@deanduncan63Saw #DirtyHarry. Sophisticated/simple. Cinematically: efficient policier, w’ tremendous effusions (the football field!) …
… Ideologically: straw men (howling sociopathic long-hairs) to help you drive home your law & order, take-no-prisoners platform …
… Or is that it? Scorpio/Callahan, like Scar/Ethan E. in The Searchers, keep sort of resembling each other …
… Is the protagonist the bad guy? A plague on both their houses? Sophisticated X 2?
#DirtyHarry. Gran Torino is the flip side of this same dire coin! So interesting to see an idea/career/individual evolve …
… Anger & aggression, growing into humility & mercy.