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A series of five films starring Clint Eastwood as San Francisco Police Department inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan. He is one of the earliest examples of the Cowboy Cop. His main weapon is the Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 magnum revolver.The eponymous first film, directed by Don Siegel and released in 1971, is credited with inspiring the tone and themes of many modern-day cop films and TV series. Eastwood portrays Callahan as an Anti-Hero — a blunt, cynical, "the buck stops here" kind of law enforcer who's constantly at odds with his indifferent, incompetent, strictly-by-the-book superiors, and whose relentless pursuit of justice frequently leads him to kick, stomp on, and blast gaping holes through constitutionally protected rights. These traits led many critics to accuse the film of carrying a fascistic, or at least authoritarian, undertone (anticipating complaints leveled against such later works as the thematically similar Judge Dredd comic and movie franchise). In response to the controversy surrounding the first film, the sequels tried to balance out the ideology, having Harry's bad guys span the length of the political morality spectrum. | |
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Artistic License – Gun Safety | |
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Artistic License – Gun Safety: The famous "Do I feel lucky?" scene, specifically after the suspect has surrendered and asks if Harry's gun indeed had 0 shots left. Pointing a weapon for fun at someone is a huge violation of gun handling protocol as one must always presume the weapon is loaded. Harry sure got lucky that his superiors didn't read him the riot act or severely discipline him for playing games with a hand cannon. | |
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One Bullet Left | |
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One Bullet Left: Apparently the Scorpio Killer did feel lucky, that punk... he wasn't. | |
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Human Shield | |
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Human Shield: Scorpio uses a boy as a human shield. Detective Callahan simply shoots him in the shoulder (given the range and the fact that the boy was too small to provide a lot of protection, Callahan could've put a bullet in Scorpio's chest or his head). Callahan then proceeds to give Scorpio one last chance to surrender, and then puts a bullet through him. | |
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Friendly Target | |
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Friendly Target: Harry's partners tend to get seriously injured or killed. Chico does make it, though... because he was smart enough to take Harry's advice to heart, and wear a bulletproof vest. | |
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Villain Opening Scene: The film begins with the first Scorpio murder. More accurately, it starts with a pretty girl taking a swim in a rooftop pool, then zooms out at length until we see the barrel of a sniper rifle... | |
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If I Wanted You Dead... | |
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If I Wanted You Dead...: Harry shoots Scorpio in the leg. | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: Dirty Harry fought obvious stand-ins for the Zodiac Killer (in Dirty Harry) and the Symbionese Liberation Army (in The Enforcer). This is lampshaded in the 2007 movie Zodiac, where David Toschi, the detective who served as the inspiration for Dirty Harry (as well as Bullitt), sees the movie and has to face the fact that Real Life crimes can't be solved by just shooting someone. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: In the original script, and the novelization, the Scorpio's name is Charles Davis and he's an escaped mental patient from Springfield, Massachusetts. In the film he remains as No Name Given with no explanation of his background or motives. | |
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Title Drop: His partner wants to know why people call inspector Callahan, Dirty Harry. He gets mixed answers. It wasn't until after Harry talks a man out of jumping by insulting him, that he tells his new partner the real reason: | |
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They Look Just Like Everyone Else! | |
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They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Scorpio. Andy Robinson was cast specifically because Clint Eastwood said he wanted someone who looked like a "choirboy". | |
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Villain Ball | |
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Villain Ball: Having been foiled in his attempt to snipe a Catholic priest from a rooftop, Callahan stakes out the same rooftop, knowing the Scorpio killer will be compelled to come back and finish what he started. | |
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I Surrender, Suckers | |
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I Surrender, Suckers: Subverted. The bank robber Harry confronts at the start pretends to surrender, but the reason he doesn't follow through with it is because he was curious to know if Harry's gun really did have one bullet left. Much to his bemusement, it didn't. A rare heroic example happens right before the ending. Harry pretends to be slowly lowering his .44 Magnum to spare a hostage being used as a human shield, but then quickly raises his revolver and lands a crack shot, incapacitating the hostage taker. | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: Harry sports a shiny black pair, which make him seem like even more of an Implacable Man. | |
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Experienced Protagonist | |
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Experienced Protagonist: Callahan has already served long enough on the force to earn himself a reputation as an infamous Cowboy Cop before the film begins. | |
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Vomiting Cop | |
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Vomiting Cop: Chico is about to throw up after seeing Scorpio's second victim. | |
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Two Shots from Behind the Bar | |
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Two Shots from Behind the Bar: The Scorpio Killer gets a gun from a frequently robbed liquor store owner that carries one for protection. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good Is Not Nice and Soft: A major theme of this series, since the title character is portrayed as frequently doing cruel but necessary things. Summed up with a remark he made after punching in the face someone who was trying to commit suicide: "Now you know why they call me Dirty Harry. Every dirty job that comes along..." | |
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Knight in Sour Armor | |
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Knight in Sour Armor: Harry is very gruff and aloof, despite being a good guy with the best intentions. | |
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Beat It by Compulsion | |
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Beat It by Compulsion: A mundane version occurs. Having been foiled in his attempt to snipe a Catholic priest from a rooftop, Inspector Callahan stakes out the same rooftop, knowing the Scorpio killer will be compelled to come back and finish what he started. | |
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Good Guns, Bad Guns | |
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Good Guns, Bad Guns: Harry carries a S&W Model 29 in .44 Magnum, then the most powerful handgun in the world. While more powerful guns are typically "bad", this started a trend of Hand Cannons ending up in the hands of Anti Heroes and Cowboy Cops just like Harry. Harry's partner, Chico, carries a classically "good" Colt Detective Special, a standard issue police revolver of that era. It helps to establish him as a By-the-Book Cop in comparison to Harry (though he later goes against orders to aid Harry, getting shot in the process). Conversely, Big Bad serial killer "Scorpio" uses a modified Arisaka rifle (a Japanese WWII weapon often brought home as souvenirs), a Nazi MP40, and in the climax, a stolen Walther P38, yet another Nazi weapon. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: Two youngsters die throughout the film - a ten-year-old boy and a fourteen-year-old girl. A bus full of children even younger are put in danger by Scorpio but they survive. | |
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away | |
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: The Scorpio Killer grabs a boy as a hostage; Callahan responds by shooting him in the shoulder (the boy escapes unscathed) and delivering his "'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya', punk?" line before finally taking him out. | |
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Revolvers Are Just Better | |
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Revolvers Are Just Better: Dirty Harry famously uses a gigantic Smith & Wesson Model 29, which chambers .44 magnum bullets. The gun is extremely powerful, and the long barrel plus adjustable sights make it basically a pocket-rifle. Around the time the movie was filmed, some police actually did carry such large revolvers, but they eventually proved excessively powerful. | |
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Talking Down the Suicidal | |
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Talking Down the Suicidal: Harry Callahan disgusts a jumper by saying how much blood and guts are going to be on the floor and how he doesn't want to go down with him, eventually Harry tricks him onto a fire truck. | |
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You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses | |
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You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses: No, but Scorpio would hit children with glasses – including at least two of the children he's holding hostage in the climatic school bus scene of the original film; this includes an 11-year-old girl he slaps (as hard as he possibly can) across the face at least twice and then – after she's knocked to the floor – kicking her! | |
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Nausea Dissonance | |
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Nausea Dissonance: Harry tells someone who is considering jumping off a building that he wants the guy's name, because the mess of a splattered body often makes people hard to identify. The guy says he thinks he's gonna puke, and Harry, who doesn't seem nauseated at all, says "don't do that, not with all those people down there looking up." Later, Harry and Gonzales are called to investigate the murder of a 10-year-old black boy whose face was "half shot off". Harry lifts the cover, we don't see the damage, but Gonzales excuses himself to vomit. Harry's partners in the next two movies would follow suit. | |
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It Works Better with Bullets | |
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It Works Better with Bullets: Harry uses his famous speech to intimidate an opponent. | |
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Accidental Pervert | |
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Accidental Pervert: "Now I know why they call you Dirty Harry." | |
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Phallic Weapon: "My, that's a big one." | |
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Hates Everyone Equally | |
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Hates Everyone Equally: Harry, according to De Giorgio. | |
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Urban Hellscape | |
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Urban Hellscape: The Ur-Example and Trope Maker. The eponymous character is a Cowboy Cop who has become disillusioned with by-the-book policework, and seeing criminals frequently get Off on a Technicality. He thus frequently takes the law into his own hands, and the films either explore the sort of conditions that justify his actions, or what happens when other police go to even more brutal methods from his example. | |
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Hollywood Healing | |
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Hollywood Healing: Averted, partially. After being stabbed and later shot in the leg by Harry, Scorpio has a limp for the rest of the movie. His paid beating leaves him only with a bandage on his nose after he's discharged from hospital, though. | |
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Arch-Enemy | |
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Arch-Enemy: The Scorpio Killer to Dirty Harry. | |
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Hollywood Law | |
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Hollywood Law: An interesting aversion: When Harry notes that he was justified in shooting a man he was sure had intent to rape, and his superior reacts skeptically, Harry replies, "When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for The Red Cross." This would be considered a legally justified shooting, under "Plain Sight", which says that if a cop sees a crime in the process of being committed right in front of him, he's allowed to engage the perpetrator, without a warrant. Said rule also is applicable to Harry's takedown of the bank robbery crew, which is why he's cleared of that so quickly. The mayor even notes that Harry's got a point. Played painfully straight when it came to Scorpio getting released from prison. Basically the only thing that would be ruled inadmissible in real life would be his confession, due to the fact that he hadn't been read his rights and had been coerced by torture into giving it. Harry should have been able to charge him with assault, attempted murder and kidnapping of a police officer. Everything else was perfectly admissible. His partner could also have laid charges as a witness; he was close by and saw the whole thing, and Scorpio shot at him, too. The very fact that Scorpio has a fresh knife wound exactly like the one Harry (legally) gave the guy in the balaclava and the same voice would be enough for a conviction. Semi-justified with the rifle, a sporterised Japanese Arisaka (rechambered in Springfield .30-'06), which, as a war prize, could easily have no paperwork at all. In Scorpio's case, while exigent circumstances would certainly apply (someone's life was in imminent danger), his residency is Kezar Stadium, and it is under the consent of the groundskeeper. The trouble with this is the groundskeeper, most likely, does not have the legal standing to grant such permission, which therefore makes Scorpio a squatter and thus his rights are not protected. However, courts have held that even homeless people squatting in public parks have the constitutional right against unreasonable searches and seizures-the key is whether it can be considered their "house", even if they're squatting there, so that part is unclear. Scorpio is in possession of an MP40 submachine gun, presumably not registered under the National Firearms Act of 1934 (since he's not shown with it again after his arrest, it can be assumed it was confiscated along with the rifle). Possession of an unregistered full-auto firearm is punishable by up to twenty years in federal prison, meaning they could have at least charged him for that, even if the murder, kidnapping, assault and attempted murder charges wouldn't stick. | |
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Not Helping Your Case | |
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Not Helping Your Case: Scorpio falsely accuses Harry of savagely beating him up. Harry didn't but he does admit to following him and his only defense is that he couldn't have done it to Scorpio because "he looks too damn good". | |
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Once an Episode: Harry will run into someone committing a robbery and stop them. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: In the bank robbery scene, the movie theater across the street lists Play Misty for Me, a movie Clint Eastwood also starred in, and the first feature film directed by him, released earlier in 1971, on its marquee. | |
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Flyaway Shot | |
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Flyaway Shot: Every film in the series ends like this. | |
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Cowboy Cop | |
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Cowboy Cop: An Unbuilt Trope example in Harry himself. | |
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Description Porn: | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Harry is a Cowboy Cop who happens to be a total arsehole with almost no friends; he's legendary but pretty much a Broken Ace. One of the film's most famous scenes involves him tracking down Scorpio and belting the shit out of him. Not only is Harry promptly the subject of justifiable rage by his captain, but Scorpio expresses a desire to sue. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Theoretically we should be feeling triumphant that Callahan has finally blown away Scorpio. Instead we get a muted, melancholic soundtrack and Callahan disgustedly tossing his badge into the river. Although given that he remains a cop in all four sequels, there may be something to Clint Eastwood's theory that there was a long rubber band attached to the badge. | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
Dirty Harry / int_4127eb1 | comment |
Shut Up, Hannibal!: Harry is held at gunpoint by Scorpio, who plans to kill him after a good bit of Evil Gloating, but before he can get the chance, Harry stabs Scorpio in the leg. And for added humor, Scorpio lets out a huge girly scream. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_416a2a0d | type |
Torture Always Works | |
Dirty Harry / int_416a2a0d | comment |
Torture Always Works: Harry presses down on the Scorpio killer's badly wounded leg (he was just shot with a .44 revolver) until he tells him where to find a girl he had kidnapped and left to suffocate. Naturally, he finds out where she is, only to discover that she has already died. The killer promptly walks away from the law by crying "police brutality", much to Harry's disgust. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_440d1d0b | type |
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! | |
Dirty Harry / int_440d1d0b | comment |
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Harry breaks the law several times to protect The Scorpio Killer's victims. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_44bd31e2 | type |
Trope Codifier | |
Dirty Harry / int_44bd31e2 | comment |
Harry carries a S&W Model 29 in .44 Magnum, then the most powerful handgun in the world. While more powerful guns are typically "bad", this started a trend of Hand Cannons ending up in the hands of Anti Heroes and Cowboy Cops just like Harry. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
Dirty Harry / int_44fc28e8 | comment |
Honor Before Reason: The bank robber in the beginning of the film asking Callahan to confirm whether or not he fired 6 or only five shots because he "gots to know". | |
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Dirty Harry / int_4571c045 | type |
Zodiac Motifs | |
Dirty Harry / int_4571c045 | comment |
Zodiac Motifs: The psychopathic killer that Harry spends the entire movie trying to stop is nicknamed "The Scorpio Killer" by the press. His real name is never revealed. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_4583a262 | type |
Shirtless Scene | |
Dirty Harry / int_4583a262 | comment |
Shirtless Scene: Harry during an After Action Patch Up after Scorpio beats him up. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_46e53efd | type |
Screams Like a Little Girl | |
Dirty Harry / int_46e53efd | comment |
Screams Like a Little Girl: The Scorpio Killer when wounded. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_479d4e5a | type |
Would Hurt a Child | |
Dirty Harry / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: Scorpio is perfectly happy to slaughter children if it suits him. He shoots a young African American boy, sniper style, to death. Later, he kidnaps, brutally rapes and buries alive a young teen-aged girl. In the later case, he demands a huge ransom for her safe return. But when he gets his money, just for the fun of it, he refuses to reveal her whereabouts until Callahan tortures him during questioning. (Even after that, the girl is found dead inside her grave.) He hijacks a school bus full of children. Scorpio delights in slapping both boys and girls around, and forcing them to sing the children's song "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," and even threatens to shoot several of the kids. In the climatic scene (after Scorpio crashes the bus into a dirt embankment), Scorpio – after engaging in a gun battle with Callahan – grabs a boy who was sitting on a nearby pier and threatens to use him as a human shield if Callahan dares take a step closer. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_49f20c6a | type |
Gory Discretion Shot | |
Dirty Harry / int_49f20c6a | comment |
Gory Discretion Shot: Even if the 10-year-old's injuries are not shown to the audience, Harry's partner Chico turns away disgusted, and even Harry is noticeably Squicked about it. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_49f20c6a | |
Dirty Harry / int_4da6ac | type |
Rated M for Manly | |
Dirty Harry / int_4da6ac | comment |
Rated M for Manly: The entire franchise, as with pretty much anything starring Clint Eastwood. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_4da6ac | |
Dirty Harry / int_508d91a2 | type |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
Dirty Harry / int_508d91a2 | comment |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Dirty Harry has his famous speech, which is actually an offer for his enemy to surrender. The second time he gives it, at the end of the film, is very much in keeping with this trope, as Harry Callahan is in no mood to let Scorpio live after all he's done. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_508d91a2 | |
Dirty Harry / int_51640e80 | type |
Bond One-Liner | |
Dirty Harry / int_51640e80 | comment |
Bond One-Liner: The famous "Do you feel lucky?" speech. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
Dirty Harry / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: The first film begins and ends with Harry delivering his famous "Do I feel lucky?" speech, first to a bank robber and second to Scorpio himself. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_567e7c4d | type |
Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
Dirty Harry / int_567e7c4d | comment |
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Scorpio pays some black guy to beat him up, just so he could frame Callahan for it. Understandably, said black guy evidently enjoys the job, giving him a good kick at the end "on the house". Scorpio did call him a "black son of a bitch". | |
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Dirty Harry / int_567e7c4d | |
Dirty Harry / int_59907e4f | type |
Police Are Useless | |
Dirty Harry / int_59907e4f | comment |
Police Are Useless: The San Francisco Police are seen as being extremely bureaucratic to a point where it interferes with justice and causes murderers like Scorpio to get away with their actions. Even the title character has to break the rules in order to get anything done, to the point where at the end he throws away his badge as a symbol of his disgust with the system. The novelisation raises the point that kidnapping is a federal crime and the Mayor could have asked for FBI assistance, but he panicked and passed that panic right down the police bureaucracy. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_59907e4f | |
Dirty Harry / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
Dirty Harry / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: How crime and law enforcement are hideously intertwined. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_5fbb8d8e | type |
Hollywood Density | |
Dirty Harry / int_5fbb8d8e | comment |
Hollywood Density: Two hundred grand in tens and twenties would weigh somewhere between twenty and forty pounds depending on the ratio of denominations. Yes, a man can lift that and Harry is established as being in good shape and physically formidable, but lugging a bag with that much weight in it in one hand while running around the hilly streets of San Francisco in the middle of the night for an hour or more would not be easy. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_5fbb8d8e | |
Dirty Harry / int_6197e7cb | type |
Police Brutality Gambit | |
Dirty Harry / int_6197e7cb | comment |
Police Brutality Gambit: Pulled by Scorpio. Harry can tell immediately that it isn't him. How? "'Cause he looks too damn good, that's how!" | |
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Dirty Harry / int_65df51a8 | type |
That Poor Cat | |
Dirty Harry / int_65df51a8 | comment |
That Poor Cat: During the spying scene, Harry accidentally knocks over a trash can, occurring a cat yowl. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_673c9dd8 | type |
Insignia Rip-Off Ritual | |
Dirty Harry / int_673c9dd8 | comment |
Insignia Rip-Off Ritual: At the end of the movie, after finally stopping the Scorpio Killer and finding that the only way it was possible was in direct opposition of the system he worked for, Harry tosses his badge away in disgust. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_67792344 | type |
Grievous Bottley Harm | |
Dirty Harry / int_67792344 | comment |
Grievous Bottley Harm: Scorpio hits a liquor store owner across the head with a bottle he just bought and takes his gun (and another bottle). | |
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Dirty Harry / int_6779fb0b | type |
Shoot the Hostage Taker | |
Dirty Harry / int_6779fb0b | comment |
Shoot the Hostage Taker: Scorpio takes a young boy hostage. Harry simply shoots him in the shoulder and the boy escapes. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_6779fb0b | |
Dirty Harry / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
Dirty Harry / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: The Scorpio Killer has a sort of gibbering, intensely self-satisfied laugh that is in no way appealing. His final moments are even characterized by one last split-second of this laugh when he decides that yes, he does feel lucky. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
Dirty Harry / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: The various What the Hell, Hero? speeches by the D.A., the Judge and other authority figures spell out explicitly that Harry's actions while apprehending Scorpio are not only cruel but explicitly illegal, and effectively ruin any case the city could bring against him. Harry doesn't really have a response beyond accusing them of not caring about Scorpio's victims. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_6bd689ca | type |
Meaningful Echo | |
Dirty Harry / int_6bd689ca | comment |
Meaningful Echo: Early in the film Harry gives his "Do you feel lucky, punk?" speech in a jokey manner to an inept bank robber. In the film's climax, Harry gives the exact same speech to Scorpio, this time his delivery is full of venom and deadly serious. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_6bd689ca | |
Dirty Harry / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Dirty Harry / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Might not be intentional since it is a common surname, but one possible origin of the name Callahan is an old Irish word for "strife and trouble", ceallach, which fits Harry very well. To anyone who knows anything about astrology, Scorpio is this. As well as being an allusion to the real-life Zodiac Killer, Scorpios tend to be on the dark and ruthless side, making a serial killer named Scorpio very appropriate. (Charles Manson was a Scorpio) | |
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Dirty Harry / int_6eeaa3c4 | type |
Bus Full of Innocents | |
Dirty Harry / int_6eeaa3c4 | comment |
Bus Full of Innocents: In the climax, Scorpio holds a busful of children hostage as our hero chose to disobey orders to pay him his ransom and simply leaps on the school bus himself. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_6eeaa3c4 | |
Dirty Harry / int_7040b6bc | type |
Understatement | |
Dirty Harry / int_7040b6bc | comment |
Understatement: One that's acknowledged immediately. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_71598ac8 | type |
Internal Affairs | |
Dirty Harry / int_71598ac8 | comment |
Internal Affairs: The D.A. takes this role, complete with indignant "what about the rights of that little girl?" demand from Harry. In point of fact, Harry's is probably the trend-setter here. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_722171e7 | type |
Straw Character | |
Dirty Harry / int_722171e7 | comment |
Straw Character: One of the most common criticisms of the first film's politics is that it uses an almost cartoonishly evil and one-dimensional villain (and, similarly, a preposterously weak-willed and ineffectual local government and police force) in order to make Harry's rather extreme methods seem reasonable and even necessary by contrast. Roger Ebert observed this in his original review: The Judge brought in to analyze Harry's actions teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, the surest way in that era of painting someone as an over-permissive liberal. Pauline Kael, a former native of San Francisco, noted in her review how unlikely this would be in real-life and suspected the filmmakers included this specifically to tweak conservative viewers. | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
Dirty Harry / int_7276d0de | comment |
Mugging the Monster: A group of muggers making the mistake of setting upon Callahan while he's running around with Scorpio's ransom money. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_729c69f3 | type |
Politically Incorrect Villain | |
Dirty Harry / int_729c69f3 | comment |
Politically Incorrect Villain: Scorpio says he would consider it a pleasure to "kill a Catholic priest or a nigger." He follows through on the latter (then the former later on). In another scene he stalks a pair of gay men with his rifle, though ultimately decides not to shoot them. Needless to say, the black guy Scorpio pays to beat him up so he can frame Callahan for it sure seems to enjoy the job. He kicks Scorpio again after throwing him out the door, saying "this one's on the house!" | |
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Dirty Harry / int_7301ae04 | type |
Serial Killer | |
Dirty Harry / int_7301ae04 | comment |
Serial Killer: Scorpio, who was based on the Zodiac Killer. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_733ca2f8 | type |
Noble Bigot with a Badge | |
Dirty Harry / int_733ca2f8 | comment |
Noble Bigot with a Badge: In Harry's initial meeting with Gonzales, though this was more hazing the new guy than real bigotry: | |
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Dirty Harry / int_737394ab | type |
Iconic Item | |
Dirty Harry / int_737394ab | comment |
Iconic Item: Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum, "the most powerful handgun in the world, that would blow your head clean off." Also his dark sunglasses. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_744e3311 | type |
Police Brutality | |
Dirty Harry / int_744e3311 | comment |
Police Brutality: Harry roughs up the Scorpio Killer while in custody to learn where he's hidden a kidnapped girl, and gets called out on it. After Scorpio gets let out of custody because of it and other red tape issues, the killer pays a guy to beat the crap out of him so he can blame the beating on Harry, whose only defense is that it couldn't have been him, cause if he was the one who beat him, the guy would look a lot worse. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_7a143509 | type |
Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
Dirty Harry / int_7a143509 | comment |
Shell-Shocked Veteran: According to Andrew Robinson, Scorpio is this. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
Dirty Harry / int_7b8b3def | comment |
Celebrity Paradox: During the bank robbery scene, the theatre is playing Play Misty for Me, which was Clint Eastwood' directorial debut. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_7cf2f728 | type |
Boomerang Bigot | |
Dirty Harry / int_7cf2f728 | comment |
Boomerang Bigot: De Giorgio claims Harry to be one, considering that he names honkies as one of several specific races he hates. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_7d53bc0b | type |
Hollywood Silencer | |
Dirty Harry / int_7d53bc0b | comment |
Hollywood Silencer: Scorpio attaches a Hiram Maxim 1900's style suppressor to his rifle, but it both doesn't make a "fwip" noise, and is attached with screws Scorpio is seen screwing in at the beginning, thus making this an aversion, though a suppressor that size might burst from the pressures of a .30-'06. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_7d53bc0b | |
Dirty Harry / int_7febc23b | type |
Establishing Character Moment | |
Dirty Harry / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: "You gotta ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well do you, punk?" Scorpio is introduced assembling his rifle and shooting a woman taking a swim. And he only gets worse from there. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_7febc23b | |
Dirty Harry / int_8271663b | type |
Suspicious Ski Mask | |
Dirty Harry / int_8271663b | comment |
Suspicious Ski Mask: Scorpio wears a ski-mask as he menaces Harry, mocking the police detective and saying that he plans to kill his hostage, a fourteen year old girl, anyway, despite receiving the ransom money. (In truth, the girl is already dead, but Harry doesn't know that when he stabs Scorpio in the leg, then tortures him for the girl's location.) | |
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Dirty Harry / int_8271663b | |
Dirty Harry / int_8344209e | type |
BFG | |
Dirty Harry / int_8344209e | comment |
BFG: This film sees Harry using a Winchester Model 70, chambered in the massive .458 Winchester Magnum cartridge to try and kill Scorpio in a rooftop shootout. Because of its parabolic trajectory and high recoil, it's a very poor choice for countersniper duties, but fits his personality perfectly. The police armorer even notes the rifle is much more powerful than required and chalks it up to Harry wanting an edge over the opposition. | |
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Badass Boast | |
Dirty Harry / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: After Scorpio pays a man to beat him severely as part of a frame up, Harry defends himself from Scorpio's claim that Harry beat him, saying that "(Scorpio) looks too damn good" to have been beaten by Harry. There is also the now-famous "Do I Feel Lucky" quote, since during the first instance he says it, he is effectively making a man surrender with an unloaded gun and verbal intimidation alone. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_8767b1f3 | type |
Black-and-Gray Morality | |
Dirty Harry / int_8767b1f3 | comment |
Black-and-Gray Morality: Scorpio is a irredeemable monster, but Harry uses some rather questionable methods to defeat him. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_8767b1f3 | |
Dirty Harry / int_88449d57 | type |
Exalted Torturer | |
Dirty Harry / int_88449d57 | comment |
Exalted Torturer: Possibly the Trope Maker for film depictions in the U.S., and something of an Unbuilt Trope, at that. He gets an admission of guilt out of Scorpio by pressing a foot on his injured leg, but Surprisingly Realistic Outcome happens and Harry is informed by his superiors that the confession can't be used in court because he obtained it through illegal interrogation means. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_88449d57 | |
Dirty Harry / int_88e7f8b8 | type |
Batman Cold Open | |
Dirty Harry / int_88e7f8b8 | comment |
Batman Cold Open: All the films have a scene where Harry stops a crime unrelated to the main plot. Here, he foils a bank robbery while enjoying a hot dog. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_88e7f8b8 | |
Dirty Harry / int_8a817c2a | type |
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
Dirty Harry / int_8a817c2a | comment |
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Harry responds to the mayor's policies on police brutality with the fact that he "shoots the bastard" when it comes to intent to rape; Scorpio is stated to have raped the 14 year-old he kidnapped (off-screen.) | |
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Dirty Harry / int_8a817c2a | |
Dirty Harry / int_8cb4ea46 | type |
By-the-Book Cop | |
Dirty Harry / int_8cb4ea46 | comment |
Harry's partner, Chico, carries a classically "good" Colt Detective Special, a standard issue police revolver of that era. It helps to establish him as a By-the-Book Cop in comparison to Harry (though he later goes against orders to aid Harry, getting shot in the process). | |
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Dirty Harry / int_8cb4ea46 | |
Dirty Harry / int_8ce55ec6 | type |
Ransom Drop | |
Dirty Harry / int_8ce55ec6 | comment |
Ransom Drop: After kidnapping a young girl, Scorpio demands a $200,000 ransom to be delivered to him by one man holding a yellow bag. Inspector Callahan volunteers to be the courier, and is given instructions to race from one public phone booth to another so Scorpio can see if he's being followed. Problems encountered by Callahan include an attempted mugging, and the wrong person picking up the payphone before he reaches it. Callahan wears a Hidden Wire and sends instructions to his partner Gonzales which is just as well as Scorpio has no intention of letting Callahan or his kidnap victim live. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_8ce55ec6 | |
Dirty Harry / int_8e0ceaf5 | type |
Finger in the Mail | |
Dirty Harry / int_8e0ceaf5 | comment |
Finger in the Mail: Scorpio kidnaps a 14-year-old girl, sending the police her bra, a lock of hair, and a bloody tooth "pulled out with a pair of pliers". | |
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Dirty Harry / int_8e0ceaf5 | |
Dirty Harry / int_90141f06 | type |
IKEA Weaponry | |
Dirty Harry / int_90141f06 | comment |
IKEA Weaponry: Scorpio's rifle, which he keeps disassembled in a briefcase until he's about to make a shot. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_90141f06 | |
Dirty Harry / int_916c72b3 | type |
Rule of Symbolism | |
Dirty Harry / int_916c72b3 | comment |
Rule of Symbolism: Before each of Harry's three combative encounters with the Scorpio Killer, there is a cross and or a reference to Christ: At the rooftop stakeout, the "Jesus Saves" neon sign. At the park ransom location, the giant, cement cross. At the pivotal moment when Harry is spotted by his nemesis from the school bus, a cross extending up from the streetlight. The Scorpio Killer even exclaims, "Jeeeesssus!" Additionally, in the scene where Harry confronts the Scorpio Killer on the field of Kezar Stadium, in one of the close-ups, perpendicular lines painted on the football field resemble a cross in one of the close-up shots of the Scorpio Killer whimpering in fear and pain. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_916c72b3 | |
Dirty Harry / int_95713538 | type |
Outside Ride | |
Dirty Harry / int_95713538 | comment |
Outside Ride: Harry jumps from an overpass onto the roof of a school bus taken hostage by the Scorpio Killer. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_95713538 | |
Dirty Harry / int_957e5fc2 | type |
Villainous Breakdown | |
Dirty Harry / int_957e5fc2 | comment |
Villainous Breakdown: Scorpio seems to suffer it every time his plans are thwarted, like when he is caught and shot in the leg by Callahan in the stadium. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_957e5fc2 | |
Dirty Harry / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
Dirty Harry / int_970c790a | comment |
Conversely, Big Bad serial killer "Scorpio" uses a modified Arisaka rifle (a Japanese WWII weapon often brought home as souvenirs), a Nazi MP40, and in the climax, a stolen Walther P38, yet another Nazi weapon. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_970c790a | |
Dirty Harry / int_98576799 | type |
Throw the Dog a Bone | |
Dirty Harry / int_98576799 | comment |
Similarly, while the Judge damningly lays out Harry's illegal actions and abuse of Scorpio's rights, he does point out to the D.A. that Harry was trying to save Scorpio's victim within a limited timeframe and that a jury might well sympathize with him because of that. He also doesn't like Scorpio getting off any more than Harry or the DA does. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_98576799 | |
Dirty Harry / int_9cde2df1 | type |
Hand Cannon | |
Dirty Harry / int_9cde2df1 | comment |
Hand Cannon: .44 Magnum, "the most powerful handgun in the world". note In 1971, the statement was true, because although the more powerful .454 Casull had recently been introduced to the market, handguns for that cartridge would not be on the market for another decade, and it didn't become an industry-standard cartridge until 1997.. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_9cde2df1 | |
Dirty Harry / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
Dirty Harry / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Dirty Harry warns the police that the Scorpio Killer is going to kill again after they decide to let him go. Not too long afterwards, he decides to kidnap a whole bus of children. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_9d12bbc1 | |
Dirty Harry / int_9f1b0b39 | type |
Counting Bullets | |
Dirty Harry / int_9f1b0b39 | comment |
Counting Bullets: The infamous "Do I feel lucky?" Well do yah punk? scene. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_9f1b0b39 | |
Dirty Harry / int_9fde2eb1 | type |
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner | |
Dirty Harry / int_9fde2eb1 | comment |
Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" | |
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Dirty Harry / int_9fde2eb1 | |
Dirty Harry / int_a31b47ae | type |
Rapid-Fire "No!" | |
Dirty Harry / int_a31b47ae | comment |
Rapid-Fire "No!": The Scorpio Killer does it right before Callahan tortures him on the football field. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_a31b47ae | |
Dirty Harry / int_a4be7043 | type |
Da Chief | |
Dirty Harry / int_a4be7043 | comment |
Lieutenant Bressler is easily the only one of Harry's superiors that is actually anyway sympathetic towards him and isn't either an Obstructive Bureaucrat, a glory-grabbing Jerkass or a Dirty Cop. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_a4be7043 | |
Dirty Harry / int_a4ecfcbf | type |
Dead Partner | |
Dirty Harry / int_a4ecfcbf | comment |
Dead Partner: Pretty much all of Callahan's partners end up in the hospital or dead, as he notes. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_a4ecfcbf | |
Dirty Harry / int_a8559a9f | type |
RealLife | |
Dirty Harry / int_a8559a9f | comment |
Harry also is able to take the train directly from Forest Hills to Delores Park which is impossible in Real Life. You have to take a separate line. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_a8559a9f | |
Dirty Harry / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
Dirty Harry / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: The wounded bank robber when he thinks Harry is about to shoot him. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_ad1db87c | |
Dirty Harry / int_ad9fbc1e | type |
Pyrrhic Victory | |
Dirty Harry / int_ad9fbc1e | comment |
Pyrrhic Victory: Scorpio's dead, but Harry had to forsake everything about due process to make him so. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_ad9fbc1e | |
Dirty Harry / int_adfd3165 | type |
For the Evulz | |
Dirty Harry / int_adfd3165 | comment |
For the Evulz: Scorpio seems to just be killing for the sake of it. Women, children, priests, it doesn't seem to matter to him. Even when Harry brings him the ransom money, he tells him that he's decided to let the girl die anyway. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_adfd3165 | |
Dirty Harry / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
Dirty Harry / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Harry Callahan himself. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_ae3d6438 | |
Dirty Harry / int_aec63727 | type |
Pragmatic Hero | |
Dirty Harry / int_aec63727 | comment |
Pragmatic Hero: Harry is perfectly willing to defy his superiors to keep the people of San Francisco safe. Late in the film, he abandons the department and hunts down Scorpio on his own time, and in the end, throws his badge in a pond and walks off. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_aec63727 | |
Dirty Harry / int_b0852187 | type |
No Warrant? No Problem! | |
Dirty Harry / int_b0852187 | comment |
No Warrant? No Problem!: Under pressure to rescue a girl Buried Alive, Harry breaks into the home of serial killer Scorpio on a tip and tortures a confession and the hostage's location out of him. The confession and the murder weapon he collects are inadmissible, see below, Scorpio walks, and on top of it all, Harry is too late to save her. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_b0852187 | |
Dirty Harry / int_b2cdd776 | type |
Bottomless Magazines | |
Dirty Harry / int_b2cdd776 | comment |
Bottomless Magazines: Subverted. If you count how many rounds Harry expends in a scene, you'll notice he almost never shoots over his six-bullet limit and you almost always see him reload. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_b2cdd776 | |
Dirty Harry / int_b39d5719 | type |
Sadist | |
Dirty Harry / int_b39d5719 | comment |
Sadist: The Scorpio Killer is completely Ax-Crazy and very sadistic as well, his worst act being kidnapping and burying a teenage girl alive. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_b39d5719 | |
Dirty Harry / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
Dirty Harry / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Despite Harry already wounded him and had his gun trained on him, Scorpio still tried to go for the dropped gun in an attempt to kill Harry. He gets shot off the pier and killed for his troubles. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_b58b4e3c | |
Dirty Harry / int_b5c47a93 | type |
A Degree in Useless | |
Dirty Harry / int_b5c47a93 | comment |
A Degree in Useless: When Chico tells Harry that his college major was in Sociology, Harry sarcastically tells him that he'll go far. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_b5c47a93 | |
Dirty Harry / int_bb040b01 | type |
Cool Guns | |
Dirty Harry / int_bb040b01 | comment |
Cool Guns: The .44 Magnum, of course. Scorpio uses an MP40 alongside his Arisaka sniper rifle. | |
Dirty Harry / int_bb040b01 | featureApplicability |
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Dirty Harry / int_bb040b01 | |
Dirty Harry / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
Dirty Harry / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: Dirty Harry himself is a cop, but a particularly violent one who's not afraid to use lethal force. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_beb9a361 | |
Dirty Harry / int_c0961831 | type |
Interrupted Suicide | |
Dirty Harry / int_c0961831 | comment |
Interrupted Suicide: Harry Callahan disgusts a jumper by saying how much blood and guts are going to be on the pavement and how he doesn't want to go down with him, eventually Harry tricks him onto a fire truck. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_c0961831 | |
Dirty Harry / int_c303f680 | type |
Briefcase Blaster | |
Dirty Harry / int_c303f680 | comment |
Briefcase Blaster: Scorpio carried his disassembled sporterised Arisaka rifle and an MP40, plus several spare magazines, in a suitcase. | |
Dirty Harry / int_c303f680 | featureApplicability |
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Dirty Harry / int_c303f680 | |
Dirty Harry / int_c547cd6d | type |
Bulletproof Vest | |
Dirty Harry / int_c547cd6d | comment |
Bulletproof Vest: Chico is smart enough to wear one when he engages Scorpio in a shoot-out. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_c547cd6d | |
Dirty Harry / int_c660bc15 | type |
Fan Disservice | |
Dirty Harry / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Fan Disservice: The movie opens with a lovely young swimsuited woman going for a swim... who then becomes Scorpio's first victim. We get to see poor Mary Ann's nude corpse being disinterred. | |
Dirty Harry / int_c660bc15 | featureApplicability |
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Dirty Harry / int_c660bc15 | |
Dirty Harry / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Dirty Harry / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Harry tossing his badge in the end is one, to High Noon. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_c75df49a | |
Dirty Harry / int_c7686239 | type |
Clint Squint | |
Dirty Harry / int_c7686239 | comment |
Clint Squint: Dirty Harry naturally always wears one of these. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_c7686239 | |
Dirty Harry / int_c7f96bce | type |
Especially Zoidberg | |
Dirty Harry / int_c7f96bce | comment |
Especially Zoidberg: | |
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Dirty Harry / int_c7f96bce | |
Dirty Harry / int_c868a42a | type |
Freudian Excuse | |
Dirty Harry / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse: Invoked: the chief of police asserts that it is likely Scorpio will return to the scene of the crime because of the compulsive behaviour criminals tend to exhibit, muttering that it must be to "feed their superego or something". Averted insofar as no clues are given as to Scorpio's backstory, motivations or even his name. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_c868a42a | |
Dirty Harry / int_c895f927 | type |
Criminal Mind Games | |
Dirty Harry / int_c895f927 | comment |
Criminal Mind Games: Scorpio. He thoroughly enjoys taunting Harry over the phone and screwing with the police. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_c895f927 | |
Dirty Harry / int_ca87e3ec | type |
No Name Given | |
Dirty Harry / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: We never learn Scorpio's real name (though IMDb lists it as "Charles Davis", like the script). The ending credits for the film simply identify him as "killer". | |
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Dirty Harry / int_ca87e3ec | |
Dirty Harry / int_cc39902e | type |
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon | |
Dirty Harry / int_cc39902e | comment |
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Andrew Robinson was chosen because he had a "face like a choir boy". Scorpio is a murdering psychopath. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_cc39902e | |
Dirty Harry / int_cc86a5a1 | type |
Ballistic Discount | |
Dirty Harry / int_cc86a5a1 | comment |
Ballistic Discount: Variant. Scorpio enters a liquor store, buys some booze, and gets the owner into a conversation about how the owner has shot several people who attempted to rob him. The owner shows him the gun and now knowing where it is, Scorpio smashes him in the face with the bottle of booze he just bought, takes the gun and another bottle, and runs away. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_cc86a5a1 | |
Dirty Harry / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
Dirty Harry / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Harry gets called out on the tactics that he used to bring Scorpio in, including his full-on Jack Bauer style interrogation on the football field. Granted, Harry was absolutely furious after Scorpio revealed himself as a complete sociopath (who didn't feel like revealing the location of his hostage after all), but it still qualified as What the Hell, Hero? in the eyes of Harry's superiors. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_d39e327f | |
Dirty Harry / int_d63af362 | type |
Dramatic Ammo Depletion | |
Dirty Harry / int_d63af362 | comment |
Dramatic Ammo Depletion: The famous "do you feel lucky?" scene has Callahan telling the punk in front of him that, at that moment, the main thought going through his head was "did he fire six shots or only five" from his .44 Magnum revolver, and sarcastically telling him that he'd lost track himself in all the excitement. He had, in fact, fired all six. At the end of the film, he repeats the speech to the Scorpio Killer, who isn't so lucky. | |
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Dirty Harry / int_d63af362 | |
Dirty Harry / int_d7bfbcd7 | type |
Are You Sure You Want to Do That? | |
Dirty Harry / int_d7bfbcd7 | comment |
Are You Sure You Want to Do That?: One of the most notable examples comes when Harry Callahan is playing Russian Roulette when confronting a wounded bank robber: | |
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Dirty Harry / int_d7bfbcd7 | |
Dirty Harry / int_da7ede9c | type |
Firing One-Handed | |
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Firing One-Handed: Dirty Harry fires his famous .44 Magnum one handed. He must be pretty strong, considering that it's "the most powerful handgun in the world." Though, in the original film, he shoots two handed. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: To various degrees, considering that most of them border on Straw Character. Lieutenant Bressler is easily the only one of Harry's superiors that is actually anyway sympathetic towards him and isn't either an Obstructive Bureaucrat, a glory-grabbing Jerkass or a Dirty Cop. The D.A. who informs Harry that Scorpio's walking because of Harry's torture also comes across as this, as following his What the Hell, Hero? on the Constitution, he makes it a point to emphasize how much he hates Scorpio walking too, as he has a family, himself. For his part, Harry reassures him he'll be watching Scorpio for the next crime. Similarly, while the Judge damningly lays out Harry's illegal actions and abuse of Scorpio's rights, he does point out to the D.A. that Harry was trying to save Scorpio's victim within a limited timeframe and that a jury might well sympathize with him because of that. He also doesn't like Scorpio getting off any more than Harry or the DA does. Police Chief Daccanelli is also one. He listens to Harry and Chico respectfully and encourages Chico to speak up when he's uncertain. When Harry is accused of beating up Scorpio, he calmly but firmly asks Harry if it's true and makes clear he doesn't want any more surveillance, standing by him but also making clear he has his limits and won't tolerate harassment. | |
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Television Geography | |
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Television Geography: Going from Forest Hills Station to Aquatic Park to Mount Davidson in under an hour would be a neat trick in a car (without sirens), let alone on foot. Harry also is able to take the train directly from Forest Hills to Delores Park which is impossible in Real Life. You have to take a separate line. | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Callahan performs this on Scorpio on the football field. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: Scorpio is obviously meant to be despised by the audience, to ensure that we're on Harry's side. He's a twisted, cowardly, double-dealing Serial Killer and rapist who slaughters cops, women, and children alike. | |
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Briefcase Full of Money | |
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Briefcase Full of Money: A good part of the second arc is Harry running around San Francisco with a handbag containing $200,000 in ransom money looking for Scorpio's exchange point. | |
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Sissy Villain | |
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Sissy Villain: The Scorpio Killer is a slight young man with long hair, and is always moments away from a hissy fit. The contrast is made more blatant by the fact that Harry Callahan is played by quintessential "man's man" Clint Eastwood. | |
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Dramatic Gun Cock | |
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Dramatic Gun Cock: Justified since firing .44 Magnum rounds with a double-action pull would be highly inaccurate. | |
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Adaptational Self-Defense | |
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Adaptational Self-Defense: Harry only fired five shots in the theatrical version, but a sixth shot was added in the DVD. Originally, he fires five shots in single action, cocks the hammer to confront the surviving bank robber, lowers the hammer when the robber backs down, then cocks the hammer (rotating the cylinder to a previously fired chamber) and pulls the trigger - clicking the hammer on a spent case - when the robber says "I gots to know". By adding another shot (meaning that the gun is actually empty), the confrontation turns from a dangerous amount of trolling into a bluff from the get-go. | |
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High Turnover Rate | |
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High Turnover Rate: It's mentioned that Harry works alone because he tends to go through partners at an alarming rate; this trend holds true as the series progresses through 5 movies (3 dead, 2 seriously injured). On the positive side, it's mentioned in the first film that only a few of his partners actually get killed, with most only being seriously injured or simply finding his Jerkass Cowboy Cop attitude difficult to work with and transferred to other responsibilities. | |
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Unbuilt Trope | |
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Unbuilt Trope: Harry's methods aren't actually shown all that positively. His interrogation of the Scorpio killer is downright horrific, and ends up doing no good anyway. And in the end, he throws away his badge after disregarding his orders and endangering innocents. He realized that he crossed the line, and was no longer fit to carry the badge. Which is all of course cheerfully ignored for the sequels, where he's always right and somehow has his badge again. | |
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TheSeventies | |
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The '70s: The films don't indulge in the groovier aspects of the decade, but it's wide neckties, ugly dun-colored suits and giant sedans for everybody! | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: On a stakeout, Harry decides for a moment that an undressing woman is more interesting to watch, and he nearly misses the crook. | |
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Bit-Part Bad Guys | |
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Bit Part Bad Guys: The bank robbers were basically there so Harry could show off his skills with the .44 Magnum and deliver his famous "Do you feel lucky?" speech. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: Scorpio starts the movie off by sniping a swimming woman in her pool, and then later rapes and kills a teenage girl. He also holds a gun to the female bus driver's head and throws her out of the driver's seat (after Callahan tracks down the bus and jumps on its roof from a railroad bridge). | |
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Buried Alive | |
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Later, he kidnaps, brutally rapes and buries alive a young teen-aged girl. In the later case, he demands a huge ransom for her safe return. But when he gets his money, just for the fun of it, he refuses to reveal her whereabouts until Callahan tortures him during questioning. (Even after that, the girl is found dead inside her grave.) | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: Harry wants to go after the Scorpio killer after he hijacks a bus full of children. The mayor reminds Harry that he gave his word that the killer wouldn't be "molested" in any way. Now of course, in this instance he means "molest" in the context of "to bother", but... | |
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Weapon Specialization | |
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Weapon Specialization: Harry Callahan is famous for using a .44 Magnum revolver. Responsible for popularizing the revolver as the weapon of choice for badasses everywhere. The size of the weapon reflects his lack of subtlety. | |
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Foe Romance Subtext | |
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Foe Romance Subtext: Scorpio's reaction to seeing Inspector Callahan's .44 Magnum revolver for the first time. "My, that's a big one." Reportedly actor Andrew Robinson ad-libbed that line, which made the crew laugh. One of many allusions to Scorpio's stereotypical "gayness", along with the hair and the whiny, murderous hissy fits. | |
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Evil Is Hammy | |
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Evil Is Hammy: Andy Robinson is decidedly... unsubtle as the Scorpio Killer. | |
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