“a godard actor” come on it’s alain delon, le samurai, le cercle rouge, purple noon! did you know his bodyguard had wrote that if anything happened to him delon did it, and then he was killed
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ok but calling Alain Delon “a Godard actor” is a fucking hilarious own though
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okay I was even more fucked up about this because in that post I originally associated the name Alain Delon with Ursula Andress, calling him a “roguish brothel owner” and then when I realized that was wrong I glanced at Delon’s filmography and saw posters that were obviously French and without even thinking about it I just thought “oh so he’s in Godard movies”
misogyny and the 2014 film sabotage
really fascinated at the reactions to david ayer’s 2014 joint sabotage, where blackpilled boomer death drive arnie and the worst people ever do their thing, but ive seen multiple ppl call it heinous shit, insanely gross, etc. because of the like liveleak snuff footage of them killing arnolds wife, but its amazing how little ayer shows compared to stuff from 10 yrs later, i mean he lingers on her getting shot in the head and its still more tame than like idk god is a bullet (came out last year) and cyberpunk 2077, like when the boys get shot in the head in this movie you see their fuckin brains hanging out or he lingers even longer w blood coming out of the wound…its weird how things are so much worse that he seems restrained comparatively. in god is a bullet multiple women get punched in the face and we see blood skeet out their noses, theres a lot of weird fetishistic violence against women that made me way more uncomfortable than this movie…that the studio cut 10 years ago for being too sicko. really fascinating how the bar for misogyny has been raised, both in the sense of depicting it and what actually bothers people
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Have not seen this nor any of his other movies but I think John Cassavetes’ son has perhaps the funniest filmography possible given his parentage
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i think there is a scene in billy lynn’s long halftime walk where vin diesel is reading gaddafi’s green book while playing chess
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he also says “I love you” to each member of his squad before they go into battle. Ours is the karma of action…the way of the warrior. I hear this shit also helps for when you play fortnite
Joe alwyn has the wettest saddest eyes i’ve ever seen in a movie, I guess I see what taylor swift saw in him
YES he absolutely is
‘we’re going down’ ‘what?’ ‘im going down’ DIES
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I think an interesting companion to Billy Lynn is the movie Clint Eastwood made starring real American vets playing themselves in a reenactment of the time they prevented a massive stabbing event on a European train
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Damn fuck well I guess I have to watch this crap now. I wonder if they sold their story for 5500 dollars after a jingoistic speech
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no thanks!!
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It’s super low budget and low vision at least, so it’s not like what I presume American Sniper is like, competently produced and emotionally manipulative. There’s lots of stilted acting and scenes that couldn’t possibly move anyone. Kind of interesting!
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Yeah I haven’t seen 15:17 to Paris but I hear it’s really interesting despite itself, thanks to the combination of weird stilted acting from the actual people who were involved, and Clint Eastwood’s hangups and fascination with the aesthetic bleakness of middle American suburban life. Also a lot of strange choices about what to include in the story, like a very extended scene of these guys recreating their real life gelato orders at the real life gelato place they really went to.
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all of Clint’s work post-American Sniper has been incredibly strange and fascinating and not as offensive as its erstwhile culture war positioning would suggest
there are like a single digit number of people in the world who have his belief system but can command large budgets and have artistic integrity at least
Cry Macho is hilarious (there’s almost a sex scene!), Richard Jewell is a borderline left wing movie
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this is as contrasted with In The Line of Fire, an early 90s Tom Clancy adaptation, in which he shuffles around already looking too ancient for the role, gets yelled at by Frasier’s dad, and more or less sexually harasses Rene Russo into sleeping with him (I shut the movie off at that point).
he really got better at his whole deal in his 80s somehow, sort of like Tom Cruise did in his 50s I guess
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anyway now that I am thinking about “the 15:17 to Paris” for the first time in years I am newly fascinated by the whole thing, like, this potentially horrible incident that just happened to be foiled by American hoo-rah guys in the most accidental and frustrating validation of their whole deal – in France, no less – imaginable
the whole thing is the most “(pinches bridge of nose shaking head) great work, fellas” event, fitting that hollande had to give them a medal for it
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it’s just so funny if you’ve been trying to argue for years and years that sending these guys all over the world in fact does not make us safer, because one time they did and then Dirty Harry made a way more interesting movie about it than he was supposed to etc etc etc
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Although Dirty Harry is arguably Clint Eastwood’s signature role, he was not a top contender for the part. The role of Harry Callahan was offered to John Wayne and Frank Sinatra,[9] and later to Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, and Burt Lancaster.[7] In his 1980 interview with Playboy, George C. Scott claimed that he was initially offered the role, but the script’s violent nature led him to turn it down. When producer Jennings Lang initially could not find an actor to take the role of Callahan, he sold the film rights to ABC Television. Although ABC wanted to turn it into a TV movie, the amount of violence in the script was deemed excessive for television, so the rights were sold to Warner Bros.[10]
Warner Bros. purchased the script with a view to casting Frank Sinatra in the lead. Sinatra was 55 at the time and since the character of Harry Callahan was originally written as a man in his mid-to-late 50s (and Eastwood was then only 41), Sinatra fit the character profile. Initially, Warner Bros. wanted either Sydney Pollack or Irvin Kershner to direct.[8] Kershner was eventually hired when Sinatra was attached to the title role, but when Sinatra later left the film, Kershner did as well.[11]
John Milius was asked to work on the script when Sinatra was attached, along with Kershner as director. Milius claimed he was requested to write the screenplay for Sinatra in three weeks.[12] Terrence Malick wrote a draft of the film (dated November 1970) in which the shooter (also named Travis) was a vigilante who killed wealthy criminals who had escaped justice.[13][page needed]
can you imagine the John Milius / Sydney Pollack / Frank Sinatra version of Dirty Harry
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Clint Eastwood is the best American experimental film director of the 21st century is one of those things at the bottom of the cahiers du cinema lore iceberg
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