Robo Redneck As Mark Twain (Google him) once said "It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt". You might not have recognised it because of all the big words, but you got burnt bad. I'm slightly disappointed your response wouldn't knock the skin off a custard, usually when your type get wiped all over the floor you respond with an indignant spray of mindless invective with no connection at all to the actual point. So I decided to write this and give you a second chance to prove the stereotype. See you in my notifications 👍
Robo Redneck surely it wouldn’t be San Fran without all the liberal druggies and scum? It’s the American home of quirky amenities and old fashioned curiosities...you would have to flatten the place to wipe out the sort of low life hipster spawn to which you object....
Every city has issues. I love the Dirty Harry films. It made it's own point during the time it was made. You were able to see all the actions of the bad guys to help establish who was right and who was wrong. But reality is not like that.
Try 2024! The first 3 dirty harry films are really interesting. I can now recognise that, far from being just action movies, a lot of political thought went into them.
I've heard from multiple first hand sources that back in the day after Dirty Harry there was a glut for lightly used Model 29s from guys who bought them thinking they were Harry and then returning them after the recoil of .44 magnum told them they were not Harry.
@@michaelward9880 Kenosha Kyle is essentialy the modern day Dirty Hairy, Wyatt Earp, and if convicted: Billy the Kid. Just wait. Looking back on history is like waking up the next morning from a blackout night with the boys.
I grew up with Callahan. I identified with Beddoe. I became Walt from Gran Torino. I cried when they busted Earl in Mule. Life is not black and white, left and right. Eastwood deserves a lifetime oscar!
Dirty Harry (Inspector Callaghan) applies his law to every one, black or white. The movie starts with him killing a gun toting black and ends with him Killing a gun toting white. That's equality and fighting fire with fire.
Not only that but they use a made up definition of Racism and Sexism today that by the actual definition of those words would make them Racists and Sexists. These are the Sheep of the media and their hypocrisy is so great that they are exactly what they call others and they call other's this to pretend to be superior. What a Load of Crap the West has become.
So, even back in the 70s people screamed "Fascist!" when they heard something they didnt like? lol I guess that old saying is true,"The more things change, the more they stay the same." Will wonders never cease?
"Liberals use Black People as a political football in their on going war with Conservatives" Malcolm X Boy if it was true back in the 60's, Then it's just as true today.
It is the Liberal thing to want to tie labels on things so that they are identified. Racist, Fascist, Nazi etc. Their heads are now "happy" because they have pigeon holed their victim
Despite all the angles hyped about Inspector Callahan, if one really examines the films, he never actually broke the rules, he merely did his job effectively within the law. It's just that the filmmakers made it SEEM like he was a rogue.
Donald Joy Mostly, but I'd say him torturing someone is slightly against the rules? He steps on the guys gun shot wound, that is forbidden, well at least I imagine it would be, then again I don't live in the States so maybe I'm wrong!
Jimmy Jarrett That's literally the only time he arguably breaks the law. And it was more to find the girl than anything else. But the girl was already dead, so his action was shown to be ultimately futile.
Clint Eastwood was one of my biggest heroes growing up and i always learned from him. It is important a man always follow his moral compass and do what is right, god bless dirty harry!
Not really. You need some, but you don't want every cop to be like him. 99% of the time you want rules-following goodie two shoes as cops. However, when things get sideways and murky, you need a Dirty Harry to sort things out.
Rich Leviness Clint has been my hero ever since I was a kid. My father and I went to see Gran Torino in the theaters. My father and I then watched hours of Clint Eastwood movies when we got home.
"It was the style in those days to categorize people conservative people were calling liberals communists and liberals called them fascist" This here quote still remains true to this day.
Haha! A moron here believed the corporate media about the Russian collusion BS. Here we are a year later and it was shown to be nothing but unsubstantiated nonsense. Aren’t liberals supposed to distrust big corporations? What shame that we lost the Left to corporatism, which is what El Duce himself called Fascism.
Well done. The Harry Callahan figure is fairly straightforward, he saw wrong and wanted to make it right. None of the recipients of his intercession were even remotely innocent.
Yeah, but that’s where the movie makes its simplification: in real life, there’s such a thing as a fuck up and going after the wrong guy. Or is Johnny Depp a malicious wife beater that deserves to be at the wrong end of a Magnum 44?
13:24 no no no. We dont cheer because he was brutalizing a suspect for the crime he committed. We say thank fuck he's actually putting the girls life above this mans 'legal rights'. Its about doing what needs to be done to save a life. If the guy had just said where the girl was he wouldn't have been stood on. 16:13 spot on
One important fact that this video leaves out, regarding Harry torturing "Scorpio", is that "Scorpio" ambushes Harry while he is playing ransom errand boy, confesses his crimes to Harry, and attempts to murder him; Chico Gonzales (Harry's rookie partner) saves Harry but is wounded in the process. So let's recap: we have an asshole who confesses to the crime before trying to murder the officer who he confessed to, shoots another officer , and escapes. Harry tracks him down and does the best he can to save the victim. Since "Scorpio" was not under arrest when he confessed...in fact he gloated and his intentions before attempting to kill Harry, it would be a stretch to claim that Miranda rights applied...
It has been a good 20 years since I saw Dirty Harry but when Scorpio was confessing, didn't he say that he decided to let the girl die? If that memory is right, it definitely changes the picture on how he acted at the stadium.
@@kevindickson2178 Indeed. These days with our fuller understanding of Miranda, Harry could have laughed while explaining the "spontaneous statement" exception to Miranda, lol. "You gave up your rights when you admitted to the crimes, scumbag."
No one should complain when you point a gun at a cop & he/she shoots back. IF people are allowed to carry open ly,,then cops shouldnt shoot black people carrying when they let white carry openly,,
Callahan: "I never hear the ACLU complaining about criminal brutality. And I've yet to hear a victim of criminal brutality complain about police brutality."
Tong Gorokh Police Chief Palpatine: Have you heard legend of Darth Harry, The Dirty? Rookie Officer Anakin: No Palpatine: I thought not. It's not a story the punks would tell you...It's a cop legend Darth Harry was a Dark Lord of the Sith who was so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midicholrians to create...A magnum. He had such a knowledge of the Dark Side he could even protect the city he cared about from crime. Anakin: He could protect cities from crime? Palpatine: The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. Anakin: What happened to him? Palpatine: He became so powerful the only thing he was afraid of was losing his Magnum. Which eventually of course he did. Unfortunately, he tried to teach his apprentices everything he knew, then his apprentices died on duty. It's ironic. He could save others from crime, but not parts of himself Anakin: Is it possible to learn this power? Palpatine: Not from the punks.
I was living in San Diego at the time. I don't know what these people are talking about. It was a good movie. It was seen as a movie. Not a political statement. If everything was political, it was political to those who lived like everything was political. The rest of us were just trying to live life.
I just read about this featurette/documentary that is on a DVD of “Magnum Force,” which examines the themes of the Dirty Harry movies as well as the political climate at the time the movie was made. I just got to say that history repeats itself, 46 years later, and the political differences between Left and Right are still very big.
Man, seeing as this people talk "You wouldn't believe it, but it was a really crazy time!" and nowadays it's a million times worse. A Dirty Harry-like film wouldn't even get made. And that's just in the USA. I live in Europe
right now you go to jail in the UK if you say anything about immigration. Paris, Brussels and London's locals are minority's in there capital cites. Germany proudly touts the German people will be minoritys in their home land and then state that's a good thing... The USA soon will be over whelmed with our African american brotheren and Hispanics. Which shouldn't be a bad thing BUT is there a strong economy safe country in South America or Africa? No, Rhodesia, Tanzania and now South Africa have fallen on had sides once the Africons gave over power to the Majority.. Saying I live in Europe means losing ur country with a fight at least Americans have the comfort of know they did this shit to themselves.
This is amazing depiction of how history repeats itself. Many parallels to today's mode of thinking on all sides. And I thought today's politics were unique.
I grew up during that period...Dirty Harry was cool then as it is now. But his 'style' of law enforcement was not realistic. However, he remains my hero...
Oh...and Conservative Jesus Freaks really know what time it is when it comes to facts, history, etc? Really dude.....Conservatives/Religious people are the ones who believe in The Earth being 6,000 years old/that females came from a man's rib/that a man lived for 3 days in a whale's belly before being regurgitated/that a spirit touched a virgin, resulting in her giving birth to 'god's son' (what a joke)....I could go on and on! When conservatives start believing in actual facts (like the story that the fossil record/archaeology/the story the images The Hubble Telescope sends to Earth about The Universe/DNA/evolution/etc......then maybe I'll ponder your position about Liberals. Until then......SHUT THE FUCK UP! Anyone who believes in A MADE UP GOD/PRAYER is a STUPID MOFO who deserves nothing but to be ridiculed!
Way back in the 1970s, when I was a student at Evangel College, in Springfield Missouri, one professor asked how many believed in creation vs. evolution. All the students elected evolution. Oh, the Catholic Church also holds with evolution. Once again, the liberal has it wrong.
I have watched Dirty Harry dozens of times and it seems that the movie most people talk about is not the actual film on screen. In Dirty Harry we see a character going through a complete change, so much that at the end he throws his badge into a cesspool. That ending makes clear that there was no way Callahan could have stayed in the police, the hunt for Scorpio made him a broken man who suffered the consequences of his actions. In that it is a rare Hollywood film because we see the whole process of revenge and the toll it takes in those who find themselves involved in it. In this it may be compared to Ethan's quest in The Searchers.
He’s called Dirty Harry because he does “dirty” jobs that nobody else wants to do. He does that because he’s a true cop through and through. While everybody else just cares about protecting their careers, he only cares about doing what’s right; even to the point where hes willing to work around the clock but doesn’t care about overtime (as alluded to in the first movie). His pursuit of “right”, is what pushed him towards using the dirty techniques that he’s become known for
i don't feel that he went through any significant change as a character. he seems to be exactly who he has always been from the very beginning and his colleagues all know what to expect from him. he has his own ideas of justice and morality which he struggles to reconcile with his job as a subordinate. the scorpio case was the last straw, he realizes that moving forward he won't be able to get away with doing things his own way and he refuses to acquiesce, so he resigns. it's his refusal to change that is so conflicting.
Great documentary about Harry Callahan, I grew up in those days. Many young people like myself were very discouraged by all the events of our time. Harry gave us hope for a better time. He knew what was right and he did it. Damn the consequences...
Harry wasn’t trying to make political change. He just took murderous scumbags off the streets, and if they refused to surrender, he took them out! It wasn’t political, it was good vs evil! Some people will never surrender, and won’t stop killing others unless they are taken out!!!
When this movie premiered in San Fran in the predominantly black neighborhoods, the people cheered and didn't think he was racist, he just cut through all the bullshit and dealt with the bad guys, regardless of race.
@@sid2112 my dad when he was detective commander west valley division LAPD he would drive jack webb around so he could get stories for his show dragnet.
Too much leftists... I'm French and i'm a gun owner. Nobody's gonna tell me what's good for me... I know what's right or wrong. I 've choosen the "Right" way. 🖖🏻😎🇫🇷😇👍🏻
Thomas King He didn’t miss. The guy turned around and fired his shotgun from the hip. Harry got a piece of buckshot in his leg, clearly you weren’t paying attention. The point is that Harry was a good shot because Harry HAD to be a good shot and therefore practiced regularly. Not any schmuck can confidently carry and use a .44 magnum.
Actually the Judge Dredd comics was intended to be a critique of fascism. It just backfired because he ended up being so cool in the kids eyes. I wasn't into comics in the 80s but I did buy a couple of Dredd almanacs.
The problem with that is Joseph Dredd himself isn't anything really close to a fascist. He's just a guy doing his job. Now the system may be fascist but like in the Dirty Harry films with Dredd the system is what they have and until something better comes along it's what they got. Plus in the Dredd comics if you wanted to see a real fascist system look at the Dark Judges
I was born in San Francisco, and God how I wish it was home to more Inspector Callahan’s. Mens’ men who care about human cost and not figures. Men who are not afraid to be masculine, and to state their case without fear.
Check the original Death Wish with Charles Bronson, you'll see it also is still valid and appropriate - the causes are still here, the arguments still the same.
14:07 During the recent "defund the police" riots, there's a video of some of them yelling stuff like "dismantle the police, we don't need them", 20 seconds later, gunshots can be heard, and the SAME people start screming "call the police".
"It was the style in those days to categorize people. Conservative people were calling liberal people communists. Liberal people were calling conservative people fascists." Ahh, yes. That old chestnut. Well, at least we don't do that anymore...
Callahan's entire character is a commentary about the growing frustration with criminal justice. The first movie shows how toothless the police and law can be when it comes to certain breeds of criminals. The second movie shows how corrupted the police can be when they put themselves above the rulebook. The criminal justice system has been frayed at both ends, and Harry himself is not equipped to do anything about it systematically. He can't change the system on his own, and he can only be a part of it. That's incredibly frustrating for him and for the audience. All he can do is, on a case to case basis, rectify injustice when he sees it, whether it's coming from criminals or other cops. Another anti-hero similarly pigeonholed as a fascist, for many of the same reasons, is the Punisher. Again, when you actually look at the character's actual principles, there's way more nuance there. They both scratch an ethically unscratchable itch. Our laws are designed to protect the innocent and those that, not the guilty. When those laws protect the guilty, you can't help but feel anxious and frustrated. The catharsis both Callahan and the Punisher provide is a bittersweet relief to both the audience and the characters. Even after they get the bad guy, there's no restoring what those villains took away, and nobody is closer to a system that is both effective and fair.
13:18 - I laughed like hell when I just watched this. 1971 I was 11, I saw this movie with my Father, against my Mothers wishes. At this part I remember him laughing like hell. RIP Dad
The role of Dirty Harry was offered to John Wayne & he refused it. So it went to Clint. Wayne then later regretted saying no when the movie was a hit. So he did his own version & they called it McQ.
Frank just wouldn't look right holding a big .44, he was a .38 special snub nose kind of guy. Only other guy I can think who would have played a good Dirty Harry at the time in his prime would have been James Garner, basically Rockford but with a Cop Badge and a .44 Magnum.
McQ was made because John Wayne turned down the role of Dirty Harry before it was offered to Clint, and when it was a big hit, he regretted not taking it, so he did McQ,, although Dirty Wayne did look funny and so out of place without a Horse in a Car wearing Modern Clothes.
They are, today, towards white people and any person of another race who disagrees with them. Those people are "Uncle Toms" unless they agree that they are oppressed.
Really, what most people of good intentions hate is authoritarianism. When it's from the right, it's fascism, the left, communism. But they both practically amount to the same thing. Harry was anti-authoritarian. He hated people who were taking away the rights of others, and he hated the authoritarians who were trying to keep him from stopping them. It's the basic attitude any cop should have. What made the movies fantasies--really enjoyable ones--is that all of Harry's instincts were right, and all the crooks and bureaucrats were monsters. But in reality, a cop who follows every hunch and scoffs at procedure is going to get innocents and himself killed pretty quickly, and the laws and "the brass" do protect the "good" people, not just the criminals. None of us would want to live in the Old West. It was very messed up and dangerous--nearly all bad and ugly. Westerns and Urban Westerns are great fantasies for men: we all imagine we could be Harry or James Bond. But it just ain't so.
Harry Kalahan, Paul Kersey, Billy Jack and Chuck Norris were my childhood idols as a kid. I couldn’t get enough of the good guy vigilante heroes. To this day I could sleep like a baby at night after ridding the world of killers, child molestors and crooked scum bags. These heroes will forever live on in my heart and mind.
Today, they would make the movie with Harry Callahan would be gay, sensitive, seeking a way to rehabilitate, or incompetent, or a combination everything weak.
Harry's politics or worldview are perfectly encapsulated in , of all DH films, The Enforcer. Big Ed Mustafa says to Harry: " Callahan , you're on the wrong side. You put your ass on the line for a buncha dudes who wouldn't even let you in the front door, anymore than they would me!" Harry:" oh, I don't do it for them.' Big Ed:" Who then?" Harry: " you wouldn't believe me if I told you!" Harry means Ed and Hot Mary and Anne Mary Deakin and Charlie Russell and Alice and all the little people who need a protector. He is the guardian of the downtrodden. That is the clearest political statement of these films.
Pale rider and The Unforgiven are two of the best Western movies ever. Clint doesn't care weather you like his movies, his characters don't care either. Not being bound by political correctness gives alot of space.
Yes, the first opus did, and that's where I want to say that "Magnum Force" HAD to be "softer" because of the public opinion. When Harry says "I'm afraid you misjudjed me, he says it to the people, not only to the "bad" cops in the movie...
The ultimate irony about people that scream 'fascism' is that they embrace one of the most insidious forms of fascism themselves. Insidious, because it's cloaked in moralism, and irony, because they don't even realise it.
The problem with liberals is they identify evil/injustices but aren't willing to do what is necessary to remove it from the face of the earth. Whether that makes them cowards or fools, I don't know. The problem with conservatives is idolization, they hold their heroes in too high regard to the point where they'll stand by them no matter what, unconsciously ignoring evil within their own ranks. Dirty Harry takes place in a different era, before militarized police, but the effects the movie had on those who originally watched it still has an impact today. They glorify the police as if they are all Dirty Harry, but that's not the reality in modern America. Police today are different, and they are no friends of the American people. The problem is convincing conservatives of that fact, while also not taking the side of liberals whose solutions are, well, not solutions. Dirty Harry definitely wasn't liberal, but he also wasn't conservative. He sat in a moral/political grey area, but ultimately always chose the side of good. People need to drop this tribalist identity of left vs right and just fight evil wherever it rears its ugly head. Until we can do that, we are truly lost.
More cops like DH wouldn't be a bad thing, and more respect for them would be a GREAT thing. He protected the innocent and weak, and he brought justice the wicked
Harry Callahan: "That's just fine, but how does murder fit in? You know, when police start becoming their own executioners, where's it gonna end? Huh, Briggs? Pretty soon, you'll start executing people for jaywalking, and executing people for traffic violations. Then you end up executing your neighbor 'cause his dog pisses on your lawn" That statement reigns true to this day!
