Dirty Harry.

Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.

Hilaire Belloc

 



 

Dirty Harry is an American film by Don Siegel. It's the first part in the Dirty Harry series and one of the best film for ever. The film is about a police officer, who is using dirty methods to protect people from violence. One of the most interesting things is that all his partners keep getting injured or even killed. There isn't any official explanation why everybody call Inspector Harry Callahan "Dirty Harry", but Frank DiGiorgio says that Harry "hates everybody: Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Dagos, Niggers, Honkies, Chinks, you name it" and Callahan says that he is doing "every dirty job that comes along".

 



I know what you’re thinking: "Did he fire six shots, or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well do ya, punk?

 

 

 

 

The film is rich with using different types of angles and one of the most famous scenes in this film, when Inspector Callahan is standing on Scorpio's wounded leg, camera is going away, higher and higher, and we still can see them, but they are getting smaller and smaller.

Another famous scene, when Harry Callahan is saying his famous speach, which is stated above, is using two different types of angles to show us different points of robber's and his views. The robber is laying on the ground, but Inspector Callahan is standing near him and watching at him from above. So the first angle is worm's eye one and the second one is high angle. Furthermore the director is using XCU (Extreme close up) when the camera is showing the robber's hand near the gun.

These are two most famous scenes. Clint Eastwood is very good as always and if you used to see him only in western films, you should see Dirty Harry - it's not the same.