Cool Hand Luke 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 …showed first 75 words of 1009 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1009 total…else. While his death represented his personal freedom, it served as good to none, except for a good discussion here and there by the fellow prisoners. To that extent, the hero lived on, but his death did not encourage anyone else to follow in his shoes, nor did it make heroes of the authorities. Ultimately, his death reinforces the idea that you can't beat the system and that is a VIOLATION to the human spirit.