Lindsay Blake Whether or not “Die Hard” is a holiday movie is a longtime source of debate among film aficionados. Not up for debate: The 1988 flick’s standing as an action classic.
Set on Christmas Eve but released in July, the summer blockbuster was mainly lensed at Fox Plaza, the 34-story late-modern structure that stands like a beacon at 2121 Avenue of the Stars in L.A.’s Century City.
Posing as Nakatomi Plaza, headquarters of the fictional Nakatomi Corp., the faceted building is where NYPD officer John McClane (Bruce Willis) heads upon arriving in Los Angeles (“Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs!”) to visit his estranged wife, Holly Gennaro (Bonnie Bedilia), for the holidays, and winds up taking down a group.
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