Clint told the truth:
Posted on 05/21/2017 2:19:04 PM PDT by mdittmar
CANNES, France (AP) -- Clint Eastwood regaled the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday with stories from his long career, predicted a possible return to acting and decried the rise of political correctness.
Eastwood was honored with several screenings of his films, including one marking the 25th anniversary of "Unforgiven." In a staged conversation on Sunday, the 86-year-old director said he would revisit acting "someday."
The last time Eastwood appeared on screen was 2012's "Trouble With the Curve." Before that, he starred in his own 2008 film, "Gran Torino."
Eastwood didn't talk about current political events, but while discussing his then-controversial 1971 film "Dirty Harry," he waded into a topic he's touched on before: so-called political correctness.
"A lot of people thought it was politically incorrect," Eastwood said of "Dirty Harry." ''That was at the beginning of the era that we're in now, where everybody thinks everyone's politically correct. We're killing ourselves by doing that. We've lost our sense of humor."
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I LOVED Gran Torino...more than I expected to. I’m sitting on Trouble with the Curve waiting on a good time to watch. Clint Eastwood is a national treasure.
I watched “Creature From The Black Lagoon” a few months ago. After watching it there was a short bit of comment on the DVD.
Also an interview with Ricou Browning. One of the tidbits was that Clint Eastwood had a very short scene as an extra. Sure enough you could recognize him easily.
I just realized it was a sequel not the original in which Eastwood appeared.
Lol, so harsh! But dang, doesn’t his character (and Clint, himself) say what we all want to say most of the time?!
Empty chair, empty presidency comes to mind. :)
To quote Eastwood’s character from his woefully under-rated movie Space Cowboys: “The clock’s ticking Bob. And I’m only getting older.”
Bo Hopkins is acting again at 75. I think the guy is a great actor and totally hilarious.
I’d love to see him do Hamlet. “To be or not to be, that is the question...” [Sound of Smith & Wesson cocking] “Oh, did you think I meant me? I meant you.”
I always liked that movie, but it just always seemed to me that they wrote themselves into a corner and had to throw together some kind of ending. The last 30 minutes just seemed kinda duct taped together.
Dirty Harry is wildly misunderstood by its critics. He’s not a vigilante or reckless antihero. He is a guy doing what must be done against a system that is growing hostile to justice.
Dirty Harry movies are the best! One of my favorite segments from “The Enforcer”.
CALLAHAN: Hypothetical situation, huh? All right, I’m standing on the street corner and Mrs. Grey here comes up and propositions me... that if I come home with her, for five dollars she’ll put on an exhibition with a Shetland pony.
MRS. GREY: If this is your idea of humor, Inspector...
BOARD EXAMINER: All right, what are you trying to do here, Callahan?
CALLAHAN: I’m just trying to find out if anybody in this room knows what the hell law’s being broken... besides cruelty to animals.
I think his best bet would be to assemble a stellar class of senior actors and actresses, and then the hard part, putting them in an interesting movie. Such as:
Doris Day
Ann-Margret
Dick Van Dyke
Roger Moore
Kim Novak
Tippi Hedren
Christopher Plummer
Eva Marie Saint
Nanette Fabray
Martin Landau
Max Von Sydow
Gene Hackman
Robert Wagner
Joanne Woodward
Robert Duvall
James Earl Jones
etc.
to those of us just turned 75, Clnt is a model.
We must plan for a long future
Well I hate to say it, but if he’s going to do it he better hurry up.
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