Dirty Harry is my favorite movie
Then I suppose you must enjoy action crime thriller type films, right?
I do but Dirty Harry is my all time favorite
I liked that it drew upon the actual case of the Zodiac Killer. It made the movie so interesting.
Yes and I loved Clint Eastwood in it as well
Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry is a 1971 American action thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the "Dirty Harry" series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan. The film drew upon the real life case of the Zodiac Killer as the Callahan character seeks out a similar vicious psychopath.
"Dirty Harry" was a critical and commercial success and set the style for a whole genre of police films
criminality threatening white communities. In Sudden Impact Clint Eastwood's character Harry Callahan goads a black rapist holding a woman hostage, 'go ahead, make my day' - meaning, 'shoot her, so I can shoot you.' The Dirty Harry series of films, like the Death Wish one appealed to a reaction against Civil Rights with fantasy violence against black and other criminals.
Another way that films titillated white audiences was with fantasies of black people rising up against white society. The British film Zulu showed a small