Nov 30 2008
A Look At - Clint Eastwood
One of my favorite actors growing up was this one man, Clint Eastwood. Who hasn’t seen one of his old westerns or his Dirty Harry movies. As an actor, he is one of the best. He has always been a stand out performer, and this hasn’t changed. He still takes to the big screen, and he is about to do that again with a new feature film, Gran Turino. That is set to release this week, and they say it is one of his best performances in years. There is already even Oscar talk surrounding it.
I posted the poster and the trailer for the film when it was released because the title caught my eye. When I was growing up, my father had a Turino himself, so it brought back immediate memories of my child hood. This one puts Eastwood as a Korean War Veteran having to deal with the Koreans in his neighborhood. It actually looks pretty good, but we now know this will be Eastwood’s last appearance in front of the camera.
He announced just in the last week that he is retiring from acting. He will not be on the big screen in any more movies. He is in his seventies, so this is completely understandable. Even though he is retiring from acting, he is not retiring from directing. This is his other passion, and he has done well here. Million Dollar Baby was one of his best, and he also recently directed Angelina Jolie in The Changeling. He is amazing with what he does both behind and in front of the camera. His appearance on the big screen will be missed in the future, but we still have the collection of work he has done up to this point. Check out some more movie stills from Gran Turino below.
