There is no hero. Those that we call "Heroes", have created them us when we needed. "For example, by a long monologue, ends"Memories of our fathers", the new Clint Eastwood leaving Wednesday next on French screens. "Million Dollar Baby" and the world of boxing, actor-filmmaker looks at the war of the Pacific to find American mythology, his obsession.
"Heroes" of the film are the men that appear on a picture that fit around the world: a group of soldiers planting the Union Jack at the top of a hill at the capture of the island of Iwo Jima in 1945. This image handed the balm to the heart of America, which, after the liberation of Europe, saw the war to continue in Asia. The soldiers who were on the shadow copy were immediately repatriated and made the round of the country, welcoming crowds, shaking hands... But these three national heroes are not those who actually planted the flag, they are just extras, puppets designed to raise funds to support the war effort and populate the American pantheon. In four years in the army between 1950 and 1954, Clint Eastwood has never known the field of battle. Yet he knows whereof he speaks, because himself has the stuff of a "hero": long distinguished silhouette, emaciated face, metallic voice, spellbinding profile shaped for years by men who needed him.
Poncho and a Magnum 44
Specifically, one can imagine the time when Clint Eastwood became the hero. We are in the early 1960, the Italian director Sergio Leone seeks a player for his first western. In an episode of the American series "rawhide", he noted an actor the nonchalant 30 game remote and monolithic. This is almost five years that Clint Eastwood interprets this character. Before that, he was listed for series B in Hollywood or second role. It will therefore accept lower rates of star TV for finally a first film role in a European film. Meanwhile, Leone still hesitate: too lean for a hero, Eastwood looks more like a Princeton student to John Wayne. No matter, dons it of a Mexican poncho, with a large hat and he sticks a Toscano between the teeth to harden his features. Eastwood, who has never smoked, feel bad. Need to get used to this new profile and the taste of the cigar: that day, it became a cult star that will appear in three summits of the European western directed by Leone: "for a fistful of dollars" (1964), "And for a few dollars more" (1965) and "the good, the and the ugly" (1966). The character is hardly exhilarating to play. Leone himself, he has three expressions "with the cigar, with the hat, without the hat." However, it is so successful that the actor can finally, after seven years and two hundred seventeen episodes, leave the television and enter into the cinema.
In the 1970s, while youth and rock invaded Hollywood, he became, under the direction of Don Siegel, Harry Callahan, said "The Inspector Harry" (1971), hyperviolent urban Sheriff, ghost of the Wild West comes to put order in a society that loses its bearings. For criticism and a part of the public, Eastwood appears as a reactionary icon, a flingueur hippies... when it is not simply for an idiot. Harry, however, is not a machine, a Terminator, but a strange being. It is, as the actor, a product of the 1970s: torn between disappointed expectation of the 1960s and 1980s deceptive appearances. Beset by doubt, disturbed by his own ambiguities, knowing more where the justice that it is intended to enforce, he ends up throwing his star on the sidewalk. Harry Callahan, abandoned, no longer has to companion a 44 Magnum. There are yet four suites "The Inspector Harry", which one by Clint Eastwood himself ("The return of Inspector Harry" in 1983). Indeed, as early as 1971, he moved to directing with the thriller "A Shivering in the night". From there, he mixed action movies pure juice ("It goes bang", 1980;) "pink Cadillac", 1989; (inspectors Harry...) and more personal works ("breezy" and "The man in the high plains", 1973;) "Josey Wales, outlaw", 1976; ("Bird", 1988...).
The footprint of famous fathers
Despite its success, Eastwood does not belong to the modes of its time. It is close to Scorsese and Coppola or Spielberg or Lucas. It is a loner who sought isolation in his privacy in his career. How otherwise explain that an actor of such a presence has never, in over forty years of career, shot with a large single filmmaker, other debut Leone, Siegel, a short film of De Sica and a beginner Cimino Eastwood wanted that his best films are those he produced and performed alone.
However, by the attachment of the filmmaker to the western and classical, all forms bear the imprint of illustrious fathers: Ford, Walsh or Huston (which he played in "White Hunter, black heart" in 1990). Each film, he shown a little more his stubbornness to keep him the embers of the great cinema of his ancestors, obeying the Voodoo priestess of "Midnight in the garden of good and evil" (1998): "To understand the living, you have to commune with the dead." However, Eastwood himself has
There is no hero. Those that we call "Heroes", have created them us when we needed. "For example, by a long monologue, ends"Memories of our fathers", the new Clint Eastwood leaving Wednesday next on French screens. "Million Dollar Baby" and the world of boxing, actor-filmmaker looks at the war of the Pacific to find American mythology, his obsession.
"Heroes" of the film are the men that appear on a picture that fit around the world: a group of soldiers planting the Union Jack at the top of a hill at the capture of the island of Iwo Jima in 1945. This image handed the balm to the heart of America, which, after the liberation of Europe, saw the war to continue in Asia. The soldiers who were on the shadow copy were immediately repatriated and made the round of the country, welcoming crowds, shaking hands... But these three national heroes are not those who actually planted the flag, they are just extras, puppets designed to raise funds to support the war effort and populate the American pantheon. In four years in the army between 1950 and 1954, Clint Eastwood has never known the field of battle. Yet he knows whereof he speaks, because himself has the stuff of a "hero": long distinguished silhouette, emaciated face, metallic voice, spellbinding profile shaped for years by men who needed him.
Poncho and a Magnum 44
Specifically, one can imagine the time when Clint Eastwood became the hero. We are in the early 1960, the Italian director Sergio Leone seeks a player for his first western. In an episode of the American series "rawhide", he noted an actor the nonchalant 30 game remote and monolithic. This is almost five years that Clint Eastwood interprets this character. Before that, he was listed for series B in Hollywood or second role. It will therefore accept lower rates of star TV for finally a first film role in a European film. Meanwhile, Leone still hesitate: too lean for a hero, Eastwood looks more like a Princeton student to John Wayne. No matter, dons it of a Mexican poncho, with a large hat and he sticks a Toscano between the teeth to harden his features. Eastwood, who has never smoked, feel bad. Need to get used to this new profile and the taste of the cigar: that day, it became a cult star that will appear in three summits of the European western directed by Leone: "for a fistful of dollars" (1964), "And for a few dollars more" (1965) and "the good, the and the ugly" (1966). The character is hardly exhilarating to play. Leone himself, he has three expressions "with the cigar, with the hat, without the hat." However, it is so successful that the actor can finally, after seven years and two hundred seventeen episodes, leave the television and enter into the cinema.
In the 1970s, while youth and rock invaded Hollywood, he became, under the direction of Don Siegel, Harry Callahan, said "The Inspector Harry" (1971), hyperviolent urban Sheriff, ghost of the Wild West comes to put order in a society that loses its bearings. For criticism and a part of the public, Eastwood appears as a reactionary icon, a flingueur hippies... when it is not simply for an idiot. Harry, however, is not a machine, a Terminator, but a strange being. It is, as the actor, a product of the 1970s: torn between disappointed expectation of the 1960s and 1980s deceptive appearances. Beset by doubt, disturbed by his own ambiguities, knowing more where the justice that it is intended to enforce, he ends up throwing his star on the sidewalk. Harry Callahan, abandoned, no longer has to companion a 44 Magnum. There are yet four suites "The Inspector Harry", which one by Clint Eastwood himself ("The return of Inspector Harry" in 1983). Indeed, as early as 1971, he moved to directing with the thriller "A Shivering in the night". From there, he mixed action movies pure juice ("It goes bang", 1980;) "pink Cadillac", 1989; (inspectors Harry...) and more personal works ("breezy" and "The man in the high plains", 1973;) "Josey Wales, outlaw", 1976; ("Bird", 1988...).
The footprint of famous fathers
Despite its success, Eastwood does not belong to the modes of its time. It is close to Scorsese and Coppola or Spielberg or Lucas. It is a loner who sought isolation in his privacy in his career. How otherwise explain that an actor of such a presence has never, in over forty years of career, shot with a large single filmmaker, other debut Leone, Siegel, a short film of De Sica and a beginner Cimino Eastwood wanted that his best films are those he produced and performed alone.
However, by the attachment of the filmmaker to the western and classical, all forms bear the imprint of illustrious fathers: Ford, Walsh or Huston (which he played in "White Hunter, black heart" in 1990). Each film, he shown a little more his stubbornness to keep him the embers of the great cinema of his ancestors, obeying the Voodoo priestess of "Midnight in the garden of good and evil" (1998): "To understand the living, you have to commune with the dead." However, Eastwood himself has
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