No doubt, Clint Eastwood would have a wry smile if he read this article, and this thread.
My question for Clint: Why the fascination with violence and women in many of your movies? Reminds me of the medievel artist that painted a completely different picture within his portraits of royalty. His message can be viewed only through an skewed mirror.
As I said in another message, the academy could institute a Joseph Goebbels Excellence in Film-making award, just to give the first place nod to Million Dollar Baby. Who knows how that would help subsequent theatrical sales, or the eventual DVD at Wal-Mart (which apparently rang up big sales for the Passion, sort of the 'other corner' to Eastwood's film)? But if they did, might his reaction surprize some? I wonder if Eastwood would wryly smile and say, thank you, for the consideration? It would be most politically incorrect, for someone so PC as Clint, however, to look to the heavens, hold up the statue and with a tear in his eye say - we did it, Joe.
"My question for Clint: Why the fascination with violence and women in many of your movies?"
My film prof asked the same question about Hitchcock, and openly pondered a latent misogynism in his movies.