In the soon to be released movie... "Gran Torino"...Clint Eastwood..a Korean War vet keeps his M1 cleaned and oiled...and when some gang bangers threaten him and his neighbours....he uses his right to" Keep and bear Arms" with the M1
Clint Eastwood with the M1 Garand
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No doubt. Just pointing out poor journalism.
Trailer or the whole movie?
Clint Eastwood is 78 years old and they say his role in Gran Torino makes Dirty Harry look soft. He's a champ!!
From the Toronto Sun...
What does an icon do for an encore?
If you're Clint Eastwood, you just keep working. And attract Oscar talk with your newest movie. That's what's happening with Eastwood's Gran Torino, which opens in theatres on Friday.
If you think the actor has played tough guys before, wait until you meet Walt Kowalski.
Eastwood's central character in Gran Torino makes Dirty Harry look weak. Walt Kowalski is an uncompromising old bigot, a bad-tempered war vet who can't understand why the world no longer lives up to his exacting standards. Walt is completely pre-political-correctness. He drinks and smokes and tosses around the racial epithets -- but at the same time, he's the guy you'd want to have around in any crisis.
Eastwood, 78, inhabits this role in a way that has betting people putting their money down on him finally winning an Oscar for acting. (The four Oscars Eastwood already has, for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, are for directing and Best Picture.)
The thing about the character Walt Kowalski, awards aside, is that you know this guy. Everybody knows someone like Walt.
"I'm getting to the age where I've known that guy a couple of times in my life," Eastwood told Sun Media in a Canadian exclusive telephone interview from his home in Carmel, Calif. "Where I grew up, our high school had a trade school attached to it for veterans of WWII. I met a lot of guys like that. People didn't take themselves so seriously back then."
Eastwood is in the enviable position of still working hard and still reaping the rewards of that work, long past the age when most people have to retire. At 78, he has two movies on the go -- with Gran Torino and The Changeling, which he directed, having hit theatres in October. Last week The Changeling earned a Golden Globe nomination for original score, while Gran Torino got a nom for original song.
Eastwood, of course, is a Hollywood icon. He has been an actor for more than 50 years. While at the start he had small roles in a few feature films in the '50s, it was actually television that first made him a household name. He played Rowdy Yates in Rawhide for seven years. When he eventually landed the lead roles in Sergio Leone's trio of mid-'60s western features -- A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly -- a macho hero was born.
Eastwood began work on the other side of the camera when he directed Play Misty For Me in 1971. Gran Torino is the 29th feature film he has directed. Whether acting or directing, he really doesn't have any plans to retire.
"A couple of people have suggested that I should hang it up, but I didn't listen to 'em," Eastwood told Sun Media, laughing a little. "I really enjoy doing the work. I knew Billy Wilder well, and I never understood why he retired so early. And then Frank Capra -- I guess they put people out to pasture earlier in those days, and I guess I'm just lucky. I remember, growing up, my dad worked really hard all during the Depression, and that's all he thought about -- retiring. And then he retired, and a few years after that, he passed away. And I always thought, if only he'd kept working maybe life would have been more exciting for him."
LEARNING EXPERIENCE
Eastwood has said that he learns something new with every movie he makes, and Gran Torino was no exception. His character lives in a Detroit neighbourhood where there are a lot of Asian immigrants, mostly Hmong, and Eastwood says he learned a lot about that culture.
"But you also learn something about yourself, too," he said. "With every picture, you think, 'I wonder if I can pull this off?' but then you go ahead and dive into the pool. I always wonder if I'm the right guy to be doing this.
"I've played similar characters before," said Eastwood, mentioning Sargeant Highway, his tough vet character in Heartbreak Ridge, and Frankie Dunn from Million Dollar Baby. "But I've never played anyone quite like Walt."
As for Walt's bad habits, "I never did smoke much, except in films, but I did like to drink a few beers, so drinking those Pabsts on the front porch was no strain for me."
Eastwood laughs out loud. He laughs again at the Internet posting that describes him as a vegan.
"You find all kinds of things written about you that you don't have the foggiest notion where they came from. I'm not a vegetarian. I love sushi and stuff like that. I do have to watch my fat intake, because I'm 78 years old."
Eastwood operates professionally in exactly the way you'd imagine -- with a sort of zero B.S. level. Gran Torino was filmed quickly and in a no-frills fashion, adding to the mystique of Eastwood's work ethic. Talking about movies past and present, Eastwood said of films now, "They're sort of the modern-day written word, in that people can revisit the work many, many years from now."
Eastwood said he is interested in the fact that some actors just get bigger with time, mentioning such stars of his youth as Rita Hayworth, Hedy Lamarr or Bette Davis. "Maybe it's because somewhere along the line they jumped into a classic movie, like a Casablanca," he said.
"It's the same with music. When you look at some of the singers today, you think, 'Ah, it really was great back then.'" An accomplished jazz pianist himself, he laughs again.
"I was listening to some current pop singers the other day, and I thought, 'I was so lucky that I got to grow up listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan and Sinatra and Nat King Cole. And they were all musicians and they all sang every night, even the lesser musicians, so they were always on top of their game. You didn't have to put them together in the studio with splicing tape. It was a wonderful time, and people had their favourite musicians. Now it's all light shows."
Laughing again, he added, "I don't want to sound like Walt Kowalski."
For the past 15 years or so, Eastwood has composed music for almost all his pictures. He directed Bird, a biopic of Charlie Parker in 1988, and produced Straight, No Chaser, a documentary about Thelonious Monk the next year. Eastwood is about to work on a documentary about Tony Bennett and, according to Vanity Fair, another about Dave Brubeck.
MANDELA MOVIE
On the non-music front, Eastwood said he will make a movie about Nelson Mandela: "Not a whole biopic, just covering the time when he got out of prison." Morgan Freeman will star.
With all that on his plate, does he listen to all the talk about Oscars? Eastwood has, after all, 10 Academy Award nominations plus that honorary Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in film producing.
"I think it's nice," he said, "but you kind of have to take it all in stride. An awful lot of good movies have not won any awards, and plenty of bad ones have won awards, so you have to keep that in mind.
"I'm not making a lot of CGI movies, or remakes or sequels. It's always nice to know that somebody else is interested in (storytelling and original characters) besides me."
From the Toronto Sun...
What does an icon do for an encore?
If you're Clint Eastwood, you just keep working. And attract Oscar talk with your newest movie. That's what's happening with Eastwood's Gran Torino, which opens in theatres on Friday.
If you think the actor has played tough guys before, wait until you meet Walt Kowalski.
Eastwood's central character in Gran Torino makes Dirty Harry look weak. Walt Kowalski is an uncompromising old bigot, a bad-tempered war vet who can't understand why the world no longer lives up to his exacting standards. Walt is completely pre-political-correctness. He drinks and smokes and tosses around the racial epithets -- but at the same time, he's the guy you'd want to have around in any crisis.
Eastwood, 78, inhabits this role in a way that has betting people putting their money down on him finally winning an Oscar for acting. (The four Oscars Eastwood already has, for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, are for directing and Best Picture.)
The thing about the character Walt Kowalski, awards aside, is that you know this guy. Everybody knows someone like Walt.
"I'm getting to the age where I've known that guy a couple of times in my life," Eastwood told Sun Media in a Canadian exclusive telephone interview from his home in Carmel, Calif. "Where I grew up, our high school had a trade school attached to it for veterans of WWII. I met a lot of guys like that. People didn't take themselves so seriously back then."
Eastwood is in the enviable position of still working hard and still reaping the rewards of that work, long past the age when most people have to retire. At 78, he has two movies on the go -- with Gran Torino and The Changeling, which he directed, having hit theatres in October. Last week The Changeling earned a Golden Globe nomination for original score, while Gran Torino got a nom for original song.
Eastwood, of course, is a Hollywood icon. He has been an actor for more than 50 years. While at the start he had small roles in a few feature films in the '50s, it was actually television that first made him a household name. He played Rowdy Yates in Rawhide for seven years. When he eventually landed the lead roles in Sergio Leone's trio of mid-'60s western features -- A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly -- a macho hero was born.
Eastwood began work on the other side of the camera when he directed Play Misty For Me in 1971. Gran Torino is the 29th feature film he has directed. Whether acting or directing, he really doesn't have any plans to retire.
"A couple of people have suggested that I should hang it up, but I didn't listen to 'em," Eastwood told Sun Media, laughing a little. "I really enjoy doing the work. I knew Billy Wilder well, and I never understood why he retired so early. And then Frank Capra -- I guess they put people out to pasture earlier in those days, and I guess I'm just lucky. I remember, growing up, my dad worked really hard all during the Depression, and that's all he thought about -- retiring. And then he retired, and a few years after that, he passed away. And I always thought, if only he'd kept working maybe life would have been more exciting for him."
LEARNING EXPERIENCE
Eastwood has said that he learns something new with every movie he makes, and Gran Torino was no exception. His character lives in a Detroit neighbourhood where there are a lot of Asian immigrants, mostly Hmong, and Eastwood says he learned a lot about that culture.
"But you also learn something about yourself, too," he said. "With every picture, you think, 'I wonder if I can pull this off?' but then you go ahead and dive into the pool. I always wonder if I'm the right guy to be doing this.
"I've played similar characters before," said Eastwood, mentioning Sargeant Highway, his tough vet character in Heartbreak Ridge, and Frankie Dunn from Million Dollar Baby. "But I've never played anyone quite like Walt."
As for Walt's bad habits, "I never did smoke much, except in films, but I did like to drink a few beers, so drinking those Pabsts on the front porch was no strain for me."
Eastwood laughs out loud. He laughs again at the Internet posting that describes him as a vegan.
"You find all kinds of things written about you that you don't have the foggiest notion where they came from. I'm not a vegetarian. I love sushi and stuff like that. I do have to watch my fat intake, because I'm 78 years old."
Eastwood operates professionally in exactly the way you'd imagine -- with a sort of zero B.S. level. Gran Torino was filmed quickly and in a no-frills fashion, adding to the mystique of Eastwood's work ethic. Talking about movies past and present, Eastwood said of films now, "They're sort of the modern-day written word, in that people can revisit the work many, many years from now."
Eastwood said he is interested in the fact that some actors just get bigger with time, mentioning such stars of his youth as Rita Hayworth, Hedy Lamarr or Bette Davis. "Maybe it's because somewhere along the line they jumped into a classic movie, like a Casablanca," he said.
"It's the same with music. When you look at some of the singers today, you think, 'Ah, it really was great back then.'" An accomplished jazz pianist himself, he laughs again.
"I was listening to some current pop singers the other day, and I thought, 'I was so lucky that I got to grow up listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan and Sinatra and Nat King Cole. And they were all musicians and they all sang every night, even the lesser musicians, so they were always on top of their game. You didn't have to put them together in the studio with splicing tape. It was a wonderful time, and people had their favourite musicians. Now it's all light shows."
Laughing again, he added, "I don't want to sound like Walt Kowalski."
For the past 15 years or so, Eastwood has composed music for almost all his pictures. He directed Bird, a biopic of Charlie Parker in 1988, and produced Straight, No Chaser, a documentary about Thelonious Monk the next year. Eastwood is about to work on a documentary about Tony Bennett and, according to Vanity Fair, another about Dave Brubeck.
MANDELA MOVIE
On the non-music front, Eastwood said he will make a movie about Nelson Mandela: "Not a whole biopic, just covering the time when he got out of prison." Morgan Freeman will star.
With all that on his plate, does he listen to all the talk about Oscars? Eastwood has, after all, 10 Academy Award nominations plus that honorary Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in film producing.
"I think it's nice," he said, "but you kind of have to take it all in stride. An awful lot of good movies have not won any awards, and plenty of bad ones have won awards, so you have to keep that in mind.
"I'm not making a lot of CGI movies, or remakes or sequels. It's always nice to know that somebody else is interested in (storytelling and original characters) besides me."
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The trailer looks awesome. Sadly there are no actors in Hollywood like Clint (young ones that is). Hopefully Hollywood can find some more legitimate tough guys.
Best part of the trailer is his line to the homies "ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with...that's me"
then he reaches for a pistol and pulls out his fingers.
Best part of the trailer is his line to the homies "ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with...that's me"
then he reaches for a pistol and pulls out his fingers.
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I'll have to see it for sure!
