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Eastwood Calls Critics Extremists
imdb.com ^ | 2/21/05

Posted on 02/22/2005 2:01:25 AM PST by paudio

Clint Eastwood has acknowledged that a plot twist in Million Dollar Baby that raises the issue of euthanasia "does hit you with sort of a left hook," and that when he attempted to raise money to produce the film "nobody seemed enthralled with that." In an interview appearing in the current issue of Time magazine, Eastwood suggested that he was able to keep the plot twist secret because the movie was made "under the radar. Nobody knew we were making it, and nobody gave a damn that we were making it." Eastwood said that he was surprised that it took so long for the matter to become the subject of controversy. Asked about the fact that the attack on the film comes from his "constituency," Eastwood, generally regarded as a Republican conservative, responded, "Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right, you meet the same idiots coming around from the left."


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KEYWORDS: clinteastwood; euthanasia; milliondollarbaby
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To: Vaquero
Quigley Down Under, The Sacketts, The Shadow Riders, The quick and the Dead, Crossfire Trail etc. were all superior to 'The Unforgiven'.

Any Louis L'Amour novel that has been made into a movie is superior to 'The Unforgiven' in our opinion!

41 posted on 02/22/2005 5:51:15 AM PST by Dustbunny (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
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To: paudio
Eastwood, generally regarded as a Republican conservative, but actually more of a libertarian who voted Republican but was never comfortable with values conservatism, ...

(Thought they shouldn't be allowed to imply that Clint was turning on his own)

42 posted on 02/22/2005 5:55:08 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (Have you visited http://c-pol.blogspot.com?)
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To: B Knotts
I wonder if the "conservative Republican" Clint Eastwood is right now cheering on Michael Schiavo.

To oppose the slow-motion, excruciatingly painful murder of an innocent, mentally impaired but otherwise physically healthy person would be "easy", to use Eastwood's word. To oppose a method of "mercy killing" that would have the Left in full riot mode if it was proposed as the method for executing people on death row would be "easy". To oppose an act that makes a bullet to the head seem humane would be "easy". Only extremists would oppose such a thing.

43 posted on 02/22/2005 6:07:38 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (Have you visited http://c-pol.blogspot.com?)
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To: paudio
Eastwood said that he was surprised that it took so long for the matter to become the subject of controversy

Which appears to show that he intended to push the envelope with this subplot all along.

44 posted on 02/22/2005 6:09:53 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (Have you visited http://c-pol.blogspot.com?)
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To: Dustbunny

I liked most of those westerns....(I hope you didnt mean the Sharon Stone Quick and the Dead, which was crap but the Sam Elliot TQATD was pretty good for a made for TV movie)

but in my humble opinion the best 2 westerns in the last 20 years were the 'Unforgiven' (it helps if you like dark films), and Tombstone..."why my dear, your not wearing a bustle....how lewd"

Hey...how about the original Lonesome Dove miniseries...excellent


45 posted on 02/22/2005 6:10:49 AM PST by Vaquero (Single Arms Shooting Society member, alias 'Moosejaw')
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To: paudio
And when you go far enough to the right, you meet the same idiots coming around from the left."

Explains Pat Buchanan quite nicely. ;)

46 posted on 02/22/2005 6:14:32 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves
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To: gunnyg
Barry Goldwater
US politician (1909 - )

He's dead, Jim.

47 posted on 02/22/2005 6:16:12 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (AuH2O.)
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To: paudio

It's interesting. I just watched "Space Cowboys" again the other day, and I realized that the same issue is addressed in that film as well. The character who has inoperable cancer volunteers to take a one-way trip into space in order to save the world.

Okay, not quite the same situation. Somebody had to go, and it might as well be the guy who's gonna die slowly and horribly anyway. I haven't seen "Baby", but I'm not hard-line on assisted suicide - yet. I'm not sure what I would do if it were me.

In any event, based on the recurrence of the theme, I wonder if ol' Clint is exploring some internal concerns through his choices in films. I'm not ready to condemn him just because he's putting the question out there.


48 posted on 02/22/2005 6:16:25 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (Aaaarrgghhh)
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To: frankiep

Now telling a story is "glorification" of something. Thank God you weren't around to stop Sophocles or Aescylus from their "glorifications."


49 posted on 02/22/2005 6:18:28 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: paudio
And when you go far enough to the right, you meet the same idiots coming around from the left."

Absolutely true.

50 posted on 02/22/2005 6:18:59 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: farmer18th

Particularly when compared to artistic geniuses like you.


51 posted on 02/22/2005 6:19:24 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: Vaquero
The Sam Elliott Quick and the Dead.

Tombstone was good and the Lonesome Dove movies were also good.

Maybe I will attempt to watch The Unforgiven again. I don't think my opinion of the movie will change because I did not care for the story line and it was the story line that turned us off.

We are fans of the Louis L'Amour novels, excellent westerns are made from them.

52 posted on 02/22/2005 6:19:42 AM PST by Dustbunny (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
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To: Vaquero
Let us not forget Purgatory.....
53 posted on 02/22/2005 6:27:31 AM PST by cbkaty
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To: paudio

Seems Clint has some lingering issues as a result of his battle with the ADA.


54 posted on 02/22/2005 6:29:31 AM PST by RGSpincich
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To: paudio
"And when you go far enough to the right, you meet the same idiots coming around from the left."

Clint Eastwood used to be one of my favorites. Last movie of his that he was in that I saw was "In the Line of Fire" (1993). Last movie of his that he directed that I saw was "The Unforgiven" (1992). The rest of the stuff he made that I really liked was in the 1971-83 range.

He may be a conservative in some ways, but certainly not in moral values. More like a libertine (see his lousy personal record on promiscuity and illegitimate children).

55 posted on 02/22/2005 6:29:39 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Dirty Clint.)
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To: Petronski

bttt


56 posted on 02/22/2005 6:30:29 AM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: paudio

I don't really care that much about the fact there is that BS in the movie, as much as I hate them trying to 'trick' people into watching that crap.

I swear they get some kind of 'satisfaction' making people watch something they have no interest in watching. For some reason these 'artist' types think that takes GENIUS. Thats why the dumbo critics love it.

Nothing I hate more than bait and switch (espically if it ends up depressing me, to the PURE DELIGHT of the producer/marketer)


57 posted on 02/22/2005 6:33:59 AM PST by FreedomNeocon (2)
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To: RGSpincich

http://www.freedomworks.org/informed/issues_template.php?issue_id=630


58 posted on 02/22/2005 6:35:52 AM PST by RGSpincich
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To: cbkaty

I have never been able to sit through Purgatory....I like my westerns, western. I like my Twilight Zones, Twilight Zonie...and never the twain should meet....(my god there is something on the wing!)

That being said, some members of my Cowboy Action Shooting club have written scenerios that were taken from Purgatory and they were pretty funny .....


59 posted on 02/22/2005 6:40:28 AM PST by Vaquero (Single Arms Shooting Society member, alias 'Moosejaw')
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

True conservatives have never been anti-gun, I could live with reformed conservative, but never TRUE. If you are not aware Charleton in his former self was a prime mover in the passage of some very serious and still in place anti-gun legislation. I beleive it was the 1968 gun bill, a bad bill and forerunner of a lot more anti-gun legislation. The 1968 bill opened the door and the rest is history until the sunset of the POS so-called assault weapons ban, which is still a ban in places like mexifornia.


60 posted on 02/22/2005 6:49:55 AM PST by wita
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