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* RevolversAreJustBetter: Dirty Harry famously uses a gigantic Smith & Wesson Model 29, which chambers .44 magnum bullets. The gun is extremely powerful, and the long barrel plus adjustable sights make it basically a pocket-rifle. Around the time the movie was filmed, some police actually did carry such large revolvers, but they eventually proved excessively powerful.
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* RevolversAreJustBetter: Dirty Harry famously uses a gigantic Smith & Wesson Model 29, which chambers .44 magnum bullets. The gun is extremely powerful, and the long barrel plus adjustable sights make it basically a pocket-rifle. Around the time the movie was filmed, some police actually did carry such large revolvers, but they eventually proved excessively powerful.[[AwesomeButImpractical too powerful to be practical]].
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Harry presses down on the Scorpio killer's badly wounded leg (he was just shot with a .44 revolver) until he tells him where to find a girl he had kidnapped and left to suffocate. Naturally, he finds out where she is, [[spoiler: only to discover that she has already died.]] The killer promptly walks away from the law by crying "police brutality", much to Harry's disgust.
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: TortureIsIneffective: Harry presses down on the Scorpio killer's badly wounded leg (he was just shot with a .44 revolver) until he tells him where to find a girl he had kidnapped and left to suffocate. Naturally, he finds out where she is, [[spoiler: only to discover that she has already died.]] The killer promptly walks away from the law by crying "police brutality", much to Harry's disgust.
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** Police Chief Daccanelli is also one. He listens to Harry and Chico respectfully and encourages Chico to speak up when he's uncertain. When Harry is accused of beating up Scorpio, he calmly but firmly asks Harry if it's true and makes clear he doesn't want any more surveillance, standing by him but also making clear he has his limits and won't tolerate harassment.
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** Police Chief Daccanelli is also one. He listens to Harry and Chico respectfully and encourages Chico to speak up when he's uncertain. When Harry is accused of beating up Scorpio, he calmly but firmly asks Harry if it's true and makes clear he doesn't want any more surveillance, standing by him but also making clear he has his limits and won't tolerate harassment.harassment or brutality.
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* ZodiacMotifs: The psychopathic killer that Harry spends the entire movie trying to stop is nicknamed "The Scorpio Killer" by the press. His real name is never revealed.
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* ZodiacMotifs: The psychopathic killer that Harry spends the entire movie trying to stop is nicknamed "The Scorpio Killer" by the press. His real name is never revealed.revealed[[note]]The script and novelization reveal that his name is Charles Davis, and he's an escaped mental patient from Springfield, Massachusetts. This was probably dropped from the film to make him seem like more of an unknown entity, and thus more frightening[[/note]].
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Harry is a CowboyCop who happens to be a total arsehole with almost no friends; he's legendary but pretty much a BrokenAce. One of the film's most famous scenes involves him tracking down Scorpio and belting the shit out of him. Not only is Harry promptly the subject of justifiable rage by his captain, but Scorpio expresses a desire to sue.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Harry is a CowboyCop who happens to be a total arsehole with almost no friends; he's legendary but pretty much a BrokenAce. One of the film's most famous scenes involves him tracking down Scorpio and belting beating the shit out of him. Not only is Harry promptly the subject of justifiable rage by his captain, but Scorpio expresses a desire to sue.
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: The famous "Do I feel lucky?" scene, specifically after the suspect has surrendered and asks if Harry's gun indeed had 0 shots left. Pointing a weapon for fun at someone is a huge violation of gun handling protocol as one must always presume the weapon is loaded. Harry sure got lucky that his superiors didn't read him the riot act or severely discipline him for playing games with a hand cannon.
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: The famous "Do I feel lucky?" scene, specifically after the suspect has surrendered and asks if Harry's gun indeed had 0 shots left. Pointing a weapon for fun at someone is a huge violation of gun handling protocol as one must always presume the weapon is loaded. Harry sure got lucky that his superiors didn't read him the riot act or severely discipline him for playing games with a hand cannon. The DVD release added a sixth shot fired to handwave this concern, but still.
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* CoolGuns:
** The .44 Magnum, of course.
** Scorpio uses an [=MP40=] alongside his Arisaka sniper rifle.
** The .44 Magnum, of course.
** Scorpio uses an [=MP40=] alongside his Arisaka sniper rifle.
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* AdaptationalSelfDefense: Harry only fired five shots in the theatrical version, but a sixth shot was added in the DVD. Originally, he fires five shots in single action, cocks the hammer to confront the surviving bank robber, lowers the hammer when the robber backs down, then cocks the hammer (rotating the cylinder to a previously fired chamber) and pulls the trigger - clicking the hammer on a spent case - when the robber says "I gots to know". By adding another shot, the confrontation was turned into a bluff.
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* AdaptationalSelfDefense: Harry only fired five shots in the theatrical version, but a sixth shot was added in the DVD. Originally, he fires five shots in single action, cocks the hammer to confront the surviving bank robber, lowers the hammer when the robber backs down, then cocks the hammer (rotating the cylinder to a previously fired chamber) and pulls the trigger - clicking the hammer on a spent case - when the robber says "I gots to know". By adding another shot, shot (meaning that the gun is actually empty), the confrontation was turned turns from a dangerous amount of trolling into a bluff.bluff from the get-go.
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Kick The Son Of A Bitch is now a disambiguation page.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Subverted. Despite how [[HateSink depraved]] Scorpio may be, Harry’s torture of him is portrayed as horrific and he is justifiably called out for it.
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: Scorpio hits a liquor store owner across the head with a bottle he just bought and takes his gun (and another bottle).
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: Scorpio hits a liquor store owner across the head with a bottle he just bought and takes his gun (and ([[EvilIsPetty and another bottle).bottle]]).
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* RansomDrop: After kidnapping a young girl, Scorpio demands a $200,000 ransom to be delivered to him [[ComeAlone by one man]] holding a yellow bag. Inspector Callahan volunteers to be the courier, and is given instructions to race from one public phone booth to another so Scorpio can see if he's being followed. Problems encountered by Callahan include an attempted mugging, and the wrong person picking up the payphone before he reaches it. Callahan wears a HiddenWire and sends instructions to his partner Gonzales [[spoiler:which is just as well as Scorpio has no intention of letting Callahan or his kidnap victim live.]]
-->'''Scorpio:''' If I even think you're being followed, the girl dies. If you talk to anyone, I don't care if it's a Pekinese pissing against a lamppost, the girl dies...No car. I give you a certain amount of time to go from phone booth to phone booth. I ring four times. You don't answer by the fourth ring, I hang up and that's the end of the game. The girl dies.
-->'''Scorpio:''' If I even think you're being followed, the girl dies. If you talk to anyone, I don't care if it's a Pekinese pissing against a lamppost, the girl dies...No car. I give you a certain amount of time to go from phone booth to phone booth. I ring four times. You don't answer by the fourth ring, I hang up and that's the end of the game. The girl dies.
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* SuspiciousSkiMask: Scorpio wears a ski-mask as he menaces Harry, mocking the police detective and saying that he plans to kill his hostage, a fourteen year old girl, anyway, despite receiving the ransom money. (In truth, the girl is already dead, but Harry doesn't know that when he stabs Scorpio in the leg, then tortures him for the girl's location.)
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: The famous "Do I feel lucky?" scene is a huge violation of gun handling protocol as one must always presume the weapon is loaded. Harry sure got lucky that his superiors didn't read him the riot act or severely discipline him for playing games with a hand cannon.
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: The famous "Do I feel lucky?" scene scene, specifically after the suspect has surrendered and asks if Harry's gun indeed had 0 shots left. Pointing a weapon for fun at someone is a huge violation of gun handling protocol as one must always presume the weapon is loaded. Harry sure got lucky that his superiors didn't read him the riot act or severely discipline him for playing games with a hand cannon.
