You're right, they aren't on the same level. I can't decide who's more boring and overrated. :roll:uyiop0t
Oh no, uyiop0t didn't just badmouth one of the greatest artists in the field of cinema, the man who directed such classics like Unforgiven, Letters from Iwo Jima, and Mystic River! The man who redefined the western with Sergio Leone in the Dollar trilogy! The man who basically stands as an icon in crime movies with Dirty Harry! You, sir, are ignoring the greatness of such a figure, a man who probably has done more for cinema than 80% of the living people in entertainment today, the other twenty percent reserved for other true masters in both acting and directing still with us.
With that in mind, here are three examples of true Eastwood badassery. WARNING, ALL BADASS MOMENTS ARE SPOILERS
Out of the Dollar Trilogy, "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" is still the best, but in "For a Few Dollars More" makes for a better example of Clint's greatness. In the movie, The Man with No Name is a bounty hunter seeking the price on the great bandit El Indio's. Along the way, No Name meets up with The Colonel, played by the master Lee Van Cleef, who is also seeking the bandit, but not for the money. An epic standoff ensues, which leads to an example of Clint's badassery.
Badass moment of the movie
At the end of the movie, No Name collects the bodies of every bandit in El Indio's gang and finds he is short a body after counting how much they are worth all together. The final member attempts to get the jump on No Name, but No Name kills him, tosses him in with the rest of the bodies, and rides happily into the sun for his grand payday. Oh, and he also takes the money El Indio's gang robbed from the bank. BADASS
Here we have another Eastwood example of greatness. Here, Dirty Harry Callahan, a San Francisco cop, is hunting down the Scorpio killer, a man who kills his victims gleefully from the rooftop with a sniper rifle. The stacks get higher as the movie progress, with Dirty Harry having to take the law in his own hands for all the right reasons.
Badass moment of the movie
Once Dirty Harry corners the Scorpio killer, he tortures him into a confession in order to save a young girl. It was later revealed that the Scorpio killer raped and murdered the girl while getting off due to bureaucracy, enraging Dirty Harry. The Scorpio Killer tries to play the system, resulting in Dirty Harry to break away from laws in search of true justice, which in this case is a .44 between the killer's eyes. BADASS
Eastwood's final starring role in a western, he plays ex-con William Munny who seeks to live a peaceful life but is interrupted with news of an attack on a prostitute by thugs in another town ran by a ruthless sheriff played by Gene Hackman. Seeing the potential of an reward that would help his children, he joins up with another former con played by Morgan Freeman and an eager young bandit played by Jaimz Woolvett to seek the reward, realizing that killing for any reason is neither heroic nor romantic, it is just dirty and cruel.
Badass moment of the movie
Munny finds out that his friend played by Freeman was murder, forcing him to break his vow never to drink again. He rides into the town lead by Hackman and into the bar they all hang out with. Seeing that Freeman's body is being used as a warning sign, Munny asks for the bar owner, shooting him immediately for making his friend into a trophy. Enraged, Hackman eventually dies from Munny's wrath as he shoots and kills every single member of his gang. Munny is not even close to done after that. He goes out bar and threatens to destroy the whole town BY HIMSELF if anybody dares to fire at him. Frighten, any opposition is silenced, and Munny leaves with Freeman's body. BADASS
My advice, watch some movies, my friend, because no one who has seen an Eastwood movie would claim he is boring or overrated. Kratos, yes, but lets face it, not even a whiny fictional greek god can come close to what Eastwood has done with his fiction.
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