Dirty Harry (1971)

Taglines: Double Trouble!

Dirty Harry movie storyline. In the United States, countercultural movements, which became more evident in the second half of the 60s, began to express their outrage at the established system, ranging from Vietnam to women’s rights and racial discrimination. Cinema, which constitutes the most popular wing of this trend, has become the spokesperson of the opposing platform, where a new one is added to the “protesting” typologies every day.

At a time when television became increasingly widespread and hit cinema in the back, these films also took the defense reflex of the seventh art behind; From Arthur Penn to George Roy Hill, from Sydney Lumet to Sydney Pollack and John Schlesinger, through new directors and with the argument that söylemek telling the unspoken ”, they contributed to the most productive years of mainstream cinema. Bells, which announced that the process that peaked when an X-stamped film won the Oscar (“Midnight Cowboy, 1969) began to produce its own antithesis, would soon begin to sound in the 1970s.

In addition to shattering the trust in the system in Vietnam, it was inevitable that the destruction of Kennedy’s perpetrator with a known murder would have great political consequences, and cinema would inevitably be affected. The gap in the income balance, which has been involved in increasing crime rates in metropolitan areas, inevitably pointed to the necessity of ‘the system to revise itself’.

And that’s exactly where Dirty Harry and his friends started to fill the screen. In his first adventure before turning into a fury, Dirty Harry Callahan was united with his cold and distant attitude and aggressive approach to minorities, bringing the public order to the city in accordance with his nickname, albeit gladly undertook the dirty work of the organization. If he could count the bullets in his magazine correctly, our hero, who was going to give the black criminal who deserved the bank robbery right on the spot, to encounter the perverse killer Scorpion, the target of small and innocent children, fired the events that would mark his first “Dirty Harry”.

In fact, “method” was the main problem for both Harry and his successors. The fact that the fight against the offender took place within a democratic framework was a big mistake for them. The way to stop the murderers, rape enemies and thugs who used the law in their own interest was through the barrel of the police. When this was the main motto, it was inevitable that the cops who ayan played the game by their own rules ”, who would become both hunters and prosecutors, would be inevitable.

Harry’s point of view, which was the manifestation of the reaction to the liberal circles of the 60s, was most abundantly revealed in the film. For example, Harry, who foretold the crimes he was going to commit and badly resented the mayor’s attitude to the proposal of Scorpio, who offered $100,000 on condition that he gave up his actions, could not stop him from responding to the President asking what he had done about the arrest of the murderer: “I’ve been waiting for you to sit on my ass and decide!

Again, the President’s approach to Harry, who had been trying to catch criminals in the previous days, orum I don’t want problems, is my policy! Yaklaşım gave our hero another right to answer: a If a man runs after a woman for rape, I will take him down. That’s my policy! ”

As it turns out, when it comes to a rapist or a pervert, Harry Callahan’s stance certainly allowed the audience to connect with him. Just like the John Wayne westerns, Dirty Harry was the only assurance of the man on the street, trying to rebuild a çıkmış nailed düz order! Harry, whose angry nature can be explained by sacrificing his wife to a drunken driver, was arguing with the District Attorney in another key scene of the film, who captured Scorpio, but decided to release him.

As the prosecutor put it, our hero, who made an unconventional arrest, was facing a series of accusations, from wounding to attempted murder. Lah Was he living in the Middle Ages? Harry Callahan exclaimed the laws that released Scorpio as “crazy nonsense ten. he couldn’t help himself: nerede Where are the rights of the girl who was raped and killed?… ”

The film has a great success in addressing the instinctive reflexes of ordinary people who believe that the city is surrounded by criminal organizations and who are afraid of going out on the streets. He justified his orientation towards Rambo. When we look at later periods in history, the American public, which we can see putting another Texas cowboy in the chair, received Harry’s message very well.

Directed by: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, John Mitchum, Lyn Edgington, Woodrow Parfrey, Josef Sommer, Maurice Argent, James Nolan, William Paterson
Screenplay by: Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink
Cinematography by: Bruce Surtees
Film Editing by: Carl Pingitore
Set Decoration by: Robert De Vestel
Art Direction by: Dale Hennesy
Music by: Lalo Schifrin
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: December 23, 1971