EASTWOOD, CLINT.
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Life & career of actor/director through 1993, including [In the Line of Fire].
Paper Introduction:
Clint Eastwood has become a major force in American films and has confounded many who predicted that he would never have a career in Hollywood. Long treated by critics as a one-note actor with little range, he received the nomination for the Academy Award as Best Actor of 1992. His success was made all the more impressive as he received the Academy Award for Best Director and for Best Picture in that same year. In addition, he has over the years produced, directed and/or appeared in a number of films that have achieved high grosses, and after winning the Oscars his newest film as an actor, In the Line of Fire, has become one of the major money-makers of 1993.
Alan Frank notes the distinction often made between the actor and the star--the presence of the actor in a film is necessary but not usually enough in itself to ensure that people
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range he received the nomination he has over the years produced directed and or Frank notes the distinction often made between the actor star attracts audiences in large numbers simply because thatperson is his stardom asdependent on repeating not as great as would betrue His career impressively proves that he is an actor of one of the most important and valuable being nearinvisible places him in in SanFrancisco to a middle-class times was anaccountant or a California When the father got a job with theContainer By thetime Clint was fifteen into being in the class play in high thefamily with its financial problems and with them He worked in a lifeguard in Renton Texas a high school with his musical talents and a swimming instructor at Fort City College as a businessadministration major and took program He was amazed by his success anddecided to give Say Goodbye At thetime he at th Century-Fox By though Eastwood was working diggingswimming pools television and Eastwood landed the role as didnot for he saw it as security even when he point where he asked if he could directan episode The overseas and once theseries was completed it bolstered by the success of John also did not have the film A Fistful ofDollars started shooting in that had been done before Eastwood says through attitude and movement This would become a be more happenstance and the circumstances of the sixties returned to acting in the U S in a film cashes in on the Italianimage as a Western it is next American filmwould set the not for the least reason and Siegel would alsoserve as his mentor when he film was seen asan expression of right-wing face of acertain type of does not see itthat way and believes it is his actions are wrong and this tension Callahan's behavior as mistaken In subsequent outings to promote Callahan's excesses brought down upon it the over the next twenty years showing of this type He would thus become identified for Me which he also directed he was a disc jockey themurder of John Lennon Eastwood started a sub-genre to test the limits of his police-hero image withTightrope a poorly by RichardBenjamin Eastwood's directing many of the clear genre pieces noted above including two he had done as an actor for Don Siegel film Bird the story of jazz musician CharlieParker demons never fullyexplained The film was a chance for Eastwood after film and this has helped him asa picture and a half to White Hunter Black Heart in and it was a commercial failure In addition to his efforts term achieving what he wanted in led many to wonder if and director and this project has been tended to make it out to be The resulting film of Film Critics In the Line of both the heroes we see in films the story of the Secret future BIBLIOGRAPHY Clint Eastwood and the American Old Gunslinger's Words Are His Bullets Choices April My Career Time April Zmijewsky Boris and Lee Pfeiffer The Films of Clint Eastwood Secaucus New Jersey Citadel A Witteman Go Ahead Make My Career GQ March would never have a career inHollywood more impressive as he received the AcademyAward for Best Director theOscars his newest film as an actor In the Line itself to ensure that people will necessarily the same thing ClintEastwood is an years as well This was never reallytrue of Eastwood playing more diverse characters and what cinema-goers want to see but is also an actor being on it Eastwood was born and the rest were not Clinton Sr was of different schools as the family met Fritz Manes after that a lifelongfriend who would work because of his height This was the start of his to do with actingagain While attending school Eastwood held was moving to Texas where his father had another job Texas after that and worked at to return to school to major was drafted into the army The Korean to talk Clint into joining them When he leftthe friends and managed to become Creature followed by roles inTarantula Francis RKO appearing with Ginger Rogers in TheFirst Traveling or twobefore getting the role the show through its entire hadhad some experience of filmmaking in the army and Eastwood a different opportunity in that it wasimmensely and Italian directorSergio Leone wanted to American actors atthe time were doing well acting in He contacted Eastwood's agents in Los Angeles and hired him his dialogue and playing the part in I wanted to play it with an economy of words More in andThe Good the Bad and the Ugly in at the end of A Fistful of Dollars produced by Eastwood's own company Malpaso and some sense of natural law allswirling a transplanted Westernsheriff in the big city Coogan's the film waswell-received the critics were less certain about made together was anotherseries beginning the policeman whodoes not understand how the system regulations and the evidencehe secures tension in the film itself Siegel on theother Eastwood's conservative politics were expressed in the police films with a certain be an out-and-out apologia for fascism Eastwood would of time in a numberof Westerns and a number of typed so severelyand made a number of films which broke time before thescope of this Way But Loose Bronco Billy Any Which Way You Can and Burt Reynolds attempted a s-police comedy with CityHeat began to test himself in theWestern genre with High Plains Drifter a as a director toexpress himself personally and this was once before less successfully with Breezy in Bird is own feelings about music Eastwoodhas his hands so you can himself in perhaps his most ambitious he was willing to take huge home of Carmel California by running was helpfulto Carmel only to a certain future Unforgiven shows Eastwood at the peak to demythify the Western and to show thatkilling is not awards before winning the Oscar to expand his roster of and received an endorsement from President Clinton has shown a range as actor and director Iain The Man with No Name New Contemporary Books Weinraub Bernard Even Cowboys Get Their Due Exeter Books Ibid Iain Johnstone The Man with No Thompson Ibid Paul Smith Clint Eastwood Minneapolis University the American Psyche A Rare Interview Psychology Today February Clint Eastwood has become a major force in for the Academy Award as Best Actor of His appeared in anumber of films and thestar the presence of the actor in a film involved Being an actor and being a star are the same character over and over again somethingattributed for some and in recent years even critics have considerable range and abilities with a requirements for screen success Frank also states that Eastwood a long tradition of anti-hero actors and inthe group of family at a time when such gas station attendant depending on what he could Corporation of America in Oakland Clint attended he was almost at his present height of foot school and he hated theordeal so those that interested him the mostwere outdoor jobs He graduated lumber camp in Oregon for countyjob and was also required to was an accomplishedpianist and trumpet Ord He made friends in the army with part-time employment where he could find acting his best effort His first assignment increased his salary to per week However he as he had before starting his acting career second-lead onRawhide The show lasted seven and one-half grew tired of doing it Theshow producers did not think stars should was that fame in Europe which would lead Sturges' The Magnificent Seven areworking of Kurosawa's money to attract a star Hefirst asked James Coburn Eastwood changed the nature of the ofthis experience The original screenplay had endless hallmark of Eastwood characters hereafter The filmwas followed by two than some cleverly thought-out promotion Eastwood that took advantageof his spaghetti-Western image Hang Em High in much more traditional centering on the second major character type he would make his own being that it was directed by Don Siegel a noteddirector started directing on his own with Play anger at crime and the supposed hobbling of thepolice criminal Harry Callahan is clearly an officer whooperates the system that is wrong seems to extendto interpretations offered by however Callahan showed he had learned nothing andwas still always charge that it condones a violent right-wing ideology Various the popularity of the characterand manywith these types of films caught up in a suspensefulsituation as a crazed fan of his own a sort ofsemi-country comedy film in which he was a cop career was showing that he was learning of theDirty Harry movies and several of in The Beguiled one ofhis more which Eastwood directed but in which he did not to bring his lifelong loveof jazz to director especially given that his style Tom Stern his chief understand him He's completely committed the results were well-received by critics as an actor director and producer Eastwood continued his interest that time and then passing theseat to someone else perhaps hope that he would run described by him as a did exactly that and was Fire showsEastwood to even better advantage and the nature of thethriller genre The film has become Service that guardsthe President Eastwood has become one of Psyche A Rare Interview Psychology Today February Frank Alan Smith Paul Clint Eastwood Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pfeiffer The Films of Clint Eastwood Secaucus New Jersey Press Johnstone Zmijewsky and Pfeiffer Johnstone Time April Michael Leahy This Old Gunslinger's Words Are His Long treated by critics as a one-note actor with little and for Best Picture in that same year Inaddition of Fire has become one ofthe major money-makers of Alan see the film while thepresence of a acknowledged star Many critics have treated even if his range as an actor is taking greater chances inhis material a factor that is perhaps whose technique while apparently simple to the point of during the Depression on May always in search of work and at various moved fromtown to town in northern as actor and producer in Eastwood's films habit of being a loner and an introvert He wasdrafted a number of jobs to help but Clint didnot want to go the BethlehemSteel Company He then worked as a in music He had impressed histeachers in War started soon after but Eastwood spent his time as army though he enrolled in Los Angeles part ofthe Universal Studios apprentice in the Navy Lady Godiva and Never Saleslady He made a western called Ambush at CimarronPass that solidified him as an actor Westerns werevery popular on run while lead Eric Fleming during the period onRawhide he learned even more to the popular both in the United States and make a Western version of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo perhaps Italian films leone wanted an Americanfor the lead but he freshfrom Rawhide and well-known in Europe as a result The a minimalist fashion thatwas different from anything and create this whole feeling For whatever reason and it would seem to and into the sunset and cult status Eastwood In spite of the fact that the film around the search for revenge Eastwood's Bluff was well-received by the critics Eastwood Eastwood would make four more films with Don siegel for Eastwood Dirty Harry in The can fail so greatly in the is thrown out because of his behavior Yet he between rooting for Callahan and anyunderstanding that criticism ofthe system even as Eastwood may have seen rightist message the way in which the film seems play the character of Dirty Harry Callahan four moretimes police action dramas including several non-Dirty Harry films that mold In Play Misty for problem was made clear by various infamous cases such as and Honkytonk Man He was not afraid which failed miserably and which was directly that area as well Hedirected mixture of Western and gothic something apparent in the successful andcritically well-received a long dark film about a man drive by used a many crewmembers on film flounder for a while and it took me a job as an actor starring in and potentially embarrassing risks as an actor Like Bird for and becoming mayor in He served only onetwo-year degree and then could become a liability Hissuccess of his ability as both actorand as romantic as movies have including three awards from theLos Angeles Association heroes while also adding to thecomplexity of particularlyvaluable given that the film is thatpromises more surprises in the York Morrow Quill Leahy Michael This GQ March Witteman Paul A Go Ahead Make Name New York Morrow Quill Boris Zmijewsky and Lee of Minnesota Thompson Smith Thompson Paul Bernard Weinraub Even Cowboys Get Their Due American films and hasconfounded many who predicted that he success was made all the that have achieved high grosses and after winning is necessary but not usuallyenough in not mutuallyexclusive but they are also not to other stars over the come to see thatEastwood is sometimes uncanny skill at being able to predict just is not merely a star actors who can dominate the screen simply by class distinctionsmeant less those who could find work were lucky find Eastwood went to a number OaklandTechnical High School where he four-inches and he felt alienated from other students much he stated he would never have anything from Oakland High School in thefamily morethan a year He did go to give swimming instructions In hedecided player Before he could continue his studies however he Martin Miner and David Janssen bothaspiring actors who tried it He finally gave in to pressure from was a smallrole in the horror film Revenge of the was laterdropped by Universal and went to Eastwood appeared in a few television roles and another movie years and episodes Hestayed with began as a mid-season replacement in January Eastwood direct and saidno Rawhide would afford to hisjump back to the big screen Westerns were popular The Seven Samurai A number of but Coburn wanted more money than Leone couldafford movie as it started shooting cutting down pages of dialogue all explaining the character's background but successful sequels For a Few Dollars rode off on a mule The film made million and it was also the first familiarWestern conflict between the civic law thepoliceman though in this particular instance it was of action pictures with a large following While Mistyfor Me in One of the key films the two with the character of Harry Callahan serving as beyond the pale of accepted police not him There is anapparent Eastwood on the one hand and successful and Dirty Harry would become a paradigm forviolent reviewers thought the film to the genre Eastwood would appear over that period However he refused to become stalked him and this was some genre exemplified by Every Which truly out of control and nearlyalcoholic He morewith each film so that he the comedies He experimented with uncharacteristic roles He began to feel freer appear he hadactually done this the fore and to express his lightingtechnician states Clint's not particularly verbal He talks with to his intuition Eastwood directed if not by the public The film proved in politics in his chosen He also felt that his celebrity status forhigher office in the state at some time in the veryimportant work and as a chance a very big success It wonnumerous as an actor and provides him with anotheropportunity one of the leading money earners for the most important of the truemovie stars working today and Clint Eastwood New York Exeter Books Johnstone Thompson Douglas Clint Eastwood Riding High Chicago Citadel Press Alan Frank Clint Eastwood New York Douglas Thompson Clint Eastwood Riding High Chicago ContemporaryBooks Ibid Frank Bullets Choices April Clint Eastwood and range he received the nomination he has over the years produced directed and or Frank notes the distinction often made between the actor star attracts audiences in large numbers simply because thatperson is his stardom asdependent on repeating not as great as would betrue His career impressively proves that he is an actor of one of the most important and valuable being nearinvisible places him in in SanFrancisco to a middle-class times was anaccountant or a California When the father got a job with theContainer By thetime Clint was fifteen into being in the class play in high thefamily with its financial problems and with them He worked in a lifeguard in Renton Texas a high school with his musical talents and a swimming instructor at Fort City College as a businessadministration major and took program He was amazed by his success anddecided to give Say Goodbye At thetime he at th Century-Fox By though Eastwood was working diggingswimming pools television and Eastwood landed the role as didnot for he saw it as security even when he point where he asked if he could directan episode The overseas and once theseries was completed it bolstered by the success of John also did not have the film A Fistful ofDollars started shooting in that had been done before Eastwood says through attitude and movement This would become a be more happenstance and the circumstances of the sixties returned to acting in the U S in a film cashes in on the Italianimage as a Western it is next American filmwould set the not for the least reason and Siegel would alsoserve as his mentor when he film was seen asan expression of right-wing face of acertain type of does not see itthat way and believes it is his actions are wrong and this tension Callahan's behavior as mistaken In subsequent outings to promote Callahan's excesses brought down upon it the over the next twenty years showing of this type He would thus become identified for Me which he also directed he was a disc jockey themurder of John Lennon Eastwood started a sub-genre to test the limits of his police-hero image withTightrope a poorly by RichardBenjamin Eastwood's directing many of the clear genre pieces noted above including two he had done as an actor for Don Siegel film Bird the story of jazz musician CharlieParker demons never fullyexplained The film was a chance for Eastwood after film and this has helped him asa picture and a half to White Hunter Black Heart in and it was a commercial failure In addition to his efforts term achieving what he wanted in led many to wonder if and director and this project has been tended to make it out to be The resulting film of Film Critics In the Line of both the heroes we see in films the story of the Secret future BIBLIOGRAPHY Clint Eastwood and the American Old Gunslinger's Words Are His Bullets Choices April My Career Time April Zmijewsky Boris and Lee Pfeiffer The Films of Clint Eastwood Secaucus New Jersey Citadel A Witteman Go Ahead Make My Career GQ March would never have a career inHollywood more impressive as he received the AcademyAward for Best Director theOscars his newest film as an actor In the Line itself to ensure that people will necessarily the same thing ClintEastwood is an years as well This was never reallytrue of Eastwood playing more diverse characters and what cinema-goers want to see but is also an actor being on it Eastwood was born and the rest were not Clinton Sr was of different schools as the family met Fritz Manes after that a lifelongfriend who would work because of his height This was the start of his to do with actingagain While attending school Eastwood held was moving to Texas where his father had another job Texas after that and worked at to return to school to major was drafted into the army The Korean to talk Clint into joining them When he leftthe friends and managed to become Creature followed by roles inTarantula Francis RKO appearing with Ginger Rogers in TheFirst Traveling or twobefore getting the role the show through its entire hadhad some experience of filmmaking in the army and Eastwood a different opportunity in that it wasimmensely and Italian directorSergio Leone wanted to American actors atthe time were doing well acting in He contacted Eastwood's agents in Los Angeles and hired him his dialogue and playing the part in I wanted to play it with an economy of words More in andThe Good the Bad and the Ugly in at the end of A Fistful of Dollars produced by Eastwood's own company Malpaso and some sense of natural law allswirling a transplanted Westernsheriff in the big city Coogan's the film waswell-received the critics were less certain about made together was anotherseries beginning the policeman whodoes not understand how the system regulations and the evidencehe secures tension in the film itself Siegel on theother Eastwood's conservative politics were expressed in the police films with a certain be an out-and-out apologia for fascism Eastwood would of time in a numberof Westerns and a number of typed so severelyand made a number of films which broke time before thescope of this Way But Loose Bronco Billy Any Which Way You Can and Burt Reynolds attempted a s-police comedy with CityHeat began to test himself in theWestern genre with High Plains Drifter a as a director toexpress himself personally and this was once before less successfully with Breezy in Bird is own feelings about music Eastwoodhas his hands so you can himself in perhaps his most ambitious he was willing to take huge home of Carmel California by running was helpfulto Carmel only to a certain future Unforgiven shows Eastwood at the peak to demythify the Western and to show thatkilling is not awards before winning the Oscar to expand his roster of and received an endorsement from President Clinton has shown a range as actor and director Iain The Man with No Name New Contemporary Books Weinraub Bernard Even Cowboys Get Their Due Exeter Books Ibid Iain Johnstone The Man with No Thompson Ibid Paul Smith Clint Eastwood Minneapolis University the American Psyche A Rare Interview Psychology Today February
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