In Cool Hand Luke, the movie begins with
the word, VIOLATION, across the screen. The word is
from a parking meter and sets the tone for the entire movie.
Luke Jackson, the title character, is arrested for cutting off
the heads of the town's parking meters while drunk, or in
legal terms, for destroying municipal property while under
the influence of alcohol. When asked why he cut the heads
off the parking meters, Luke answers, "You could say I
was settling an old score." While it leaves the viewers
believing that he probably received a parking ticket at some
time in the past, no clues are given to what the old score
may have been. He is sentenced to two years in a road
prison, in a chain gang. His punishment did not fit the crime,
and today, such an act would probably result in time spent
in community service rather than a hard labor prison gang.
To further accentuate that his sentence is worse than his
crime, Luke Jackson dies at the end of his story. Luke is a......
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