On this day, May 31, 1930, Clint Eastwood was born.

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Clint Eastwood


Eastwood at the Washington, D.C., premiere of J. Edgar (2011)

Born: Clinton Eastwood Jr.; May 31, 1930 (age 91); San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation: Actor, film director, producer
Years active: 1954–present

Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, composer, and producer. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" of Spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. His accolades include four Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, three César Awards, and an AFI Life Achievement Award.

An Academy Award nominee for Best Actor, Eastwood won Best Director and Best Picture for his Western film Unforgiven (1992) and his sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004). His greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and its action comedy sequel Any Which Way You Can (1980). Other popular Eastwood films include the Westerns Hang 'Em High (1968) and Pale Rider (1985), the prison film Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the war film Heartbreak Ridge (1986), the action film In the Line of Fire (1993), and the romantic drama The Bridges of Madison County (1995). More recent works are Gran Torino (2008), The Mule (2018), and the upcoming film Cry Macho (2021). Since 1967, Eastwood's company Malpaso Productions has produced all but four of his American films.

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[samplegirl]

1. Not a fan.

I find it hard to watch him in anything. He’s a Die hard Republican.

[cutroot]

2. No respect

RWNJ

[quaint]

3. Pffftt

In 2012, Clint Eastwood stood on stage at the convention, accompanied by naught but an empty chair. He pointed at said chair and announced, “So I’ve got Mr. Obama sitting here.”

[lastlib]

4. The Chair doesn't recognize Clint Eastwood.

[thucythucy]

5. Not a fan,

especially since his hard right politics often leak into his films.

The vigilante wet dreams that were his Dirty Harry films being one prime example. The whole stereotype of the two fisted cop tied down by all those silly civil rights laws and corrupt bureaucrats from protecting decent (i.e. white) citizens is a glorification of the whole macho cop culture we see acted out in the streets most every day,

"Sully" was much the same--American hero being hung out to dry by pointy-headed small-minded Washington bureaucrats. The film was so full of BS Sullenberger went so far as to publicly disavow it.

Those films are all just high budget versions of his empty chair debate--setting up "liberal" straw men and then burning them down to the cheers of the MAGA crowd.

Yeah, an "icon of [toxic] masculinity."

And don't get me started on "Million Dollar Babies."

I thought Malkovich was good in "In the Line of Fire."

[Diamond_Dog]

6. I totally get what all of you are saying about Clint Eastwood

But please if you get the chance, see “Gran Torino.” It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen, about a crusty old curmudgeon who slowly learns to embrace the immigrants living next door to him.

Really. It’s a great movie.

[cilla4progress]

9. Cool

Will do!

Where would be a good place to catch it?

[Diamond_Dog]

10. I'm the worst person in the world to recommend movie sources!

It was made in 2008 so it shouldn’t be too hard to find wherever people go to view movies these days.

[cilla4progress]

11. Thanks -

looked it up. Netflix has it!

Amazing and curous that Eastwood would make a movie with this theme, given his apparent politics?

[Diamond_Dog]

12. Yes you will find it

A bit different from his usual themes. Have a box of Kleenex ready for the end ...

[cilla4progress]

13. No shoot 'em up

gratuitous gunplay, then?

[Diamond_Dog]

14. Well

I don’t want to give the story away. But, no, it’s not like Dirty Harry at all.

[cilla4progress]

15. Have watched part, so far.

Not appreciating the racist stereotyping.

Is the film mocking it?

[Diamond_Dog]

16. I'm not sure I know what you mean?

[cilla4progress]

17. So much steretyping,

yet the final message was somewhat? unifying, in that Eastwood's character comes to see the humanity in the main characters - a Hmong family.

[Diamond_Dog]

18. They accepted him warts and all

When his own family was trying to put him away somewhere

Made him understand acceptance and humanity

I loved the final scene. snif snif

[cilla4progress]

19. I actually walked away!

I can't tolerate violence so I leave the room. Husband tells me later though.

Interesting. Thanks for recommending it!

[Diamond_Dog]

20. I'm sorry

I abhor violence too. I don’t care for seeing cruelty and violence. But this film had such a good message. It really made an impression on me. It’s not a movie I can watch over and over again.

Now my husband loves The Gladiator and has watched it like 8 times... I have to leave the room when that is on!

[cilla4progress]

21. Haha - yes, like that Scottish movie with Mel Gibson -

sadly, I have to miss a lot of films because of this. I try to just leave the room....

We watched "Exterminate All the Brutes" over the weekend. An epic historical documentary about worldwide white supremacy since 1000 (Crusades). I felt it VERY important to watch and stayed for as much as I could stomach of the violent parts...which was almost none.

The history and presentation was well worth it, in any case. Highly recommend! May still be on HBO?

Well, love to watch history, but so much of our history was violent! I mean, it was essentially dominated by violence...

Humans...oy... !

[Diamond_Dog]

22. That is so true.

So much world history is all about one group committing violence against another to gain power.

[czarjak]

7. Seven children by five ex-wives, featured speaker at the Family Values Party...

"A man's gotta know his own limitations"

[cilla4progress]

8. Overall I think he's a dick

but I just learned he was the exec producer of "Indian Horse," which we just saw on Netflix this weekend, which is a story of a man raised in the Canadian school system for indigenous kids....yeah, the same system that is in the news where they just found remains of 215 MORE children buried there in a mass grave ....


So, good on him for that, anyway.