Slight mistake in the narration. The movie isn't 40 yrs old, it's 50 years old !!! Also, for those who haven't seen, check out the recent uploads on my second channel kzread.info

@louithrottler

2 жыл бұрын

Just like me and you. Older, budweiser

@TheCharlesAtoz

2 жыл бұрын

Old geezer

@Dc-alpha

2 жыл бұрын

I don't want to alarm anyone, we may be getting old.

@JohnDoe-xu6uu

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure for quite a few that was a relief when you said it was only 40.

@waynegoddard4065

2 жыл бұрын

Don't you just hate it when somebody adds ten whole years to your life?

Who cares what some "critics" have to say? Most of the times they are mistaken. And I just "love" how people who never experience fascism or communism are using those therms. Dirty Harry is an awesome movie and character - period.

@Zeburaman2005

Жыл бұрын

While I agree wholeheartedly on the general uselessness of most professional critics’ opinions, I think it is useful to remind ourselves that there was a time when they held a lot more power and influence over audiences’ perceptions than they do today. Thus, one can better appreciate just how much of a blow to their “opinion maker” status the advent of the internet era was.

@dr.juerdotitsgo5119

Жыл бұрын

The problem with professional critics, particularly in the old days, is that they are a predominantly liberal demographic, therefore they expect a movie to solemnly carry a progressive social message. They have no clue on how to appreciate political incorrectness, dark humor, camp, and lightheartedness. A movie about the mischiefs of a group of intergalactic killer clowns is just in the way of a "real" movie about the sorrows of a recently divorced woman trying to rekindle her sex life in a judgmental man's world.

@DioBrando-qr6ye

9 ай бұрын

I don't, know how does it work with movies, but videogame critcs have an immense power. The developers' pay is directly tied to the metacritic score of the game, and they're even ideologically dumber than the critics mentioned in this video.

@DioBrando-qr6ye

9 ай бұрын

​@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119actually, this has gotten way worse over the years. Modern critics' seem to only care about the message. They value a film less if it's NOT unambiguously propagandistic.

@steveleeart

3 ай бұрын

Roger Ebert gave it 3/4 stars!

The scene where his partner asked him if he hated Mexicans to which Harry replied, "Especially spics." was hilarious and to me was a way of thumbing it's nose to future critics of the film. My mother, a Mexican-American, laughed the hardest at that part.

@johnclements5535

11 ай бұрын

The explanation for his name being that he hated everyone , with the actual list of them by demographic was so over the top that only the simpletons would take the bait.

@keaton718

2 ай бұрын

And in Magnum Force he says he wouldn't care if the whole force was gay if they could shoot as good as him. Today Harry would probably be accused of being woke, but he just doesn't care about people's personal lives; it makes no difference to him if someone is gay or straight, black or white, left handed or right handed.

@HeyMykee

29 күн бұрын

It was obviously a joke aimed at messing with the new partner. At the end of the scene Eastwood winks at the other cop, the one who said he was an equal opportunity offender (or whatever it was). At no point did he actually treat any minority people badly, including his new partner. But of course the haters take it at face value and fail to see the subtext or the subtlety.

@keaton718

29 күн бұрын

@@HeyMykee Agreed. Harry would be called woke by the extreme right today. That's what makes him so great; he's a total bastard, but he isn't a bigot and he (generally) reveres the rule of law.

I remember Ebert went into a bizarre tangent about Nazis and racism in his review of Conan the Barbarian (1982). Even though he gave the movie a 3/5 rating, he seemed to argue that a "Nordic" character absolutely should not be allowed to cut off a black man's head and throw it down stairs.

@moviearchaeologist9655

2 жыл бұрын

Funny that he sees that in Conan the Barbarian... and yet, he did not see Nazism with the bad guys in Flash Gordon, despite the director admitting to have intended it. Re: And he did not complain of the film being racist to Asians through the Ming villain like other idiot critics did.

@LaurentCourtin

2 жыл бұрын

Well, I've read various critics calling "Rocky" (and its sequels) a racist movie. So, let's say that nothing surprises me. Now, when it comes to Ebert (I usually enjoyed reading his books and articles, even though I often disagreed with him) he was a bit of a hit or miss. He could write very clever and deep things, and he could also write or say some of the dumbest things you could imagine. But he wrote a (not-that-good) screenplay for Russ Meyer, so I would still rank him higher than his pal Siskel, Pauline Kael, or anything than came out of Les Cahiers du Cinema in the past 30~40 years.

@mattsurridge9129

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Dirty Harry was rewritten by John Milius, the same guy who directed Conan. Maybe it’s possible Ebert had something against him, as many did, for being one of the few to go against the usual politics of Hollywood.

@stevenscott2136

2 жыл бұрын

So a white man's head is okay? How about if Mako had beheaded the black man? Ebert is being more racist than the movie, by outright stating that some races should be given preferential treatment. The movie simply had Conan behead an enemy -- if anything, it's to their credit that they didn't go all-white with the cast.

@MrOctober44

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. Al lot of people have said that Conan was some kind of fascist movie with Arnold the blonde hair blue eye fitting their narrative

It’s why I’m glad the sequel directly addresses the criticism that Harry was a fascist. The villains in Magnum Force are actual fascists.

@wolfgangkranek376

2 жыл бұрын

And not even that's completely correct. Fascism like Communism is a political ideology. So basically one would have to be the member of a party or political fascist movement to be called a fascist. Those villains in the movie at best were vigilantes or right wing extremists. And violent authoritarianism can be found in every radical spectrum. One could've easily made a movie were fe. not some police officers but radical left workers take the law into their own hands. Such movies actually were produced in communist countries.

@derek96720

2 жыл бұрын

@@wolfgangkranek376 okay I can see how you can call them extremist vigilantes. No argument there. But how are the dirty cops in Magnum force in any way right wing? Their entire ideology is purely centered around the idea that allowing violent criminals to hide behind the justice system only begets repeat offenders. This is a sentiment equally shared by many people on the left, especially with regard to those who perform acts of sexual or racially charged violence.

@wolfgangkranek376

2 жыл бұрын

@@derek96720 Exactly, thats why I said, that movies with such a sentiment were also made in Communist countries. Maybe I just didnt made my point clear enough.

@johneastwood3039

2 жыл бұрын

I actually liked the villains in Magnum Force, could sympathise with them.

@derek96720

2 жыл бұрын

@@johneastwood3039 I think that's kind of the idea, that we're supposed to empathize with their position and why they're doing what they're doing. Their offer to Harry is supposed to be seductive, because we know that on a certain level he agrees with them to a certain extent, but isn't willing to be judge jury and executioner himself.

On a lighter note, if anyone ever read the MAD magazine parody, it has Harry standing by the water looking at the badge in his hand and flinging it into the water as in the film. He then says something to the effect of, " Well, now I've done it, they'll never let me back in now". The final frame freezes in on what he just tossed in , it's Clint Eastwood's Screen Actors Guild Card.

@wangobadankas4038

5 күн бұрын

I remember! "I have rights. Haven't you heard of the 4th amendment?" "No but if it's anywhere near the 3rd vertebrae I think I kicked it in."

Don Siegel is an underrated director. Escape from Alcatraz is one of my favourite films of all time. It's a prison movie but it feels like a horror movie with its atmosphere and score.

@mk-ultramags1107

2 жыл бұрын

He filmed his action scenes completely different from what the industry standard was back then. Very raw filmmaking. Guys like Michael Mann, William Friedkin, John McTiernan and Richard Donner(Amongst others) were clearly influenced by him.

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

I rewatched Escape from Alcatraz a couple of weeks ago. Masterpiece. And the movie does the opposite of Dirty Harry, presenting a criminal's POV.

@jwnj9716

2 жыл бұрын

@@collativelearning Indeed. Plus Danny Glover has a small cameo.

@ryangettig274

2 жыл бұрын

Escape From Alcatraz rocks!!Early Fred Ward as well:)

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryangettig274 Fred Ward really should have been a bigger star. He's great in a now forgotten war movie called Uncommon Valor. Critics hate that movie too but it's awesome.

my friend's dad showed me this film when i was 8 years old and i thought it was super cool. as a black man, i saw the dialogue and action as a reflection of the time. nothing was intentionally racist, it just showed the nuance of policework. not everything is so black n white. I always saw harry as a cool guy

@devanshepard9118

Жыл бұрын

Plus Clint Eastwood has hired so many black actors . What's interesting is the movie is so relevant now more then ever with crime going up

@rickhunter6513

Жыл бұрын

@@devanshepard9118 I agree. Seeing San Francisco back then in the 1970’s and seeing what it has become now is heartbreaking

@peregrinec5477

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I saw this, I think, for the first time when I was like 5-6...So, like the late 70's. I loved it! I never took it as racist (i am white). It's just a cop doing his job. And Scorpio is such an awful POS. Who didn't cheer when he was killed?

@ottopippenger1590

4 ай бұрын

Do you live here?@@rickhunter6513 If not, you should probably stop watching fox and leave it alone.

@ottopippenger1590

4 ай бұрын

Oh an 8 year old didn't see anything wrong with it? Well then.

I find it kinda sad the director claimed (direct quote) "What my liberal friends did not grasp was that the cop is just as evil, in his way, as the sniper" in response to criticism back in the 70s; I'd say that was definitely a pandering interpretation & one the movie hardly supports. Harry is an asshole, Scorpio is as vile as it gets. It's not shades of grey, it's grey vs pitch-blank.

@robertdurant7934

2 жыл бұрын

Right, Harry is just as anti-hero as there is, he’s just the best at it.

@miniflem1

2 жыл бұрын

I like this comment, at heart, Harry is just a prick!

@Madbandit77

2 жыл бұрын

"pitch-black".

@SonofTiamat

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertdurant7934 Like Red Hood says: "there is no right or wrong; there's wrong, and there's worse." Harry's just a pragmatist doing the best he can

@mikekemp9877

2 жыл бұрын

reading siegal on the movie the way it was written originally stressed this much more.it was the way seigal wanted to go on maddigan where he had a corrupt cop who still did his job but cut corners.it was toned down when the movie was made.it was also the aspect that attracted frank sinatra who was originally cast but withdrew after a hand injury.siegal said had sinatra played it the movie would have been different he wanted a more extreme version of the flawed cop he played in the detective.there was less action and concentrated on how nasty harry could be.instead of the shootout at the end scorpio is executed and though guilty was convicted on manufactured evidence from harry who justifies it by saying he got a killer off the street.the ending was even more downbeat as harrys deception is discovered too late for a reprieve and he appears as big a monster as scorpio.with sinatras departure and john milius and clints involvment the script changed slightly from sombre mood piece to fast action thriller.though not as clearly defined as originally harry was the same character.due to the gun clints great persona some great dialogue it may have been blurred in some peoples eyes but make no mistake clint played it as written harry is a dreadful guy who would go to any lengths including as we see torture to get his man ! its great at the end that he looks a hero but the whole point of the movie and what attracted me is this dichotomy.harry is a bad cop the fact he gets convictions etc doesnt change his basic nature so the question is really do the ends justify the means?

The myth of Harry Callahan being a racist can be dispelled very easily. In every franchise of the movie. He has a minority partner. In Dirty Harry It was a Mexican, Magnum force it was a black man, the enforcer it was a woman and in the Deadpool it was a Chinese American. I don’t believe he had a partner in Sudden Impact but there was the shooting range scene with actor Albert Popwell. When he was injured he was always treated by a black doctor and was always a friendly exchange. You got the feeling they knew him and he knew them and he was open and almost warm with them. Harry does use loose and reckless methods. But it’s always towards people that have perpetrated acts of evil that he acts with brutal force and never towards an innocent civilian. His methods are aggressive because in his mind he’s trying to put down the threat is fast as possible to ensure the protection of innocent people. Also He never picks on a particular race or group of people. I know it’s probably simplistic observation but nonetheless I think it dispels the myth of his racism.

@wcw2793

2 жыл бұрын

In fact he stood up for them such as in Magnum Force when the police wrongfully arrest Albert Popwell's group that was giving Harry information.

@bartsullivan4866

2 жыл бұрын

Great summary I agree with it completely well spoken. I got the same vibe from every film especially the first 2 movies. Never once did I feel that Harry was racist.

@cagneybillingsley2165

2 жыл бұрын

he probably is slightly racist, so what? a lot of effective people in the world have some racist tendencies. humans are flawed.

@behindthescenesphotos5133

2 жыл бұрын

One thing I never liked about the scene with the doctor in Dirty Harry; after taking the bit of birdshot in the leg he takes his pants off rather than let the doctor cut them off to save the pants. If he were shot, they'd already have holes in them.

@jomidiam

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but he's white. Ipso facto, he's racist... at least until logic and reason make a comeback. If and when that happens, your points will be good ones.

And by the way the “my, that’s a big one” line was ad-libbed by Andrew Robinson during the scene just to crack everyone on the set up. If critics are looking at THAT as a demonization of gay people they really need to get their heads out of their ass.

@melsteffano6189

2 жыл бұрын

Citation? Happy to believe you.BTW

@Amberlynn_Reid

2 жыл бұрын

Dirty Harry was Andrew Robinsons idea and originally they wanted an alien attack in the film but Andrew Robinson was against that so it didn't happen. It was also Andrew Robinsons idea for the people being shot to be white and black so they really need to get their heads out of their ass

@JenniferM13

2 жыл бұрын

@@melsteffano6189 kzread.info/dash/bejne/qJeJy9SyqJnNY84.html

@dontparticipate240

2 жыл бұрын

Or push it farther up their asses. Whichever. 😆

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

No surprise there. Robinson was a brilliant actor who could come up with fresh dialogue on set. He came up with the greatest line of the whole Hellraiser movie "Jesus wept". Super smart guy.

Isn't it a modern Western, with a determined Sherriff hunting a killer against the short-sighted self-interest of San Francisco's leaders? Dirty Harry is a classic movie; it was undoubtedly disapproving in some of its views of modern society, but that aside it remains one of the benchmark movies of the 1970s.

I have to say the ending of Dirty Harry when Harry threw away his badge is perfect. It's actually homage to the 1950s western High Noon when Gary Cooper drops his badge on the ground at the end to show his disappointment in the citizens who wouldn't help him fight for justice against the outlaw menace.

The open ending is bitter sweet. You've got your justice / revenge but it doesn't make him happy. His emotion along with the music goes a long way to undercutting the ends justify the means take. Thanks for the content.

@shophet125

2 жыл бұрын

Harry does what he does because he understands that without him, and without the force that he exerts, society would not be able to function. Someone must step up and punish the guilty. Someone must stop the killers before they go on to kill again. He doesn't like doing it but he knows that he has to. In a better world there'd be no need for the gun nor the gunslinger to wield it. Unfortunately we don't live in that kind of world, and neither does Harry.

@patrickdepoortere6830

2 жыл бұрын

@@shophet125 I don't think he understands himself that way, killer of killers...in the end he gave Scorpio the option to give up, (though he's happy to finally eliminate that trash) and the movie is a great lesson that people exist who are beyond reforming. I think Harry chooses not to become overwhelmed by the big picture (society) and focuses on cleaning up the mess in his corner of the world.

@coinraker6497

Жыл бұрын

Is Dirty Harry ever happy though? 🤣

@patrickdepoortere6830

Жыл бұрын

@@coinraker6497 A few times on screen, in the best of the films he is. Usually with his buddy Albert Popwell.

Pauline Kael calling people she doesn't like "fascist." There's a pattern here that I dare not recognize. Because it goes against KZread's terms of services.

@Julian-bq9qv

2 жыл бұрын

lmfao!!!

@MrOctober44

2 жыл бұрын

@@anubis4695 Hate to break it to you but so is Berlasky. It's not a coincidence.

@jetyler3400

2 жыл бұрын

Did she call a person she didn't like a fascist? Or did she review this film in terms of a fascist tome? I happen to disagree with Paulines review although I treasure much of her other work. And Ebert for me is untouchable despite disagreeing with him occasionally. I cannot say her heritage and backgrou d has nothing to do with her opinions...thats how opinions and perceptions work...For instance I find your connecting of her ethnicity and the use of the word fascist.....suspicious to say the least.

@melvinseriz

2 жыл бұрын

'Pauline Kael calling people she doesn't like "fascist.""$ Not true, and deeply stupid...

@MrOctober44

2 жыл бұрын

@@jetyler3400 Right because Jews never cry wolf accusing people of being fascist, nazis, etc

Albert Popwell, the black guy in the "Do you feel lucky punk?" scene also appeared in the sequel Magnum Force as J.J. Wilson. He starred in The Enforcer, the third Dirty Harry film where he played Big Ed Mustapha, leader of the black militant gang that Harry goes to for information. He was also in the 4th film Sudden Impact as Horace King. They offered him a role in the 5th and final film The Dead Pool but unfortunately he had a sceduling conflict as I believe he was filming in the Philippines. Apart from Clint Eastwood himself no other actor has starred in as many Dirty Harry films as Albert Popwell. 4 out of 5 films. It would have been all five but unfortunately he was filming The Siege of Firebase Gloria with R. Lee Ermey. Dirty Harry was definitely not racist in any way, shape or form.

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah. Funny I was watching Magnum Force last night and wondered where I'd see his pimp character .. it was in the first movie lol. Thanks for the info.

@gregbors8364

2 жыл бұрын

That’s true. Harry hated everybody equally

@gregbors8364

2 жыл бұрын

“Ah gots to know!”

@kyrozudesoya1829

2 жыл бұрын

@@collativelearning if you've never seen The Siege if Firebase Gloria you should. It's a very underrated overlooked war movie.

@awotnot

2 жыл бұрын

A lucky escape on Albert's part - considering the fact that Dead Pool is so utterly shite compared to the other four Dirty Harry films. I also find saying that a film cannot be racist because some random black dude starred in it rather hilarious. It's a bit like saying - look, we included the black dude as a criminal in the first film, an outrageously dressed pimp in the second, a gangster in the third, and promoted him to a cop in the fourth, so it cannot be racism. Despite the fact the era in question consisted of black people repeatedly being cast as criminals and drug dealers etc etc etc. Get a grip ffs.

Regarding Scorpio's background, at one point Audie Murphy was considered for the part of Scorpio. He wanted to play the part, hoping it would shed light on combat shock aka PTSD.

@Ease54

2 жыл бұрын

Did not know that.

@gregb6469

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think audiences would have bought the All-American hero Murphy as a pyschopathic murderer. Robinson was by far the better choice for the role.

Classic movie and the scene where he tortures Scorpio on the playing field with the long pull away shot from helicopter is majestic and sublime. Great cinematography and direction.

@TheRealNormanBates

Жыл бұрын

I always felt Siegel filmed that scene like a horror movie, with the music and the camera pulling away into fog. That's why I find it a bit hilarious and depressing when you read Ebert's and Kael's reviews describing the movie as "pro fascist". That scene alone is supposed to make you question whether Harry is doing the right thing, even knowing how evil Scorpio is.

One thing I dislike is when critics slam a film, some people will just blindly agree and won't even see a movie to create their own opinion of it. They'll just let some one else do it for them. It's a shame. For example I love Showgirls, when I talk to some people about it they may not have even seen it and yet they say it's garbage. I think that in itself is garbage. Think for yourself!

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

I remember showgirls getting slammed by the critics. Went to watch it with a friend and we enjoyed it. Couldn't figure out if I was just being hypnotized by all the semi-naked dancers, but it certainly wasn't unwatchable.

@plasticweapon

2 жыл бұрын

showgirls is garbage (but it's amusing).

100% agree, personally can't stand these critics, the ones that don't actually review art they just tick boxes to see if a film fits with their own ideology and way of thinking. Usually the juxtaposition between critic reviews and audience reviews on Rotten Tomatoes is a dead give away, surprised thats not the case here.

7:48 "The law doesn't allow an adult to escape punishment for a crime just because something bad happened to them as a kid." Tell that to the activist prosecutors and judges in Houston, Chicago, NYC, LA, San Francisco, etc.

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, though I don't consider them to be the law, just imposters :)

@brucetucker4847

2 жыл бұрын

Clearly the problem in those places is that wicked guns from Virginia are sneaking into their states and possessing innocent little teens and forcing them to commit violent crimes.

@nathansteinfromarkham7109

Жыл бұрын

And they'll get away with it. Unfortunately.

I have every Dirty Harry movie. Even the lowest quality one is better than the most modern detective movie. This character and The Man With No Name will always be remembered in cinema history.

@Melsharpe95

2 жыл бұрын

They're so well remembered because they basically invented their respective tropes. Then Clint's own films Gran Torino and Unforgiven spectacularly deconstructed those very tropes.

@Thespeedrap

2 жыл бұрын

Which is better I still prefer Clint's western movies better than Dirty Harry movies.

I may be misremembering, but i wrote an essay on this when i was in college about 20 years ago and i had a quote from Seigel where he explained the peace symbol on the bad guy. It went something like "it was to demonstrate that even the worst monsters when they look in the mirror still see a good guy"

@marianotorrespico2975

2 жыл бұрын

Bit n Bobs --- That sounds about right.

@larssktt7442

2 жыл бұрын

You´re not misremembering. Less Is More: Don Siegel from the Block to the Rock, Sight&Sound. 1980, I think.

@toweypat

Жыл бұрын

He was absolutely right, too.

The thing I took away from Dirty Harry was how Harry ended up becoming a vigilante and losing his moral compass, in the end he was fighting everyone including the system that made him a cop in the first place. Magnum Force was the perfect follow up to DH for that reason. The DH character was considered a vigilante with a badge by the end of DH, with good reason to. In MF we see actual vigilante cops, straight up executing people, going much further then even Harry would dream of going. Then we get that great monologue at the end with Harry explaining to Briggs, the problem with police taking the role of judge, juror and executioner, explaining to Briggs how his system of vigilante justice is flawed. Then Harry stating he is willing to stick to the system until a better one comes along.

@antoniocenteno1483

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, a man of knwoledge i see

@MidLoafCrisis

2 жыл бұрын

"He's not Judge Judy and Executioner!"

@rogersmith7396

2 жыл бұрын

The point being that soceity needs Harry. It does'nt want to get its hands dirty but is vulnerable to the paychopaths. The Mayor, the Chief the prosecuter all know it and so does Harry. Thats why he is never fired. In the later film they send him on vacation to protect him from the mob assassins.

@TheRealNormanBates

Жыл бұрын

Funny how Briggs sounds a lot like "rigged".

I always felt there was a strong High Noon connection.. throwing away the star. like Garry Cooper saves the society and all but says ‘you are not worth saving’

@georgeadcock2347

Жыл бұрын

Great point.. agree totally

The moral basis of the critics is “Does this make me feel good about formerly-disenfranchised members of society, and can I wear my enthusiasm for this work as a badge to prove my worth to others who think like I do?” That’s it in its entirety. That’s their moral compass.

@robertodell9193

2 жыл бұрын

Well stated.

@varvarvarvarvarvar

2 жыл бұрын

Morals play a very tangential role. Like all writers, critics don't produce essential service of security. They're figures in need of support. If you think it was hard to be a communist sympathizing screenwriter in the 50s, believe me that it was much harder to be a fascist one. Because fascism was thoroughly defeated and there were no steady money streams coming out of it, not because it was amoral. Plenty of people advance the normalization of child sexuality today. It was unthinkable before only because parents were much more violent on a mass scale and the police weren't as well armed.

@BillLaBrie

2 жыл бұрын

@@varvarvarvarvarvar There’s a lot to unpack there. “Fascist” screenwriters likely thrived in the postwar world thanks to propaganda pieces opposing the red menace. Childhood sexuality wasn’t pushed as overtly (though it was always present) because there was a general moral injunction against a such a thing. Today sex, self, and money are the sole remaining gods, and thus anchor our modern “morality.”

@varvarvarvarvarvar

2 жыл бұрын

​@@BillLaBrie I'm a cynical Russian. I've seen people whip themselves into sentiments... The Russians taught Hollywood method acting! Very sincere. They made a movie in Russia called "Moscow Believes No Tears." Middling film, brilliant title... No, I mean a screenwriter that wants to write a movie that admires the virtues of Franco's or Mussolini's governments, maybe using other stories as metaphors. Or putting some subtle references to Mein Kampf or Italian Futurism in various unrelated scripts? Unthinkable. These things are not cool. After WW2, Germany couldn't organize any money streams into Hollywood. Italians became cool after meeting US marines. The Communist Commonwealth, on the other hand... You can see how a "fascist" movie like Dirty Harry goes out of its way to give Harry an Asian girlfriend. That's in a country that passed the Chinese Exclusion Act some 80 years earlier. Just follow the money. Where did Lenin get the money for his third party congress in London? No one knows... We know he took German secret police money because Germany, which gave the money, lost. I'm curious where else he could get money for his fantastic congress in London, and what kind of obligations it resulted in. Suddenly, it makes sense why they started killing off all the smartest people in the country they could find and yet managed to have a cutting edge space program in the 50s. All of these ideologies are just weapons that some people use against others. A prostitute doesn't need an ideology to be a prostitute. What makes a prostitute is a need for good money and a lack of means for obtaining it otherwise. And if she needs an ideology, it would be the one that would lift the social shame off of what she's doing somewhat.

@BillLaBrie

2 жыл бұрын

@@varvarvarvarvarvar Yeah, the Russian/Soviet postwar experience differed greatly from America’s. And no, there wouldn’t have been support for literal Hitler-worship in most of America in the 1950’s, though back in the 30’s before he invaded Poland he was a-ok with many in the US. He was making Germany great again. As far as who sponsored the early Bolsheviks, well, we can’t speculate too much about that, can we?

Clint Eastwood is the greatest living American film maker & somehow still survives Hollywood

@White-Michael935

2 жыл бұрын

He's amazing.

@ryangettig274

2 жыл бұрын

Play Misty For Me is still scary as hell....

@Dc-alpha

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryangettig274 That is an understatement..... until you have a brush with that level of crazy, then it becomes a mega massive understatement.

@ryangettig274

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dc-alpha Oh right?Thank God I havn't:)....

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

My daughter's two favourite actors are Clint Eastwood and Roger Moore !!! She will watch anything if Clint is in it.

The one thing I vividly remember when I first saw this movie was just how utterly powerless the criminal justice system was in dealing with devious psychopaths like Scorpio, so when he gets his just desserts, there simply was no alternative...and bloody satisfying it was too!. Thank you, Dirty Harry..So, does that make me a fascist for thinking that way? ; )

@jdraven0890

2 жыл бұрын

As Rob pointed out in the video, a lone individual seeking justice is hardly fascist. To your point, let's imagine what a fascist society would do against a psychopathic killer. Well they would certainly not stand around being powerless, and they certainly wouldn't be shackled by ridiculous notions of rehabilitation or something like that - they'd use the crushing power of the State to take out that non-conforming psychopath, and use it as an example to everyone else. In Dirty Harry we have a lone individual who the State and Media tried to shame into being ineffectual, almost completely the opposite!

It's a great film. The music is immense. You shown me another layer to an already excellent movie.

@ryangettig274

2 жыл бұрын

Lalo Schifrin-Jim Morrison was reaching out to him during his last days in Paris:)

I've always seen Harry's throwing away of his badge as a rejection of modern life and it's values. Ironically, far from being a fascist he actually becomes a kind of 'hippie' himself with this act, since all he tried to do throughout was protect the innocent. If this theme was in fact intended by the film makers it could be seen as a riposte to the advocates of 1960's allegedly 'progressive' counter culture, pointing out the real harm it can cause to those with traditional values.

@bartsullivan4866

2 жыл бұрын

What a lot of people I think miss in the film is when Harry says how he lost his wife in a car accident. They just want to go overboard on the gun violence, Harry is a tragic figure but he does live by law and order. Even when he throws away his badge he couldn't leave the force because that's all he knows how to do, what he is good at. They made way to many sequels some better than others. Clint always came off to me as a normal detective doing his job not someone gung ho out to blow every criminal away. In the film he deals with a villain so bad and vile he would do anything to protect the public from him taking another innocent life.

@deannamarie3746

2 жыл бұрын

Harry still has scruples and has lines he would never cross, which makes him unique in that regard because he is often seen as completely impulsive. Much like Rambo i dont see him as having some stand alone political ideology, he hates the corrupt system but as he says to Briggs in Magnum force "until something better comes along I'll stick with it."

@johneastwood3039

2 жыл бұрын

He threw the badge away because he could no longer do his job for all the do gooders that care more about the criminals rights than the safety of the public.

@bartsullivan4866

2 жыл бұрын

@@deannamarie3746 I love the dog scene in Magnum Force at first doesn't care at all for it then it tips him off an intruder in his apartment and he is all love for that mutt. Shows character development simple scene very well done. Even Harry can learn and adapt.

I think the sequel pit Harry against blackshirted cops because the filmmakers got mad that idiots and ideologues were calling their film fascist. Also, due to the context in which and for what reason it occurs, I'm in favor of that torture scene. The girl's life was more important than a serial-killing maniac's right to a lawyer, especially when he said directly to Harry's face that he was going to let her die. I think Harry wouldn't have been so angry about Scorpio walking if the girl had survived.

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

Yes the second film specifically counters the critics - part apology, part trolling. I don't think any kind of apology was needed, but Magnum Force is still a great movie anyway.

@miniflem1

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should go back and rewatch the film, Harry tortures Scorpio knowing that the girl is almost certainly dead. But please don't let the actual content of the film get in the way of your masturbatory, fascist, torture fantasies. I hope that neither you nor the maker of this video is ever allowed near law enforcement

@1krani

2 жыл бұрын

@@miniflem1 At what point does Harry deduce that the girl is "almost certainly but not confirmed" dead? Point to the scene in the movie where he abandons hope for her survival and begins operating under that assumption. I _own_ this movie, have seen it multiple times, and I do not recall such a moment. Furthermore, by your logic, we should just call off the search and assume the victim is already a corpse on mere likelihood. After all, why expend valuable police resources trying to rescue someone when they can just assume it's too late and leave a victim to their fate? I hope YOU never get near law enforcement, or search and rescue, with a borderline sociopathic attitude like that. A gunshot wound to the leg can "almost certainly" be patched up. A death cannot. It is possible to do the wrong thing for the right reasons, and not the nebulous "greater good" that the killer in Hot Fuzz cited for their crimes.

@wcw2793

2 жыл бұрын

@@collativelearning "A man has got to know his limitations."

Millennial critics ('critics' meaning yabbos who write lazy, knee-jerk reaction pieces for likes, clicks, etc.) also missed (no surprise, since they think 'research' is a waste of time) that Siegel attended Cambridge University and Beaux Arts in Paris. Siegel was neither a dummy nor a hack and had a respect for audiences' intelligence--if Siegel actually *had* thought people would become vigilantes after seeing Dirty Harry, he wouldn't have made it. Some things in Dirty Harry are of the their time: we don't get Scorpio's background because it would have dragged the movie on for another reel; Siegel started out as an editor and knew this would be too much, so he effectively used the shorthand of the boots and the buckle. And unlike the sequels, Dirty Harry has a beautiful sense of place and Harry's status of a working cop is fleshed out more; when the doctor treats Harry's leg he says "I can cut off the trouser leg to get at the buckshot or roll it up, but if I roll it up it's gonna hurt." and a horrified Harry responds: "At $29.95 a pair?! Let it hurt!" Then later, after Harry gets the jumper down from the building, he disgustedly remarks to Chico (as well as himself): "Now you know why they call me Dirty Harry--I get every DIRTY job that comes down then line!" It's as if Harry Callahan had high ideals when he became a cop, but the day-to-day misery and horror of the job are causing burnout. Could go on and on (lots to unpack in Dirty Harry) but I'll end with this: if millennials are really thirsty and wanna earn clicks by pummeling a movie for being anti-gay, stereotypical, reactionary, whatever, then I'll toss 'em this bone: I suggest they look at Blacula (1972, and a box-office smash) and observe the scene with the gay interior decorators. But watch the WHOLE MOVIE, millennials, not just the one scene; I mean, at least put *some* effort into upgrading your hapless criticisms, all right?

@marianotorrespico2975

2 жыл бұрын

WELL SAID. | Thanks, for reminding the Generational dullards to breath through their noses.

@leighfoulkes7297

2 жыл бұрын

They weren't all "Millennial Critics" but critics from the 1970's.

One of the robbers on the tunnel went on to play a cop in the long running Barney Miller. In Magnum Force David Soul became famous as Hutch and in The Enforcer one of the three gunman in the store holding hostages went on to play a cop in th long running Hill Street Blues. Excellent content as usual.

@scooby1992

2 жыл бұрын

and one of Harry Callahan's partners in another film is played by tyne Daly who went on to star in Cagney and Lacey .

@professionalgun6674

2 жыл бұрын

@@scooby1992 Totally forgot about her, nice one.

@projektkobra2247

2 жыл бұрын

They turned their lives around!

@kw1333

8 ай бұрын

And Robert Urich one of the vigilante cops from Magnum Force started as Dan Tannan in the TV series Vega$.

Milius was smarter than he gets credited for.

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

His comments and movies from decades ago are still trolling critics today. They can't spot a nudge, nudge joke even if shoved right in their faces.

@ryangettig274

2 жыл бұрын

@@collativelearning Big Wednesday!Huge influence on Point Break!!:)

My take on the ending has always been that he throws away the badge to show his disgust with a system that forced him to end Scorpio before he kills again.

@PanfishingJournal

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@deannamarie3746

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I think that was part of the reason, but Scorpio was going to kill that girl regardless, and although he was able to dispatch him, he failed to stop that scumbag from carrying out his deed. I think he was equally frustrated thinking nothing he does will trully make a huge difference, nor will it end anytime soon..

I remember "Falling Down" had the same accusations made against it, even though D-Fens killed an actual Nazi

@jewelcitizen2567

2 жыл бұрын

@Don't get on the bus, Cliff And the principal artist was of course Jewish.

@chrisheimva4857

2 жыл бұрын

@Don't get on the bus, Cliff As well as...ya know...consists of a third act in which D-Fens gets told off about how what he did was wrong.

@sirlawrence9161

2 жыл бұрын

@Don't get on the bus, Cliff Many Nazis were gay you know, like Ernst Rohm to name just one.

@jeffduncan9140

2 жыл бұрын

I always saw Falling Down as a representation of an ordinary guy who had broken and wasn't going to take crap from anyone anymore. The word fascist gets thrown around alot by people who've no idea what a fascist is.

@chrisheimva4857

2 жыл бұрын

​@@jeffduncan9140 That's the impression the audience is given of Foster at first when he starts his rampage. However as the story goes along he becomes increasingly unhinged while his actions become more violent and less-understandable. By the end Prendergast confronts Foster and tells him that he was the villain all along (Ex. I'm the bad guy? When did that happen?). The basic point of Falling Down is that no matter how asshole-ish people maybe and how bad your life has become, it does not give you permission to act out violently and make others suffer. Plus, putting Foster on some pedestal as a hero or "rebel against society" is misguided given it's heavily implied that not only does he suffer from serious mental issues but also a domestic abuser.

I love that you give Dirty Harry his due. He and the Death Wish's Paul Kersey are so gratifying to watch. As someone who feels that the justice system is doing exactly what Harry said, i.e. protecting criminals more than the public, I often fantasize about Dexter or Paul Kersey coming to our rescue to hunt down sadistic and subhuman monsters and removing them from the air-breathing populace in the most gruesome ways possible. In just the last month there have been so many murders by felons that were on parole it makes me wonder if some judges aren't sadistic monsters themselves.

I’ve always felt that the film takes a neutral stance on Harry’s character. It shows that everyone else is incapable of stopping Scorpio, while clearly showing Harry as a volatile loose cannon that is on his way to his inevitable self-destruction. Harry is not a hero, and is only marginally less dangerous to society than Scorpio himself. Both Harry and Scorpio are violently antisocial as the film’s original trailer indicates- “ This is about a movie about a couple of killers”. The difference between the two is what motivates them. Harry is miserable, angry and outwardly hostile, but on some level he does care about the victims and people close to him. Scorpio is motivated by a compulsive need manipulate, dominate, and control his victims, and the public at large, with his indiscriminate acts of violence. The other factor that critics fail to take into consideration, is that this film and the book it’s based, on are inspired by and actual investigation into killings that took place in the SF Bay Area. I’m talking of course about the Zodiac killer. SFPD’s lead investigator into the case one David Toschi, being the inspiration for Harry. With the big difference being that in the film the stand in for Zodiac is found and brought to bloody justice. So the film acts as form of catharsis as many similar films of the time did. What people fail to recognize is that the 60’s and 70’s were not all peace and love. That time period was filled with a seemingly new breed of outrageous and violent criminal that the public was unprepared for.

In this day and age of polarization, I really do appreciate your ideologically balanced analysis on things Rob. Most people these days are what you described in your Red Dawn video “wingnuts.” Believing their side yo be the only pure and right side while demonizing everyone else.

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

And haven't opinions on Red Dawn rapidly changed since Ukraine ...

@spinlok3943

2 жыл бұрын

@@collativelearning Indeed! I wanna get myself a blue and yellow “Wolverines!” shirt. Lol But thankfully I have been seeing more and more media critical of Soviet Russia such as “The Death of Stalin” and “Chernobyl” miniseries.

@ryangettig274

2 жыл бұрын

Rob Ager's Red Dawn Material is essential viewing in the Collative Learning Canon.:)

@davidm1926

2 жыл бұрын

@@collativelearning Nope.

@panthergod

Жыл бұрын

@@collativelearning ..No, Nazi.

IMO all of these critics are pompous, pontificating, sanctimonious weaklings. Andy Robinson's portrayal of the Scorpio killer was terrifyingly brilliant! He should of won an Academy award for best supporting actor.

A lot of times I get the feeling these "professional" movie critics are in it just to bitch about something and play Captain Contrarian to the crowd. When a movie is genuinely well crafted with its story and characters, they feel they have to nitpick it to death before saying anything nice about it. It's especially obvious when they complain about great science fiction films like Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing, and then go on to say Knowing is "the greatest science fiction film I've ever seen!"

Pauline Kael… the eternal critic

@SonofTiamat

2 жыл бұрын

Always crying out as they strike you

@bigtechisbigbrother8690

2 жыл бұрын

Berlatsky: "a white guy by the way." LOL. Pretty sure the tribe doesn't consider themselves white.

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigtechisbigbrother8690 What other colour option do they have?

@jewelcitizen2567

2 жыл бұрын

@@collativelearning kzread.info/dash/bejne/qqRoqNumYa6vnbw.html taste the 🌈 Mr.Ager

@bigtechisbigbrother8690

2 жыл бұрын

@@collativelearning The chosen. That's their "color." That's what they identify as.

This is a great movie I think

Interesting and revealing review. Here are a couple of items I noticed when watching this segment: 1) Dirty Harry and A Clockwork Orange were released in the same year, (1971). 2) Scorpio and Alex DeLarge both have bandages covering up the bridge of their noses in different scenes. I don't know if this means anything or maybe just two great directors think alike :)

@Thespeedrap

2 жыл бұрын

Also the actors are strangely similar as well.

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

Both released in the exact same month actually so I don't see any conscious deliberate parallel, but yes, really interesting the comparisons.

@LaurentCourtin

2 жыл бұрын

@@Thespeedrap That's exactly what came to my mind after watching Rob's video about Scorpio. Andrew Robinson has something reminiscent of Malcolm Mcdowell, mostly the look in their eyes.

@janetcraft

2 жыл бұрын

@@Thespeedrap Yes, I noticed that. They act and look almost the same :)

@janetcraft

2 жыл бұрын

@@LaurentCourtin And a bit of the long messy hair :)

There are socio-economic and psychological EXPLANATIONS for evil, but not EXCUSES. I agree.

If we had a young Clint Eastwood now I'd lock him in the Judge Dread costume and be done with it.

Ebert was a smart writer, but a lot of his stuff makes me wonder if he even watched those movies attentively. He wasn't a particularly good reviewer. Kael was more sophisticated, but clearly had a strong ideological perspective, in my opinion to the hindrance of fair analysis.

@JayAr709

2 жыл бұрын

“Wasn’t a particularly good reviewer?” He was the first film critic ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.

@Roescoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@JayAr709 Winning prizes is almost a sure sign that they were more focused on the popularity contest than quality. There are exceptions, but most of these media prizes are for friends and agendas.

@Retrostar619

2 жыл бұрын

Ebert could turn a nice phrase, but he seemed to turn his critical thinking skills off quite a bit.

@toolthoughts

2 жыл бұрын

@@JayAr709 That's fine, but I'll base my opinion on the work I've read, not awards received.

@toolthoughts

2 жыл бұрын

@Brother Sam that's fair, but I find a large portion of his reviews are like that

This is a Amazing film. It's basically a western taking place in the modern day with the added serial killer to the mix. Harry a no nonsense character.

Pro tip: Helter Skelter IS fiction. If you want Manson non-fiction, you know, actual reality, then read CHAOS, by Tom O'Neill

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

Is that the one about alleged give involvement in Manson. I know of it but haven't read it. But still either story are hard to believe.

@jonchowe

2 жыл бұрын

@@collativelearning It's a good read! Long, but meticulous in a good way. You'll keep saying "what, no way!" and then the next page proves it. Also, I left a very similar comment; I swear we are not Tom O'Neil sock accounts!

@michaellicko2746

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is an excellent book.

@hattorihanzo2275

2 жыл бұрын

Chaos is a fantastic read. So is Helter Skelter but it's obviously not objective and tailored to serve Bugliosi's own interests.

@Fedorevsky

2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating book. Recommended by me as well.

They showed us Dirty Harry,Rio Bravo,&Deliverance in regular rotation at Valley Forge Military Academy-Wayne,PA>(Where Taps-1981 was filmed)The "Zodiac killer" in it always unhunged me as a kid.As an adult I love John Milius's Magnum Force.I also love Kael's writing and I've met Roger & miss him-Heaven Bless Them Both:)

@ryangettig274

2 жыл бұрын

Guns N' Roses only film appearance-original GNR-was The Dead pool-1988-the last Dirty Harry film-They are in the Funeral scene & The Harpoon scene in the Marina:)...

I never considered any of those things. I've seen the movie many times. It always seemed to me to be a typical Clint Eastwood character. It reminds me of True Detective when Rust says that the world needs bad men to protect it from other bad men. Or kind of like Big Jake. In spite of what anyone might think of the man personally it must be admitted that he can prevail where others failed. Above all it's a movie. Entertainment.

I'm seriously getting sick of people cramming "gay subtext" or "identity politics" into EVERYTHING. Yesterday I was trying to say I didn't hate The Secrets of Dumbledore and someone blasted me for not hating a movie that, in their paraphrased words, said gays should stay in the closet. For fucks sake, "homosexuality" and "identity politics" isn't the only lens to view films through.

@Grandmastergav86

2 жыл бұрын

True but that is everything to them. It's their ideology. it'd be a bit like speaking to an evangelical Christian about ethics and expecting them not to start spouting on about God.

@SonofTiamat

2 жыл бұрын

There's no arguing with the woke

@jewelcitizen2567

2 жыл бұрын

@Dan Todd Yeah… I don’t need a Flag, a Pride Parade or a Month, dedicated to the fact that I like women. LGBT+blah… blah…unicorn etc is literally endorsed by all the Mega Corporate Brands and yet they still claim to be victimised, utter nonsense

@jewelcitizen2567

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidlean1060 *_”I don’t believe in labels”_* and my Pronouns are… 😏

@houseovragnar1528

2 жыл бұрын

People have this woke crap jammed so far up their a.. that they can twist up me naming my son Apollo after Apollo Creed as a act of racism 🙄

Another important element of Dirty Harry are the brilliant cinematic scenes that are in it. I think the scenes represent the culmination of Don Segal‘s work over many years. Brilliant set pieces that are unforgettable like the opening sequence with the bank robbery, the sequence where Harry runs through the underworld of San Francisco to deliver the ransom money to save the young girls life, the scene where Harry enters the football stadium to track down the psychopath and tortures him to find the kidnapped girls location, The brilliant sequence on the rooftops at night when they confront the killer under a sign that reads Jesus Saves, and of course the brilliant concluding sequence where in Harry jumps on top of the school bus from the bridge and has the final say shoot out.

I always liked Eastwood's hair especially in this one. It was like it was molded. And they kept different form fitted shapes for different moods,or lighting elements. I'm sure a dedicated rug maker could get the rights to the original mold that was used to form fit the shape to Eastwood's head. Make a 3-d scan and then produce1\12-1\6 versions of the original copy to be sold in a rather shapely box to 1\12and1\6 actiony figure dolly collectors. With perhaps a oil drum or tire with tire Iron fit to scale😛

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, yeah his hair is weird. unusual but suits him.

@mrh9635

2 жыл бұрын

Without the hair John Mitchum's,...''Hey Harry, when you gonna get a haircut?'' would have lost vital impact.

@davidburroughs2244

2 жыл бұрын

I had no idea it was a rug 🤣

Eastwood is so iconic people have an hard time remembering that the characters he plays are just that. Characters

Here in Italy in the '70s a ton of crime drama movies were produced, some of them with lead characters inspired by strong borderline cops like Callaghan. Some of the films had great artistic value with titles like "Milano Calibro 9" (1972) or "Roma Violenta" (1975) by cult genre directors like Fernando Di Leo and Umberto Lenzi, very influencial on artists like Quentin Tarantino and many others. The films were a response to the skyrocketing crime in the big cities and to the tensions created by both right-wing and left-wing terrorism, with dozens and dozens of attacks, shootings and even bombings every year. Well, here also the vast majority of the professional mainstram critics of the times (especially all the left-wing intellighenzia) absolutely trashed this type of movies (with the usual accusations of fascism) and sometimes they weren't even reviewed on the most "prestigious" newspapers and publications, despite the huge success of this kind of films at the box office. Thankfully today most of the serious film scholars and historians have completely re-evaluated most of the spearheads of this genre.

@Fedorevsky

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Lots of great Poliziottesci!

@archstanton4365

Жыл бұрын

Also, Enzo Castellari directed some very good crime movies then. Franco Nero and Fabio Testi were in several good ones, Street Law is the English title of one of my absolute favourites as well as "La Via Della Droga" with it's amazing Goblin soundtrack.

@archstanton4365

Жыл бұрын

@@Fedorevsky Indeed! 👍

@danbal4185

Жыл бұрын

@@archstanton4365 So good! And that year they've also released their masterpiece "Suspiria".

@archstanton4365

Жыл бұрын

@@danbal4185 I arrived that year, as well.

This came out 4 years after the anti-hero began to become a Hollywood fixation in the wake of Bonnie and Clyde. That "celebration" of anomic violence is routinely hailed. I would not be at all surprised if Dirty Harry was self-consciously modeled on it, with the twist being that Dirty Harry is a cop whereas Bonnie and Clyde had been gangland killers. Simply by existing, Dirty Harry was shining a light on the twisted moral rationalizations of Hollywood and daring everyone who cheered the previous movie to condemn a similar movie that was putting an authority figure's perspective at the center of the film instead of the outlaws'. Ultimately what differentiates these two films (not to mention a hundred others that came out during this period) is a subtle difference in "mood" that allows the perceptive viewer to see whether the film was made by the kinds of people who can be trusted to deal with something as problematic as an anti-hero: i.e. someone like themselves.

@patbastardandthespurious5822

2 жыл бұрын

Underr8ed comment.

@behindthescenesphotos5133

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate Larry Buchanan's The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde, released a year after the `67 film as a rebuttal. Frank Hamer's widow reading a letter from a girl who got emotionally carried away by the movie and then learned the truth about Bonnie and Clyde makes it worth the time. Probably the best thing Buchanan did in his career.

Also, Rob. Another thing that you should point out is that in ALL of the five Dirty Harry films, the main protagonists are all white men. 🔸In the first one, it was Scorpio, played by Andrew Robinson, who's white as you pointed out at 12:31. 🔸In the second one Magnum Force, the main protagonist is Lieutenant Briggs, Harry's police supervisor, a white man. Also the vigilante cops under orders from Briggs throughout the film to commit assassinations on different targets are white men as well. 🔸In the third one The Enforcer, the lead villain is a white man by the name of Bobby Maxwell, the leader of the fictitious extremist group The Peoples' Revolutionary Strike Force, who are comprised of a majority of white men, who are also Vietnam veterans (a point that shreds any notion that the sequels had fascism due to the fact that authoritarian propaganda ultra-glorifies the military. [Furthermore, Clint Eastwood has openly said in interviews that he believes America should never have gotten involved in the Vietnam War. Plus, Eastwood has NEVER made a film that had him beating up LGBTQ+ people. Clint Eastwood has said he doesn't concern himself with what other people do in their own lives. Additionally, he's been interviewed by a celebrity friend of his, Ellen DeGeneres, who is an openly Lesbian woman on her television show several times.] 🔸In the fourth film Sudden Impact, the lead villain is Mick, a vile, perverted, and misogynistic white leader of a gang who murders Harry's African-American police friend Horace, whom he kills after using a racial slur towards him. 🔸And lastly, the villain of the final film of the franchise The Dead Pool, contained the first lone villain since Scorpio of the first film. Harlan Rook was also the last time a Dirty Harry film had a villain being defeated without the use of bullets. And what's his race? HE'S A WHITE MAN.

Siskel & Ebert as well praised the film on a special episode of At The Movies about Dirty Harry. Ebert highlighted the great acting.

What an excellent, perceptive and balanced review! I have always felt slightly guilty about loving, or even admitting to liking, this film; I won't feel like that any more! Why am I not reading your work in the mainstream media?! Thank you!

Excellent, excellent analysis. I saw Dirty Harry when it came out. The whole tone of this great movie was dark, because the subject of serial killers hadn't really come up much before that. Viewers were in for a great thriller/suspense like most of us had never seen before. Shocking? Yes. But more realistic than I'd seen before. I went on to see all the Dirty Harry films. What I soon learned from movie critics was that any movie they didn't like, I would probably like. I chose which films were most worth my money and time by which ones riled the the critics and why. Also by which movies they thought were great, which I generally didn't like, especially nowadays, where the more perverse something is the more the critics rave about it. I've actually walked out of a theater and demanded my money back less than halfway through those. And gotten it. This is the first analysis of yours I've seen, and it was so good I subbed.

I’m quickly realizing I’ll have to watch it for myself before making any intelligent comments in agreement or disagreement lol. But thanks for motivating me to finally check out an old classic!

@deannamarie3746

2 жыл бұрын

They are well worth the watch 👍 I think you'll enjoy his character, rough around the edges but very appropriate for some of the people he deals with in these movies. I recommend just watching it first and foremost as an entertaining action cop drama, and not get too deep about what some of these elements may or may not represent

Remembering seeing this movie with my father (an Hispanic immigrant), none us notice racist or bigot but more realistic approach and how communities were back. Note: I was a child back then.

This film could have had some many different follow-up films that my mind is boggling thinking of them now. What if this happened….. It’s an amazing film and mostly stood the test of time. Have you reviewed all in this series…? They are a real odd bunch but mostly good

Hero, antihero is a trope to push a story line over 80 minutes of screen time and Harry Callahan does it really well as a character. Scorpio is an unknown to the authorities, We dont need a dumb back story so, we don't get one. It's just a really well made thriller for an audience that can think for themselves.

I interpreted the ending differently... He throws his badge away because he's done with the evolving red tape of policing. When he shoots Scorpio at the football field and then tortures a confession, part of it was telling him where the kidnapped girls was. in then finding the girl, that should be proof enough that scorpio was guilty, but because he tortured him and breached his rights, he wouldnt be prosecuted, much to Harrys dismay, he even says what about the victims rights... so i think he could just see his way of working was becoming obsolete and he didnt like it, if it meant criminals that were guilty could just hide behind human rights etc.

I remember seeing "Last House on the Left" in the early 70s....the audience cheered when the bad guys got everything that was coming to them and so did the bad guy in "Dirty Harry".

The original Dirty Harry was good social commentary and well-done. In subsequent outings, Harry became a caricature of himself.

For a ‘White Guy’ that Noah Berlatsky sure talks a lot about Jewish identity…

@SonofTiamat

2 жыл бұрын

Fellow whites...

@SonofTiamat

2 жыл бұрын

@@thotslayer9914 *you're

Great video, a lot of sensible points raised where other people are just looking to pick fault or have hidden agendas. Gravel pits are often filled with water when they've finished extracting the gravel

Amazing work yet again. You are simply the best. If only you were about when I was trying to make videos in the mid 90’s.

Congrats on 200k subs; it's been a long time in coming, Boss.

Awesome movie. Hope it gets a 4K release soon..Don Seigel was such a great director. Charlie Varrick was a superb followup to Dirty Harry...

Do people in the U.K. participate in April Fools Day? If so, then would you be willing to release a video next April 1st on the deeper hidden meaning and messages of the movie 'Joe Dirt', just as an April Fools joke?

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe not that movie, but I'll try and remember to post something outrageous next AF Day.

@JohnDoe-xu6uu

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the deeper hidden meaning and messages of the movie Ernest Goes to Jail.

@Fedorevsky

2 жыл бұрын

April's fools day is at least 500 years old and common in large parts of Europe and also countries in the middle East along with The United States.

No one ever mentions it but the best, most Informative,Insightful, review of Dirty Harry was written by Paul Nelson in ''Rolling Stone''when the movie came out. He nails it! He blows away the weak, smug,liberal reviews by Ebert and the rest of the main stream critics back then.

The original trailer also said the movie is about "two killers." Thus making it more about opposing forces like in Alan Moore's original story, "V for Vendetta" where the character V isn't really wholly sympathetic, even if his goal is. The movie simplified it to simple good vs. bad and made V into a sympathetic gentleman.

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

I was surprised how openly the trailer stated that theme.

@moviearchaeologist9655

2 жыл бұрын

I also saw one of the marketing posters which said something like "Dirty Harry and the homicidal maniac... Harry is the one with the badge."

Dirty harry is a masterpiece

Other than the Zodiac the scene in which Scorpio assaults Callahan while wearing a balaclava made me think of the Original Nightstalker although it's perhapa just me. But Michael Mann's Manhunter must've been influenced by these killings because it begins with the killer walking into his victims' bedroom and waking them up with a flashlight.

In one of the sequels, Harry goes after corrupt killer cops so that could also negate the argument that Harry is some kind of fascist.

Many excellent points in this video - thanks for taking the time! I really like how you explore the 'ideological' aspects of some reviews and reviewers.

You intentionally pronounced that critic’s name “Roger Eb-ert” haha

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

Roger Rabbit

Scorpio and Thulsa Doom are my two favorite villains!

@awesomewelles9174

2 жыл бұрын

...and Clarence Boddiger !!!!!

@andrewlineberger7544

2 жыл бұрын

@@awesomewelles9174 Clarence was just misunderstood he was really a nice guy 😉

@awesomewelles9174

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewlineberger7544 hahaaaa yes! 👍👍👍

Ultimately, this is an art film that interweaves the talents of Don Siegal, Bruce Surtees, and Lalo Shifrin. Setting everything else aside, this is a gorgeous film. I would say the story is secondary but the performances of Eastwood and Robinson are nearly perfect. I saw it the first time as an 8-year-old in '71, have watched it dozens of times, and every time I do I discover another nugget. The shootout under the "Jesus Saves" sign alone is worth the price of admission. Anyone who looks at this as simply a cop film is missing 95% of the film.

I'm younger than this film and have never seen it in full, only small bits and sporadically at that. I am much more aware of the pop culture influence it has had. This has been such an interesting video.

I actually have been put off by it's reputation. I'll probably order the Blu ray for a first time watch. Thanks

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

Good. Enjoy :)

Nice job. Some fresh insight here on a controversial film I’ve enjoyed since I was a kid.

My thats a big one was an ad lib. Scorpio was just improvising

Are there any unironically pro-fascist movies made outside of literally fascists nations like 1930's Germany? I've never seen a hollywood movie that wasn't mocking fascism or portraying it negatively? I hear a lot of screeching about fascist movies but have never seen one.

@sirlawrence9161

2 жыл бұрын

No. Anything that isn't culturally Marxist is "wacist" and "Facsist"

@plasticweapon

2 жыл бұрын

no.

Love the comment about schizophrenic delusions- contextualizes all the insanity I see in these reviews and news articles now. Didn’t expect such a fantastic breakdown.

If people go on assuming that public figures are totally honest about their politics despite having many good reasons not to, then they'll get the society they deserve.

Why don't critics realize that the torture scene in the stadium is SUPPOSED to be horrifying? You're supposed to be disgusted by the depths to which a cop is forced go to try to save a young girl's life. The whole affair is an awful, monstrous mess and in the context of the film only monstrous acts can set things right. If Harry was a fascist maniac from the start, he would have killed Scorpio at the stadium after finding out where the girl was buried rather than trusting it to the courts.

There's always this amnesia when people make this sort of argument were by they totally forget the sadistic fantasies shared by boys (that I have to assume they couldn't have not partook in unless they were homeschooled). Becoming upstanding means outgrowing them like outgrowing overindulging in chocolate, but clearly it's in everyone's personality still waiting for a rationalisation.

@MrOctober44

2 жыл бұрын

@@eddysgaming9868 I have no idea what he's saying, lol

@percussion44

Жыл бұрын

@@MrOctober44 Some blithering loser infatuated with his own self perceived introspection. Or just a weirdo.

100% Rob, Dirty Harry is one of those movies where any criticism, at least any that labels the movie in any way "right wing", fascist etc is way off the mark. The more times I watch it (and the sequels to a certain extent, even the dead pool has a place in my heart) the more I notice little things about Harry especially that flat out contradict any such leanings. Tbf absolutely love this era of cinema. Also, outside of the western's and Harry movies Coogan's Bluff almost feels like a Harry movie, having a way more reasonable protagonist helps though, much like the Harry sequel bike cops, vets or Sondra Locke it's easier for Harry (us) to somewhat empathise with them. Andrew Robinson (Garak forever) though, if ever there was a perfect actor to make you believe in true, irredeemable evil......

I wonder what the ‘early life’ section of Noah Berlatsky’s wikipedia article would say???

Thank you for the first ever decent politcial (nobody know it all) free review.

Man, even as far as back as the 70's people miss-used the term fascist.

@Mitch93

2 жыл бұрын

They misused it even on the 1930s and 40s, Orwell wrote an article about it.

The handling of the "Miranda Rights" in this film almost made it into an alterative reality film. In truth, a criminal can go from initial arrest, to dying on the electric chair with never once being "Read His Rights." The Miranda Rights are only read to suspects, who are to be interrogated. The 2010 ruling applies to those who invoked their rights, but kept talking.

@plasticweapon

2 жыл бұрын

interesting if true.

"And by the way, unfalsifiability is often a factor in schizophrenic delusions" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 You are the best, man.

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

Haha. Sounds like a joke, but I've encountered it and it's so annoying! Fascinating listening to their logic though.

@thelippyserver58

2 жыл бұрын

@@collativelearning Seems like the norm for "journalist" logic now. Film or otherwise. Annoying is an understatement.

Don't forget that Harry has a 45 Magnum, the most powerful gun that could blow your head clean off. But the movie ain't asking us to go buy one and do it

Americans in general, do not understand what racism or facism actually is. They just throw the words around.

@SonofTiamat

2 жыл бұрын

Amen to that

@collativelearning

2 жыл бұрын

Like with every other ideological phrase, that's why I avoid using such terms as much as possible.

@Roescoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@collativelearning That's what made me trust you first too. I pretty quickly close a video if I hear those ideological words at the start. They're words that make me think "What's he selling?"