By popular demand??
On the commentary track to Magnum Force (1973), the second of the five Dirty Harry movies starring Clint Eastwood, the co-screenwriter, John Milius (who also co-wrote, uncredited, the screenplay for the first movie in the series, Dirty Harry [1971]), said that the scenes of the two women throwing themselves (separately, mind you) at Harry Callahan were not in the original script; Milius said that Eastwood wanted them included owing to the large number of letters that he received from women, who wrote to tell him that they wanted to see women coming on to Harry.
Milius took pains to note that the women all said that they didn't want to see Harry coming on to women; they wanted to see women coming on to Harry.
Hence, the scenes of the divorced (separated?) wife of Harry's traffic cop buddy, Charlie McCoy (played by Mitch Ryan, who would later play Greg's rich dad on the sitcom Dharma & Greg), Carol (Christine White), making a pass at Harry with her three rambunctious kids rampaging through the house (FAIL!) and Harry's downstairs neighbor Sunny (Adele Yoshioka) -- whose three main character traits seem to be (1) Oriental, (2) half-naked, and (3) gagging for it -- flinging herself at Harry, and waiting in his small, depressing apartment for him when he's called away on police business (SCORE!).
My wife found Milius' assertion highly questionable. ("Clint said he had to give the people what they wanted." RIIIIIIIGHT.) She also disliked these mash scenes, particularly the one with Sunny -- this despite a certain morbid fascination with the Showtime cable TV show Californication.
OTOH, my wife really dug seeing Harry coolly take out two would-be airplane hijackers (Milius also remarked on the commentary track, "They actually called them 'hijackers' then"), and the first execution by one of the rogue cops of a just-acquitted "labor leader," his shyster, and two of his, uh, "assistants." This from someone who claims to not enjoy action movies (outside the occasional Jackie Chan picture) or on-screen violence.
Milius took pains to note that the women all said that they didn't want to see Harry coming on to women; they wanted to see women coming on to Harry.
Hence, the scenes of the divorced (separated?) wife of Harry's traffic cop buddy, Charlie McCoy (played by Mitch Ryan, who would later play Greg's rich dad on the sitcom Dharma & Greg), Carol (Christine White), making a pass at Harry with her three rambunctious kids rampaging through the house (FAIL!) and Harry's downstairs neighbor Sunny (Adele Yoshioka) -- whose three main character traits seem to be (1) Oriental, (2) half-naked, and (3) gagging for it -- flinging herself at Harry, and waiting in his small, depressing apartment for him when he's called away on police business (SCORE!).
My wife found Milius' assertion highly questionable. ("Clint said he had to give the people what they wanted." RIIIIIIIGHT.) She also disliked these mash scenes, particularly the one with Sunny -- this despite a certain morbid fascination with the Showtime cable TV show Californication.
OTOH, my wife really dug seeing Harry coolly take out two would-be airplane hijackers (Milius also remarked on the commentary track, "They actually called them 'hijackers' then"), and the first execution by one of the rogue cops of a just-acquitted "labor leader," his shyster, and two of his, uh, "assistants." This from someone who claims to not enjoy action movies (outside the occasional Jackie Chan picture) or on-screen violence.