Category: Clint Eastwood
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Cinematic What-Ifs: The Almost Superhero Duo – Clint Eastwood’s Brush with Superman and Raquel Welch’s Almost Lois Lane
It’s a bird . . . It’s a plane . . . It’s Dirty Harry? Forty-five years after dashing newcomer Christopher Reeve’s caped flight to stardom in 1978’s “Superman” movie, a NYC auction house is listing rare documents revealing the other leading men the studio cleared to be cast in the iconic role, including Clint…
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Clint’s Handsome Rides and 600 Spaghetti Surprises: The European Western Revolution
In the 1960s a new subgenre of Western movies emerged. These were low-budget films, collaborated with Italian and German directors, and filmed in Spain and sometimes Southern Italy. Due to their place of origin, they were crudely dubbed “Spaghetti Westerns” by American critics and “Macaroni Westerns” by the Japanese. Most of these movies were originally…
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Cinematic Marvels Unite: Clint Eastwood’s Final Film Enlists Spider-Man Icon
Clint Eastwood adds yet another major star to his final film and he’s everyone’s favorite OG from the Spider-Man franchise. J.K. Simmons, the Academy Award-winning actor, has joined the cast of Clint Eastwood‘s upcoming legal thriller, “Juror No. 2,” alongside Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette. Currently filming in Atlanta, the movie also features Gabriel Basso,…
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Vile-Tasting Justice: Clint Eastwood’s Regrettable Dollars Trilogy Experience Expressed
Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly combine to form what’s become known as one of the greatest trilogies ever made, turning Clint Eastwood into the epitome of on-screen cool. And yet, the director never viewed them as being connected at all. The…
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Clint Eastwood’s 20-Year Reflection: Clint Eastwood’s Unforgivable Delay in Crafting ‘Unforgiven’
Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood’s magnum opus, continues to stand the test of time as one of the finest films in the history of cinema. The picture, which is credited for ending the romanticization of the Western, as well as subverting the genre on its head, had a lot of things going for it. It was more…
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Defying Expectations: The Uncommon Brilliance of ‘For a Few Dollars More’ Over its Classic Predecessor
If Sergio Leone’s first installment in the “Dollar Trilogy”, A Fistful of Dollars (1964), defined the future of the spaghetti western genre, his second installment, For a Few Dollars More (1965), guaranteed the genre’s future. It not only competed the vision that the first film started, but it also surpassed it at the box-office. In…
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The Daredevil in Clint Eastwood: 8 Instances of Unmatched Commitment to His Craft
Most associate Clint Eastwood with The Man With No Name, also known as “Blondie”, from Sergio Leone’s famous Dollars Trilogy. Others might recognize him better as Harry Callahan of Dirty Harry fame. In these roles, the actor is known for being a stoic, tight-lipped action star, Eastwood speaking in quotable one-liners when he does talk.…
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From Dollars Trilogy to Iconic Westerns: Clint Eastwood’s Cinematic Mastery Revealed in Five Scenes
When you think of the western genre, aside from the thudding power of the American icon John Wayne, it is likely that Clint Eastwood comes to mind, with the latter often portraying the nameless, mysterious stranger of the Old West. A distinctive, potent figure of Hollywood allure, Eastwood has been a part of some of…
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The Clint Eastwood movie that was criticised by a WWII veteran: “I felt it was un-American”
As one of the most prominent filmmakers in American cinema, the artistic choices in the movies of Clint Eastwood always carry a lot of weight. While he has received widespread acclaim for his efforts as an actor as well as a director, some of his projects have also received criticism from audiences and notable figures…
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Meryl Streep Taken Aback: Clint Eastwood’s Startling Political Stand Leaves Hollywood in Awe
Meryl Streep was ‘shocked’ that her former co-star Clint Eastwood was voting for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election. ‘I didn’t know that. I’ll have to speak to him. I’ll have to correct that!’ the 67-year-old acting legend told Variety on Monday. ‘I’m shocked. I really am, because he’s more – I would have thought…