FADE IN:

Finally got round to watching Dirty Harry. 

Had never seen it before.

AMA.

There is nothing more powerful in this world than words.

You know what, that's one of the things I just didn't get - why have those series of lines twice? Also, i need to watch it again now so I can count the bullets he fires. 

200 $degen

✅ 200 tipped ∙ 2 remaining

200 / 202 (99%)
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Wouldn't that work still without having heard him say it already? I don't know, maybe not. Felt a little less impactful the second time round, though, and it's kind of built into our expectation of the genre that harry will probably have a bullet left to kill him. I don't think we lose anything if we cut the lines from the start. Maybe he says it to every deadbeat he kills, though.

I think we’re supposed to think that this is what Harry says when he knows he’s out of bullets and is trying to mind fuck someone into surrender. So in the climax we’re supposed to believe that Harry is at a disadvantage against the psycho, then it is a surprise to us when he still has a bullet left.