A colación del 30 aniversario de Die Hard y de que revivió el debate sobre si cuenta como una película navideña o no, recordé la canción tributo que la banda neoyorquina Guyz Nite le hizo a la saga hace más de una década. Titulada Die Hard, la canción es la pista once del álbum Guyz Nite Meanz Everything/Bachelor Party Campout, lanzado en 2007 tanto en físico como en versión digital.
La letra de la canción está inspirada en las aventuras de John McClane que vimos en sus tres primeras películas, y se convirtió en un éxito inmediato en redes sociales, sobre todo en el MySpace de la banda, lo que atrajo la atención de 20th Century Fox, estudio propietario de la franquicia, que autorizó a la banda el uso de escenas de la saga para la realización de un video oficial para la canción a cambio de poder usarla con fines promocionales.
Se grabó además una versión especial de la canción que incluía un cuarto verso dedicado a Live Free or Die Hard (llamada en México Die Hard 4.0), cuarta entrega de la serie. Hasta donde sé, esta versión extendida sólo existe con el video de la canción, mismo que además fue incluido en el DVD de esa película en su edición de región 1.
"Die Hard" by Guyz Nite
Remember when we first met John McClane?
Argyle picked him up from the plane,
And took him down to Nakatomi Tower...
To meet with Holly.
He came to get her back and to be her man,
But Hans and his buddies fucked up the plan,
And that's about when everything went sour
At the Christmas party.
And the terrorists were over-zealous,
But it was sweet when they killed Ellis!
And, with a little help from Allen,
John McClane kicked ass!
We're gonna die, die, die, die hard!
We're gonna die, die, die, die hard!
We're gonna die, die, die, die hard!
We're gonna die, die, die as hard as we can!
No one dies harder than John McClane,
Even when his wife's stuck on a plane
About to crash into the Potomac River...
On the eve of Christmas.
And airport security kicked him out,
But John McClane is just too damn proud,
And nothing could have made him not deliver...
'Cause that's his business!
And with a lot of fights and gunplay
He blew that plane up on the runway.
And, with a little help from Allen,
Holly's plane could land!
We're gonna die, die, die, die hard!
We're gonna die, die, die, die hard!
We're gonna die, die, die, die hard!
We're gonna die, die, die as hard as we can!
Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!
No one dies harder than John McClane,
Saving all the passengers on the train.
But Simon wasn't clear with his intentions:
It was just a distraction!
And there was no way McClane could know
That Hans Gruber was Simon's bro.
And that's what made it "Die Hard: With A Vengeance"
With Samuel Jackson!
And the good cop wouldn't miss this,
Even though it wasn't Christmas.
He didn't get any help from Allen...
But only in part three!
We're gonna die, die, die, die hard!
We're gonna die, die, die, die hard!
We're gonna die, die, die, die hard!
We're gonna die, die, die as hard as we can!
Finally we're back with John McClane
Now we got a choice, and the choice is plain:
We can live free or we can die hard,
As hard as we can.
From taking on a terrorist he's never met,
To taking on an F-35 jet,
With the greatest car explosions by far...
This sure looks sweet, man!
And we know what the basic gist is:
There ain't no Allen, and it's not Christmas.
We don't know but we're pretty sure that
John McClane kicks ass!
We're gonna die, die, die, die hard!
We're gonna die, die, die, die hard!
We're gonna die, die, die, die hard!
We're gonna die, die, die as hard as we can!
Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!
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