FeiraFranca: dirty harry

quinta-feira, 8 de junho de 2006

dirty harry

... do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?

3 comentários:

naifa disse...: "De culto" e magistral!
Recomendo também "O Bom, o Mau e o Vilão", em particular a sua cena final, no cemitério: um duelo ao sol em que o compasso de espera para "sacar" dura mais que 2 minutos de filme, ao som duma música indescritível!
Clint Eastwood RULES!; 8/6/06 14:52
fritzthegermandog disse...: cara naifa:

folgo em saber que é também fan do "the dirtiest". Como dizia um dos seus placards publicitários da época, sobre Harry Callahan "You don´t assign him to murder cases. You just turn him loose."
De qualquer maneira, a sugestão que igualmente dá - o bom o mau, e o vilão - é de igual maneira imperdível. Nunca o western do esparguete, vestido por gabardines ao sol do meio dia, foi tão encantador e nunca as cenas da guerra civil norte-americana foram filmadas com tanta magnitude como aquelas que sergio leone filmou aqui próximo na cidade de Burgos (há sempre chaparros e oliveiras a servir de fundo em cada cena).
A cena que refere é de igual forma magistral no "suspense" em que nos coloca, para mais atendendo ao facto de logo no início, sergio leone revelar no enredo quem é o Bom, o Mau e o Vilão. Simplesmente magnífico!!; 8/6/06 17:34
fritzthegermandog disse...: Callahan drives by in his navy blue sedan and illegally parks (at a red curb!) near Pine Street in front of an adult Book Shop, and saunters over to a local Burger Den restaurant (their specialty is Jumbo Hot Dogs). While ordering his "usual" lunch (a jumbo hot dog), he cooly asks the counter-server Jaffe (Woodrow Parfrey) about the tan Ford parked across the street in front of the bank. He suspects a bank robbery ("a 211 in progress") and has Jaffe phone the police department for backup support. As he muses to himself, "if they'll just wait 'til the cavalry arrives," he hears the sounding of the bank's alarm system and a gunshot, and must put down his lunch after one bite: "Oh, shit!"

Callahan calmly strides outside with his monstrous, long-barreled, heavyweight Smith and Wesson .44 Magnum ready for action against the three black men. He singlehandedly stops the heist by shooting and wounding one of the fleeing robbers who backs out at the bank door [one shot], and another [second shot] at a second suspect who runs from the bank and jumps into a getaway car with a driver. Another shot [third shot], that misses its target, is heard when the camera looks from behind the driver. Another blast smashes the windshield of the car driving straight at Harry [fourth and fifth shots], causing it to crash into a flower stand and fire hydrant and turn on its side. Still chewing his lunch and amidst water spewing from the plug, he kills [with a sixth bullet] the passenger in the upturned car who attempts to flee (and then Harry looks down to see his own pantleg with blood seeping through from a leg wound). Finally, he walks over to the entrance of the bank and threatens the wounded bank robber (Albert Popwell) who is reaching for his shotgun on the sidewalk. With an oversized view of his non-regulation weapon, he states his most memorable, courageous and forceful line (ritualistically repeated again almost verbatim at the film's conclusion) when he baits the criminal to gamble on luck with his lethal version of Russian Roulette:

"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 as 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?"

When the thief surrenders and then asks: "Hey, I gots to know," Harry's gun clicks empty as he pulls the trigger aimed at the robber's head. The criminal is spared after making his choice; 8/6/06 17:52