Show Notes
In the latest installment of SJ’s Video Weltanschauung, Dimitri and Khalid dissect the Silent Majority’s cinematic counterattack on early ‘70s San Francisco Bay Area leftism: “Dirty Harry” and its four sequels.
Topics include: “Dirty Harry” as the ur-text of modern American cop dramas/action movies, the Bay Area counterculture from the POV of the pig, Harry’s implied neurodivergence (shades of Cobra), the new Criminal Subject who’s Just That Evil and cannot be bargained with or understood, New Hollywood fashlord John Milius, the PTK’d Vietnam Vet undertones of the first three films, the SLA-inspired villains of “The Enforcer”, the triumph of political amnesia during the Reagan Years, Ronnie quoting Harry’s “Go ahead, make my day!” line in a fight over welfare cuts, the sinister Spectacle-Secrecy dialectic, and much more…
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