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#AMY STEEL NATIONAL LAMPOON VAN WILDER MOVIE#

Of course the parody wouldn't be as cynical about the nature of society and criminal justice as this film does, although at least one can say there is a fairly decent movie within semi-plausible standards. Justice is a tough thing to enforce when folks keep turning up, it seems. A hack writer who wanted to make a parody of loose cannon cops like the one Eastwood plays wouldn't have to search hard for stuff to lampoon, what with the capacity for the lead hero to have bodies turn up dead around him (criminal or not). It has a weird blend of coarse procedural clichГ©s that go hand in hand with parts that go with moments that seem destined for curious chuckles that teeter on self-parody.

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If you were wondering just where the series would go here, well, here you go. This would happen to be the last major feature role for Locke, who had decided to venture into directing (she had starred with Eastwood in five previous films) before personal disputes with Eastwood led to what she would call being blacklisted from the film industry. Pierce wrote the initial script that was meant to be a starring vehicle for just Locke, but it was later turned into a film fit for both Locke and Eastwood with the help of Joseph Stinson.

This would be the first and only Dirty Harry film that Eastwood would direct incidentally, he felt the success of the series was because people felt frustrated with the criminal justice system. The Enforcer (1976) harkened to pulling from the headlines for its main confrontation that saw plenty of action and folks sprayed around the smart remarks and vigilance continued, albeit with stock adversaries and a tone that almost could have been lampooned. Magnum Force (1973) was not a bad follow-up film, although it certainly had a diminished quality when it came to the adversarial contrast to Eastwood (who doesn't have to do much to make the lead role his own with a few key lines) the punch for its climax was fine, but it was what it was. Of course, it did not go without controversy, at least from folks that have quibbles with its moral positioning (real or imagined, depending on the source). True, having the first feature being the undisputed best of a five film series is not exactly a new thing, but one really can't forget just how engaging the original 1971 film was when it came to police procedural dramas. Remember the ham-fisted nature of the Dirty Harry series? Well, at least some of the time, anyway.

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