Harry Callahan is eating a hot dog at a greasy diner next to an adult book store and witnesses a bank robbery in progress and stops it all by himself with his .44 Magnum, before pointing his gun at one of the criminals laying on the ground shot and asking, “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” In the real world of policing this …show more content…
This makes them disregard some laws to the point they use intimidation, and sometimes torture in their crime fighting profession. In the film, Harry Callahan is chastised by a San Francisco district attorney and a Berkeley criminal rights lawyer for torturing the serial killer Scorpio who had buried his most recent victim alive. “The law’s crazy,” Callahan famously says”. The film is filled with racist and sexist stereotypes, and they openly sneer at soft sided liberals for aiding and abetting society’s scum. Dirty Harry is violent, condescending, and morally questionable. Harry Callahan ever pleased with dispensing violence and he is always a reluctant avenger. This sort of angry attitude died with Dirty Harry. Recall the film’s grim final scene, as Callahan, having slain the Scorpio killer, and chunked his gold badge into a nearby pond, because he knew he’d pushed far beyond the limits of the