BCN's Movie Database: Clint Eastwood | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's note: To kick-off a fresh, new service, Movie Database, here in BCN, we are offering actor profiles - short in duration, but offering valuable links to informative posts and essential content - to better know the 'poor players' in the art of transferring story to celluloid.

    Our reviewer of films, good and bad, Wyatt Sanderman Day, will be in charge of managing the actor profiles; however, if you have any interest in contributing a profile similar to the Wyatt Sanderman Day template, please join BCN as a member, send Stan Deatherage a private message, and we will consider your submission.


    Wyatt Sanderman Day's note: Stan has asked me to work on this task to provide a discussion on the actors and to provide insight and an avenue to BCN's newest database, this time movies /films, and I am happy to help, but we do it my way: that I take some of my favorite actors, and link to the reviews that I, and others may, have written that they acted in; then we link to their database profile, and, or any other links that I see fit. That's about it, and to that end, I continue with one of my favorites - Clint Eastwood.

Clint Eastwood in a recent photo: Above.
    Clint Eastwood began as a popular television actor during the 'Golden Age' of television, staring as Cowboy Rowdy Yates, on the fabulous T.V. Western "Rawhide". Clint parlayed his handsome actor face into more Western roles, but with a profound twist. Clint made his Westerns in Europe under Italian film director /screen writer Sergio Leone, who later made "Once Upon a Time in the West" and "Once Upon a Time in America", which are reviewed here.

    In Europe, Actor Eastwood made three films culminating in the classic Western "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" in 1966. The success of that one film did propel Clint Eastwood to cult status among Western aficionados, and Mr. Eastwood, as a relatively young actor, went on to have one of the most illustrious careers in the history of cinema ... a career that continues still with remarkable success. In the seventies, it was the "Dirty Harry" franchise that brought the bulk of the new fan base for Actor Eastwood; however, Actor Eastwood continued to do Westerns, most notably the classic anti hero of "The Outlaw Josey Wales", 1976.

    Interestingly, Clint made some films that were odd character studies, some comedies, and like almost all of his films, did well at the box-office. Films like "Every Which But Loose" and "Bronco Billy" presented a lighter side of Eastwood, who had the enviable, or unenviable reputation as that era's top box-office-bad-ass. It was a reputation that never really suited Eastwood, the artist, who directed much of his cinematic energies directing a number of his own films, beginning with "Play Misty for Me" in 1971.

    Regardless of Clint Eastwood's spotty directorial duties, here and there in his formative years, Director Eastwood never got the credit many thought he deserved ... not until 1992, when he directed "Unforgiven", which he also effectively played the lead. In the 1993 Oscars, "Unforgiven", the Oscars for Best Picture, and Best Director for Clint Eastwood. In 2004, Director Eastwood achieved both awards again for "Million Dollar Baby", which also earned the top award for Best Female in a Lead Role for Hillary Swank.

    Many fine films have followed "Unforgiven", with multiple nominations, culminating in this year's nomination for Best Picture for the 2014 film, "American Sniper". It was a fine film, maybe the best of the year ... an outstanding and purposeful manifestation of one of the great cinematic talents heretofore.

    Come join us at our new Movie Database. We welcome you our latest feature to sort through film data to discover information on actors, directors, film images, or just what is playing, when it will pay, or when it did play. It is a work in progress, so we would appreciate your input.

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Considering tonight's Oscar presentations, and tomorrow's aftermath of such: Which film should receive, or have received, the Oscar as the best picture?
5.71%   "Boyhood"
80%   "American Sniper"
14.29%   "Birdman"
175 total vote(s)     Voting has Ended!

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