{"id":8208,"date":"2024-01-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8208"},"modified":"2024-01-16T15:07:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T20:07:53","slug":"about-dirty-harry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/about-dirty-harry\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT DIRTY HARRY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first Dirty Harry movie came out in 1971. My late first wife and I saw it in a theater during our honeymoon.&nbsp; One of my first published articles was a review of it that appeared in New Hampshire\u2019s statewide newspaper, the Manchester Union-Leader. Suffice to say (nothing against Clint Eastwood) the Dirty Harry character is not a role model for law enforcement, in my opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonetheless, it\u2019s an iconic movie. I recently ran across some interesting \u201cinside story\u201d stuff on the movie, here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"10 Things You Didn&#039;t Know About DirtyHarry\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-kQSN8QcCzM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-kQSN8QcCzM?si=Adyl0FCcjNcqOM6Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I was a critic of the film, I was particularly interested in this one, advertising that it criticized the critics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What the critics missed in DIRTY HARRY - a response to Roger Ebert, Pauline Kael and others\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WsP_Wvza3So?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WsP_Wvza3So?si=diiTWjvtG2GN9eif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out I mostly agree with its criticism of <em>some <\/em>critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, for perspective, the iconic Siskel and Ebert: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Siskel &amp; Ebert: The Secret of Dirty Harry - Magnum Force, Sudden Impact, The Enforcer, The Dresser\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DzN86wX59jA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Or watch <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DzN86wX59jA?si=yDNltn3F9JgQF09F\" target=\"_blank\">video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Dirty Harry movie came out in 1971. My late first wife and I saw it in a theater during our honeymoon.&nbsp; One of my first published articles was a review of it that appeared in New Hampshire\u2019s statewide newspaper, the Manchester Union-Leader. Suffice to say (nothing against Clint Eastwood) the Dirty Harry character [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8209,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions\/8209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}