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"It costs money to have a soul"


Finally a hippie in a movie tells the truth. I mean, the truth about hippies. They didn't become yuppies on accident. You'll find even the communes at that time was owned by land... by rich people. The opening night for Bullitt most likely had in its attendance people like those Chalmers was cowtowing to at the fancy party Bullitt was looking down on.

This is one of my fav movies of all time and it's interesting to see the kind of battle that goes on. To make Bullitt more of an anti-cop movie so that young people can dig the movie and the man.

The tagline says a lot in this movie.

"The word 'cop' isn't written all over him - something more puzzling is."

It's interesting that the word or occupation of COP would be puzzling? What's puzzling about a cop? Well... he's a cop that is in a movie that, without seeming like it or without it being distracting or obvious, does what it can to bring in the old-timers and the youngsters.

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uh,they weren't inferring that being a cop was puzzling. that's not what's meant when someone says "something more" this or "something more" that. "something puzzling is" doesn't have the same ring to it.

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Uh, saying that something is "more puzzling" than being a cop implies (not "infers") that being a cop is, to some degree, puzzling.

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