Clint Eastwood's Gran Tarino
October 24th 2008 06:54
Clint burns rubber for a greater good
Nobody takes Clints Car and Lives to tell about it
Dirty Man With No Name Eastwood has defied convention, refused stereotype and in his vineripening maturity continues to be one of the most prolific filmmakers in the bussiness. Terminally cool, with a staunch tough guy pressence his contemplative work behind the camera has enabled him to be seen as a multi dimensional artist who has transcended the box that the men with money would have liked to cage him in.
After several high profile, Oscar baiting works like Flags of Our Fathers and Million Dollar Baby it is with some glee that us simpler fans have yearned for the return of the grumpy, violent island unto themselves characters that made him a mega star. Sure his Don Siegel collaborations like Dirty Harry had a social commentary and his epic teaming with Sergio Leone reinvented celluloid mythology, but it is the determined, never say die attitude of the parts that had us young men wanting to be him.
Now comes his latest Directorial effort which sees the grizzled, bullet chewing testosterone deity returning in front of the camera in the film Gran Torino. In the film Clint plays Walt Kowalski, a racist Korean War veteran who is pushed to vigilante when his treasured 1972 Gran Tarino muscle car is snatched by his slant eyed scum of a neighbour.
Actually that's a lie, (Not to mention un-PC) instead Kowalsi tries to mentor a misguided teen whose street gang initation sees him try to rip off the high octane beast. Expect more depth than this slap dash synopsis leads you to believe.
The first poster for the film (above) has just come out and cements the fact that Clint could well be the meanest looking geratric in the history of movies. There is something retro cool about our man standing in front of the classic casually packing one powerful looking piece of weaponry. Here's hoping the film is half as daunting an experience.
Gran Torino is released in Deember 2008 in the U.S.A.
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