Harry Brown: The New Paul Kersey
Watch Michael Cain as Paul Kersey in Death Wish VI: Pensioner’s Revenge. The similarities between Harry Brown and Paul Kersey are endless: both have war time backgrounds and through the loss of someone close to them and no help from the police, decided to take the law into their own hands and become vigilantes for blood justice. The biggest difference between Harry and all of the Death Wish films is that we care about him. Charles Bronson couldn’t emote even if you slowly ripped every appendage from his body. He made a career of being a masculine stoic. If my wife was murdered, then a few years later my catatonic daughter and house keeper were raped beaten and murdered, and even later my best friend during the war was killed by a gang of thugs – I might shed a tear or two. Harry is older than Paul was and suffers from emphysema. He has lost his wife child and friend and he mourns – we watch this man break down. He is all alone in a w...