Cool Hand Luke came out a bit before my time, and while I’ve watched it a handful of times, I can’t say I really understood it. Maybe there wasn’t much to understand. Paul Newman’s character was sold as something of an iconoclastic Everyman, a guy who’d decided he’d had enough of society and wasn’t going to take any more. To me, he just came off as a stupid criminal.
🚨 HOLY CRAP. This mob of Wisconsin State Fair thug "youths" not only carried out an ALL-OUT BRAWL, ATTACKING anyone they saw, but they punched a police officer in the face!
People were SLAMMED to the concrete, then were even mobbed while they were down
Our society should NOT… pic.twitter.com/UaQL88IkcP
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 17, 2026
