Today, a new picture of Clint Eastwood is released in Russian rental " Sniper ", Which became the most cashier film of the beginning of 2015. In honor of the premiere, we decided to look at the more than half -century career of a man who has gone a difficult but very successful way from the star of the action -packed militants to the Oscar -winning director, and highlight the most important milestones of his career.
Since since the beginning of the eighties, Eastwood, with rare exceptions, acts as a director and an actor in his films, all the paintings are given a single list, without dividing the tape that he put or in which he only played.
10. Like it or not, you will lose (1978)
Clint Eastwood made a career for himself primarily as a hero of militants and action movies. Therefore, when in 1978 it became known that the actor wants to star in the main role in the adventure comedy " Whatever one may say – you will lose ", The public was puzzled.
Idang plays a young trucker named Phil, who travels around the country with a bosom friend and manual orangutan in search of lost love. Trinity regularly falls into troubles, makes friends and makes enemies, and returns home in the finale, forgetting about the escaped girlfriend.
James Fargo's film did not claim to be serious, and the journalists sharply criticized him, but the simple viewer liked the tape. The picture raised more than 85 million dollars at the box office, and, to the surprise of Eastwood himself, became the most box office in his acting career. What is noteworthy, in this film the actor was not shy for the first time to joke on the topic of the image of a cowboy to him.
9. Singing by taverns (1982)
In 1982, Eastwood put a rather unusual picture for himself, where he played a patient with tuberculosis of a singer working in the country's style and traveling around the country in the company of his nephew. PlayOJO Casino In this role, by the way, the son of Eastwood – Kyle, a fairly successful jazz musician starred. The picture turned out to be moderately tough and sentimental, and these features will then appear more than once in later works by the director.
8. Play me before death (1971)
The first directorial experience of the actor came to the film about the successful DJ, who is haunted by a crazy fan. Despite some flaws, Eastwood was the first time to remove a completely peppy, dynamic and fascinating thriller, who interested both ordinary spectators and exacting critics. For the first time, two branded features of Eastwood-director for the first time: the ability to shoot on time and fit into the declared budget.
The Eastwood style in this tape was noticeably influenced by the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock and the work of Don Siegel, one of the two (second-Sergio Leone) the main directors in the acting career of Eastwood of the 1960-70s. He starred in five films of Siegel and invited the senior comrade to play a small role in his directorial debut.
7. Bridges of Madison County (1995)
In the melodrama, this actor and the director starred infrequently, but extremely successfully. The film adaptation of the bestseller Robert James Waller, in which Eastwood acted as a director and a leading actor, according to many, the source was significantly exceeded.
I endedly took off the leisurely, measured and very lyrical love story of two middle -aged people who only find happiness in each other for a few days. Moreover, the audience at the very beginning of the picture will find out that the novel of the main characters ended with nothing. But this knowledge does not affect the impression of viewing. After all, Eastwood tries to convey that simple thought that sometimes it is not very better to be happy than not to love at all.
Another unconditionally successful find of the "bridges" was Maryl Streep. She brilliantly played the role of Francesh Johnson, who loves the mother of two children, who ultimately sacrifices the only acquired happiness for the sake of the future of her family.
6. Dirty Harry (1971)
First " Dirty Harry " – far from the best film not only in the portfolio of Clint Eastwood, but also in the series about the adventures of the tough and incorruptible police inspector Harry Kallakhan. But it was from this tape that the victorious tread of the dirty Harry began, the hero who significantly influenced what the best police militants of the next decades became. Callakhan features are guessed in Aksel Fowley, and in Martin Riggs, and in the trail of Hammer, and in Freda Huntere. And in " Deadly weapons "There is a direct reference to one of the scenes" Dirty Harry ".
5. Perfect world (1993)
This is perhaps one of the few films with the participation of Eastwood actor, in which his character, the Texas ranger Red Garnett, plays an important but far from a leading role. The relationship of a fugitive prisoner Butch Hines performed by Kevin Costner and the little boy Philip, whom Butch took in hostage comes to the forefront.
During a joint trip, a childless Butch is imbued with his fellow traveler with fatherly feelings and teaches him to make independent decisions. In the finale of the paintings of RED and his team overtake the fugitives, which is the very dramatic finale, to one degree or another, characteristic of most later works by Eastwood.
4. Letters from Ivodzima (2006)
In 2006, Clint Eastwood shot two films showing one of the most bloody battles on the Pacific Front of World War II on two sides. And if " The flags of our fathers ", Telling about the fate of a group of marines, who raised the American flag over the island, turned out to be an average in all respects by a patriotic work, then" Letters from Ivodzima »Turned out to be an order of magnitude better.
Eastwood, one of the few Americans, decided to look at the war through the eyes of the Japanese – usually appearing in military films a crowd of aggressive and faceless fanatics. The “letters” showed that although the highest leadership of the imperial army carefully washes the wards of the brains, most ordinary soldiers are no different from the Americans, and they are fighting with such frenzy only because they are unlimitedly believe in their emperor.
The “letters” filmed completely in Japanese after the box office of the “flags” received very limited rental in the United States. But the film was awarded a very warm reception by critics, tired of praised script, directorial and operator work.
3. Mysterious river (2003)
In 2003, Eastwood shot his own, perhaps the best film. At least from those where I did not play personally. U " The mysterious river »An amazingly powerful and dramatic detective story about the difficult relationships of three childhood friends, one of whom has just lost her daughter, the second is looking for her killers, and the third is the main suspect in this crime.
The film was awarded six nominations for Oscar and won two. Both awards were brought by the film by the actors – Sean Penn and Tim Robbins, who brilliantly played the roles of the grief of his father and “blue collar”, who never recovered from the violence transferred in childhood.
2. Non -united (1992)
During his directorial career, Clint Eastwood has not once returned to the Western genre and each time approached him from different angles. " The tramp is high plains "Carries echoes of the trilogy about a person without a name, but at the same time represents a tough story about revenge and justice. " Josi Wails is an outlaw " – an anti -war comedy about a farmer, which supported the wrong side in the civil war and, after its end, was forced to go on the run.
But Eastwood became the main western in the career " Unflapped ".
I endedly bought the rights to the film back in the eighties and all these years patiently waited for enough to grow old to play the role of William Munny. The hero of Eastwood, a former cold -blooded killer, decided to settle down, but was forced to take up arms for the last time.
The action of the picture unfolds at the end of the era of the frontier, and its heroes cannot be called neither bad nor good. Idang gave the last tribute to both his image of a harsh shooter and the genre of Western, but could not fully part with either one or others. Walter Kovalski from " Gran-Torino " – the same veteran and relic of the era, like Munny. Yes, and " Sniper " – the same Western, only about the war of the XXI century.
1. Good, bad, evil (1966)
The main film in the career of Clint Eastwood, the best not only in the "dollar trilogy", but in the entire genre of Western. Everything is perfect here: three performers of the main roles, excellent musical accompaniment, memorable dialogs and a whole heap of winged quotes. The leisurely and measured narration is interrupted by the flashes of an unexpected action every now and then. Separate scenes of this masterpiece must be completely brought and disassembled in textbooks on the film.
The tape marked the revival of the genre and so determined its further development that the references to the picture of Leon are still found. Likes to quote these films Quentin Tarantino.