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1988 · Save the Cat!
Die Hard
A New York cop walks into his wife’s office party and spends the night barefoot, bleeding, and becoming a husband again.
Save the Cat as action architecture. Opening image (marriage on the rocks) is answered by the final image (the watch, the kiss, the credits on snow).
01 · Act I
Opening Image
01 · Opening Image
McClane on a plane, gripping the armrest, a man who does not like being carried.
A snapshot of the before. Tone, world, and the problem in one image that the final image will answer.