Clint Eastwood in Revenge of the Creature (1955)
4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
Today is Clint Eastwood’s 90th birthday!
Though Clint famously had to go to Italy to really get his film career going, he’s gone on to become an icon of American film. While his early films were often criticized as glorifying violence and of being reactionary, his later films have — more often than not — been meditations on aging, moral ambiguity, and what a lifetime of violence does to a person’s soul. Though Eastwood has fallen out-of-favor with a few critics as a result of the speech he gave at the 2012 Republican Convention (Film Twitter, to the shock of no one, had a particularly over-the-top reaction to it as many of them discovered, I guess for the first time, that not every artist is a Leftist), he’s a filmmaker whose legacy will be rediscovered and probably appreciated in the future.
Here are….
4 Shots From 4 Films
For A Few Dollars More (1965, dir by Sergio Leone)
Dirty Harry (1971, dir by Don Siegel)
Unforgiven (1992, dir by Clint Eastwood)
Gran Torino (2008, dir by Clint Eastwood)
Through the Shattered Lens 