First as an actor, then as a director, Clint Eastwood has rewritten the history of the Western in his own image. From The Man With No Name striding across the windswept landscapes of Italy… to Josey Wales, the reluctant leader with greatness thrust upon him… to the ghostly preacher of Pale Rider, avenging evil and then dissolving into the smoky haze of the past… Eastwood’s Westerns have defined the genre for decades. In what may be his final Western, he tapped a career’s worth of wisdom in a performance of staggering power and humanity, playing a gunfighter tortured by the violent demons of his past in Unforgiven.
About Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy:
Tough guy. Western star. Oscar winner. Few artists in film history cast a longer shadow than Clint Eastwood. As he enters his eighth decade in the movies, Warner Bros. celebrates this cinematic icon – actor, producer, director, master filmmaker – with a nine-episode docuseries covering the entire breadth of Eastwood’s career.
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You're contradicting things Clint himself has said.
Clint Eastwood..is Clint Eastwood..he is a legand..My best Hero..ever..God bless him…
CLINT…THEE BEST !
They always say "this Western was so different than typical ones" and then show examples of westerns that themselves subverted the genre already. The truth is, before Unforgiven, Sam Peckinpah subverted the western with The Wild Bunch, Sergio Leone subverted it with Once Upon A Time In The West, and John Ford subverted it before all of them with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
This documentary referring to The Searchers as "conventional storytelling" when Frank Darabont is speaking is misleading and shows a lack of knowledge of the genre. It is often referred to by film historians as an early revisionist western, including by Martin Scorsese himself, who's in this. Anthony Mann also made a series of westerns which featured Jimmy Stewart as an anti-hero in the 1950's even during hays code restrictions. Sergio Leone didn't invent the anti-hero. Even Kurosawa was doing them before.
Also, showing Rio Bravo as a quintessential example of a white-hat black-hat western when anybody that studies film knows Howard Hawks was more interested in making a Hang-out comedy with it than he was a morally grey western, and he had already done that with Red River prior which did have an anti-hero as the protagonist.
With this logic, what would make Unforgiven any different than Shane? The plots are almost identical. A gunman that wants to leave his violent past has to go back to his ways and take out bad guys. And they do, and then they ride away after, giving a overall lesson about violence. Exact same story, just because someone wants to insist to you that it's "not like anything before" doesn't mean that's correct.
The problem is when people over analyze westerns, they constantly say "The one I like is better because it's different" without having a fundamental knoweledge of of the genre and not realizing it really isn't different. At the end of the day, they tend to be great Westerns because Clint himself brought so much to the genre in terms of charisma, performance and making in theme a different aesthetic era of cinema. People need to stop tearing an entire film genre down and over-analyzing their particular favorites because they want ot hear or tell others how it's the best.
With all that said, Clint Eastwood made masterpieces of the genre. All 4 of them, High Plains Drifter, Josey Wales, Pale Rider, and Unforgiven. And I hope his new film, Juror #2, gets the praise and screening that it deserves.
good call having mel gibson lead off this video 🤣
Unforgiven is not only the best western Clint has ever done, it’s the best western ever made.
It’s kinda a shame that John Wayne never wanted to collaborate with Clint for some petty reason. It would have been cool to see the two of them together onscreen.
Yes, Eastwood is a LEGEND. Fact. That said, how about letting Juror #2 play in more theaters?
The most important remaining figure linking modern Hollywood to the golden age. The best to ever do it. A true legend. A huge part of my new series, Action Rewind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS0xCuWI8nQ&t=40s
I am looking forward to his new movie Juror #2!
Tom Cruise is our last movie star. Clint is our last movie Icon.
Mel Gibson's takes were a little odd..
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What's sitting on his desk that's so important to censor? lmao
Clint eastwood is overrated
All these Clint uploads feels like WB doing damage control for shafting Clint’s LAST EVER film out of a wide release to shove to streaming ASAP
I own all of Clint Eastwood Westerns along with Dirty Harry, The two Every Which You Can and Every Which Way but Loose. Clint Eastwood is one of my all time favorite actors.
High Plains Drifter is an excellent western
Fonda turned A Fistful of Dollars (1964) (yes pun intended) but it was more like the studio turned it down because they didn't think they could afford to cast a A list Hollywood star in a foreign film that was ultimately under budget the role of The Man With No Name was offered also to Richard Harrison and Rawhide's star Eric Fleming both of whom recommended Eastwood who of course got the role.
The Outlaw Josey Wales is my favorite Eastwood movie, and my favorute Western movie.
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Everything the democrats hate
You love Clint so much that you put his last movie in 20 theaters in the US? He is Icon and extremely talented director and story teller for over how many decades? And you b,idk his last two movies cause he won’t bend his knees to the woke ? You don’t deserved him! Shame on you Warner!
Clint Eastwood is just the best…A lcon on a different level.
Mestre!
That Clint Eastwood scowl, I'll never ever forget it.
Por um punhado de dolares meu filme favorito de clint Eastwood
Rest In Peace, Albert S. Ruddy! He produced two movies with Clint, Cry Macho (his last film as producer) and Million Dollar Baby (which he won his 2nd and last Oscar). Clint gave him his first Oscar in 1973 for producing The Godfather. He also co-created Hogan’s Heroes and Walker, Texas Ranger.
Costner's half correct at 14:03 the bad westerns are great at avoiding the psychological effect of killing people but the good ones are too.
"Do you, uh, imbibe, Reverend?"
"Only after nine in the morning"
Pale Rider
He’s the greatest western star who ever lived
He towers over John Wayne, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, John Ford, Ben Johnson, Kevin Costner, and Sam Elliott
Gene Hackman whining about “violence” when he had starred in the French connection 20 yrs prior 🙄🙄