Clint Eastwood

From the academy award winning director Clint Eastwood comes the astounding film “Sully” which features Tom Hanks as the protagonist named Sully. While the film uses many techniques and even more tricks to achieve its looks, it also has a true story that captivates the audience making this a movie to remember. Clint Eastwood has been a world renowned actor ever since his first appearance in “Revenge of the Creature” debuting in 1954 which started his legacy in the film industry. Tom Hanks, an…

In the film ‘Invictus,’ the director Clint Eastwood describes Morgan Freeman’s character, Nelson Mandela as an inspiring, pure and hardworking leader by standing up for his own beliefs and follows his vision of excluding racial inequality from South Africa. Mandela is revealed to us as a determined man who shows great defiance through particular scenes within the film and is shown to us through the use of camera shots and dialogue. We can see that he is defiant and has determination from the…

combined into hybrids or evolved, the classic Western is no exception. Unforgiven (1992) is an example of a revisionist Western film. Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, it tells the story of an old farmer, with a legendary reputation, who attempts to carry out one last job in order to earn some money for his family. The…

“The American Sniper” is possibly the best action movie out there. This movie was directed my Clint Eastwood and is based on Chris Kyle’s autobiography published in 2012. “The American Sniper” did a great job of hitting all the core aspects of a thrilling war movie such as keeping the viewer engaged throughout the movie, establishing a bond with the main character, and creating a realistic experience of a soldier’s life. The film openly shared both struggles and victories. Bonded Brotherhoods…

Tolerance allows change, and that which cannot change is destined to perish. As it shows on the Invictus movie directed by Clint Eastwood, distributed by Warner Bros and it was released on 2009. Which taught us about being tolerance. Being tolerance is that we try to take a part of something that we don’t agree with but we can accept it. As the quotes tell us that ‘Tolerance is giving the other human being every right you claim for yourself.’ We need to give others the right to say their…

ways, there are people who mistake the epistemic knowledge as their reality while there are others who dive further and investigate into the true reality. The prisoners in ‘Plato’s allegory of the cave’ and the police officers in ‘Changeling’ (Clint Eastwood, 2008) believed in the reality of epistemic knowledge, whereas Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) and the prisoner who left the cave tried to transmission their knowledge and refused to believe in the conventions forced upon them by the…

Gran Torino was released in 2008 and it was directed by Clint Eastwood, as he was also the main character. The main character Walt, as played by Clint Eastwood, befriends a young Hmong boy in what turns out to be a surprising relationship. This film portrayed a significant amount of historical trends of the 1960’s and 1970’s, and it represents certain cultural aspects that were present at the time with both the Hmong people and the average American white male. The Detroit that is portrayed in…

audience through his four tours in Iraq, which are contrasted with his slowly worsening relationship with his wife and children, which is explained with his noted absence and untreated Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). While the director, Clint Eastwood, claims the film had “no political aspect” in its portrayal of Kyle’s actions, the film clearly appeals to justify the Iraq…

“I'm willing to meet my creator and answer for every shot that I took”. (American Sniper) American Sniper is based on a remarkable true story of the U.S. Navy Seal, Chris Kyle risk his life for his country. The director of the movie, Clint Eastwood expressed Chris’s story in a very touching and a warm loving way but also catches you but surprise with numerous suspenseful, gruesome, and jaw dropping sense throughout the movie. Main reason American Sniper has multiple awards is due to the amazing…

heros for their “‘masterful landing’, which was a ‘miracle on the Hudson’”. In the subsequent years, television shows and documentaries were released based on this occurrence, but the most popular was the dramatized feature film Sully, produced by Clint Eastwood. Although the movie and the real-life event are similar, there a few major differences that the audience notices when watching. These differences send a subtle, but strong, political message to the audience, and has left investigation…