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Clint Eastwood: Dirty Harry turns 80
Telegraph UK ^
| 2/3/10
| Will Lawrence
Posted on 02/03/2010 6:56:08 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant
“And if I was a half as ugly as you, Sergeant Major, I’d be a poster boy for a prophylactic.” - Heartbreak Ridge
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posted on
02/03/2010 7:54:45 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Free Vulcan
“The Outlaw Josey Wales is my all-time favorite.”
How many times did that poor dog get spit on?
To: Finny
Oh, I hear you on that! Clint is a master at Westerns. I can't really go though a year fulfilled unless I watch "High Plains Drifter," one of my faves. I was away from the U.S. in a kind of third-world place for a couple of months as a teen, and when I got back to the U.S. there were only two things I craved: a real cheeseburger, and a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western.Since you live in Calif, you ought to go check out Mono Lake sometime where they filmed High Plains Drifter (just a few miles north of me). Joe Kidd was filmed six miles from my house.
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:01:23 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: DarthVader
This movie made me purchase my Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum. That movie sold a LOT of model 29's. :-)
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:04:31 PM PST
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: pissant
Clint Eastwood is truly a National Treasure, in the tradition of John Wayne, and many others.
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:05:58 PM PST
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts...)
To: SpaceBar
Eastwood redefined two genres of movies, the western and the cop show. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and Dirty Harry. Every western and cop movie made since then owes a debt to Eastwood. He also delivers one liners better than almost anyone else:
"Deservins got nothing to do with it."
He also previewed the psycho-chick movie in "Play Misty for Me." Fatal Attraction was an almost scene by scene ripoff.
And, I'll tell you exactly where Heath Ledger got the idea for his Joker. Scorpio from Dirty Harry. Watch the movie and check out Andrew Robinson's character, the way he moves, the psycho lies, and the rapid personality changes:
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:07:09 PM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: Ramius
Yeah. Bet Colt wished he’d used a Python.
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:07:48 PM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: Inyo-Mono
Right behind you, above the timberline west roughly of Bishop, about ten years ago they discovered two mummified corpses still strapped into their ultralight aircraft, both with broken legs. They were reported missing the previous year by their wives and some hikers found them. The authorities conjectured that they survived an emergency landing but were too injured to go for help and their cell phones were dead, so they froze to death.
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:09:08 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: Finny
Trying to think here. Pale Rider did rip off Shane but also High Plains Drifter, High Noon and others I cannot think of now. Great Movie.
To: DarthVader
Which is why God invented the Hollow Point Bullet.
“It’ll blow your head clean off”.
“Do you feel lucky punk? Well, do you?”
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:12:46 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party...)
To: Peter Libra
"The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. (1966)
The cemetery scene with Eli Wallach and the music with it.
Replayed it all too often." That piece of music is called
"The Ecstasy of Gold" by composer Ennio Morriconi.
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:14:28 PM PST
by
StormEye
To: pissant
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:15:32 PM PST
by
MissDairyGoodnessVT
(Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
To: Richard Kimball
In the original Dirty Harry, they rented the 44 from a guy my Brother knew. He was involved in the production.
In the Movie, when Harry threw the gun down on the cement under the Large Cross, it was the real gun. The bluing got pretty messed up when he did that.
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:18:18 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party...)
To: GOPsterinMA
the oscars are nothing anymore. too political and I’m sure Clint Eastwood is bigger than that.
To: pissant
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:18:44 PM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: SpaceBar
Right behind you, above the timberline west roughly of Bishop, about ten years ago they discovered two mummified corpses still strapped into their ultralight aircraft, both with broken legs. They were reported missing the previous year by their wives and some hikers found them. The authorities conjectured that they survived an emergency landing but were too injured to go for help and their cell phones were dead, so they froze to death.Yeah, it is rough country around here. Steve Fawcett was found near here a couple of years ago, as well as two mummified crew members from a WWII plane crash.
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:18:56 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: StormEye
To: dfwgator
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:20:13 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: television is just wrong
Very, very good points!!!
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:22:51 PM PST
by
GOPsterinMA
(Happy Anniversary Barack! Love, Massachusetts)
To: DarthVader
This movie made me purchase my Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum. Made me vote for Reagan.
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