Die Hard was the best film to use on this gene for cliches as most of the cliches had started from this film and have been copied from time. One of the cliches in this film include the butch men with the small, villian at the front. This is throughout the entire film and it signals to the viewer with the presence and atmospheric music that pounds louder when the camera is zoomed in closer to the villian that they are in fact the ones to be feared. The film is based and carried through on the one cliche of the film, that the helpless woman who the hero is attached to needs to be saaved. This appeals to the male audiance which is what the film is aimed at by making the male feel like they are in the hero's place and being the hero of the film which adds to their attention for the film. To attract the male audiance there is lots of guns and shooting to engage them and it reinforces the stereotypical idea that guns and weapons attract the male audiance. The cliched idea of the film is that all the gun shots that are used to shoot the hero miss, making the audiance feel conncected to being the hero as he is invincible to any damage. The hero is cliched by kicking off the evil men sidekicks one by one, it is what is copied in most other films. The villians voice in this films represents evilness, and it has a more feminine sound to it, this makes the male audiance go against the villian as he is shown as a less independant man. The villians sidekicks use the cliched loading of guns to attract the audiance at the knowledge of what is to come. The hero uses the cheesy lines against the villian 'no one kills him but me'. This is effective as it is a line that is remembered after the film has been watched, and it lets the viewer know that the hero will in fact kill the villian in the end. As the hero and the evil villians try to kill each other the hero tries to save himself by using the cliched idea of sliding down a glass roof, which has been copied in other films and has been made a cliche.
Cliched characters are used in this film in order for the audiance to feel connected to, in this film it is the stereotypical fat cop that is out in the shops buying dohnuts. You feel connected to the cop as he is meant to represent the idea that he doesn't know what `he is doing, and does so successfully in this film. He is called to go to the scene where the shooting occurs, and when he fails to find anything it reinforces the steotypical view and cliched cheesy line of not knowing anything by saying over the radio that it is a 'Wild Goose Chase'. You then get the stereotypical past of knowing that the cop accidentally shot a kid, and that is why he is the way he is today.
The hero climbs down a ladder, and as he does that he is led to dangerous blades, which he manages to stop and climb through. The cliched view of the villians trying to grab him as he is halfway through is then reinforced by just making it on the other side in time, which attracts the viewer as they can see themselves in this situation. The villians have a cliched view of the villians getting stuck and taking another turning.
The hero runs along glass which is followed by the villians trying to shoot, again missing. The cliched view of the hero just being in time but getting cut along the feet by the shattering glass, which is then when he has to do the cliched emergency surgery, taking the glass out. You get shots of the chest and scene around him to which he is stuck. The villians watch and wait in the burly basement scenes, another cliched idea which links to horror as they are both represented as scary and manly. As the hero is trying to recover from the pain in his feet he asks the fat cop to tell his wife that he loves her, cliched speech which attracts a female audiance as he opens up about his life. The film becomes successful this way.
I like the action cliche to this film and that is why I might consider using this for my own two minute clip, and if I use this genre in my clip then I now have a basic understanding of what cliches needed to be included in the film, which is why Die Hard was a good film to watch in order to understand.
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