Corrected entry: The blackmail note Harry finds after the first murder is pinned to an antenna. When the note is projected at the Mayor's office there is no trace of the rather big hole in the middle. (00:05:30)
NancyFelix
18th Apr 2004
Dirty Harry (1971)
18th Apr 2004
Dirty Harry (1971)
Corrected entry: When Harry stops the bank robbers he gets shot in his leg. The blood on his pants is way too bright, even if it were arterial blood (but it's not, looking at the casual way he is dealing with his injury). (00:12:15)
Correction: No injury from being shot - it was ketchup that splattered from the hot dog he was eating. Hence the casual way he's looking at it.
Correction: Harry went for treatment and asked for a bandage and Mercurochrome.
18th Apr 2004
Dirty Harry (1971)
Corrected entry: Harry waits on a bridge for the bus to jump on. When the bus comes closer he starts climbing down, but then, in a reflection in the windshield, he is still standing as before. (01:31:20)
Correction: When Harry climbs down he climbs to a lower level of the bridge. When he is next seen in the reflection of the bus windshield, he is now standing at that lower level.
18th Apr 2004
Dirty Harry (1971)
Corrected entry: When the car with the bank robbers runs over the fire hydrant the water fountain comes with quite a delay. (00:11:55)
Correction: In my copy of the film, you can see the water erupt immediately as soon as the car hits the hydrant and starts to turn over. The only delay is the car turning completely on its side allowing the water to form a column shooting into the air.
18th Apr 2004
Dirty Harry (1971)
Corrected entry: On the way to Jaffe's diner Harry passes by a car in which a bank robber is waiting for his accomplices to come out. After he places his order Harry asks Jaffe if this car's engine is running, which he could tell from the exhaust smoke the car is emitting. However, when Harry drove by there were no fumes, only now there are, but Harry hadn't looked back since. (00:10:35)
Correction: The getaway driver could have started the car while Harry was walking into the diner.
18th Apr 2004
Dirty Harry (1971)
Corrected entry: When Harry drives by a car in which a bank robber is waiting, there is a close-up of the driver lighting a cigarette and dropping the previous one on the ground. Here we count eight other butts, which, even if he is a fast smoker, mean that he has been waiting there for about an hour, which is a bit long for a decent bank robbery. (00:09:50)
Correction: All of the robbers could have been waiting in the car finalizing their plans. Who's to say how long it took to rob the bank anyway? Their plans may have involved two drivers (one there, one away), and he's been there long enough to see them arrive too.
18th Apr 2004
Dirty Harry (1971)
Corrected entry: On the whole Dirty Harry is a realistic movie, but the way Harry shoots Scorpio without any aiming while Scorpio is holding a boy in front of him is not only something no policeman, not even a tough guy like Harry, would risk, but beyond any fathomable shooting skills (Wilhelm Tell says hi, but even he didn't shoot from the hip). (01:35:10)
Correction: The first time I ever tried point shooting (not using sights) I was able to consistantly hit a paper plate at about 30 feet with my pistol. There is a scientific and thoroughly tested technique as to how to hit with a handgun without using sights; a technique used extensively by American law enforcement officers. As for Harry taking stupid risks such as shooting at suspects hiding behind innocents, take a look at the rest of the film and it's four sequels where he uses an overpenetrative weapon in a crowded urban center countless times, crashes a car through a building to kill a liquor store robber (whom, by the way, is holding hostages), kills his boss with an improvised time bomb, beats information out of a priest in the middle of a church... well, perhaps I'm making this longer than it ought to be but the point is that Dirty Harry is a guy who would swat a fly with an anvil in a glass house if he thought that the fly needed swatting with no thoughts about the obvious consequenses, no matter how serious.
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Correction: The note wasn't pinned, it was held on by a clip on the side of the note. There was never any hole.
Bishop73