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In Reply to: RE: It also is the FUNNIEST damn movie I've seen in years. I couldn't count the belly laughs posted by tinear on January 14, 2009 at 16:52:42
... and left in the sun especially at the beginning of the film.
Good film.
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unexpectedly good comic delivery, playing off his tough screen persona, make the film.
Clint certainly likes to show ethnic criminals a lot. I'd like for him once to take on a white gang, skinheads, meth dealers, whatever.
The White Man who rescues the poor downtrodden unable-to-defend-themselves immigrants is a little silly. A cursory glance at the Marine Corps recruitment would show an amazing percentage of immigrant kids.
of shooting/killing/beating a LOT of screen creeps while defending folk of all ethnicities, BOTH sexes and the occasional primate, horse or car.
He's always been as good with a well-timed smartass comment as he has with a gun or his fists.
"...You're all welcome to stay for the next set...we're going to play all the same tunes, but in different keys..." -Count Basie
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helping the poor minorities a lot. In "Unforgiven" he revenges his black friend. In "Million Dollar Baby," he helps out his black friend, giving him a gift-job. Both beneficiaries are played by Morgan Freeman who is an actor who looks like he least needs any help, he's a friggin' force of nature.
I don't think Clint is aware of this particularity of his, I think he's a well-meaning guy who, because of his background and age, just doesn't quite get it. Nothing malicious, just kind of dumb.
First, Clint is white, and I am not sure he can change that part of him. Morgan Freeman in Unforgiven played a black man, who, during the time period of the mid to late 1880s, would certainly have been a former slave. Reality dictates that his station in life would have been lower than Eastwood's, though Eastwood treats Freeman as an equal during the entire course of the film. And, in the end, is willing to sacrifice his own life, and the father of his children, to avenge a black man's life. At that period of time, I argue that this is a postive, not a negative.
You can find racism where you want. I took a black girl I was dating to Unforgiven, and her first comment in the scene were Freeman and the kid take some advances was that this was another film which depicted black men as obsessed with sex. I politely reminded her that the young kid, who is white, was also taking advances. I suspect Eastwood included the young kid in the 'advances' to diffuse that argument, but it still went over some people's heads.
Eastwood directed 'Bird,' and some people argued that he focused too much on Parker's drug use, and failed to appreciate that Eastwood brought Parker's music to a group of people who never would have known about Charlie Parker but for the film. How many other major film makers have attempted to bring to the marketplace a relatively obscure film about a major black musician?
Then you have Letters from Iwo Jima, telling the war in the Pacific from the non-white point of view of the Japanese, certainly a brave position. Even that, though, was not good enough, because people like Spike Lee complained he failed to show the black soldiers in the Pacific.
You also have Josey Wales, where he protects a rag tag group, including Indians, from marauding northern white Union soldiers. The traitor is actually a white southern confederate. Indeed, Eastwood depicts the indian tribes with great reverence and integrity in that film.
... I thought he helps out the GIRL.
Perhaps women are still the ultimate minority!
In GT, the girl next door is beaten and raped and there seems a strange disconnect from her suffering.
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which rang the least true. The guy, after all, was a cousin. And not a particularly tough, nasty looking guy, either. Of all that gang, he looked a little out of place, like a long-haired stoner.
I only say Polak as it is the term used throughout the film.
The irony of his attitude never seems to be brought home to him.
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