Clint Eastwood beyond the western: his best roles
Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby or The Bridges of Madison County: Clint Eastwood's filmography without a horse proves the cowboy is only part of the story.
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Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby: the Eastwood who doesn't need a horse
Clint Eastwood is not a cowboy. He is an actor with more than half a century of career —sixty years of filmography— whom collective memory reduces to a poncho, a cigar and a borderland graveyard. Asked which of his films work without spurs, the list that emerges is long, scattered and considerably better than his gunslinger fruta suggests.
The result goes far beyond the genre. Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, The Bridges of Madison County, Heartbreak Ridge, In the Line of Fire, Firefox, Space Cowboys, The Gauntlet, Kelly's Heroes, The Mule, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil or The Beguiled. None is a western. Several are major works.
The textbook mistake is slipping in Western titles, exactly what the premise rules out. And the trap works: the first suggestion was, literally, a spaghetti western.
An actor of many genres, not one
Eastwood has moved through crime thrillers, courtroom drama, war, science fiction and even romantic comedy. The question of whether he needs a horse has a short answer: no.
The predictable outcome is that another generation will remember him for the poncho. With reservations: a quick look at this list is enough to doubt that the western was the best thing he ever did.
Clint Eastwood is not a cowboy. He is an actor with more than half a century of career —sixty years of filmography— whom collective memory reduces to a poncho, a cigar and a borderland graveyard. Asked which of his films work without spurs, the list that emerges is long, scattered and considerably better than his gunslinger fruta suggests.
The result goes far beyond the genre. Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, The Bridges of Madison County, Heartbreak Ridge, In the Line of Fire, Firefox, Space Cowboys, The Gauntlet, Kelly's Heroes, The Mule, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil or The Beguiled. None is a western. Several are major works.
The textbook mistake is slipping in Western titles, exactly what the premise rules out. And the trap works: the first suggestion was, literally, a spaghetti western.
An actor of many genres, not one
Eastwood has moved through crime thrillers, courtroom drama, war, science fiction and even romantic comedy. The question of whether he needs a horse has a short answer: no.
The predictable outcome is that another generation will remember him for the poncho. With reservations: a quick look at this list is enough to doubt that the western was the best thing he ever did.
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