Posted on 04/14/2009 2:43:46 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Clint Eastwood and Minorities Mix Like Fire and Gasoline:
Clint Eastwood is a man I can respect. A living movie legend, Clint Eastwood has directed dozens of classic movies and starred in many more films. For years he played the grizzled, nameless cowboy in the "Dollars" series and countless other Spaghetti Western shooters. He was also the titular hero of the "Dirty Harry" series. Today he continues to contribute to the movie industry by directing movies about flags and very expensive babies. So what does Clint do when old age has weathered his skin and bones? He knees Death in the crotch by directing, producing, starring and singing in a movie about him shooting minorities. Let's face it; everyone wishes their grandfather was Clint Eastwood.
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Hubby and I thought this was a great movie!
Go ahead, try and take my gun... Please!
We loved it as well
As most people know, Ennio Morricone is one of the most widely praised and admired composers of film scores of all time. He first came to the attention of many American morriconemovie watchers with his score for Sergio Leone’s “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” which starred Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles. The main theme of “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” featuring the whistling of Alessandro Alessandroni is thought to be one of the two or three most recognizable movie themes ever written. The more than 400 film and TV scores that Morricone composed and arranged include “The Mission”, “Once Upon a Time in America”, ”Once Upon a Time in the West”, “For a Fistful of Dollars”, “For a Few Dollars More”, “Cinema Paradiso”, and “La Cage Aux Folles” . Music from all of these films and more is included on “The Platinum Collection”.
Grand Torino affected my like no movie has done for a long, long time.
It would be easy to say the movie was nothing but Eastwood’s character learning how to get along with minorities. But what was not so noticable was another vein running in the opposite direction, telling today’s youth about work ethic, honesty, sacrifice, self-respect and pride - in yourself, your family, your neighborhood, and your country - whether native or adopted. Not walking around gangsta and destroying everything till there’s nothing left but criminal anarchy.
The best was the end when Walt, after teaching them a better way, sacrificing himself to give the next generation a future free of the thugs that were threatening the family, and the side-story of the priest after Walt’s death ditching his politcally correct, patronizing garbage and learning about real life and real people. A very very deep movie.
Well put. What I found most moving about it were the older characters I recognized from when I was younger; many of them..most...are gone now.
It was a really good movie. Clint was great as always. But those chinese kids SUCKED as actors. The evil Chinese were good. The black guys were good. The gramma was good.
Hubby and I thought it was a good movie and we are hard to please. We thought it would have been even better if the character had been a retired Gunny Highway and he would have taken some of the bad guys out with him.
Got all the spaghetti western tunes on my iPod.
[which is wired into an 840W amp/preamp and subwoofer on my trike]
At a 4-way stop sign, I’ll cue up “Il Triello” [The Trio] from TGTBATU.
[the final shootout scene in the cemetery, where everyone is watching everyone else, to see who makes a move, first]
It gets a lot of laughs from the other drivers.
Yes, a profound masterpiece indeed. When I saw it, the audience remained seated watching the credits roll, very quiet, deeply impacted.
Thanks for the Clint pictures. That always makes me feel better. Young or old, he’s a hottie. He is included in “The 10 Manliest Firearms”(see also “10 More Manly Guns”) by Michael Z. Williamson, an article posted on FR. In the .44Magnum section, they have Clint’s Dirty Harry picture with his .44 and give a nice description of how manly a man Clint is, and then they describe the gun. The whole article is a good read, as is the follow up “10 More Manly Guns”.
Gran Torino was awesome. Saw it on opening week with the husband. I liked it more. Loved it actually. Hubby said there was too much cussing. I said it was realistic cussing and was OK.
Loved the scenes with the barber. Clint and the barber insulting eachother because they liked eachother. Teaching the kid how to talk like a man etc.
I saw the last part of “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” on TCM a few nights ago. It was riveting.
Hey I just saw that scene the other night, how cool was that? The Trio. Also loved when Clint shot the guy down from the noose and even left the guy his half of the loot.
I finally saw this over Easter weekend with some college students in Blacksburg and we all loved it. It was great to have a discussion afterwards about what it means to be an American and what the American spirit looks like in 2009.
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