Tag: Clint Eastwood
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The Last Word on Westerns: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’ Closes the Chapter
Unforgiven is both a love letter to and total demystification of the genre. It portrays the Old West as a violent, savage place while Eastwood’s Munny is no hero. In almost any other Western, the final shootout is framed as a cathartic release where the bad guys finally get their comeuppance; in Unforgiven, it’s a…
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A Cinematic Influence: How ‘Unforgiven’ Shaped ‘Red Dead Redemption’
Video games are no longer just ‘video games‘. Whilst they take on many different forms, more often than not, the games that make the most impact on the player and popular culture are those that are immersive, cinematic and tell a story that pierces the emotions in such a profound way that it’s comparable to…
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A Star’s Perspective: Shirley MacLaine’s Troubling Time on Eastwood’s Set
Back in 1970, Clint Eastwood starred in the Western Two Mules for Sister Sara opposite Shirley MacLaine, who turns 89 today. Elizabeth Taylor had been the first choice, but she’d decided to shoot in Spain with Burton on his latest movie instead. Originally both Eastwood and Two Mules for Sister Sara director Don Siegel were…
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Remembering an Icon: The Enigmatic Passing of Clint Eastwood’s Longtime Associate
Actress and director Sondra Locke, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her first film role in 1968’s “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” and went on to co-star in six films with Clint Eastwood, has died. She was 74. Locked died November 3, 2018 at her Los Angeles home of cardiac arrest stemming…
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The Mighty Have Regrets: Clint Eastwood’s Candid Reflections on Past Work
Paint Your Wagon – The Universally Disliked Western Musical Out of all the critically panned films and box office bombs that he’s ever witnessed, the unflatteringly wacky ’60s musical is perhaps one of Clint Eastwood‘s greatest regrets in the entirety of his otherwise glorious career. Helmed by late theatre and film director Joshua Logan, Pain…
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John Wayne’S Singular Choice For Greatest Film And Actor – Perhaps His Most Famous
John Wayne was fiercely proud and protective of his beloved Western and war movie genres. He vocally blasted films like Gary Cooper’s High Noon or Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter that he believed degraded the ideals and values of the Old West – values which the conservative Duke believed should apply to his own times…