{"id":1306164,"date":"2022-02-17T06:08:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T11:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1306164"},"modified":"2022-02-17T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T16:22:37","slug":"could-dirty-harry-exist-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/could-dirty-harry-exist-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Dirty Harry Exist Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcould-dirty-harry-exist-today%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1306164&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Readers-Pass-Toto-Could-Dirty-Harry-Exist-Today--1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Hollywood and the zeitgeist can be perfect strangers or bosom buddies.<\/p>\n<p>Films like \u201cEasy Rider\u201d captured the Flower Power era like few movies before or since. \u201cBlade Runner,\u201d decades ahead of our dystopian cravings, flopped in 1982 before becoming a sci-fi classic.<\/p>\n<p>And then there was \u201cDirty Harry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1971 smash arrived just as crime was spiking in cities like San Francisco, the setting for Clint Eastwood\u2019s iconic franchise. \u201cDirty\u201d Harry Callahan, tasked with taking down a sniper dubbed \u201cScorpio,\u201d breaks most of the rules to get his \u201cpunk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The creative team let the real-life Zodiac killer, still at large when the movie hit theaters, influence the fictional villain. Sometimes snagging the zeitgeist requires a nudge.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say the film rocked the box office and spawned four sequels.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re living in the golden age of reboots, remakes and \u201cre-imaginings.\u201d So what better time to bring Dirty Harry back, either the character himself or a doppelganger if the rights can\u2019t be wrangled from Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<p>Do you even need to ask why?<\/p>\n<p>Crime is spiking, soaring and roaring across Big City, USA. Urban meccas like Seattle, Minneapolis, New York and more are seeing rising rates of murder, carjackings and thievery on steroids.<\/p>\n<p>Chain stores are closing shop following countless unsolved, or ignored thefts. City officials who were scaling back police forces a year ago have reversed course, hoping we\u2019ll forget their previous decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Comedian Dave Landau described why he bolted the Big Apple to \u201cYou\u2019re Welcome\u201d podcaster Michael Malice recently, sharing tales of public sex and drug use on his daily commute. Similar stories are happening across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, we\u2019re exhausted by Hollywood\u2019s reliance on IPs (intellectual properties) but sometimes a reboot makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>We need Dirty Harry. Again. Only it isn\u2019t so simple.<\/p>\n<p>The woke contingent would do everything in its power to snuff the project before it reached a single movie screen. The original film got slammed as \u201cfascist\u201d by film critics like Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert (the latter still gave the film three stars for its artistic merit).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFascist\u201d might be the kindest comment about the project. Social justice types, and their allies in the mainstream press, would pressure the studio, stars and anyone attached to the film not to proceed as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Sound conspiratorial? Consider the all-out war against Joe Rogan\u2019s Spotify podcast or, just a few years ago, how activists made the team behind \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d give up on a show in which slavery never ended.<\/p>\n<p>The death of George Floyd nearly two years ago turned Hollywood against the police. Networks canceled long-running shows like \u201cCops,\u201d and the affable cop comedy \u201cBrooklyn Nine-Nine\u201d got an extreme makeover to reflect the Black Lives Matter sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>Cop stories, the kind TV studios have leaned on for decades, were suddenly problematic. That sentiment didn\u2019t fade away over the past two years. Broadcast shows still cast cops in a withering light across the pop culture landscape.<\/p>\n<p>You might as well pitch a Hunter Biden biopic (that film is actually happening, but it\u2019s being shot by rabble-rousing artists Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney outside the Hollywood system).<\/p>\n<p>A new \u201cDirty Harry\u201d would face formidable headwinds beyond the studio gates.<\/p>\n<p>Film scribes would turn on any new \u201cHarry\u201d project before cameras could start rolling. Recall the hostile press reaction to Bruce Willis\u2019 2018 \u201cDeath Wish\u201d reboot.<\/p>\n<p>A new \u201cHarry\u201d would require a producing team prepped for all of the above. So why bother? Because art can address societal ills in powerful, unexpected ways. Audiences deserve a cathartic path to process what it\u2019s like to live in an increasingly dangerous America.<\/p>\n<p>And it could rake in a ton of green.<\/p>\n<p>Willis\u2019 \u201cDeath Wish\u201d did just the opposite. The timing wasn\u2019t right, and Willis\u2019 star power has been in free fall for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Any such project would have to be greenlit ASAP. Movies take time from the very start to finish. So any new \u201cDirty Harry\u201d-style thriller would have to act, and fast. The sad news? It\u2019s doubtful today\u2019s frightening crime rates will plummet any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Does a studio feel lucky, though, to make this project possible?<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood and the zeitgeist can be perfect strangers or bosom buddies.Films like \u201cEasy Rider\u201d captured the Flower Power era like few movies before or since. \u201cBlade Runner,\u201d decades ahead of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1898201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1306164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}