Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Die Hard or Go Home


This is a picture of Bruce Willis in the original 1988 classic action film, Die Hard, directed by John McTiernan. In this photo, Bruce Willis is slouched in a very intimidating position with his right arm slung in the window of a red car with a scolded look on his tattered face and a loaded gun underneath his skull tattooed left arm. The layout of this photo demonstrates how Bruce Willis plays a pivotal role within this film; his gun holder and tags around his neck show that he isn’t just any regular guy that just happens to own a gun but someone of the police force who was trained to carry and handle a weapon. His face serves as the lightest part of the picture along with parts of his arm and lower neck, meanwhile the darkest fragments of this picture if the background somewhat expresses an intriguing mystery of the situation the character is in at the moment; it is very hard to tell what part of the movie this picture resides. His tattoo exhibits a smiling skull with a top hat and a bow tie, which makes it seem that the character finds the subject of death as a laughable matter but in the way that makes him seem that he is not afraid of dying as long as he puts up a fight. His worn out clothing with burn and dirt marks and his scratched up face and arms merely illustrates what type of situations he is placed in and how he must be trying to defeat or had defeated the villain of this film by the structure of this photo. The overall photo confirms that the character is confident of his disposition and his lethal intentions will therefore lead him to his success. 

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Author: Jasmine Brown
Date: 13 November 2012

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