Dirty Harry 6 pages

Dirty Harry (1971) is Don Siegel's 1971 San Francisco police thriller starring Clint Eastwood as Inspector Harry Callahan, in pursuit of a rooftop sniper who calls himself Scorpio (Andy Robinson). The film made Eastwood a star a second time, codified the "rogue cop" archetype that the rest of the decade would borrow from or argue with, and started a five-film franchise. This wiki covers the original.

Analysis

  • Plot Structure (Dirty Harry) — the Two Approaches reading.
  • Backbeats (Dirty Harry) — the full beat-by-beat breakdown structured by the Two Approaches rivets.
  • Dirty Harry and Pelham 123 — Same Lines, Opposite Mouths — seven pairs of mirror dialogue between Dirty Harry (1971) and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974). Same speech acts, opposite occupants — the rights-talk that Harry rejects is the rights-talk Garber respects, the "direct order" the cop refuses in one film the hijacker gives in the other, and so on. The two films make mirror-image arguments inside the same genre.

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