I love Harry in the shooting contest. The way he approaches the combat part with his cool and confident Dirty Harry style. He is not worried about any defensive, by the book, skills as Davis has been trained. He just calmly comes in with his bad ass walk and intimidation, and gets the job done. I know he doesn't win but he ultimately blew Davis away.
I also like the way he says "Brazil". I used to try to imitate that when I was a kid.
Actually, Harry loses the contest on purpose so he has a ready-made excuse to try Davis's gun and retrieve the bullet later.
There is no way Davis could have legitimately defeated Dirty Harry ;-)
Cha-ching. Thank goodness somebody else realized that he threw the contest besides me.
I've made a huge mistake.
"Cha-ching. Thank goodness somebody else realized that he threw the contest besides me."
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Harry also was making a symbolic gesture toward the corrupt cops by purposefully shooting the cop target.
Also, the symbolism. Don't forget that as well.
shareIn coming second, Harry knew that the record book would be amended after Davis was proved to be a crooked cop. Harry wins.
I like how he shoots the cop target because at this point a cop was the bad guy
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Seriously though he should have kept one round to shoot that stupid idiot who yelled out "That was a good guy! THE LAST ONE WAS A GOOD GUY!"
Duh.
It's a play on how cops are more often than not, shown as the good guys and non-cops are shown as the bad guys and this film shows two different things.
1, How Harry, while not being an entirely by the book cop who plays by his own rules, is not a vigilante.
And.
2, How even cops who are supposed to be the good guys, can be the bad guys as well.
LOL, agreed.
shareYep one of my fav scenes in the film.
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Don't that sequence remind you of "Sledge Hammer" & the 'loudner' scene?
shareI've always wanted to try my hand at shooting on one of those courses with the pop-ups.
Looks like fun
~~ If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story ~ Orson Welles
One thing about that shooting competition: I used to shoot competitively, and I never - EVER - saw an an audience of spectators at the range.
Never.
Sorry I join so late, I also thought he shot the last cop picture because he wanted to make a point about how he thought a cop could be the killer.
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