Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry (1971) shows a lot about the time that it was made. It isn’t like a classical movie where the protagonist is the moral good guy and the antagonist is a central bad guy. Instead, Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry serves as an anti-hero who has more than one antagonist and while he isn’t portrayed as someone you’d want to be best buddies with, you still root for him. I like this movie because though this is a noir, it tells a crime story that isn’t so black and white. To start off Dirty Harry isn’t portrayed as someone the audience should like or agree with. And unfortunately, Harry doesn’t like you either. In the movie it is stated that Harry doesn’t like anyone no matter what race, religion or gender. This sort of cold …show more content…
First, the audience naturally wants to be on the protagonist’s side. Harry is the main character thus the audience follows where he goes and gets invested in his goal. Another reason is that the antagonist is made to be un-relatable. Scorpio, the antagonist kidnaps and kills children, gets away with it, and demands money and his rights. Unappealing close ups of Scorpio and his manic bouts of whining and screaming really gives him an off-putting energy. This disdain for Scorpio in comparison to the immorality of Dirty Harry makes Harry seem like a good guy. And finally there is more than one antagonist. The police department or the law impedes Harry from getting Scorpio in jail. Once Harry finally collects Scorpio’s rifle, the evidence they needed to try Scorpio, the district attorney says they can’t use it in court because Scorpio has 4th amendment rights. In short Scorpio breaks laws, but law enforcement isn’t able to bring him to justice and thus since the only person who wants justice and is willing to do so by any means the audience turns to Harry. After Harry kills Scorpio his way (with a .44 Magnum), he throws his badge into the water. Explicitly this is a simple action, but on the implicit level Dirty Harry no longer does things through the law because the law was the only thing to stop him from getting to Scorpio
Edward Bloor attempts to make the reader empathize with the antagonist. The ways in which he does this are very interesting. He uses three particular methods to achieve the goal of causing the reader to empathize with the "bad guys". These methods include having the antagonists reveal themselves as someone else, having the antagonists tell about all of the hardships that they have endured, and having the antagonists explain why they did something evil (such as kidnapping). Edward Bloor takes on a challenge when he attempts to make the reader empathize with people that he had intentionally tried to make the reader dislike earlier in the story.
When Philip Levine wrote the poem "You Can Have It "he allowed his tone of hurt, anger, despair, and frustration to immerse into the readers heart, and through specific words and phrases such as "Thirty years will pass," "dies," "sleeps,' and "am I gonna make it" the reader is given the ability to sympathetically wrestle the duende in Levine's shadow. To begin Levine is already at home and he can hear his brother trudge up the staircase to the door. Instantly, he saw his brother drag his prostrated body through the house and with an extreme effort he sprawled his limp body across the bed- "You can have it" are the words that escaped his fatigued spirit and in turn were left echoing in Levine's mind. Next, with a hasty glance in his brother's direction the illumination from the evenings glimmering twilight forces Levine to see his brother's colorless physique from the drudgery of the daily labor, and the
This movie was a tale of an immigrant seeking money and power who untimely set up his own demise. The producers did a good job at pointing out certain features that let you into the life of an organized crime leader. He tells of his humble beginnings and shows you in details how he rose to the top. The producer had a point to make and I took that point as being you can never get and stay someone good while being bad. The sound effects and graphics also makes this movie. They show just enough to intrigue you but yet not to completely make you sick to your stomach. The music is very telling and
He discusses demise in the primary sentence, saying, “The marvelous thing is that it’s painless” (Hemingway 826). As the story creates, Harry as often as possible specifies his desire to pass on or the way he feels that passing is close now. “You can shoot me.” (Hemingway 826) and “I don’t want to move” (Hemingway 827), and “There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you” (Hemingway 827) and “Can’t you let a man die as comfortably as he can without calling him names? “ (Hemingway 827). It sounds as though Harry is surrendering, not so much, since he is a weakling, despite the fact that his wife calls him that, yet more since he feels that, it is more agreeable for him right now to set down and pass on as opposed to sitting tight for a truck or plane that will most likely never arrive. During the rest of the story, Harry has several moments when he feels the proximity of
He then sees his cousin, who he lives with and hates. They then get in a fight and Harry pulls out his wand and at that exact moment two dementors attack them. Dudley thinks Harry is attacking him, so he punches Harry. Harry then heroically saves them both by producing a patronus and driving away the dementors. They get back home and Harry gets a letter from the Ministry of Magic that says because he used magic he is expelled (Harry is underage and underage wizards aren't supposed to use magic).
I believe the reason that, 'The Godfather', is such a great film is because it lets audiences decide whether they like the characters or not. Too many movies made about organized crime begin with some seemingly random act of violence. 'The Godfather', however, lets it be known from the start to judge the characters in the film based on what type of person they are instead of the criminal activities they may engage in.
The Godfather is the “dark-side of the American dream story” (Turan, pp2). The film follows the practices of a fictional Italian mafia family, the Corleone’s. Though most Americans do not condone the practices of the Italian mafia, they cannot deny that Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather is a cinematic masterpiece. This film gave insight to a mysterious way of life that the average person does not have knowledge of. As the audience is educated about the mafia they also are introduced to many stereotypes.
Just to quickly run through the two previous books; Harry Potter is a wizard, who’s parents were killed by the worst dark wizard ever known. The reason why Harry Potter is still around, is because Lord Voldemort failed to kill Harry. His spell hit Harry, but then backfired on Voldemort taking all of his powers with him. Harry is so famous for two things. Withstanding the powers of Lord Voldemort, and, taking him back in to the underworld in hiding. In the first book, Harry receives a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He’s eventually allowed to go, and spends the next six months there learning magic, getting into trouble, and trying to solve mysteries of his past, and the school. In the second book, Harry goes back to his second year at Hogwarts, and gets into more trouble, figures out many astonishing mysteries and learns loads more magic. His best friends in the two books consist of Ron and Hermione (two of his fellow wizard students) and Hagrid the gamekeeper who was expelled from Hogwarts but allowed a job as the gamekeeper.
Oh the many aspects of this movie, from the camera angles to the acting. The Godfather Part II directed by Francis Ford Coppola, It resides in the same category as Goodfellas and Heat. The movie Goodfellas is so spectacular due to the fact that it demonstrates how life in the mafia actually was and not some sugar coated film version of the mob, nevertheless, it sets so many standards for movies to come. With Heat it shows how a broken man can save his family. In The Godfather Part II they manage to show the lighter and darker side of the mob through camera and lighting.
In his own eyes, Harry is a poor nobody. He is young, modest, and innocent, living a sheltered life and naïve to the immensity of the world. The truth is that Harry is a victim to elements of another world. For instance, the dark Lord Voldemort, an evil wizard, attempts to kill Harry and ends up destroying his family, leaving him with his cruel relatives. Otherwise unharmed, Harry is left with his lightening bolt scar on his forehead representing his terrible past, marking his fame, and symbolizing his destiny. Even though Harry leads a boring, ordinary life on Privet Drive with “the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious” (1), Harry’s scar hints at something more than ordinary,
Polanski: Thematic and Stylistic Day after day, we exist in society without without realizing its corruption. We are blinded by the American dream. That thing that’s been promised to every person that manages to come to the west, but they still haven’t obtained it. It’s smoke and mirrors in it’s purest form and Polanski decides to tear that shit down. Roman Polanski introduces Neo-Noir through his 1974 film Chinatown.
At the start of the book, Harry was forty-seven and was upset over the belief that he had two separate being that made up his soul, a wolf, and a man, that he decides to kill himself at the age of fifty. After being given a book that spoke about the Steppenwolf, and explained that people are not singular or even two being, they are much more than that. Harry refused the idea and claims that the book did not know him. After being rude to a professor's wife, he believed his wolf side has beaten what was left of his humanity and planned to kill himself early. He stopped at a bar and met a woman named Hermine, who made it her duty to open him up to life. With her help Harry learned to stop analyzing everything and to love life and what it has to offer. Towards the end of the book, at Fancy Dress Ball Harry allowed himself to be immersed in the dancers and eventually was led from their to the school of laughter, where he learns that laughter is the most important thing to help people get through life (Hesse, Steppenwolf). Throughout the plot, Sartre’s belief that people need to take responsibility for their own lives is shown, as Harry’s failure of it almost leads to his suicide, yet his acceptance of it saves him (Baker, “Existentialist of Note”). Harry lets himself float through life lonely and depressed, unwilling to change in fear of losing his independence. Yet Hermine
One of Dobby's primary qualities is the respect he has for Harry, even before he is liberated due to Harry's activities. This inclination just keeps on working as Harry, over and over, controls Dobby with the goal that he is unequipped for hurting himself. Despite the fact that Harry's side of the relationship commonly comprises of giving Dobby an incidental blessing and soliciting favors from him, they do build up a bond and a regard for each other. This bond is shaped in sympathy. Harry realizes what it feels like to be mishandled on account of his existence with his family.
the bad. The main characters on the good side are Harry Potter and his two friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, and on the bad the main character is Lord Voldomort. Harry Potter is a courageous, brave, and kind person. The whole series revolves around Harry Potter and Lord Voldomort. Ron Weasley is Harry’s closest friend and is not always the brightest but he is a good person who always stands with Harry no matter the situation. Hermione Granger is a book worm, straight A student who turns every assignment in on time and always does whatever her teachers tell her to do, and because of her skill and knowledge she has helped the trio out of several tight situations. Lord Voldomort is the most evil of the evil. His goal is to rule the world, kill every muggle (non magical people) so that only wizards are left and, most importantly, to conquer death. Through out the entire series Voldomort has tried to kill Harry a total of eight times but has failed all because of his short-sightedness and un-willingness to admit to his weaknesses.
...ck and a potential pitfall. Someone full of hate and greed, such as Tom Marvolo Riddle, who has never known it even once in their entire life, cannot understand its full magical power. Love is one of the hardest and strongest kinds of magic and is perhaps the fabric that holds the wizarding world of Harry Potter together. Dumbledore says to Harry “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love” (Harry Potter and the Deathly Halllows 722). The series stresses that it is important to love. It is obvious throughout the series that Harry embraces his history and duty by accepting the soul-purifying act of practicing self-sacrificial love. It is no surprise that the Harry Potter series is so widely in a time of fear, uncertainty, and unrest. Harry defeats evil not by fearing it, but by embracing it and overcoming it with love.