Could have easily been rewritten as Dirty Harry 6
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — In the Line of Fire
rowla — 9 years ago(May 16, 2016 12:10 AM)
Every time I watch this, I can't help thinking that it would've been a perfect conclusion to the Dirty Harry series.. Would've had it go out with a bang instead if the whimper that was The Dead Pool.
Yes, I know that he's a cop in the Harry series, and Special Services in this, but I'm sure they could have rewritten the script appropriately.. -
joekiddlouischama — 9 years ago(March 05, 2017 09:18 PM)
Horrigan is a different man than Callahan—more open, more talkative, more romantic. In short, he is more human and not mythic. Sure, there are some similarities—they are both world-weary loners frustrated by the brass—but there are more differences.
Besides, there was no way to mesh the two characters' histories. So Callahan would have started out as a Secret Service agent, then headed to San Francisco after the JFK assassination in 1963 to become a homicide inspector, and then sometime around 1990, when he was turning sixty, he would have headed back to Washington, DC, to become a Secret Service agent again? That trajectory would have made no sense, and the Dirty Harry identity would have totally distracted from the rest of the material.