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This is absolutely amazing.
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John Mclane is the real villain of Die Hard. As co-writer Steven DeSouza says in the text commentary, people often confuse the terms protagonist and antagonist, hero and villain, and in the case of Die Hard, Gruber fills the true role of protagonist to McClane's antagonist or, as McClane puts it, “the fly in the ointment, the monkey in the wrench.” DeSouza says, “The protagonist is the person who starts the ball rolling so the protagonist of Die Hard is Hans Gruber when he decides to rob the building.”
Hans Gruber was a charming international bandit. At the end, he died hard. He's the title character!"