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 Harry Callahan in the "Make my day" scene |
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| Character | Harry Callahan |
| Actor | Clint Eastwood |
| Created By | Joseph C. Harold Francis "Dirty Harry" Callahan is a fictional San Francisco Police Department inspector in the films Dirty Harry (1971 Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr (born May 31 1930 is a four-time Academy Award winning American Actor and Filmmaker. Stinson |
| First Used In | Sudden Impact |
| AFI's 100 Movie Quotes Position | #6 |
"Go ahead, make my day. Sudden Impact is a 1983 crime thriller and the 4th film in the ''Dirty Harry'' series, directed by and starring Clint Part of the AFI 100 Years series, AFI's 100 Years 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema " is a phrase written by Joseph C. Stinson and said by the character Harry Callahan from the 1983 film Sudden Impact. Harold Francis "Dirty Harry" Callahan is a fictional San Francisco Police Department inspector in the films Dirty Harry (1971 Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Sudden Impact is a 1983 crime thriller and the 4th film in the ''Dirty Harry'' series, directed by and starring Clint In 2005, it was chosen as #6 on the American Film Institute list, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The American Film Institute ( AFI) is an independent Non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 Part of the AFI 100 Years series, AFI's 100 Years 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema The "Make My Day Law" passed in several U. S. states, derives its name from this phrase. [1]
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Origins
In one scene of the movie, Harry Callahan (played by Clint Eastwood) goes into a diner for a morning cup of coffee. Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr (born May 31 1930 is a four-time Academy Award winning American Actor and Filmmaker. When Callahan discovers a robbery in the diner, he kills the robbers in a shootout. However, a surviving robber holds the fleeing waitress Loretta (Mara Corday) at gunpoint, and holds his gun to her head and threatens to shoot. Mara Corday (born Marilyn Joan Watts on January 3 1930 in Santa Monica California) is a Showgirl Instead of backing off, Harry points his .44 Magnum revolver point blank at the man's face and dares him to shoot, saying with clenched teeth and in his characteristic rough grumble, "Go ahead, make my day". Harry says "Come on, make my day. " at the end of the film just before shooting Mick the Rapist who aims with his stolen shotgun at Jennifer Spencer. Mick is a fictional character from the fourth Dirty Harry film Sudden Impact. A shotgun (also known as a scattergun) is a Firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number Jennifer Spencer is a fictional character in the film Sudden Impact, played by actress Sondra Locke.
Usage
Harry's statement in the movie implies a number of meanings, any one or more of which can be implied in common usage of this phrase: That the robber's "threat" does not scare Harry, that the robber's action would be exactly the excuse Harry needs to retaliate, that whatever harm the man causes to the waitress would not compare to the harm Harry causes to him, that Harry would enjoy the revenge, that Harry simply wants to shoot the robber to make himself feel better, or that the robber's life is worth no more than a daily thrill.
The term is used to describe Make My Day States in which a person has no obligation to retreat from an attacker before using deadly force. The name is somewhat of a misnomer since in the scenes in question Dirty Harry's use of deadly force would be justified on the grounds of self-defense or defense of the life of another person.
Influences, spoofs and parodies
- Country singer T.G. Sheppard recorded a novelty song called "Make My Day" in which Eastwood, in character, utters the iconic line at the end of each verse (and, during the song's closing fade, adds other well-known Callahan lines such as "Do you feel lucky, punk?" from the first Dirty Harry film and "A man's got to know his limitations" from Magnum Force). T G Sheppard (born Billy Neal Browder (after his father Billy Browder 20 July 1942, Humboldt, Tennessee) is an American Dirty Harry is a 1971 Crime film produced and directed by Don Siegel. For the Heltah Skeltah album see Magnum Force (album. Magnum Force was the first of the sequels to the The song appeared on the Sudden Impact soundtrack and was released as a single in 1984, reaching #62 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #12 on the Hot Country Songs chart. Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States
- U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in threatening to veto tax-increase legislation, said "I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by A veto, Latin for "I forbid" is used to Denote that a certain party has the right to stop unilaterally a certain piece of Legislation. "[2]
- In the comic G.I. Joe a kid holds up a restaurant and tells the cashier to give him his money or he could make his day. GI Joe is a line of military-themed articulated "action figures" produced by the Toy company Hasbro.
- In Back to the Future III, Marty uses this line, in conjunction with the famous scene from Taxi Driver, in front of a mirror in his underwear. Back to the Future Part III is the third installment of the ''Back to the Future'' trilogy. "You talkin' to me?" is a popular quote said by Travis Bickle a character played by Robert De Niro in the 1976 movie Taxi Driver.
- In Weird Science, Lisa says "Go ahead. . . " and Gary's dad responds questioningly with ". . . make my day?"
- In Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Borat goes into a gun shop and examines a handgun, which he then points at the camera and says "Go ahead, make my day Jew. Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a 2006 "
- In the movie Beetlejuice, Michael Keaton says "Go ahead, make my millennium. Beetlejuice is a 1988 comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton. "
- In the Miami Vice episode "Glades", when the two locals Crockett and Tubbs meet take them deep into the Everglades and dumped them there at gunpoint, one of them says, "What did that dude Clyde Eastman say in that movie, Floyd?" With Floyd responding "Go ahead, ruin my day. Miami Vice is an American Television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. "
- In a Xena: Warrior Princess second season episode titled "A Solstice Carol", Senticles uses the phrase "Go ahead, make my day" to a royal guard before shooting him with a toy weapon, while a brief sample of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme is also heard in the background. Xena Warrior Princess is an American Television series that aired from September 15 1995 until June 18 2001 The Good the Bad and the Ugly ( Il Buono il Brutto il Cattivo) is a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti western film directed
- In a segment of Divorce Court with William Keene as the judge, the wife has accused the husband of deliberately using their kids as accident victims in order to collect insurance money. Divorce Court is a Court show which centers around cases which only involve divorcing couples Barratry is the name of two legal concepts one in criminal and civil law, and one in Admiralty law. Judge Keene gives the divorce to the wife, along with complete custody of the children. When the husband reacts violently to this in the courtroom, Keene warns him, "Go ahead--make my day!"
- In the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett, the Ankh-Morpork City Watch's current motto is "Fabricati diem, pvnc". Discworld is a comedic Fantasy Book series by the British author Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948 is an English fantasy, Science fiction, and children's author. The Ankh-Morpork City Watch (originally the Night Watch commonly referred to as "The Watch" is a Fictional Police force within the Discworld This is nonsense in Latin, and doesn't actually mean "Make my day, punk", although it looks as though it ought to; this is the nature of most "Latatian" in the books, and is not unusual. See also Discworld (world This article concerns the fictional geography of Terry Pratchett 's Discworld, featured in the long running series of However, Fred Colon insists it means "To protect and serve".
- In the game Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko, Gex parodies Eastwood in one level by saying, "Go ahead, make my lunch. Gex 3 Deep Cover Gecko (renamed Gex 3 Deep Pocket Gecko for the Game Boy Color version is the last in the trilogy of Gex video "
- In the film Mrs. Doubtfire, the titular character says that if she saw Clint Eastwood, it would "make my day. Mrs Doubtfire is a 1993 Comedy film based on the Novel Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine. "
- Carman, the Christian music artist, uses the phrase in his narrative song The Champion. In Irish mythology, Carman or Carmun was a warrior-woman and sorceress from Athens who tried to invade Ireland in the days of the Tuatha A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth In the song, at the beginning of the "boxing match" between Jesus Christ and Satan, Satan says "You're dead meat Jesus. Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC / BCE —26–36 AD / CE) Satan, ( Standard Hebrew Satan'el, English accuser) is a term that originates from the Abrahamic faiths, being traditionally I'm gonna bust you up tonight", and Jesus replies "go ahead; make my day. "
See also
References
- ^ How the 'Make My Day' law cut epidemic of violent burglary, Sunday London Telegraph, October 31, 2004
- ^ Phrases that define a career
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