 86%

CAROL DANVERS.

Daisy 'Skye' Johnson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.): 93%

Letty Ortiz (Fast & Furious): 92%

John Connor (Terminator 2: Judgement Day): 92%

Max Mayfield (Stranger Things): 92%

Meredith Grey (Grey's Anatomy): 91%

Robin Buckley (Stranger Things): 91%

Tris Prior (Divergent): 91%

Kate Austen (LOST): 90%

Lip Gallagher (Shameless): 90%

Arya Stark (Game of Thrones): 89%

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