Clint Eastwood

yeah there was so much quotable shit no way i could keep up but was constantly loling

Trying to get in touch with his feminine side by reading women's magazines while stalking his ex-wife by waiting outside her place of work in his car.

PLAY MISTY FOR ME

Highway: I been pumping pussy since Christ was a corporal. I can tell you, the best damned poontang I ever paid for was in Da Nang. The girls were checked out daily. And we got ourself laid in a safe, orderly, proficient, military manner. That is until some suckhead writes home mama and says he dipped his wick in the Republic of South Vietnam. Then the shit hits the fan. A committee of congressmen who asshole to asshole who couldn't make a beer fart in a whirlwind, start telling your basic-ass-in-the-grass, Marine " No more shore time ". We responded in true Marine Corps fashion. We salute, do an about face, double time back to the boom-boom garbage dump where we get the clap, and the drip, and the crabs and a generally poor attitude towards the female of the species. War is hell, boy. That's a fact!

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090601/gottlieb/single?rel=nofollow

Though he was born in San Francisco, he missed the summer of love, LSD, the sexual revolution and all the spoils of American bohemia because he was too busy combating evil and moral relativism in the name of justice. Sacrifice demands recognition. In contemporary American cinema, Clint Eastwood is our perennial Last Man Standing. But what is he standing on, or for, and why is he so eager to hide it? ....

The traditional Eastwood hero--and Clint, for all his bluster, has never played a villain--spends an inordinate amount of time pushing other people away, only to grudgingly accept the perseverant embrace of the outside world, as long as the world is defined exclusively in terms of his suffering. If Eastwood is to be credited for artistic and emotional growth, his mythic doppelgängers must learn to accept a love that asserts itself without conditions. He has publicly reduced his political credo to "everyone leaves everyone else alone." That philosophy is a reason to become a hermit. It's a reason to vote for regressive taxation and Second Amendment rights. It's not a reason to make movies.

1967 interview...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDVzK8IthCs

J.Ro on White Hunter Black Heart:

http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/a-free-man-20091201

was 80 yesterday.

Paint Your Wagon! Ah, yes! Where you may see Clint Eastwood & Lee Marvin in their most cringeworthy roles ever. Rent it today, as a tribute to his 80th birthday. Crank up the DVR and die a little inside.

Watched the last 40 minutes of Where Eagles Dare on TCM yesterday and was a little surprised how boring it was. I think they were going for terse and understated, but even the guy falling 1000 feet from the gondola was like "YAAAAAAAHHHHHH...eh, whatever."

Recently saw The Beguiled. A haunting and interesting film. What are peoples' takes on the gender politics of the thing? I can see it having both feminist and misogynist readings.

Watched the last 40 minutes of Where Eagles Dare on TCM yesterday and was a little surprised how boring it was.

whaaaaaat

Leo's J Edgar may have his Clyde Tolson:

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2010/12/08/armie-hammer-leonardo-dicaprio-clint-eastwood-hoover/

wdn't have predicted this in the Every Which Way But Loose days:

http://www.towleroad.com/2011/03/leonardo-dicaprio-and-armie-hammer-film-very-passionate-kiss.html

http://kristinburns.com/WordPressPhotos/PJ/DuranDuran_mg_4011.jpg

weird.

was hereafter any good at all?

will return to acting as a baseball scout going blind:

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Matthew-Lillard-Joining-Clint-Eastwood-Trouble-With-Curve-28893.html

Dude kinda just won the Super Bowl ad derby.

Definitely.

http://www.youtube.com/chrysler

Most effective moment of this for me is the split-second of the African-American kid as he's stepped out of his dad's car, and in that split second the two other kids (white) are walking to him--a moment literally under a second.

Also, Clint's "Yeah" near the end is great and/or terrible.

meh, Clint knows a brass-balls Nixonian president when he sees one.

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/06/clint_eastwoods_super_bowl_obama_endorsement/

Some are insisting its just an endorsement of Detroit and Karl Rove is whining about it for various reasons

No votes for Paint your Wagon??

"This is just halftime for American musicals."

It's funny that it gets parsed as political when it's a car commercial using the rhetoric of a political ad, and working really hard not to be political. But, of course, the stuff it's advertising isn't removed from politics, which is what the right is jumping on.

Chrysler wiped union signs off the footage, literally nothing to see here folks

Woah, David Gordon Green directed the ad, and Matthew Dickman (one of the twin poets profiled in the New Yorker a few years ago) was one of the writers.

http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-28200-see_that_wieden%2Bkennedy_super_bowl_ad_with_clint_eastwood_it_was_directed_by_david_gordon_green.html

bouncing back from your highness

just watched this, anyone who sees anything truly political in it is insane.

Off-topic from Clint, but the similar 2011 Super Bowl spot was good, directed by Samuel Bayer ("Smells Like Teen Spirit"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKL254Y_jtc

sigh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoqKdWY692k

does this damage his reputation at all? Or it he so old and such a revered hollywood figure that it doesn't matter?

Yes.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/you-did-great-terrified-personal-assistant-tells-c,29393/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmratV9kac0&hd=1

also: http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-john-mccain-just-blew-his-brains-out-duri,29369/

Can only presume everyone pretending to be shocked or disappointed in this is doing so to draw attention away from Mittens.

Does this mean that we can look forward to other Republican leaning actors coming on and saying their best known lines?
Arnie: "RUN TO DA PRESIDENTIAL CHOPPAH!"

New movie in three weeks, start your political based jokes/Photoshopping now:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2083383/

What does invisibama want Clint to tell Romney to do to himself at 6:15?

xp Trouble With The Laffer Curve

What does invisibama want Clint to tell Romney to do to himself at 6:15?

Go fuck yourself

v v classy joke

NYT: "Aides said Mr. Eastwood does not like teleprompters and was trusted to deliver an on-message endorsement."

oh he was ad-libbing up there? you don't say

"I know what you're thinkin'. 'Does he have Barack Obama in that chair or doesn't he?' Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself."

Far from my favourite director--except for Blood Work, don't know that I've ever liked anything, and J. Edgar especially seemed like a waste. I didn't mind Hereafter, though, improbabilities and all. (By which I don't mean the hereafter stuff, which you just have to go with; more like, now I'm mailing off my manuscript, now I'm speaking at a book fair...) Matt Damon is fine in the dropping-out-of-life role. Did not feel like a Clint Eastwood film at all. I wish Arte Johnson had showed up on a park bench at some point, otherwise not bad.

I don't dislike Hereafter (or Blood Work or J Edgar either, for that matter) but I'm still puzzled as to why it turned into a romcom in its last 10 minutes.

you liked Blood Work

True about the last 10 minutes--the rom part, anyway. I don't know if it was more or less preferable to what I expected, some mystical mumbo-jumbo, but it definitely wasn't very convincing.

The first hour or so, though, I was impressed with how even the pacing was, and even found both Damon's and the kid's stories somewhat moving.

I recently tried to rewatch The Unforgiven and found I could not stomach it.

I don't mean the violent ending. I quit watching about 50 minutes in because the dialogue was horrible and the way the characters and plot were being set up were as artificial as the flavor of a watermelon Jolly Rancher, but all the while it was pretending it was the juiciest, ripest watermelon you ever laid a lip to. Nothing about that movie came within sight of any reality that ever was or will be. It even sucked as a pure myth.