DISCUSSION BOARD AND COMMUNITY - EST. 1996
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Yes, I heard that on the radio even here in New York City! Very sad for all fans of true football! R.I.P.
And it's always nice to hear from you, Aline!
Even if I am not here that much I always check Clint instagram pages. I am very excited he is up for a new movie.
Aline,
Have you seen the most catastrophic of them all?
My Nan took me to see this at the cinema Aline. I guess I was about 12... I loved it...
What I meant the cinematography is pleasant, no CGI just talent of the actors.
I posted only the 77 but I watched all the Airport ones. The most disappointing for was Earthquake I couldnt like the story or the characteres. It was nice seeing Genevieve Bujold so young in that one. That lady got a handsome but walking-dead hubby He has a great comic timing, I so would like have seen him to do more stuff like this
What are you doing to keep busy?
I rewatched Firefox yesterday, I have always loved this movie.Richard Jewell works as one more chapter of a Clint's obsession: relating facts, characters (especially ordinary people) and chapters of US history through his clinical and melancholic look.
Only in the 2010 the veteran recounted the anguish of FBI's first director (J. Edgar), rise and fall of The Four Seasons (Jersey Boys: In Search of Music) vocal group, the red-hot nerves of a soldier (American Sniper) and a pilot avoiding a tragedy (Sully: The Hudson River Hero).
Richard Jewell subtly connects with all these movies, especially with Sully and 3:17 pm. It exposes, examines and problematizes the culture of building heroes and then demolishes them without any ceremony. In the era of the war on terror, a misleading (or at least hasty) newspaper cover is enough for an idol to become a traitor.
The main character (Paul Walter Hauser) is just a regular guy. Adult, single, lonely, living with his mother, Bobi (Kathy Bates, Golden Globe nominee for the role), he walks from job to job. But his true dream is to be a policeman again.
In this narrative of ordinary people - the falsely accused innocent, the self-sacrificing lawyer, and the suffering mother - against belligerent authorities, Eastwood seems to question: why is always easier to provoke minor collateral tragedies rather than accepting the lack of easy answers to horror of terrorism? The Richard Jewell Case is a straightforward portrayal of how contradictory, flawed, and fleeting the concept of heroism can be.
Billy Ray's script (Captain Phillips, Terminator: Dark Destiny) does not surrender to generalizations, such as pointing a finger at the media. Remember, for example, that Eastwood celebrated good journalism in the underrated True Crime (1999).
With the usual visual and sentimental economy, the filmmaker sets the plot in powerful performances by dramatizing the delicate fabric that separates private and public life, the press and justice. In times of fake news around the world, Richard Jewell is an irresistibly up-to-date nineteenth-century movie.
