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Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

★ 6.6 · 6,312 ratings on TMDB

The choice will be clear.

Live Free or Die Hard poster★ 6.6

John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.

DirectorLen Wiseman
CastAndrew Friedman, Bruce Willis, Cliff Curtis, Jonathan Sadowski, Justin Long, Kevin Smith
GenresAction, Thriller
The emergence reading

Live Free or Die Hard keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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