Tag: Unforgiven
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For a Brief Moment, Clint Eastwood Could Have Been Batman
Clint Eastwood has played more iconic characters than nearly any other actor in film history. While his role as the enigmatic “Man With No Name” in Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is perhaps his most iconic, Eastwood also directed himself in…
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Juror No. 2 Cast, Plot, Director, And More Info
Move over, “Jury Duty,” there’s another twist-filled jury story in town. This time it’s “Juror No. 2,” the upcoming movie from veteran filmmaker Clint Eastwood. Eastwood is in his 90s now, but age hasn’t stopped the prolific actor-turned-filmmaker from working on new stories to bring to the silver screen. Though the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike means…
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Forget Eastwood and Wayne, This Is the Greatest Western of All Time
Ever since its first rise in popularity, the American Western genre has been dominated by action-adventure films that tend to feature dominant, hyper-masculine heroes who use a fair amount of gunplay to get the job done. Movie stars like Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Yul Brynner, and Franco Nero forged their legacies…
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Why Does Clint Eastwood Seem To Only Direct True Stories Now?
In the vast history of Hollywood and the filmmaking medium as a whole, there is no career quite as illustrious and seismic as Clint Eastwood’s. The actor-director has been a mainstay in cinema for roughly seven decades. Before the SAG-AFTRA strike, he was in production for what is believed to be his final film, Juror…
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Clint Eastwood Called This Western “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
Clint Eastwood is an undisputed living legend in Hollywood. Over the course of nearly 70 years, Eastwood has built an award-winning array of performances and directorial efforts that only a handful of his peers have come close to. And at 93, the man is still working, with the upcoming Juror #2, which he is directing,…
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‘Unforgiven’ Could Have Had John Malkovich in the Lead Role
When bringing up the topic of Clint Eastwood’s Western films, the majority of movie fans are going to point directly to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as the one he’ll always be remembered for. Of course, there are many others such as A Fistful of Dollars and Pale Rider, but there is one…
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Gene Hackman Is a Smug and Greedy Villain in This John Grisham Adaptation
Gene Hackman is a household name when talking about brilliant villain actors. Hackman’s critically acclaimed career has spanned six decades, and he has portrayed more than his own fair share of iconic characters onscreen. He was Lex Luthor after all, and also played one of the best cinematic heavies as Little Bill in Clint Eastwood’s…
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Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’ Was Remade as a Samurai Epic That Slays
There have been a lot of things said about the magnificence of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven. Undoubtedly one of the finest Westerns in cinematic history, its influence has been so far-reaching that it gave birth to a Japanese remake in 2013 starring Ken Watanabe. Directed by Lee Sang-il, the jidaigeki reconstruction takes the spirit of the…
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Kurt Russell Isn’t What Makes ‘Tombstone’ a Great Western
Tombstone is one of the last great Westerns, a rousing slice of old-fashioned pulp fun that would make Sam Peckinpah proud, and the last gasp of a type of Western snuffed out by modern blockbuster Hollywood and the ripple effects of Unforgiven. Leading the charge (and secretly directing the film) is Kurt Russell in a…
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The First Western To Win the Best Picture Oscar Has Problems
At the 4th Academy Awards in 1931, Cimarron became the first movie of the Western genre to take home the prize for Outstanding Production, the award now better known as Best Picture. Directed by American actor and filmmaker Wesley Ruggles, Cimarron was hailed upon its release for its time-spanning narrative and expansive depiction of the…