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Re: The Mule - Clint Eastwood's latest flick (NGC)
« Reply #30 on: January 07, 2019, 08:20:40 PM »
 Pabst must have paid him well for that , he was an "Oly" man .

 You guys are aware that all of those lines Clint is so famous for were actually written by a script writer , right ?

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« Reply #31 on: January 07, 2019, 08:48:36 PM »
Pabst must have paid him well for that , he was an "Oly" man .

 You guys are aware that all of those lines Clint is so famous for were actually written by a script writer , right ?

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« Reply #32 on: January 07, 2019, 09:09:41 PM »
No shit Sherlock

 So , W/O googlefu , can anyone name the writers who wrote those iconic lines ?

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« Reply #33 on: January 07, 2019, 09:25:14 PM »
.  Not humor or sad. Just a good story about an old man getting by. I make a point to see every movie Mr. Eastwood makes on the big screen in support and have a Rowdy Yates tatoo on my_________. Kevin Spacey???  Can I have a
Good waterboarding instead???

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« Reply #34 on: January 07, 2019, 09:51:24 PM »
Guess I'll have to go see it, not that I wouldn't eventually.

I'll bet not all those lines Clint uttered were written for him. Sometimes  actors get into the role and stuff like that just comes out on its own.

It also takes a certain presence to make those lines work as well. Reminds me of a story about John Wayne. A young actor said something to John that went kinda like "...looks like it's easy - all I have to do is talk slow." Wayne's reply " That's the hard part."

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Re: The Mule - Clint Eastwood's latest flick (NGC)
« Reply #35 on: January 07, 2019, 10:11:30 PM »
Good call on the books by the author!  An excellent writer...very enjoyable.  There were some items I learned about while reading the Josey Wales books that I didn’t know were specified in the book, a nice complement in my view.

Aside from all of the other Clint movies mentioned above,  I also really like Kelly’s Heroes, The Eiger Sanction and Where Eagles Dare...all movies with great casts!

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« Reply #36 on: January 07, 2019, 10:22:07 PM »
 A couple of Finks wrote the original Dirty Harry .

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« Reply #37 on: January 08, 2019, 03:11:34 AM »
Doubt it could beat Two Mules for Sister Sara. Clint and Shirley MacLaine at their best.



That was the best movie :grin:
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« Reply #38 on: January 17, 2019, 12:28:48 PM »
I think I'll see it today.

Not many good movies lately.  The last really good movie I saw was "The Death of Stalin" and that's been a year ago.  It's on cable now.  Hilarity and horror at once.
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Re: The Mule - Clint Eastwood's latest flick (NGC)
« Reply #39 on: January 17, 2019, 04:31:18 PM »

I read that for The Mule, the directors intentionally did NOT try to pretty Clint up to look any younger.

I have to be an Eastwood fan.  I'm about 15 yrs younger than Clint, and from about age 20, I started fairly regularly having people - strangers as well as friends - comment about how I looked like him, aside from being about 4 or 5 inches shorter.  I even had an Egyptian soldier in Cairo tell me I looked like "East."  I had him repeat it 3 times because I had no clue what he was talking about, but the 3rd time he said "You know! Clint East!"  I never could really see it (except for a similarity in our squints) but, when I was younger, I secretly hoped it was true because it couldn't hurt on the dating scene.  Now, not so much!
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Re: The Mule - Clint Eastwood's latest flick (NGC)
« Reply #40 on: January 17, 2019, 05:30:34 PM »
I think this might be the best Clint movie without horses and boots.  I appreciated that he did a little bit of accent and mannerism to his old white guy shtick.  I was thinking it might be another dramatic and tragic movie but instead it was funny if a little bittersweet.

Also, my grandparents would go to the annual national lily shows back in the '60s.

Best movie I've seen in a while.
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« Reply #41 on: January 17, 2019, 05:43:12 PM »
I think this might be the best Clint movie without horses and boots.  I appreciated that he did a little bit of accent and mannerism to his old white guy shtick.  I was thinking it might be another dramatic and tragic movie but instead it was funny if a little bittersweet.

Also, my grandparents would go to the annual national lily shows back in the '60s.

Best movie I've seen in a while.

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« Reply #42 on: January 17, 2019, 06:03:00 PM »
I didn't care for Grand Torino, it was dark and bigoted, IMO.  I was hesitant to see the Mule because I thought it would be like that one based on the ads.

It was "bigoted", maybe to a somewhat exaggerated and unrealistic degree.  That theme was a bit overdone.  However, at the time it was released I was a regular customer at a Lao restaurant near my office & the staff there LOVED the movie.  They uniformly could identify with the cultural touches and with the problems of young Laos growing up in the US, both within the family and with "outsiders".  I found that interesting because I had thought that the treatment of the Lao community's customs and interactions was probably a bit exaggerated, too.  I was assured that the picture's treatment was pretty much spot on (which is pretty unusual for anything from Hollywood!).
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Re: The Mule - Clint Eastwood's latest flick (NGC)
« Reply #43 on: January 17, 2019, 08:57:55 PM »
As far as the "bigotry" goes, apparently some of you never worked in an industrial setting in the 20th century, where many nationalities worked together doing dirty dangerous work. What a sensitive person might call an ethnic slur is what we commonly called each other. With absolutely no offense meant nor taken. In many cases you relied on these men with your lives, and a close bond was formed. Ethnic nicknames were a badge of honor. Eastwood undoubtedly studied such men before taking on various roles. Men in the oil patch, steelworkers, infantrymen, laborers.  Real life. Not cloistered campus censorship.  :grin:
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« Reply #44 on: January 18, 2019, 06:21:08 AM »
Eastwood is in my opinion among the best American filmmakers. I make a point of seeing his movies on release.


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« Reply #45 on: January 18, 2019, 06:35:28 AM »
As far as the "bigotry" goes, apparently some of you never worked in an industrial setting in the 20th century, where many nationalities worked together doing dirty dangerous work. What a sensitive person might call an ethnic slur is what we commonly called each other. With absolutely no offense meant nor taken. In many cases you relied on these men with your lives, and a close bond was formed. Ethnic nicknames were a badge of honor. Eastwood undoubtedly studied such men before taking on various roles. Men in the oil patch, steelworkers, infantrymen, laborers.  Real life. Not cloistered campus censorship.  :grin:

Well said shorty. We’ve gotten very over sensitive. I thought the movie portrayed a typical grumpy old fart. That’s part of the story.
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« Reply #46 on: January 18, 2019, 06:43:58 AM »
And if you watched Grand Torino, racist Clint character, came to help the neighbors.

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« Reply #47 on: January 18, 2019, 07:00:31 AM »
Bigoted? Ever heard of MS13? It was exactly how many neighborhoods in this country are divided by race and nationality. The message I got was that an old man, sat in his ways, learned to put his  prejudices aside and love his fellow man to the point of dying for them.
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« Reply #48 on: January 18, 2019, 08:45:04 AM »
Go on YouTube and search for Toby Keith Don't Let The Old Man In".  I can't figure out how to insert an email I got from a friend about this, but it contained a story that supposedly Toby got the idea for a song from a conversation he had with Clint on the golf course just before Clint started shooting the movie (The Mule), at 88 years of age.  Toby asked Clint how he had the energy to take on new projects like that, & Clint replied "Don't let the old man in".  Unsolicited, Toby wrote the song & submitted it for consideration in connection with the project.  I haven't seen the movie yet, but I get the impression that it was used in the soundtrack of the film.

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« Reply #49 on: January 18, 2019, 09:54:54 AM »
Should have been "Ok all you Asian- Americans, lets all gather in a circle, hold hands and sing KUM BY YA"  "come on fellas"  :grin: :grin:
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« Reply #50 on: January 18, 2019, 10:22:36 AM »
The author that wrote Gone to Texas, Forest Carter, was honored for his accurate portrayal of various indigenous peoples. then they found out that he was a speech writer for George Wallace...........  this is not to be taken as political, please, just history
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« Reply #51 on: January 18, 2019, 10:58:43 AM »
OK, name a Clint Eastwood movie you didn't like  :shocked:
…. And a hush fell over the crowd.  :grin:

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« Reply #52 on: January 18, 2019, 11:03:33 AM »
OK, name a Clint Eastwood movie you didn't like  :shocked:
…. And a hush fell over the crowd.  :grin:

Not a big fan of Bridges of Madison County, But the bridges are cool to go see, also near the birthplace of another idol of American youth and all around good 'ol boy John Wayne (Winterset Iowa)
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« Reply #53 on: January 18, 2019, 12:04:51 PM »
Not a big fan of Bridges of Madison County, But the bridges are cool to go see, also near another idol of American youth and all around good 'ol boy John Wayne (Winterset Iowa)
I didn't see that one

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« Reply #54 on: January 18, 2019, 12:14:33 PM »
OK, name a Clint Eastwood movie you didn't like  :shocked:
…. And a hush fell over the crowd.  :grin:

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Re: The Mule - Clint Eastwood's latest flick (NGC)
« Reply #55 on: January 18, 2019, 12:29:44 PM »
I watched the Mule, last weekend. Excellent movie, Eastwood at his best. The "homies" where the old man went to pick up the merchandise, looked , spoke,and acted exactly like  some of the guys I dealt with on a daily basis when I worked for the Arizona dept. of Corrections. They did not look like MS 13, but run of the mill Mexican Mafia, or "EME".actually they looked like a group known as the  "Nortenos".
  Every prison tat tells a story, and has a very specific meaning in their world. It seems to me they researched the subject very well, and made the movie very realistic.
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« Reply #56 on: January 18, 2019, 01:13:42 PM »
 Fellas , maybe we can avoid the social commentary , thanks .

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Re: The Mule - Clint Eastwood's latest flick (NGC)
« Reply #58 on: January 18, 2019, 02:21:52 PM »
Beguiled was another interesting one of his...

i have to agree...Bridges of Madison County was not my cup of tea, but I'm not a fan of Meryl Streep.
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« Reply #59 on: January 18, 2019, 02:29:15 PM »
Beguiled was another interesting one of his...

i have to agree...Bridges of Madison County was not my cup of tea, but I'm not a fan of Merrill Streep.

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