Clinten om Dirty Harry-filmene
“The police were not held in great favour particularly, the Miranda decisions had come down [forcing police to read arrested suspects their rights], people were thinking about the plight of the accused. I thought, ‘Let’s do a picture about the plight of the victim.'”
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There are actually echoes of Dirty Harry in Changeling, Eastwood says, and he’s not making any concessions to liberals: “I get a kick out of it because the judge convicts the killer to two years in solitary confinement, and then to be hanged. In 1928 they said: ‘You can spend two years thinking about it and then we’re going to kill you.’ Nowadays they’re sitting there worrying about how putting a needle in is a cruel and unusual punishment, the same needle you would have if you had a blood test.”
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