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« Reply #21 on: May 08, 2010, 01:59:26 PM » |
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I was a teenager, around 14-15 years-old, when I began to like Clint´s movies. In Argentina, it was impossible not to watch movies such as Any Which Way You Can, Any Which Way but Loose or just the classical Dirty Harry on saturday nights. I always liked action movies and comic movies and then I understood that Clint could perform both kinds of movies perfectly. I´ll never forget his performance with Clyde, I had a lot of fun watching them against Cholla and the Black Widows...do you remember when Philo Beddoe made them go straight under a hot tar truck?!. Or the famous phrase "Go ahead, make my day" in Harry Callahan´s Sudden Impact.
Clint Eastwood´s movies are part of my life and so, in some way, made part of the person I´m today, part of my way of thinking.
Not long ago, I started collecting some of his movies. I have the complete Dirty Harry movies, the five movies (1971-1988). I also have those starring Clyde, and next I´ll look for Unforgiven.
Regards, Carlos.
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« Reply #24 on: May 20, 2010, 11:39:21 AM » |
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It's now less than two weeks before the big day. Starting, there has been may excellent posts in this thread and it's been a real pleasure reading them. I guess my Clint Eastwood journey started somewhere in my childhood - My dad always referred to bypassing police cars to "Harry" och "Dirty Harry", he still does and so do I  About four years ago when I was sixteen years old I found myself getting a huge interest for movies. I always watched movies very casually before that. There's some nostalgia to westerns to me since I always used to watch reruns of various western series as a child (such as The Macahans). So the western genre became my starting point in my new found interest. With house hold name Clint Eastwood in the back of my head I started watching the Dollar films. No other films had convinced me over the fine film making such as they did and I was extremely intrigued. Clint Eastwood made me laugh like I've never laughed and he made me "wow" like I never "wowed". And to this day I can only get that feeling from Clint Eastwood performances (as director or actor). It isn't a glimpse in his eyes, it's something else that is very abstract and I can't explain it. Anyhow, as I saw more and more movies over the years I made it my personal mission to see every Clint Eastwood movies there are. I have now seen 47 in which he acted and 30 in which he only directed. I'm glad I still have a few left even if it is the more "obscure" ones. I think there's tremendous value in all of Clints films, there's absolutely no films of his I don't like. And I can very much so relate to SK's post saying that only the name Clint Eastwood in the opening credits of a film gives me those special goose bumps and I have this craving and this hunger to just see more. To me he's the finest film maker and actor of all time. And even if I don't know him I feel he's some what one of my dearest friends and I know he'll stick by my side until I turn 80 if I'm that lucky. As Jim Carrey once said; "I think that he was the man with no name so that you could fill in your own". I feel there's truth to that. May the hero of many live another 80 years! |
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« Reply #28 on: May 31, 2010, 11:24:05 AM » |
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I've managed to hold off posting in this thread until the day of! But of course I wasn't sure what I could really say--I've probably said it all at some point in time in the past. Dirty Harry was my introduction into Eastwood's work. I remember watching Sudden Impact on TV when I was 5 or 6 years old. My parents taped it off TV around 1988 or '89. There's a TV spot during a commercial break for Mississippi Burning, which I see the IMDb says was released in January of 1989, which would have made me 6. I remember within a few years--I would guess around age 7 through 9 or so-- Magnum Force became about the first R-rated movie I ever saw. Again, it was taped but this time off a movie channel. I watched it with my older brother. In the opening scene, when the guy's head is shot at point blank range, I remember my brother rewinding it and playing it in slow-motion.  I became a big fan as a teenager. TBS and TNT would show many of his films. They had the 24-Hours of Eastwood marathon the day after Thanksgiving, and then there was the Saturday night Big Shots, which were Eastwood and John Wayne movies. I was able to see most of his movies like that. I'm not real sure what the appeal was in his movies--maybe his characters have attributes I wished I had at such a young age... I'm not sure. One movie I saw during this time I just watched again last night-- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. I was thinking I wanted to watch an Eastwood movie as a way to celebrate the birthday, and the choice of which film to watch was pretty easy.  |
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