Clint Eastwood

The film was directed by Clint Eastwood, produced by Warner Brothers 2009, and includes Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. (Invictus) The movie starts out by looking at a rugby field and a soccer field, that are separated by a road. One thats healthy…

Throughout the 1990’s more than 100 million children died from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could have been prevented for the prices of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days. Unfortunately, for some part, the world nowadays has become a cruel and ignorant place considering that facts such as these can exist. Similarly to the novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, it counts the story of a group of boys and their struggle to…

Summary: “American Sniper” released in 2014, directed by Clint Eastwood, is a movie about Chris Kyle, portrayed by Bradley Cooper. Chris Kyle was a U.S NAVY SEAL officer, who took his post seriously and made it his sole job to protect his comrades. At first he dreamed of being a cowboy living in Texas, but he had to show his real talent. As he was growing up his father taught him to shoot a rifle and hunt deer. His life took another turn when he finds his then girlfriend sleeping in bed with…

Early in the 20th century, a new wave of crime swept across the nation. In the 1920’s and 30’s the Volstead Act encouraged illegal alcohol distribution that became a very lucrative business. This sharp rise in crime formed organized gangs that became more and more violent. President Herbert Hoover decided at that time to crack down on crime and this led to the creation of larger, higher capacity federal prisons. Alcatraz prison was one of the products of this decision, and is possibly the most…

media does not help people escape these gender stereotypes. That is why it is so important to recognize when something in the media attempts to break these stereotypes. A great example of this is the movie Million Dollar Baby that was directed by Clint Eastwood in 2004 and starred Hilary Swank. Million Dollar Baby tells the inspirational story of Maggie Fitzgerald, a hard working, dedicated, and inspired rookie boxer who will do whatever it takes to be the best. Maggie starts training in a gym…

The film, “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” directed by Sergio Leone, the father of Spaghetti Westerns, is considered one of the best Westerns of all time. It launched Clint Eastwood into stardom as, “The Man with No Name” also known as Blondie “The Good”, through his interactions with his co-stars Lee Van Cleef, Angel Eyes “The Bad”, and Eli Wallach, Tuco “The Ugly”. The hero here, Blondie, is not the typical hero that you would expect, but through an analysis of several scenes, one begins to…

Fighting War Is Not Loving Our Country Directed by famous director Clint Eastwood with six Oscar nominations, the film “American Sniper (2014)” is based on a book “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (2012)” by Kyle Kyle, with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. Kyle Kyle starred by Bradley Cooper is the main character who sniped over 160 enemy combatants, which is officially confirmed by the Department of Defence, overriding Navy Seals sniper record…

taste. Was I going to hold out my hand, flash him an awkward grin as he signed my book— “Hello, Mr. Duke,” I’d say, teeth practically clattering in my mouth, “I loved your book,” “Oh?” he’d said— I imagine his voice is sort of rough, bit like Clint Eastwood or something. “Yeah,” and it would be as simple as that. He’d hand me back the book and…

The way race has impacted society is it has taught us that we are judged by the color of our skin, thus having the Horatio Alger myth feels pointless because this myth says hard work and passion gets us where we are going when in reality we do not have that American theocracy we so wish for. In the response to the myth, we have the notion of the pull themselves up by the bootstraps when it simply is not true, people have learned to cheat, steal and lie to get to the top and pull a different card…